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Greetings, I am graphic design wannabe Chisa!

In this thread I'll be posting whats going on in my professional life because... well just because.

~ My Sites ~
My portfolio: teresawatts.com

My DeviantArt account: chisa.deviantart.com

My journal site:
ChiArts

~ About Me ~
The long and boring life story of Chisa

My real name is Teresa, and I live in Perth, Australia, probably the most isolated state capital in Australia, and also probably the worst for web and graphic design jobs.

I always thought of myself as a creative person, but my family are all very left-brained people, and do not consider an Arts degree a real degree, and (though they don't say it this way exactly) seem to equate 'artist' with 'bum'.

And so I embraced the left side of my brain, and did Calculus and Physics and Chemistry through highschool instead of art. With those kinds of subjects, it was of course only natural to follow in my father's footsteps, and study Electronic Engineering, with a Computer Science degree thrown in just because I could. I never stopped drawing though.

One and a half years after I started my degrees, a friend got me interested in vector art. While searching for tutorials, I stumbled across a forum with a list of links to the portfolios of inspirational artists. As I browsed through them, I was amazed at their skill, and also intrigued by this 'graphic design' that most of them claimed to do for a living.

That started me off, and after looking into the career a little further, I realised that this was what I was meant to be doing. I had always been unsatisfied with engineering, but never had something that I'd rather do instead. After discovering it, I decided to do everything in my power to become sucessful in graphic design, no matter what people told me about how hard it is to get a job.

And so, I gave up the security of the engineering degree. As I was already 1 and a half years through the 3 year comp sci degree, I figured I might as well finish it before moving on completely to the next phase of my life.

So that brings me to now, still struggling with computer science, trying to learn all I can about graphic design on my own. If you managed to read down this far, I commend your concentration skills xd

Well, I've only seen your portafolio so far, and I thought it was very well done, very profesional. I do think you could feature some more examples, if you have them, so that there is some more variety. Make up fake websites and companies. In class I've done several projects where we had to pretend we were comissioned by someone and make the project based on their requests and timelimit. It was all fake, of course, but provided us with the experience, and gave us things to add to our portafolio.

That reminds me that I should work on mine, I have the domain but there's nothing there except for my old personal homepage, which is not so good, haven't updated in years... I see that most artist now a days are using flash to create their websites... must get hands on copy of flash.

EDIT: Ok, I visited your personal site and it's not loading correctly for me... or, at least, I don't know if it's supposed to be like that. When I click on any of the links it takes me back to the home page. And it's stretched to the side. I can read the tagboard though.

The alignment goes all crazy in Mozilla, so that might be the problem. That site is kind of embarrassing; I was mostly trying out a few things, but didn't bother to make sure it was compatible with different browsers, and I used Flash for the nav, which I'm now realising I could have done with Javascript and made more portable xp All in all its a horrible mess of layers and iframes.

I'm planning on redoing it, making it all minimal and simple. Thanks for the input though!

I decided that the above picture really wasn't working out, and not worth finishing... just ended up inking it and putting in some simple tones on the computer instead. When I have time, I'm planning to start up an art auction for this style of artwork on Gaia, to try and make a bit of extra gold without having to properly cg anything blaugh

These are both of my avatar, in different outfits:



Maybe I'll do a picture of all the mods of this guild, to use as another example...

Thanks whee

I might start them next week, after I've finished my tests... what do you want to be wearing?

Sigh... a week has gone by, and of the fifteen companies that I sent my resume to, only one has responded (saying they're too busy for work experience people sweatdrop ).

I'm probably just being too impatient but... sigh.

On a positive note, and friend and I are thinking of creating an online magazine... and we already have a few businesses who are interested in sponsoring us and advertising in it whee This is gonna be fun.

I just got an email from one of the companies I emailed... they want to talk to me about what work experience they can offer me! Gonna go talk to them tomorrow probably... can't wait! xd

Just for Software Eng? No thankyou xd

Say goodbye and have fun to Mary for me, if she hasn't gone yet, and thankyou to Paul for getting me an interview 3nodding