Critiquing A Viewer's Portfolio 2
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- čas přidán 17. 03. 2018
- LINK TO AARON'S PORTFOLIO: aaroncarmona.wixsite.com/home
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In this video, I review and critique a viewer's online fashion design portfolio, with his permission, of course. I discuss what's great, what's ok, what I think needs improvement. Of course these are all just suggestions, not mandates. I hope every designer learns a few tips and tricks on how to make their own portfolios better.
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Please give Aaron props for sharing his portfolio with us and give this video a thumbs up if you learned something new today! Let me know in the comments if you'd like to see more critique videos!
Zoe Hong thank you so much for this!!! Your critique is everything to me and it has definitely given me a new perspective on what people are looking for in the industry and what I gots to do to better prepare myself! Definitely views are a lot different here in Texas with not just what people are accustomed to, but with what we’re taught in design school. But now I know the things to better improve myself on and it’ll only make me a better designer in the future!
Hi Aaron! I'm glad you found my critique helpful. Good luck moving forward! I'm sure you'll do great! It helps that you know how to accept constructive criticism with grace. I'm sure you'll figure out what advice works for you and what doesn't and take it from there.
Thanks for doing these!!!! I'm redoing my portfolio from scratch and I need your videos in my life lol.
I like these videos,they give a lot of useful ideas
I'm not a student of fashion designs but enjoy watching them too.
i'm an engineering major and has nothing to do with design. I just stumble on your videos and I love all of it.
Snejkop I am a CS student and I can actually take into account all the advice she gives. Due to how broad CS is I can go into graphic design field.
Same!!!
I am a physics major. I'm thoroughly enjoying every thing.
I love the dark theme! I like his portfolio. The critique was good, I agree w/ everything that you said. This tutorial helps me as a designer as well! We’re all learning together lol.
I adore Aaron's aesthetic. The designs are beautiful. I could see him doing well in New York.
I love this series so much! There’s so much to learn from each and every pieces. As expected from Zoe and props to aaron! Looking forward to the next one :)
Great Critique, for a good portfolio. There is so much for us to take note of in this video.
Thank you Zoe and Aaron.
I study interior design and I've learned a ton, too! Her critiques are great. Thank you Zoe and Aaron.
First off, congrats Aaron on all the beautiful work. You clearly have an aesthetic that you understand and know how to use. Zoe your critique was through and very informative. I agreed with everything you said and found myself picking up on somethings before you mentioned them. Which is a credit to you because I've learned so much from watching your channel and doing outside research. I can't wait to start working on mine.
On another note, was I the only one laughing when she mentioned his aesthetic not being very Texas friendly? I was waiting for Zoe to say something not only because of the editorial quality but the dark and pagan themes, and you know how those Texans are about their religion. 😂😂😂😂
>>was I the only one laughing when she mentioned his aesthetic not being very Texas friendly?
I was trying to be respectful! hahahahahaha
Thank you Aaron! for showing us your beautiful portfolio, I was craving to see more from you! and thank you zoe for all this energy and effort you put on this videos. Anytime i watch a video from you, I learn a lot! I’m looking forward to finish my 2.5 last semesters, and send you my portfolio! thank you again
Thanks Zoe and Aaron! This is a really helpful series, I feel like I’m learning a lot of hard to find information. Thank you for the great video and your wisdom. Keep at it Aaron, beautiful designs!
I really like his overall concepts with this gothic, dark aesthetic. His mood boards were extremely helpful examples for me to take away.
Thank you Aaron!
I’m so happy to see how far your channel has become! Wishing you continued success!!
Shout out Aaron for sharing your sick portfolio with us all!
Thank you Zoe, for giving us this critique. It gave me a lot of ideas for projects that I'm doing now, and how I can try harder on them now, to have something totally portfolio worthy for my portfolio 1 class later this year
I just want to say thank you so much Zoe hong for making this Chanel ! I learned a lot of useful things that I need for the future from your channel
I’m so happy to have you here and plz keep continue making good videos for us
Aaron's collection is amazing! I really love your channel Zoe I am learning a lot and this is very helpful Thanks!
Thanks for sharing the portfolio Aaron, generous of you to put yourself out there. Also, love the critique, so helpful and full of insight.
Props Aaron. Thank you Zoe Hong for your feed back and I enjoy your channel it makes me want to go back to design and get inspired. ✌🏼
I love you Zoe!!! Your critic is so on point!
Thank you Aaron for sharing your portfolio!
I only recently found your channel, but the more I learn from you the more I realize that I'm not a designer but rather a seamstress. And everyday I think I'm becoming more and more okay with the fact that I don't have Fashion Design "chops", and I just enjoy the construction of a garment. Thanks Zoe, you are an amazing instructor! ♥️✂️
Great! Knowing yourself is a huge part of your success!
Thank you both! Aaron love your work!
Love Aaron's work! Keep up what your doing. Thanks for the great input Zoe!
Shoutout to Aaron for the putting hisself out there. Zoe very helpful tips!! Literally going to my portfolio now to work on it!!! Great video!!
I really enjoyed seeing Aaron's work he has beautiful taste, especially his evening dresses. I also liked how honest you were. You can really teach people how to critique honestly without offending. I am not in the clothing industry - just a beginner sewer looking at ideas. Thank you for excellent tips and you are providing practical career advice that applies to every industry, in terms of research into who is hiring. I will be watching many more of your videos.
I am learning each time. I watch your videos. My favorite are these critic videos because I learn what to do with my future portfolio. Thanks for your inputs
Fantastic critique Zoe Hong! And like the designer who you critiqued first when you were doing the new designer showcase told you "you critiqued my line and I don't feel like jumping out the window" who was key on you becoming a teacher. All the things you pointed out were spot on, everyone can learn so much from the courage from Aaron Carmona who is a designer. Thanks for all you teach and share in your wonderful channel!
Way to go Aaron! Congratulations on some awesome work, and putting it out there for critique. I thought some of the beautiful texture or prints from The Owl, could be incorporated into the ready to wear. That being said, Zoe, your critique was so insightful and thorough. It helped me to create an objective checklist for myself when editing my own work. Thank you for this channel! :-) -JR
A very punctual and hands-on critique. I think that Aaron is on the average, because he has a clear vision or particular style, but his portfolio is like in between: not too editorial and not too commercial, neither superficial or super-skilled. Maybe, it 's just how you convey your ideas and, above all, have a deep insight about the industry. Maybe, he could be more keen on couture, instead of industrial production. The fact is that outside there a lot of talented and experienced people and it's very hard to stand out and understand what recruiters are looking for, because it's a very competitive and never-stop-learning field.
Thank you for the critique Zoe! I learned a lot from it. And Aaron, I love your collections! Keep up the good job!
This was so helpful to me, I will need to go back in and edit my school portfolio. I am not applying for a job but this information applies a lot to my college application. The part that especially helped was about being dismissive of your own abilities and knowledge. I tend to do that and tell people that I'm not the best. I want to change it. Thank you Zoe
Aaron is so talented and creative.....love it and Zoe you are a BOSS!!! 💋💋
This was very informative and the advice you gave him was so awesome. I love his designs and how he pulls his inspiration. ♡
Zoe, I've been binging your videos since I discovered you, yesterday. I'm learning so much and I thank you for sharing your info! I looked at Aaron's portfolio, and see that he applied your notes. Thank you, Aaron, for being brave enough to publicly subject your work for critique. Interesting side note: he has a design for the Calgary Stampeders cheer squad - I live near Calgary and I've been to some of their games.
Thanks for Aaron, good luck to you, thanks zoe, I am working on new project and portfolio, this is so helpful and inspired me.
such amazing feedback i definitely learned so much thank you!
u always put smile on my face...God bless u
I learned so much from this video! As a first year designing student this is so valuable, thank you so much Zoe
OMG... You are a wonderful teacher, and your growth is spectacular. If I were somebody, I would humbly request to higher you for my personal Haute God, lol. Sincerely, thank you.
Zoe I have been watching your videos all thanksgiving weekend long, you are amazing and Aaron your work was great!!!! From your sketches to your sewing fantastic work, and thanks for being a brave soul to put your work out there that designers like me can learn! Loved it ❤️
thanks!
Thank you Aaron for showing your work to us! and Thank you Zoe for critizing. I love his work and his drawing on sketches are superb!! (in my opinion). However, Zoe made really good points and I can relate to my portfolio and know how to elaborate mine :)
Please keep doing this series I love it so much it's so helpful
Way to go Aaron! You are so brave and what a statement about how much this career means to you. Best of luck :)
My favorite videos of yours are the fashion designer bios and critiques. I shared with my college FashionClub and professor!
This video was REALLY helpful..I learned a lot and thank you for your wonderful judgment!!
I am not in any fashion nor design field but I adore this series! 💙
Please do more of these... This help us so much
Loved the designs! I learned so much from this!
Absolutely love these videos! So informative!
thanks!
SO HELPFUL!! THANK YOU ZOE!!
I was an architecture student and indeed mood boards or in our case concept board is important in the design process and the attention to detail is everything.
Very clearly explained details that one should be noticing and correcting but keeps missing... Thanks for the insight 👏
Yeah!! Totally fall in love with your portfolio critiquing !
you're welcome!
Very useful, well thought-through and carefully formulated feedback
great critique, learned alot. thanks
Please do more of these types of videos!!!
Im crazy about this series! Thanks and maybe I'll send a portfolio soon for you to critique.
something that helps a lot about the reception of the public migth be a tendences moodboards, to define some siluettes and stuff to be a liitle gided by, we use that in my college, a liitle moodboard of tendences and target, as you say we designers tend to be more visual so that can help a lot
This cat eye is a MOOD! ❤️
Thanks Aaron and Zoe! Definitely learnt something today :)
Way to go Aaron! I learned a lot!
I'm not a designer at all, but this an interesting series. I love looking at Aaron's stuff. So beautiful.
Im about to graduate fashion school this semester and Im glad I stumbled upon your channel. Your critiques on portfolios are very informative and will surely help me when I apply work. Our instructor for our portfolio class never said or discussed shit like this at all, we just pay models, photographers and editors for our portfolio which is really disappointing because Im not learning anything at all. It's basically all about running the money and relying on other people instead of teaching us first the basics and how to go about our portfolio. Wish you were my instructor it would be a fulfilling class tbh.
Glad you found me! Good luck with your portfolio!
Thank you for doing this review! It was helpful and insightful :)
I really liked the designs, great job! 😊👌
This is great. Thank you creating this video. Helps alot. I would love to submit my portfolio someday too.
Learned a lot from this video thank you!
I would like to see more critique videos. I have to graduate for 3 months and need advice for fashion portfolio. Thank you so much! Hugs from Kosovo
I really love watching your videos 😍, I hope you can do more videos about sketching, sketchbook tour etc...in the near future...
Love your videos 💕
I’m learning a lot
Keep it up 👍🏽
Ohhh sensei Zoe; you are so wise; what if we take a summer camp with you to enlighten us, he he; that would be so cool 😎
I remember seeing his work at the school's fashion show. When I was watching this I was wondering why his designs seemed familiar, and then I saw he went to the same school as I did. What a small world and I wish I got to know him. I really like his sketches/illustrations.
Good work AAron!
This series is really good. Props to Aaron for sharing his work and you for the great critique. I would like to ask a few questions that poped during the duration of the video. I as well have an online portfolio, but haven't included the flat sketches at all, because of the fact that they include a lot of information about the construction of my clothing and I am afraid of copies. Do you think this is wrong and that I should include them? Moreover, would it be good to have sketchbook images inside?
I wouldn't worry that much about copiers unless your site is well known and you get a lot of traffic, but if you're really really stressed out, you can make your portfolio password protected and give the password out to people you send job applications to. As for sketchbook images, if they're relevant to the project, yes, include them, showing process is good but make sure you carefully edit down to your very best.
Zoe Hong Thank you so much for your input. I will take it into consideration and adjust it. Keep up with the great work. I really do love what you do. I also like your humour.
Thank you so much for the video. This helps me to improve my portfolio. You and Myriah are my tutors after my lecturers. Haha
💯💖💯💖💯💖 Loved it!
I love 20 min yt videos so much
You are so inspirational.
Very helpful !! thank you
These are very helpful
You so creative😍
Those dark vibes could definitely work in places like Berlin/Germany, Hungary, Poland, Czech Republic. I see potential for movie costume design too.
His portfolio looks awesome to me I am trying to develop one myself to me it seems like he is a storyteller as well as a designer
Hey Zoe! If I have a Project I worked really hard on and already did the Prototypes (The fotoshoot) all of the handsewing, the flats, the Sketches, the Illustrations (it's Kind of a finished Project) but I am not happy with the way it turned out can I still put it in my Portfolio and say what I learned during it even though it's not my asthetic and I'm not proud of the way it turned out? Is it better to not Show it at all or to say that I stand behind it 100%?
Yes, I would, and I would point out what you learned so you show your growth. However, I wouldn't put it as the first thing people see. The first couple of things should be your best foot forward. If you can, try to add a few corrections. Maybe 1 beautiful new flat, 1 illustration, 1 stitch sample to show how much you've improved. Showing progress is always impressive. Good luck!
Great video, thank you Zoe, I learned so much! Aaron, I really admired your portfolio! Love your dark aesthetic. I don't know nearly enough to provide useful feedback on your designs apart from "I like them" ;) but one thing I noticed just on the screenshots were several spelling mistakes (decEIver) and grammar stuff (a shortened sentence "being interested in X" needs to relate to the subject of the main sentence, in this case "this collection" - no, it's you who are interested in it; etc). If you include a lot of text in your website, as Zoe said, then it might be a good idea to have a professional copyreader proof-read it. These sort of mistakes can look unprofessional (of course, I work as an editor, so I would tend to notice more of those than the average reader). Hope this helps!
Excellent point!
How has it worked for Aaron since then?
Great critique, Zoe!
Love her ❤
I love this critiqui series....can someone tell me whoch software they use as im making mine on word and then will convert it into PDF file is that ok
just a lil fyi, Samhain is pronounced "sow-in" bc its gaelic in origin :) love the video!
Hey Zoe，I really appreciate all tutorials and critique videos you made. They are so helpful to me cuz I'm learning fashion design by myself now. May I ask you a question about fashion design portfolio for college application？I am better at direct garment making instead of making a moodboard，design process on paper，then illustration for a collection. I think I can't “make” complete steps on well organized paper after I constructed a piece of garment. Is that okay if I just put my sketchbook and final garment looks together as a fashion design project for application？Or should I just follow rules to restart a path like how a normal fashion portfolio being made？Thank you！
For college applications, find out the individual college’s prerequisities for portfolios.
Zoe Hong Thank you for replying！ Unfortunately，they don't have specific requirement for portfolio but just state that they like to see variety and breadth in the work I submit. And I know there were some applicants got accepted without professional process. However I'm not sure if it will be “appropriate” enough to do the same thing.
Hey Zoe, what do you think of illustrations on the computer ? So that you draw on a computer. Is it feasible in today’s fashion industry?
Tanasys Fantasy that’s a great question, and I hope she answers you too as well, because I do all my sketches on an iPad with an Apple Pencil🤔
Scottee08 i also thought about a grafic tablet. But when people don’t really wanna see digital illustrations, I think i rather would go and buy some paper and pencils
Digital work is great, most importantly doing flats in Adobe Illustrator. Digital skills are very important.
Zoe Hong thank you very much. I already thought I would have to go and get the adobe, but what about sketches like for illustrations?
For designers, sketches are mainly to make your portfolio look pretty. You won't be illustrating much in a design job. The flats are key.
Do your fabric swatches always have to be the exact color as your sketches or color harmony or is just to show texture?
It's better if it's the right color. Wrong color swatches is better than no swatches, though.
@@zoehongteaches what if you can't access the fabric is ok to use the image in the place of the fabric in a portfolio?
I love this whole video but I have a question about moodboards. Do they usually look like that? Since I started college for fashion design I went through pinterest and google just scrolling down the moodboards being very confused. My proffesor is really hardcore about moodboards, she wants them to be perfect and yea I understand that but I noticed that usually moodboards are different than what we do. I watched couple of videos on yt and I noticed some are not pieced together completely. And some are just pictures put next to each other. I never really asked anyone and Iam curious. Does everyone make moodboards like that?
Now I realised I dont even know if yr channel had a video on moodboards or have I watched it and forgot. If that was the case... then... oh well
*earns some points for embarrassing herself*
I do have a video on mood boards. Check the Fashion Design Process playlist. People have different opinions on how a mood board should look, how messy, how clean, how many images. I mainly want them to clearly show the collection inspiration.
Angela a - I’m feeling you. My design teachers are VERY specific about our moodboards, to the point of ridiculousness.
There has to be between 10-12 images exactly, no more than two images of fashion/styling, the rest a balanced range of imagery including architecture, patterns/prints, nature, artworks, interior design. All colours to be cohesive and perfectly balanced. The palettes have 6-7 colours. Images to be sized based on their relevance and perfectly arranged, overlapping or blending into each other. And the whole concept has to be derived from a current forecast theme from the fm books after extensive research.
Once the digital version was perfect it also had to be reproduced physically on colour coordinated a2 matting board, with prominent images raised on foam board and perfectly matching fabric samples (which are impossible to find). It’s a bit extreme I think.
I really like some moodboards I see where the images are arranged in a haphazard way with lots of white space, but that is a big no-no. 😩
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Hi! I’m in the process of doing research to inspire design choices. Does anyone have any tips on the best way to present this in an interesting and easy-to-understand type of way for my portfolio?
Do you think it would be much more helpful and easier if those sketches and drawings were labelled tho? Like as a designer we annotate what we are trying to show in those illustrations bc thats what my fashion teacher always told me not to miss out
Ma'am is it necessary to add back of the illustrations too...please reply
No, just the flat. But if the back of one of your designs is very dramatic and cool, it can look really nice in your portfolio if you include it.
Hey Zoe just wanted to ask if a degree is important to survive the fashion industry ?
Watch my Do You Need School? video.
Samhain is pronounced "sow-eun" (sow as in a pig) - sorry if you consider this nitpicking but it honestly drives me mad when Americans say it "sam-hane".
Thanks! I appreciate it when people correct me on something without being a jerk about it. :D
Zoe Hong you're welcome! I've never understood when people rudely correct others on this - there's no way most Americans could look at an Irish word and pronounce it properly
See, I didn't even know it was Irish. I'm learning all kinds of stuff today!
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Do you think you could ever look at Kim Kardashian’s mood board and critique it? I’ve seen a couple on the show. I wonder what you might think.
No, I'm not interested, thank you.
Zoe Hong Hahaha! You stole the thought right out of my head! Well said. X
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Do you also review simple designs?
I do all critiques on Wisio now: www.wisio.com/ZoeHong
I'm no fashion designer. My online portfolio went from graphic designer to showcasing what I do.