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Portfolio help - Diptychon - Saraiza - 04-12-2012 Hello guys! Well, I desperately want to get into an University to study graphic design. And for that i need a stunning portfolio. So please, help me! (also take a look at my sketchbook, there are other works) But now, critique. i have that idea for a Diptychon with the themes Moon - Sun or the like. I want it to be absoluetly bombastic. composition, colors, poses. everything. So far I am not succeedin -_- the birds look still a bit strange. Also, i find it hard to create an opposite to the phoenix. any ideas? the background for the phonix piece should be a night scene, with rays of light in the back. for the "raven" piece a fire inferno. I hope the contrast adds to the composition. Now, lets hear your suggestions! And please, don't hold back. if its total shit, I need to learn it now or never. RE: Portfolio help - Diptychon - Myriam - 04-12-2012 Do you have a topic for your portfolio? This might be important for helping with this =) RE: Portfolio help - Diptychon - warmics - 06-15-2012 If you turn this image into greyscale, you'll notice it's lacking a little contrast. I would try making the night scene darker and the bird/girl brighter, while making the day scene brighter and the girl/raven darker. This will help them pop. RE: Portfolio help - Diptychon - danlambert - 06-17-2012 It's confusing me slightly why you'd want these sorts of images in a portfolio for graphic design? But if that's what they want I'd say try to think more graphically, maybe introduce some shapes and gradients to give it more of a design feel. Marko's comic covers popped into my head as good examples of this http://www.google.co.uk/search?client=safari&rls=en&q=marko+djurdjevic&oe=UTF-8&redir_esc=&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&authuser=0&ei=AhndT57eBNSG8gP83rygCw&biw=1918&bih=931&sei=BRndT9CjPIeo8QOa87GkCw Throwing in some spirals or something to echo the phoenix's feathers, or some sharper shapes to go with the raven could work. RE: Portfolio help - Diptychon - Saraiza - 06-17-2012 I finally came to the same conclusion as danlambert, things like this are not wanted in a design portfolio so i stopped working on it. Maybe I'll work on this more when I find the time again. But nevertheless thanks for the feedback:) (this thread could be closed or deleted, but I have no idea how to do so -_-)