Well, whatever excitement I had for graduation is pretty much gone. Yesterday I showed my portfolio and was pretty happy that day. The professor forced us to write critiques the day before and I knew we were getting back them today. Some of us didn't fill it out (I didn't either) because they felt that these little movies were just the students expressing themselves and who are we to say what's wrong or right? I treated it like an actual portfolio though, just straight up showing my works. Apparently, that was met with a lot of panning. Some people gave some actual critique on making the video (which is what you were supposed to do) and others on the artwork. "Too much anime style" it goes on.I never had any intention to be like the rest of these guys and do logos and crap. I want to get into comics, maybe they'd see it differently if they knew that, maybe not. Still, it kinda feels bad to hear your peers bash you for wanting to show off your artwork on top of your designs. I did have my designs and photography there too, and they WERE clearly designated as such. (One person wrote they couldn't tell what was what, only way they couldn't tell was if they didn't see the freakin' title card.

There's two ways I can take this though, either as a panning on my art or as a panning on a stupid video I had to make and decided to treat it like a portfolio for art and not as some movie where I'm trying to make a story in 3 minutes. Excuse me for not being pretentious enough. Sorry for the random venting but I was feeling pretty down when hearing the other designers really don't think so much of your stuff it almost makes me want to just stop going for my dream. ALMOST. I'm feeling down, but not out, don't get me mistaken. I just don't think it's good to keep feelings like this bottled up inside. I've done that before and the only thing it does is make me feel worse.