Introducing
Hi, my name is Bernard and Im 20 years old. I decided to left my homeland for my dream and went study to Scotland because i think here i will have more opportunities for my dreams.
Right now im in the middle of building my porfolio for apply for university and im reworking on 3d animation project. Unfortunately my old laptop broke down and i have no other facilities for continue at my project and building of my porfolio. I need powerful laptop so i would be able to continue do what I started. I already have all developes done and ready to make it real, i just need tool.
im working part time because i have college three times per week and i need to pay my rent and food. I dont have any bursary or funding from school. I dont have any support from my family so i dont have any chance to earn enough money in time.
This is my personal statement for university where I explainied my dreams and plan for my future.
Why have I decided to study this course? Because, I need the experience to help me succeed in being successful in a career that I really want to do in my future. I need to know more about what I would like to do and I need explore this part of art in more depth. Im learning in my own time too but I need professional explanations and demonstrations from people who already have the experience I desire.
Why am I so interested in this subject? Because it has always been what I wanted to do.
My mother used to work as designer and through her I learned to see art everywhere around me. I was always surrounded by artists. She was responsible for decoration of whole buildings where as my grandmother used to work for company who designs patterns and designs for textiles.
Art is something that I live in. I’m the kind of person who is always looking for art everywhere. In my case graphic design, packaging, typography, photography are what I'm truly interested in doing and generally I think I have a good sense of balance and harmony in these areas of art and have developed a good sense of what looks right so far although I realise that I have still have much to learn.
I have had a few useful experiences from high school where I was responsible for complete design, layout and cover page of high school magazine. In those four years I started using and learning software like Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign and Corel Draw. I have only been to one Photoshop course, after that I taught myself how to use all this software with the aid of watching various tutorials and reading many blogs. People often approach me asking me if I can design posters or various postcards for them because they know that I love to do it and I like a challenge and any chance to prove myself.
My past study was always connected or centered around art, after high school I graduated in art history and decided leave my home country and go to Scotland where I studied Advanced Art and Design at Banff and Buchan College and now currently I'm studying HNC Art and Design, this is now my second year of Art and Design here in Scotland. I think I won’t have any major problems with English language since I was studying this language for more than nine years at school plus two years of real life experience here in Scotland.
Self motivation is one of my strengths and I invest all my free time sketching, drawing, trying to bring my ideas from my imagination alive. Its not easy because I don't have much free time but for the things I love Im always able to find time even at work I will bring my sketch book with me and work on things in my breaks or when its quiet. My hobbies are creatively focused: listening to great music while I'm drawing or designing something on my laptop. I also love reading, mainly fiction and fantasy books and specialized art magazines and blogs such a tumblr.com.
I have been studying English since primary school and then at higher lever in high school. After graduation I decided to try something new and leave my country, so I went to study abroad. I decided to try International Banff and Buchan College. I decided to become independent when I was nineteen, get my own apartment and pay my own bills, get a job. It is not easy but I learnt a lot in a very short time which has taught me a lot about responsibility and the realistic world.
After this course I would like to get a job in a design studio and then after a few years when I have gained some experience I would like to start my own business and start freelance. My plan is start work at home and after that when I will have more clients I would like to rent my own design studio, hire some talented and hard working people to my studio.