“The Admission Insider” and PortPrep owner Karen Kesteloot, in conjunction with local artist Garth Laidlaw will be running a summer course to help you get into the art college of your dreams. Each instructor will be teaching a number of courses to help you succeed in creating a great portfolio that will ensure your success.

2. If you want to apply to an arts
college, consider these facts...
 Getting into arts college is as difficult as getting into
Harvard? It’s the same 30:1 odds of acceptance – that
means that up to 97% get rejected every year.
 Between 500 and 4,000 students apply to each
program every year?
 To get into the best art and design programs, it takes
more than high school art?
 The number one comment grade 12 prospective art
students make is that they wish they had started in
grade 11?

3. Do the artworks in your portfolio
look like this?

4. If so, then you need the help of
these guys!
Garth Laidlaw of Artstory Karen Kesteloot of PortPrep

5. About Karen
 over 15 years teaching
experience in both the adult
interest art field and applied
arts at community colleges
 reviewed portfolio
submissions to the
Illustration Program at
Sheridan College with a
senior professor and learned
what is required to create a
winning portfolio
 Through PortPrep, has
gotten ALL of her students to
their choice of art college
Click here for more info about Karen

6. Karen's Courses
 Brain Splitting for Better Drawings: Building Basic Drawing Skills for College
(July 8-10, 2014)
 Mastery of Illusion: Learn The Laws of Shade and Shadow and Master The Art
of Sight Measuring (July 15-17, 2014)
 Summoning Creativity: How to Brainstorm Unique and Out of the Box Ideas
(July 22- 24, 2014)
 Managing Your Message: Make an Impact with Masterful Compositions and
Direct the Viewer’s Eye with Precision (July 29-31, 2014)
 Get a Better Perspective: Create Believable Spaces in Perfect Perspective
(July 29-31, 2014)
 Media Matters: Express your ideas in colour media: get exposed to oil and
chalk pastel, marker, pencil crayon, charcoal and graphite (August 5 – 7, 2014)
 Make a WOW Portfolio Piece: Challenge yourself to make your “flagship piece”
in this creative exploratory course (August 12-14, 2014)
 Painting Prowess: Make your first masterpiece in oil, acrylic or watercolour
(July 7 - August 11, 2014)

7. About Garth
 Graduated from
Sheridan College in
Animation
 Part Freelance animator,
part Freelance illustrator,
part Educator, and part
Community Culture
Encourager
 Currently creating
illustrations for a
children's storybook,
titled Project TruckfortClick here for more info about Garth

8. Garth's Courses
 Figure Anatomy Basics: Dive into Human Anatomy to give your Figures
more Realism and Believability (July 8-11, 2014)
 Creating Worlds for the Future: Draw Believable Characters and
Environments from your Imagination to Create Fantastical Worlds (July 15-
18, 2014)
 Can’t Beat Concept Art: Learn from some of the Best Creative Minds in
Animation, Game Design, and TV to Improve your Drawing (July 22-25,
2014)
 Let’s Board: Develop the key concepts of Storyboarding for various
media. This is the fundamental course for telling effective stories (July 28-
31, 2014)
 Bending Buildings: Leave your rulers at home – in this course you’ll learn
to draw crazy perspective for a more stylized approach (August 5-8, 2014)
 All About the Character: What are stories without thoughtful, engaging
characters? We’ll dive into character creation for comics, storybooks,
movies, TV shows, or videogames. (August 12-15, 2014)
 Building an Artistic Routine: What’s more important than drawing and
painting to a visual artist? (August 9-22, 2014)

9. By taking their courses, you will:
 Develop advanced drawing skills necessary to
create your art portfolio for college
 Learn specific skills commonly applied by
experienced and advanced animators in their
works, thus giving you a distinct advantage as
you go into an animation program in college
 Increase your chances of getting into, if not
guarantee you a spot in, any art or design
program of your choice!

10. For more information
about the courses
and how to enroll in
them, visit
http://bit.ly/drawntosuccessbootcamp
...or follow PortPrep
on social media!