Although my committee was pretty pleased with my draft, they clearly identified that they saw this still very much as a draft. Some of the comments included “Perhaps change the exigence to something along the lines of a problem that experts like you face as creatives,” and “if there is a way to demonstrate the throughline of ‘visual communicator / creative strategist’ more clearly in the portfolio content.”
I had structured the draft with a hero image to the left of text that was formatted and strictly followed a creative strategy statement. Each piece was presented as a case study. The draft was pretty rigid and I knew it wasn’t close to being done. The WordPress theme was beginning to cause problems and although I knew I could find that throughline and clearly articulate the exigence, WordPress was holding me back.
But I was committed. I had made my choice and was going to make it work…