3.2 Documenting Your Work

Show the journey

Document not just finished pieces but your process — experiments, drafts, revisions, and dead ends. This evidence shows how your inquiry drives the work.

Reproducing 2-D work

Photograph or scan work with even lighting, true color, and no glare or distortion. For 2-D design, accurate color and sharp reproduction are essential.

Details & progress

Include detail shots and in-progress images where they reveal technique or development. Presentation quality affects how your work reads.

Key terms

Document process

experiments, drafts, revisions, dead ends

Reproducing 2-D work

even lighting, true color, no glare/distortion

Judged from images

the portfolio is scored from submitted photos/scans

Detail shots

reveal technique where helpful

Accurate color

essential for 2-D design reproduction

Try an AP-style question

Documenting 2-D process can include…

1. final prints and nothing else
2. receipts for software and supplies
3. sketches, drafts, and screenshots of stages
4. photos unrelated to the work