William J. Blount

Thanks for the wise words everyone.  While many of the kids I went to school with walked out of school and into some of the top firms in New England, its nice to hear that is not the normal story, and many took a much more journeyed trip into where they are.  I’m gonna try and stick it out for awhile longer and try a little harder to get my foot i…[Read more]

Thanks for the insight.  I do love living in AK, however it does severely limit my job prospects.  I may have to reconsider where I call home. Although moving makes me a little leery as well, only because I have already moved twice for jobs where they “where going to start me in drafting and then move me to design work when they had space”, and t…[Read more]

I’m designing the beds with a 2″ gravel base and filter fabric for drainage, and I may also have them drill drain holes on the downhill side of the beds. 
I had thought about the glare, and was hoping a matte paint would help alleviate that, but I like your idea of wood chips more.  I’ll have to look into that and make sure it won’t wash away w…[Read more]

I use Impression fairly regularly.  On a more powerful machine it seems to be more stable, but still glitchy.  I’ll have to check out m-color, I hadn’t heard of that before, but I’ve been looking for a more stable platform that is a little less cartoonish.

Thanks to everyone who is offering to help. I have gotten a job since posting this, but I attached my resume and portfolio to the first post just because it still never hurts to have others look over my stuff so that I know for the future. Thanks again.

Thanks, I just sent it all to you. it will come from will(at)wblount(dot)com

well honestly, since i’m a student i get the program for free. I have tried land f/x but it would never download correctly onto my computer, so after about a dozen tries I just gave up on it.

well I downloaded vectorworks, and now it looks like I have alot of learning to do.

it doesn’t interface with autocad, but it does with sketchup. you can get a free trial on their website, so you lose nothing by trying it to see if it works with your programs.

i’m new here, but i’ll play this game. This is only my sophomore portfolio: http://issuu.com/dra2120/docs/design-portfolio