Portfolio Page
When asking for advice from my tutor about what I should do next, he mentioned that my portfolio website was, ironically enough, missing a portfolio video and collage of my best artworks. There was no professional limit to what I could put in my collage; which even meant I could include fan art if I wanted to, since I do share my social media platform DevaintArt on there.
But with the portfolio video, due to me not being great with video editing, I'm going to wait until later to create the video when I have more access to help so I don't mess anything up or to have physical reassurance if I come across a glitch in the video editing software and need help fixing it.
As for the portfolio collage, this was my step by step process.
Step 1:
On the website editor of WIX, I added a portfolio page into the tab bar at the top of the webpage; where I followed the layout of the previous webpages with a large title and a line, before adding the placements for the collage and video portfolio.
Step 2:
With the collage set up, I then began to include some of what I think were the best pieces of artwork I made during my three years at South Essex; these mostly focused on original works, character drawings and experiments in other art styles to show my main aim of doing character work in the industry and how I can adjust my drawings to match someone else's style.
Step 3:
Once all my best coursework pieces were placed into the collage, I then went over to my DevaintArt account and scanned through it to find my best work. Due to the simple fact most of my DA account is revolved around fan art, I tried to stick to artwork that wasn't that and was more based on original characters; and with the few pieces of fan art, it was more as an example of my lighting + shading and backgrounds; or pieces of art work that were noticed by pretty big people (such as voice actors or Youtubers)
Step 4:
Once I had collected my best artwork, I placed them into the collage more at the bottom as I would in future have more of my professional artwork up front and have my more fun personal art works at the bottom for those who are more curious of my art work.
