Portfolio Review: What can I improve!?

Kori Jensen

@carlianne Thank you so much for your help. And I am so glad you enjoyed that book cover. You're right the styles don't align cohesively, but I feel like thee loose lines in the Aladdin cover was very free and flowing. Whereas the Fang and mittens one is a lot more defined as a style. I am still looking for my style and its in need of some serious thought.

KayPotter

Just a heads up- the images took a bit to load on my end. I don’t have the best internet connection but thought I’d let you know regardless. Otherwise, looks great! I like ‘dude-l”. It made me chuckle.

Melissa_Bailey

@carlianne -- totally agree.

@Kori-Jensen -- according to art directors' comments in recent webinars I've watched from SCBWI, most don't mind if you work in two different styles, but they want to see them organized, perhaps splitting a portfolio into different sections. They also recommend leading with your strongest piece and ending with another of your strongest pieces.

For me, your portfolio would read better if it was organized. For example, place the Ninja pieces together so that they appear as consecutive or narrative art from the same book.

Otherwise, nice work! Love the expressions you give your characters and LOVE the Fang and Mittens piece -- I'd lead with that one! Do you have other pieces from that book? I'd love to see more of that one!

carlianne

@Kori-Jensen There is a podcast about finding your style, and the course where you do the dream portfolio I HIGHLY recommend it. I was in a similar place about a year ago and it took a bit but I feel like my style is now cohesive, even though I'm sure it'll still continue to change.

Kori Jensen

@Melissa-Bailey-0 Thank you so much. I have been thinking a lot about my portfolio and this helps a lot. I am in the middle of grasping my own art style and i definitely need to improve on it's cohesive nature. As for the fang and mittens cover, I have not made any images yet. It's in the concept stage right now, but thank you for your interest ;).

Kori Jensen

@carlianne It's good to know I am not in this boat alone. Where can I find this podcast may I ask?

Nyrryl Cadiz

@Kori-Jensen hi! I think you should also change your portfolio grid into something like instagram instead of having them all in one row. Right now, you can’t really see a lot of the images save for the narrow strips. I had to click on an image just to view the view the whole thing and continuously click on the ‘next’ arrow to view the others.

Ideally you would want to make it as little work for your audience to view your work.

If, let’s say, you arrange your images in multiple rows with at least 2 images on each row, that will leave enough space to show your pics without your viewers clicking on the illustration except when a piece really catches their attention and would want to know more/ look at the details more.

Kori Jensen

@Nyrryl-Cadiz Thank you thats a very good point. You need to make it very easy for your audience to use the portfolio.

carlianne

@Kori-Jensen He mentions it here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZtaQEOTskMM about an hour in.

But there is also a dream portfolio class where he goes into more detail.

Valerie Light

Nice work! I didn't see the previous website format, but I think this one flows well and looks strongly presented and streamlined.

Kori Jensen

@carlianne Thank you so much!

Kori Jensen

@Valerie-Light Thank you! I am so glad you like it I think I need to work on my art style. An artist's work is never done