The great CULLING - Restructuring my portfolio!

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  slosh hero character

  Jun 2017

  So to be honest, I didn't really click on any of them.  Not that they didn't look good but being hand painted and rather simple, you get a pretty good luck at it in the thumbnail.  Most of your stuff feels very simple and therefore not compelling enough subject wise to make me want to click to see more.  For an artstation profile page, you can include whatever you want including WIPs.  If you are showing this to potential employers, make an actual folio page with just your best work.

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  Svartberg quad damage

  Jun 2017

  I'd like to add that a good portfolio is honestly, 5-7 works at best. With current rise in candidates there's only so much time for human resources to look through portfolios. 5 best works would do better than a dozen wips and studies.
  
  I'd tidy up the studies and sculpts and add them as WIP pictures to their respective scenes. Always nice to see a lot of stuff in one Artstation submission.
  
  Also, the 2 strongest pieces on your Artstation currently are Darksiders homage & Forge of Fire. Skylar and Plux screenshots are also good, but those are screenshots. Not exactly representative.
  You need to tailor your portfolio around your strongest work and possibly hide all those uncharacteristic pieces that take up the attention that could've been paid to potentially better work. By those I mean House and Owl, Blizzard banner, Rime fanart, Brick tutorial and Desert Helicopter.  
  
  Imo, it's better to show that you are a specialist, rather than jack of all trades. 
  
  Check out Tobias Koepp's portofolio. It's exemplary.
  http://tobiaskoepp.com/
  Less than 10 projects, same kind of work, all in similar style.
  

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  Jakob Gavelli interpolator

  Jun 2017

  @slosh : Thanks for taking your time, man! When you say stuff is simple etc, do you mean that as a general bad thing or something you weren't looking for or personally find interesting?  I'm looking into artstations website builder and it's really slick, I think I'll use that in the future for sending to potential employers.
  
  @Svartberg : Thanks man! I agree with quality over quantity, funny thing I've noticed though is that I get contacted alot about contract work from very specific pictures. Like the bricks in the Rime Fanart for example. Which makes me reluctant to cutting stuff entirely, not saying that it's bad advice just a really tricky thing. I think keeping that stuff on the artstation page and having a more focused portfolio is the way to go!
  
  

  Svartberg said:

  Skylar and Plux screenshots are also good, but those are screenshots. Not exactly representative.
  

  Haha, what do you mean by that? xD Surely nothing is more representative than in-game screenshots of an actual game?

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  Svartberg quad damage

  Jun 2017

  @Jakob Gavelli I mean, screenshots are of course a good representation of a large complete scope of work. But in my opinion screenshots of a game that's been made through team effort seem a little impersonal. When you put complete personal work into portfolio it looks intentional and generally more impressive. Screenshots usually give off an impression of being "beside the point". Maybe that's just me, I could be wrong on that. 
  
  As for cutting stuff out. 
  That really depends on what do you want to accomplish. If you're sending out portfolio and resume looking for work, you need to keep it brief. If you're cool with getting minor freelance now and again, you can keep as much stuff as you like. If clients seek you out, they can spend as much time as they please to do so, nothing you can do to influence that. It all comes down to who spends time to find whom. 

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  Jakob Gavelli interpolator

  Jun 2017

  @Svartberg : Cool, I personally think screenshots of a production is much more representative than portfolio pieces where the artist can have spent 6 months on a single candle-stick or whatever. And the amount of "cheating" you can do in personal pieces is alot higher, but I see where you're coming from ^^ 
  
  I think it's best to create a proper portfolio for sending to people, and the artstation page for people who seek me out. Something like this for a portfolio then. Artstation only has 6 themes atm, hehe.
  (Thinking about removing the description as it draws alot of attention...)
  https://jakobgavelli.artstation.com/
  
  
  

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  Ortu null

  Jun 2017

  Description text is pretty distracting there in the center, you might try it in a corner where it is more out of the way

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  Swaggletooth polycounter lvl 5

  Jun 2017

  Definitely better, but I'd stick whole projects on one page (ie all your Skylar and Plux stuff should go on one page), having to navigate through sub-pages will sadly test the patience of most people.
  
  Also what Ortu says is right, either place the text in a corner or bottom centre of an image.
  

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  Jakob Gavelli interpolator

  Nov 2017

  Here's how my current artstation page looks, I'm getting more and more happy with it, could probably redo some of the Text-y thumbnails to not be as intrusive and.. inconsistent. If anyone has any C&C on ANY of the content in there I'd love to hear it!
  https://www.artstation.com/jakobgavelli
  
  

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