With ArtStation becoming the host for many people's professional portfolios, I've been thinking about letting my portfolio site hosting expire in favor of an ArtStation page. Do you think a personal website is needed if you have an ArtStation portfolio page?
as someone who has to look through portfolios I dont recommend using a personal website. 90% of personal portfolios have such a strange layout and strange taste to them leaving a rather poor first impression. On the other hand everyone will be instantly familiar with artstation and the first impression will be your art and…
I personally prefer the customisability of a personal website, that and the fact people are more likely to remember a custom website to a large number of almost identical portfolios in layout. Features such as custom URL, password protected pages and more are not currently implemented in Artstation yet (and at this rate it…
I am still a student and can only talk about things that lectures from the industry told me. They always say it doesnt matter where you will show your work, only your art is important. So for the reason to get a job, artstation will do the job for sure! But if you want to have your personal website, talk with people and…