/ic/ - Artwork/Critique

>>5080773
Behance would be acceptable. Anything where you can create a curated gallery of your best work is suitable. I personally use Squarespace and it's well worth the money. I found the default themes to be the best, and updating and tweaking everything is very easy

>>5081480
That's a really good question and something that took me a while to grapple with. I generally agree with the concept of focusing your portfolio to be more consistent and cohesive across your body of work. However, I don't necessarily think it's needs to be super focused on one particular niche. For example, you could have work that's geared towards concept designs, while having more finished work that are intended for more illustration work, etc - all in the same visual language that is unique to you. Many freelance artists work on a variety of different opportunities for different types of clients / industries.

What's most important thing is that you maintain a stylistic voice across your entire body of work, which is essentially your brand. In other words, your entire portfolio needs to look all like the work of the same artist. That may sound obvious, but many people fall flat in this regard. They create work that is too all over the place and it just isn't cohesive. You achieve stylistic consistency while also working on a variety of different opportunities. I personally started having an easier time getting opportunities once I dropped certain pieces from my portfolio. Even though these pieces were well done, they just didn't 'fit' with the direction I was going in.

>>4927596
If by commissions, you mean real-world opportunities for professional artists that pay well and are sustaining over a long career, then pick up the Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing and Ethical Guidelines.

If by commissions, you mean it in the /ic/ sense of low-paying, private personal commissions of "OC", weebshit, or furry porn sourced from social media, then just steal someone's prices from someone elses fast-food style commission chart.

Pick up https://graphicartistsguild.org/product/the-graphic-artists-guild-handbook-pricing-ethical-guidelines/ as soon as possible. It'll give you a ballpark figure to work off of for so many different types of freelance commercial work. Whatever you did for £150, you likely got lowballed.

>>4558543
This is a downright awful way to figure out your rates, because it completely neglects usage rights & the different sizes/budgets of different types of clients (small, local business vs large international corporation, for example). You would be effectively fucking yourself over when working for larger and larger commercial clients.

Does anybody know if the "Graphic Artists Guild Handbook: Pricing & Ethical Guidelines, 15th Edition" is worth the shot?
Does anyone have it?