Portfolios

Having a decent portfolio is an important part in being a prepared and professional illustrator and so I have experimented with various forms and styles of portfolio over the course of this module.

One simple style of portfolio was made based on the tutorial by SeaLeamon on youtube of how to make a book using Japanese binding, although we did learn how to Japanese bind last year it was useful to have a re-cap via this tutorial as she also suggested some different tips to those I knew such as starting from the inside of the book for example.

However, I did not plan my Japanese-bound portfolio particularly well as the layout I had chosen for my images I had not done for the images on the same page to be facing one another, however we were stitching together the open sides of folded A4 sheets and so the images I had wanted together in each double spread page had been moved around by my lack of foresight. I also did not bond my book very well and so I decided to look at other options.

I made some mini-portfolios as use for small business-card type examples of my work that are easy to hand out, however I forgot to put contact details on them and so if I were to use them as business cards I would need to rectify this mistake.

Lastly I decided to make another hand-bound book but this time bound in the middle, and I also edited my pages on InDesign to make sure that I had the right images facing each other this time around, I also created a new pattern for use of decoration on the cover and added a title page with my name.

I think I could have bound this portfolio a little better but overall I prefer it to the other things that I created and would probably use a similar technique again but possibly with better quality paper and more time spent creating a neat cover.