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Showcasing illustration work: how to create your best portfolio

Creative Boom

How do you create a successful illustration portfolio? Most importantly, consider who will look at your portfolio and – crucially – how long they're likely to spend on it. So how you put your portfolio together should recognise that essential fact. Also, ensure you've added all the details a portfolio needs to contain.

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Sarah Mafféïs illuminates everyday moments through texture, tone and craft

Creative Boom

Two years ago, she decided to set up a shop and make prints of her drawings, slowly but steadily winning the hearts of diverse clients. Adding colour and texture is the part she most enjoys (and one she's clearly very good at) – "I try out different combinations until everything clicks.

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Van Saiyan's incredible retro illustrations draw on special moments from his childhood

Creative Boom

Thanks to his delicate inky line work and considered use of block colours and faded textures, Van Saiyan's artwork harks back to sci-fi comics of the 50s and 60s. Normally, I work with Photoshop, using different brushes and textures to get as close a result as possible to pulp comics," he reveals.

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How to Find Design Clients During a Lockdown

Creative Market

One of the biggest concerns for designers is how to find clients during this time of worldwide lockdowns. Though this pandemic and lockdown are unprecedented challenges for graphic designers, it’s still possible to find good clients during this hardship. This is why we now decided to join forces.

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Graphic Design and Marketing: 5 Ideas to Attract New Clients

Creative Market

If you’re a graphic designer who wants to increase the number of your potential customers, snag your first clients, or convince past clients to return, here are some tips on how to level up your marketing efforts and compete with another graphic design agency. Create an online portfolio that stands out.

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Illustrator Charles Bailey uses a deliberately naive art style to talk about difficult subjects

Creative Boom

There, his eyes were opened to the various paths he could take as an artist, and since graduating in 2019, he has gone on to become a full-time freelance illustrator with the WWF and the Mental Health Foundation on his client list. Regarding subject matter, nature is a recurring theme in Charles's portfolio.

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James Olstein uses his love of screen printing to create stunning digital illustrations with an analogue feel

Creative Boom

Fizzing with grainy textures and overlapping vibrant colours, his work has the curious quality of looking like it came from the 1950s, even though it contains contemporary items and characters. I started working on getting my own clients and building an illustration portfolio.

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