Online Portfolios

Here is some online portfolios.

The AOI

• The AOI is one of the biggest portfolio websites.
• The standard online portfolio costs £93.95 for non-AOI members.
• They allow you to have up to 20 images or animations.
• The major disadvantage is that, there is a very large amount of portfolios on the site and yours may not stand out or be seen in the mass of artists.

Carbonmade

• This is another portfolio site which has 436,369 as i am writing this.
• Different to the AOI, on Carbonmade you can get a free portfolio which allows you to upload 35 images compared to that of AOI's 20.
• By paying $12 a month you can upload 500 images and 10 videos.
• The face that there is a free option is good for professional illustrators starting out like myself, but the problem that may occur with this is that the quality of the work on the site is not monitor and non professional work may flood the site. This can make you harder to find through the large number of members and you could be putting your work into a place with a poor reputation for artwork.

These two portfolio websites differ greatly. The AOI seems to be more professional than what Carbonmade is offering but I feel the Carbonmade portfolio is a good place to start and set up you first portfolio. I think the AOI is for artist that have had some success and becoming more established and can afford the bill.

The locations are different. The AOI is based in London, Where Carbonmade is based is New York. I think that the views of Carbonmade maybe mainly an American audience, where i think the AOI would be more global as it is an established name in the field of illustration.