Well, funny story really, I have never created an official portfolio until today. The reasoning was very quite simple, it was a lot funner (yes I say "funner") to compile personalized portfolio pieces on a per client basis... okay that was a lie. I was just lazy, and my artistic mind seems to thrive on clutter. But today I final said enough was enough, bit the bullet and made an official portfolio. Now, it is still a work in progress mind you, riddled with typos, and I still need to gather a few more pieces, but it is definitively a step in the right direction.
So what prompted me to do this now instead of several years back when I should have? Well, ever since I did the tutorial up at Blender Cookie some of my other webpages have been getting hits from people googling "Porter Nielsen Artist". The only problem was the websites these individuals were being directed to had nothing to do with me as an artist. So in hopes these "googlers" could actually find what they were looking for I created a portfolio; hence the title of this post.
So what are you to learn from all this. Well first, Porter Nielsen is such a pathetic artist that it took a big name like Blender Cookie to give him any street cred. Thanks Blender Cookie. Second, despite what conventional wisdom says; you actual can get jobs and succeed as an artist without a formal portfolio. It is just a painful, painful, painful process in which you waist a lot of time and loose a lot of clients.
So there you go, I hope you all don't judge me for my complete and utter gaff in freelancing 101; but I am making progress in the right direction, and that's what matters... right? ... RIGHT?!?
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