Promotion strategy with a website porfolio.

To promote myself, Im going to make a website with a porfolio of work. This way people can quickly access my work and get an understanding of what my illustrations and designs look like.

Fred Gallagher-FREDART

Fred Gallagher is an American illustrator and web comic artist. By looking at his style, I noticed he is strongly influenced by japanese manga and games. In my opnion I prefer his pencil sketches more than his coloured illustrations. Its good that he uploads a comic strip weekly to keep his website active and it maintains his amount of fans.

http://www.fredart.com/

http://www.megatokyo.com

Macy Wong

Just by chance, I spotted this website with a very different style of illustrations. I quite like the layout and the pastel colour coded tabs for each page of the site. This is an example of what Im trying to aim as. I would love to present my works and illustrations on my self created website.



Macy Wong's art is more suitable for a younger audience such as children and it has that nursery education feel to it? The illustrations are mainly created by colours and drawn with light and darker tones. Because of this, her style of using outlines are faint and harsh bold lines are hardly used.

The Pern

Woooo~ my cousin is going to start up a website soon, featuring her illustrations and concepts. If she updates anything, I'll be blogging more about her art and the methods of presenting the new website.

www.thepern.co.uk

Wong fu productions t-shirt designs

Wong Fu productions is a collaboration of 3 people making random short films and currently quite famous because of their funny concepts and video bloggings.

Now having their website, they also opened a store http://areyouaniceguy.com selling merchandise based on their videos. I love the idea of making T-shirts and clothing for fans who like their works.

If I were to go freelance, I can imagine producing my own merchandise with my works printed on them.

Nokia: Phone running on COCA COLA

OH! This is an interesting concept. A designer called Daizi Zheng created this idea of a mobile phone running on the power of the famous soft drink: COCA COLA. Just simply unscrew the top and pour in the drink and tah-dah! watch the process of the phone generating power.

Salamander: MUDPUPPY

I was looking at some under sea creatures for some inspiration in character features and I came across this little guy. Fish? lizard? dragon thingy I've never really seen anything quite like these species.

it has such a cute face. apparently its just a baby in this picture that Im showing. I bet it becomes really ugly when its a fully grown adult.




I just had to sketch this out. yup it has no body. just a head and 2 legs.