For any designer it is very important have a online portfolio with their jobs where any potential client can see our work and can contact us, hire us and work for him.
The ideal is to have the web domain of our name or the name of our agency or design firm and host our portfolio there, but if you don't have the time, money or the necessary knowledge to design your own portfolio, there are dozens of websites where they make this job easier for us.
Is it essential to have a portfolio?
Things have changed a lot when it comes to getting a portfolio where we can show the art or crafts that we do. We say it because thanks to the best connection speeds and the wide variety of tools, making your portfolio fast, easy and free is now possible in a very simple way.
We talk about connection speed because it allows us to generate content of better quality, resolution and even upload videos. But let's face it, and we are going to show you 10 places where you can make your portfolio and then show clients and companies from the ease of a click on your link.
10 websites to create your portfolio for free
Behance
We started with Behance because for artists of design, drawing, illustration and more, it is a vital place where you have to be yes or yes. It is under the umbrella of Adobe, so if you have a Creative Cloud account, you can design directly in Photoshop to pass that new creation or project to Behance so that even your followers can follow the workflow on a work or series.
Need time so that you have followers, but as in other social networks, liking, following and looking for those who follow us, we will be able to participate in a small community of artists in a short time. You have it for free with an Adobe account, so it couldn't be easier. The interface is perfect and very intuitive to leave a very cool portfolio.
DeviantArt
Other of the best spaces for artists on the web and here, as well as on Behance, we can share a site with professionals as well as amateurs who are starting out in drawing, illustration or even advertising.
DeviantArt allows us have a completely free portfolio and that can be seen by the hundreds of thousands of users that this network has. It is one of those that houses a greater number of users like the previous one. Its format is a little less artistic in the portfolio, but it is a place to be if you are serious about this. If you handle English or another language, all the better.
Flickr
Flickr was always linked to photography, so we leave it for those of you who dedicate yourselves to this branch. One of its greatest potentials is the large number of photos that you can upload and the ESIF information that appears in each photo. That is, they can know the ISO you use, the exposure level and all those important data for a photograph.
Although it is a website dedicated to photographyYour photographs can also be tagged as artistic or illustrations, so you can find clients. But I said, it is a great site as a portfolio.
Dribbble
Another of the best places to show your portfolio. Although there are many types of artistic categories, it is at the digital level where Dribbble puts the accent. The only problem or handicap is that to have your space to upload your art you need an invitation. There is no other way to access unless we follow the accounts on Twitter and pay attention to the invitations.
In this way they have created a community that is sharing invitations and this is his way of having come so far. One of the best artist communities for digital advertising as well as design or illustration. Don't miss it and try to get an invitation. You can always ask your circle of friends if they know someone.
Carbonmade
This solution is not that it is one of the best, but we do want to have an online site from the free account we can have it. Although we cannot be seen unless we go through the box. In other words, we can set up our free portfolio and if we see that we like how the platform looks, we can access the three plans that Carbonmade comes with.
There are for $ 8 a month for 8 projects, 50 projects for 12, and already 18 dollars a month to have infinite projects. They refer projects to uploaded art. One of its advantages is that it offers a very pleasant portfolio experience with which we do not have to eat our heads.
ThemeForest
ThemeForest is a portal with thousands of themes for different CMS. Among them WordPress and that allow us to access dedicated themes for professionals and artists. In other words, it is to find a suitable one, pay a minimum amount of 20-30 euros for it and we will have a theme ready to be installed in WordPress.
These topics they usually come with tutorials to leave the web ready with our portfolio and we can leave the rest to configure some things. What I said before, you have to handle WordPress a bit, so with a little time you can have a very professional website with your own url, work email and more. This usually gives more professionalism to the matter and knowing an artist with his own url and email gives more substance to the possible contracts that come to us.
Portfolio box
This is a it is very interesting because it is free. It comes with the option of adding image galleries, a blog and even a domain that we have to contract previously from a hosting. They are cheap, so they will allow us to go from installing WordPress and having a url with your emails and others.
This platform will take care of the rest, which from its web editor allows you to create a professional portfolio with less work than the two solutions mentioned above. You can see examples of really well made websites. And we recommend that you contract a domain with email in order to take it to another level. An interesting site to which we cannot say no if we are looking for a free portfolio. Even with your url you can help us to get out of trouble and show us online without spending a euro.
Jimdo
Other platform dedicated to artists and creatives and that allow us to have our portfolio online easily and for free. Best of all, it has several plans that can be ideal for our portfolio. The free includes its own domain and we can test it now.
If we already want to go to the 9 euros per month plan, we will have free domain the first year and without advertising. In other words, you will have a portfolio for free, but remember that you will see advertising. And this if that can cloud the experience of that client who is going to see you to enjoy your art. Advertising always goes backwards.
Etsy
We've saved Etsy for last for a reason, because it is a perfect site as a portfolio for those who sell objects, crafts or even prints of your art. Your free account allows us to upload that art that we have to sell. In other words, we have to put a price on our things. This can be put back, but if you like to make unique hats with your designs, there is no better place than Etsy to display your art and thus sell it.
If you speak English you can get there to every corner of this planet where there is internet. And if you make abstract paintings, you can reach a lot of clients who are looking for a different painting with a special design for their home. That could be yourself, so you are already missing the opportunity to put your art on Etsy, tag it and have the patience to get to know others to talk about your art.
Instagram is a social network, yes. But we can use it as a portfolio and thus reach hundreds of millions of people. In fact, Instagram is mega used by thousands of artists. They put their information, the photo of their logo and then each post is made to show each of their illustrations, drawings. Even now it can be used as an online store to sell. For more inri, you can put a photo carousel to show development and creativity. Come on, it's another great opportunity to put your portfolio and reach many.
Hello, do you happen to know or have a tutorial for wordpress? They say it's very good, easy and cheap, but since neither php nor css is my thing, I'm making it quite difficult: / greetings, great blog.
Hello, how are you ?, the portfolio can be used to publish handmade drawings or not?
Hello how are you finding or making a portfolio is very easy
Hi, how are you? How easy is it to make a portfolio with whatever?
Thank you very much for the contribution! I have already included my portfolio in most of these recommendations that you make to us. I really appreciate the time you spent researching these sites and will be on the lookout for more posts. Congratulations on the blog, it's great! Greetings from Mexico
Very interesting. It struck me that Wix was not recommended as I saw it recommended by others. Although I confess that I tried with them until I gave up because it does not seem easy for someone who puts together their portfolio for the first time. The problem I have when choosing is that the portfolio is to promote the works of my company that includes my photos and oil paintings of my husband. I have a hard time deciding on the target audience. Instagram had not occurred to me as an option, although the problem I see is the quality of the images that download when uploaded from my cell phone, since I have to pass them through WhatsApp because I have them on my computer. But I won't rule it out. Thank you so much.