After looking at websites for portfolios, I then looked further into Portfoliobox.net, which was my favourite out of the ones I researched, and look into the layout and templates for the portfolios. But before that, I made two simple flowcharts to display how I’m possibly planning on setting up my portfolio page. My first flowchart is split in 3; my 2D art, narrative and about pages. Each tab under the art tab will organise my work into if its a sketch or colour piece of art with my own inspirations or if its art relating to my many D&D Characters or any other pieces of media I like, they’ll be put under their own tabs too. Narrative concepts has tabs separate for character profiles I make, scene I may plan out and random ideas for world building. Then the About Me would consist of information about me and my interests and ways to contact me like my email.
My second flowchart also has a Narrative ideas and About tab, but I decided to split my art tab into two; one for traditional pencil and paper art and another for digital pen and tablet art. I feel this would be a good idea to showcase my skills regarding both traditional and digital and instead organising each tab the same so they have sketches, outlines and colours/finished pieces. The Narrative tab is a little smaller- just limited to character profiles I make and scenes I may end up writing.
Looking at customisation options for Portfoliobox.net, there are many options on how to layout the website. For an ‘About’ or ‘Home’ page (or even a combination of the two), There are a lot of Text Templates which I feel will work well for a beginning page and for character profiles by having a drawing of the character for an image and description of them in the text.
Here’s a layout I like the idea of using for the home/about page, with having a picture of me displayed on the top.
Here’s another text layout for a character profile like I mentioned earlier
For my art, I like having art of all different sizes and having an uneven looking gallery I feel adds more personality to how its presented, so this layout for my artwork is most likely the one I’ll stick too when presenting my artwork.
I have currently set up my portfoliobox.net portfolio with an About Me page.
Slowly over time I added some pages and works I am happy to post for my portfolio. Below are my current pages and some of the work I’ve presented on them.
My layout for my portfolio changed drastically from my ideas to what I made. As I do generally prefer traditional drawing way more over digital, I felt no real need to split categories for them and I preferred my idea from my first layout plan to have my tabs categorized with what everything under that tab has in common. So far I have separated it as (from left to right)
D&D Artwork – Work relating to Dungeons and Dragons whether characters I have, pieces for games I’m in or creatures in the D&D universe
Personal – Work with personal value, my ow ideas or experimental pieces
Fan Art – Work tied to a piece of media I enjoy
Pixel Art – Work done via using pixel art
Realism – Work done realistically, animals and people, life drawings and portrait works
Here’s the link to my portfolio: https://pieceofsushi.pb.online/
Sasha Level 3 Games Dev 2nd Year 