I recently rebranded and redesigned my website and social media. I would love some feedback on my portfolio http://www.bryanwestart.com
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- @Paul AtchisonThanks for the feeback Paul!
- @Heloise Lamont HoffmannThanks so much for the detailed feedback Heather!Context is admittedly a shortcoming of mine. I'm just too impatient! I want to finish my work, throw it online and move onto the next project. I need to slow it down and take some pics or create mockups.I have done a couple Riso zines, but I want to do more for sure. Love the colors and textures you can get.
- I wouldn’t usually comment on these types of posts, but I truly thoroughly enjoyed your Portfolio!Your choice and conduct of colors is a huge strong point of yours, it really sets you appart. And your illustrations are well directed, clean, simple, nothing to add on that.Now for how you present them:One thing is when we see your illustrations it’s hard to imagine what context their in. Even after reading the text, we want to see examples! And you have to show them directly in your portfolio. If you weren’t looking for a critique, I (and I’d say about 90% of people) wouldn’t have taken the time to check out your store and extra links, and that’s even though I love your works. Those are my main critiques.I love the part where you show them applied on t-shirts (the backgrounds are a bit tacky maybe, a colorful real life background (like simply taking a picture of an A2 colored paper) would work better and be more pro, but that’s up to subjective taste).I see on your store that you have some real printed/made products, you should add a few of those to show you know what your doing. Especially works like enamel pins for exemple. Those have to be well drawn and thought out to be produced, they really show how good your line work is! In short pictures of real life products can be great to show off and highlight specific abilities.You mention some of your illustrations being made for a magazine, that’s huge! You should show some of them in that context. (Even better in the real layout, if the magazine allows you to but I know that’s not always possible. I have a good magazine mockup if you need one.) As I mentioned before, show that directly in the portfolio with the rest of the works. Because seeing them before knowing they’re part of articles, you can think wow this is just some (very good admittedly) fanart, with nothing more to them.+++just to add, as I mentioned I’m really impressed with your use of colors, first thing I think of is Riso Print. If you have any posters or zines printed please please show them! And if you don’t have any you should absolutely make some! Riso has such a special quality to it, it would show off your colors and style amazingly, even with its limited number of colors.Hope my input can be helpful in some way, sorry for being a bit repetitive. I’d say your portfolio is at the point where only details are left to be adjusted!
- Hello Bryan,First things first I think you got some really cool stuff it has it's own style with a lovely quality. Hoever as been mentioned before your type choices not so defined it also true for your logo. It comes back I believe that you didn't really make a branding exercise for your personal brand so it would need a bit of work there. But otherwise it's great!
- Hi Bryan, just had a look at your website, thought it looked great. I didn't have the same experence as Eugenie with the images loading slow etc and the other comments are subjective really. Really liked the soupline project and like your bold clean illustration style. The only thing that did confuse me a little was your logo, didn't know if you considered just using BW instead? Best of luck with everything.
- Hi there, just a quick note. Apologies for being a bit blunt x First off, your web address reads Bryan We Start, just a little thing but if you can change that it might be good in the long run. Then the images loaded slowly, maybe try make them smaller? Last quick observation, look at your font choices, your menu font is really not great, There are so many fonts that can make any design look professional, I would do a bit of reading. Ps. I am a graphic designer as well so I'm not just poking holes x All of the best to you!
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