my portfolio is done. like 99%. the last 1% is publishing details like whether i get a readymag pro license for free from my uni so i am not demeaned by the readymag branding and the cryptic URL. and my friend will have to do a testrun this weekend, lest i have become so oblivious of an unassuming user and their behaviours that i have implemented stupid bullshit that nobody understands.
i must say, i am quite happy with how it's turned out. i put way too much effort into it, especially considering i may not even use it for my internship-search (if i can get a bookbinder to take me on. first two i've thus far been able to reach don't have the capacities). but you know me. i love putting too much effort into things. it's just about me wanting, maybe needing for a thing i'm making to be of a certain standard that i've set for myself. really, it's an entirely selfish behaviour, despite being self-destructive. and yet, i wouldn't call myself a perfectionist. i just like for things that i care about being good to be good. anyway.
i think the home page is my favourite. it's silly and wonderfully reactive with the way the panels change when you hover over them and it immediately tells you: this guy makes comics.
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| my beautiful home |
i also love the colour palette. ultramarine blue is one of my favourite colours anyway and love this pairing with a creme off-white. the blue has a signalability that the off-white lacks and the off-white brings a nice warmth into it.
something i was worried about earlier in the process was whether all my art wouldn't make the look of the whole thing too chaotic and incoherent, specifically in terms of colours, because my art just isn't stylistically or chromatically uniform. but it worked out fine i think. in some places, i unified thumbnails with a coloured halftone, so they settle nicely into the colour scheme of the whole site, but even where many different works get to appear as they are (only with a slight chromatic unification by multiply-overlaying them with the off-white), nothing really clashes at all.
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| each work's real colouration is shown when you hover over the thumbnail |
overall, i say, this project was a success. i like where i ended up. but i did not like the way there and i'm not sure that it was worth it. readymag is just a hellish platform to work on. i crave the simplicity of carrd. carrd isn't so pushy about their branding either. but my carrd is for the general public -- this one is for people whom i need to convince that i'm good for something.
i must go to bed now. long day tomorrow. good night, my good people. stay away from readymag.
THIS IS SO COOL. Honestly I think the effort was worth it, even if its not getting practically used isn't it enough to have made something hella cool that exists in the world now? but I really get the sentiment about caring a lot about making everything good.
ReplyDeleteI wish I could stay away from readymag- I gotta start prepping my portfolio this summer to start applying for my mandatory internship for school next sem. Readymag seems hellish from what I've heard from my seniors. I think dribble is an alternative I've been told about? Its good if you've worked with figma before
THANK YOU! it *is* probably worth it, just to have something to send somewhere if i do need to show off my work. but readymag really is horrible to work with (without trying to discourage you), it's just buggy in so many small annoying ways and has a bunch of features missing that seem so obvious. i at least needed a lot of patience with it. one thing i'll give it is that it's relatively easy to get a hang of. idk about dribbble, we looked at that in class too but it seems like more of a social media type gallery thing, rather than a website-builder? but maybe i'm missing something. hated working with figma tho, so. not for me prolly
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