Instagram Is Not Your Portfolio (PHEW!)
About this episode
The episode discusses the differences between using Instagram and a personal website as a portfolio for illustrators.
This week we’re wrapped up in some blankets havin' a proper sofa-chat about Instagram. Specificallyyyy: Should your Instagram be your portfolio? What's the difference between a snazzy website folio and the mad addictive world of social media? We also get into showing your human face, illustrators following illustrators, AI-era credibility, and why you absolutely do not owe the algorithm/tech bros your nervous system. Rough timestamps for our timestamp-fans: 00:00 – Blankets ...
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