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 ...

Topics covered

• Instagram as portfolio
• website vs social media
• illustrators
• AI-era credibility
• algorithm impact

Keywords

• Instagram
• portfolio
• illustration
• social media
• AI
• credibility
• algorithm

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Instagram, AI

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