Week 14

 I would argue that a marketable portfolio is the most important thing for an artist to have so this week's lesson will be very useful for many of us in the class who want to pursue a career in the arts. Portfolios always sound intimidating to me because there is no set way to create one, so I never really know if it looks correct or not. In the videos from this week, most of them presented the same ideas: that portfolios should be quality over quantity and be very concise with your explanation of projects. A lot of the time, less is more, but adding more images can be helpful if you want to add context. Established artists usually do not need to add more contextual photos or detailed explanations because they already have an established clientele that already trusts them. 

The segment about Instagram was very insightful. I never thought of hashtags as an organizational tool, but rather as a form of expression or a way to promote posts and get featured on the explore page. I respect that Instagram has evolved as phones have, too, and their post sizes have almost always matched the screen sizes of cell phones. I think Behance and Instagram are very similar because of the stories' feature and comment sections. Behance has tags you can add to your projects in your portfolio which organizes them similarly to how hashtags work on Instagram. I really like the fact that you can add a rating for your art in Behance, which is something that many social media platforms lack. One problem I have with social media is that people can post inappropriate content that minors may see, so having a rated system can help prevent that and generally keep people from seeing something they may not like. 

          Theses are some images I uploaded for the portfolio assignment this week for the photo-based projects.