Illustrator Portfolio Websites | Tips and Examples

We all know the saying, “images are worth a thousand words.” Let us help you get your illustrations noticed with these top portfolio tips for illustrators.

June 18, 2021
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Benghal Hazim

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About Benghal Hazim

Benghal Hazim is a dedicated Senior 2D Artist with a passion for creating visually stunning and immersive gaming experiences. Skilled in character design, and UI/UX design. Proficient in industry-standard software and techniques.

https://benghal-hazim.format.com
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Lazuli Ray

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About Lazuli Ray

Lazuli Ray is a graphic designer/illustrator from Texas. They have been designing and illustrating since they were a teenager, for over 10 years. Lazuli obtained their Associates in Art degree in December 2014, and completed their BFA in Painting and Drawing from UTSA in May 2022,

https://lazuliray.format.com
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Sheena Holm

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About Sheena Holm

Sheena Holm is a concept artist living in Los Angeles. They are currently working with ForeVR Games, creating environments, props, and marketing assets. As a graduate of Art Center College of Design, their background consists of ten years of freelance work for theme parks and games.

https://sheenaholm.format.com
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Cendagorta

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About Cendagorta

Adrián Cendagorta is a concept artist from Barcelona, specializing in backgrounds, and working in the animation and videogames industry.

https://cendagorta.format.com
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Timothy Soriano

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About Timothy Soriano

Timothy Soriano is a passionate and creative artist with a penchant for creating worlds and stories with characters that are compelling and intriguing, not only in design, but with their personalities and backstories. Once he gets immersed into a story, he can't help but be passionate about what kind of characters he can shape out of a story's world! Timothy believes even fictional characters and stories can be as powerful a source of inspiration as any other.

https://tsoriano.format.com
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Libby Morris

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About Libby Morris

Libby is a sussex-based illustrator and natural history enthusiast with a degree in ecology and conservation. She studies birds, plants, insects and fungi before going home and drawing them. Her creative process originated from self-teaching natural history, and the blend of illustration and ecology has bloomed into an exciting and varied career. She has worked on projects for HarperCollins, RSPB and Waitrose, and runs Little Plover which sells greetings cards based on her illustrations.

https://libby-morris.format.com
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Illustration Portfolio Tips: Start With Clear Goals

Starting a website can feel intimidating, especially when you don't know where to start. The best way to establish your professional illustration portfolio is a clear goal in mind and a plan. Here’s where you can start: what's the purpose of your website? It's likely to attract new clients or show off your creative work for job opportunities. In that case, you want to craft a plan that will get you the results you want.

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Seamus Jennings

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About Seamus Jennings

Seamus Jennings is an illustrator and editorial cartoonist who works for newspapers and publishers in the UK. Their work is completed mainly in traditional media- watercolour, gouache, ink and pencil. Seamus' portfolio represents a mix of commissions and personal work, from children's book illustrations to political cartoons for national newspaper titles.

https://seamusjennings.format.com
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Eve Pyra

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About Eve Pyra

Eve Pyra is a digital and traditional illustrator based in Cardiff, UK. She spends her days creating illustrations for books, magazines and various clients who need visuals to enrich their projects, ideas and services. She also sells art prints and colouring pages which can be found on her Shop page. Her work has a rich, textured and vibrant quality. She is passionate about Health & Wellbeing, Nature, Spirituality, Culture and Femininity.

https://portfolio-orntxgi.format.com
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Jane Cabrera

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About Jane Cabrera

Jane Cabrera is a well-known author and illustrator of children’s books. She has written and illustrated 59 books that have been translated into more than 25 languages. She has won awards in both the US and Europe. Jane’s books range from picture books to board books for babies. Jane designs her books from the initial concept, including novelty elements and hand typography. Many of her picture books are based on traditional nursery rhymes, updated with her own modern fun twist.

https://janecabrera.format.com
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Jennifer Woodall

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About Jennifer Woodall

Jenn Woodall is an award-winning illustrator and comics creator who dwells in Toronto, Ontario. She has a Bachelor of Design from OCADU in Illustration as well as a BDes in Fashion Design. She self-publishes her own comics and also has her work distributed and published through Silver Sprocket, based in San Francisco.

https://jennwoodall.format.com
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Veronica Lee

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About Veronica Lee

Veronica Lee is a Korean illustrator from Toronto, spending her 3rd year in OCAD U. With her experience of working as an art teacher at the preschool, Veronica draws children's picture books, develop and design language workbook. She is also interested in preschool education. Currently, she is the chief editor for Magazine Be, which is an online women's magazine that helps neglected women in Korea.

https://lee-veronica.format.com
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Andrew Dylan Campbell

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About Andrew Dylan Campbell

Andrew Dylan Campbell is an illustrator of stories and an art teacher living in Oceanside, NY. He likes to draw in ballpoint pen, watercolors, and gouache. Every new project is a new adventure, and he likes to spend plenty of time researching and sketching before committing to a final image.

https://andrew-dylan-campbell.format.com
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Illustration Projects For Portfolio: Highlight Your Best Work

Rather than sharing every artwork work you've ever done, think about curating your portfolio to showcase your best work instead. We've said it before plenty of times, but your illustration portfolio is only as strong as your weakest work, which means you want your best work to shine through. Cluttering your website with subpar projects will only bring down your overall achievements. If you're not sure what to include in your portfolio, consider the type of work you'd like to do and cater your website to appeal to those types of projects. Don't forget to ask colleagues who will give you honest and constructive feedback about your chosen pieces. 

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Emilie Leduc

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About Emilie Leduc

Emilie Leduc iis a children's book illustrator, based in Montreal. She completed a Bachelor’s of Graphic Design at the University of Québec at Montréal (UQAM) in 2010 and received her college diploma in Animation from the Cégep du Vieux Montréal in 2005. Emilie has worked as a computer graphics designer, and animation artist on several television series before focusing on illustrating books.

https://emilieleduc.format.com
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Sid Sharp

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About Sid Sharp

Sid is an illustrator and comic artist whose drawings are usually irreverent and a little spooky. They live in Toronto, where they're working on a new graphic novel.

https://sid-sharp.format.com
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Henry Rivers

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About Henry Rivers

Best know for his playful, minimalist posters, Henry Rivers is an illustrator with a passion for travel. Working in a combination of hand-painted and digital techniques, Henry creates richly textured artworks with a sense of calm and escapism. Originally from the Isle of Wight, Henry is currently living and working in London. His artwork has been exhibited in 18 different countries and appeared on wine bottles, book covers and airline trolleys.

https://henryrivers.format.com
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Fernando Volken Togni

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About Fernando Volken Togni

Fernando is a Brazilian illustrator and graphic designer based in London. He illustrates daily life with clear-cut shapes and bold use of colour.

https://fernando-volken-togni.format.com
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Kevin Herrmann

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About Kevin Herrmann

Kevin Herrmann is a freelance animator and illustrator based in Germany. Currently, he is open to commissions and collaborations.

https://kevin-herrmann.format.com
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Illustration Tips For Beginners: Create Consistently

Whenever you plan a creative portfolio, we ask beginner illustrators what type of work they'd like to get into. Often, the answer is "I don't know." The best way to get around this is to try a breath of projects and see what area of illustration you enjoy working in. The truth is, the only way to find out is to produce work consistently and to try a wide range of styles and project types from comics, product illustrations, book covers, and animations. 

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Carly Gledhill

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About Carly Gledhill

Carly Gledhill is a children’s book Author/ Illustrator and surface pattern designer living and working in Stockport, U.K. Combining a love of colour, character design and hand drawn lettering, she has worked as a Print Designer for design studios and completed an MA in Children’s book illustration.

https://carly-gledhill.format.com
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Sumrow

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About Sumrow

Sumrow is a New Mexico based illustrator. He works with fantasy, horror, and science fiction. Sumrow spent almost two decades as a Graphic Designer and now focuses on his first love: painting and illustration.

https://sumrow.format.com
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Rocheleau

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About Rocheleau

Julie Rocheleau is a Canadian illustrator and cartoonist, most notably of the Eisner nominated About Betty's Boob, a wordless, burlesque and uplifting tale about body image and breast cancer, and The Wrath of Fantômas, a tale about the famous, fictional french criminal mastermind. As an illustrator, she tend to combine aspects of the darker side of humans and nature with the vivacious, colorful world of danse and music. Her work is also influenced by cinema, littérature and biology.

https://rocheleau.format.com
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Anne-Katrin Hermanns

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About Anne-Katrin Hermanns

Born in 1987 in Aachen, close to the Dutch and Belgium border, drawing started to be a passion of Anne-Katrin Hermanns when she was able to hold a pen and continues to be to this day. As the daughter of two ornithologists and natural scientists, she has always been enchanted by nature.

https://ankatsart.format.com
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Sara Sarhangpour

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About Sara Sarhangpour

Sara Sarhangpour is a Toronto-based illustrator and artist. Her work reflects and intertwines her personal experiences with her love of all things cute (and sometimes creepy). She draws inspiration from nature, fantasy, city life, the mundane, and the occult. Her influences include Michael DeForge, FriendsWithYou, TokiDoki, Gary Baseman, and Takashi Murakami. She welcomes everyone into her whimsical and colourful world filled with quirky characters and crazy details.

https://sarabearie.format.com
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Tanya Denysenko

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About Tanya Denysenko

At the root of Tanya’s illustrations and design, there is always a story. Tanya believes it is this story that has the power to influence how a piece of work begins before it disappears or changes form. A person’s story, the dimensions of reality in his/her life and the confluence of rational and irrational in a person's mind all pose as subject matter for Tanya’s art. Tanya lives in Kiyv, Ukraine.

https://denysenko.format.com
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Digital Illustration Tips: Regularly Update Your Portfolio

Your life experiences, artistic influences, and project work will continue to shape your creative style, which is why you must regularly update your digital illustration portfolio to reflect your work. Stylistic trends will also change over time, so you want to show potential clients that you can maintain relevance in your work. Try to keep your portfolio pieces recent within a 2–3 year timeframe. 

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Miriam Galea

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About Miriam Galea

Miriam Galea studied English and Art at the University of Malta, furthering her studies in Illustration at St Luc in Brussels. She also studied Theatre at MTADA, Malta. She performed with various theatre companies and founded her own theatre company Urbania in 2002. She currently lives in Brussels. Ever noncommittal, she evades definition, in the belief that the unspoken is often truer than the explained, opting instead for a wistful, elusive dreaminess.

https://miriam-galea-wzwv.format.com
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Jo Ley

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About Jo Ley

Jo Ley is a NSW-based illustrator working predominantly in digital. Jo Ley studied Illustration at the University of the Arts London. After the graduation show, he was offered a Junior House Artist job working with two sister studios, one making pre-visualisation artwork and the other finished illustration. Since then, he has moved to Sydney to work as a freelance artist and is represented by The Jacky Winter Group.

https://jo-ley.format.com
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Madelyn Cordeiro

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About Madelyn Cordeiro

Madelyn Cordeiro is an Orlando-based Latinx illustrator and graduate of Ringling College of Art and Design. As a Mexican Cuban child who was raised in southern California, she is very passionate about the representation of Latinx culture in art. her goal is to create the art she would have wanted to see growing up. In her work you will find an intimate collection of poems and illustrations that showcases a contemporary look of evolving Latinx culture.

https://madelyncordeiro.format.com
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Cyrielle Viany

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About Cyrielle Viany

Cyrielle Viany is a London-based illustrator who graduated from UAL and is working with digital or traditional techniques such as collages, creating bold illustrations inspired by the mid-century design.

https://cyrielleviany.format.com
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Peeld

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About Peeld

"Peeld" is an archive of visual footnotes from the creator Terrence Adeyanju. His works reference the human experience, self empowerment, and the unseen through bold, colorful, and imaginative imagery.

https://iampeeld.format.com
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Illustration Tips For Beginners: Take On Work That Aligns With You

If a project comes your way that you're truly not excited about, learn how to pass it up gracefully. While it may feel like you need to take on all the projects that come across your desk as you start your career as an illustrator, you must learn to only take on work that aligns with your goals. Otherwise, you risk producing sub-par work for projects you're not as excited about, and it won't be helpful to building your portfolio. 

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