If you’re a creative, be creative. Make stuff. Take pictures. Make graphics. Write, draw, compose, build. And add your creations to your portfolio
Get more work. keep your portfolio fresh.
I posted a question to Facebook once, asking what the going rate was for illustration gigs.
I’m not an illustrator or graphic designer, but a potential website client needed artwork for his wife’s children’s book. So I figured I could help him cover that base.
Someone replied to my post, nominating themselves for the gig. When I messaged them, asking to see their work, they linked me to their video portfolio.
It was SEVEN years old.
That’s just wrong.
Freelancers, artists, creatives:
UPDATE YOUR PORTFOLIO.
Go through all your creations, and pick your faves!
It’s 2025 and the marketplace is saturated with US. We have to do better. As freelancers we must be sharp, fresh, consistently new.
We MUST constantly seek out new gigs and BE PREPARED to show our best work, always.
And if for whatever reason, you haven’t had a new gig in a long time (it happens, I know it well) at the very least you must create something for yourself.
I’m always updating my website, or working on new writings between clients. I always have something that’s a few weeks new to show. At max, something a month old.
But seven years – hell seven months – is too far.
If you make websites, like me, and your last client was half a year ago – make a new website under a subdomain of your own website. Create templates for fun! If you’re an illustrator then draw and upload your new creations daily.
Refresh and redesign your portfolio across mediums.
Make a video of your work. Make a PDF instead of a webpage. Add an album on Facebook or LinkedIn. Put your content on Instagram.
Help yourself get more work by keeping your portfolio fresh and new. You never really know how your next opportunity will find you – but you can control your presentation when it does.
Be prepared. Update your portfolio.
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