In out group we have researched a broad range of resources which are available online.
Portfolio Site/Showcase: These can include anything from Flickr, which is quite a personal, low-key way of showcasing yourself as an artist to the Cargo Collective, with which you can build your own website, making it a professional space to show your work, potentially for clients etc.
Other websites like this include; Deviant Art, Drawn and Quarterly, Illustration Web, Dripbook and Illustration Mundo.
Social/Professional Network: These are great sites for keeping in contact with fellow illustrators. Some are more casual than others, such as Facebook, Twitter and Google+ and some have more of a professional feel like Linkedin. All of these social networking sites provide effective platforms for artists to showcase their work to clients as well as fans and the sharing aspect of these sites provides an opportunity to share their work really quickly and really far. Other social/professional network sites include; Pinterest, Illustration Mundo, Illustration Friday and Hi Fructose.
Blog/News Feed: These allow you to update content as it is created or upon reflection. This also allows you to keep an archive of work which can be left or continued. Most blogs and news feeds exist (creatively speaking) for people to showcase what they make and things/people that influence them. Most other websites have a blog inbuilt which is updated with work and events etc. Some blog/news feed sites include; Blogger, Tumblr, Varoom (acts like a printed blog).
Support Network/Learning Resource: These sites promote learning in one way or another and act as a resource for people to gather material and information. These could include sites like Wikipedia where you source information but do not necessarily post anything. Other websites with reference content include; Nobrow, Amelias Magazine, Comic Book Resource, Web Comic Marketing, Creative Uncut, Skill Share and Illustration Age.
Shop/Marketplace: The internet is a vast, easy place to market your work. Illustrators can create their own webstores on sites like Etsy and Ebay, whereby you pay a small fee to sell items etc. You can also sell images etc on sites like Society6 where they print the work for you and send it to the buyer. Other shop/marketplace sites include; Deviant Art, Ape On The Moon, Fantagraphics, Make It Then Tell Everybody, Lost and Taken and also Kickstarter which enables creative people to generate funding for projects to launch artwork etc.
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