19 Oct 2015
After some months of Private Beta, we are glad to announce we are launching the STORE Plan of Drawfolio. For 5$/month plus 2% of the payments received, you can have your own e-commerce cart, products and order management in the portfolio website you built with Drawfolio, and receive payments with paypal. STORE Plan is the most simple way to sell your original work, prints, or anything you want through you current website.
As you need to already be in the yearly PRO plan, you can subscribe and cancel your STORE plan whenever you want, and pay only for the months you really need an e-commerce cart in your site.
If you were one of the users invited to the Stores Beta, your settings and products remain unchanged, but the store won't appear on your site. Just subscribe to the STORE plan with a couple of clicks, and everything will be working again as usual.
We also wrote a page in our help section with the most common questions and doubts about the Stores. Make sure you checked it!
For any doubt, question, suggestion or problem, please contact us at uservoice or write us at [email protected].
05 Oct 2015
We found out about Marina González Eme through her booklet+badge published through Art Treats, and we were instantly amazed by her work and unique style. Marina graduated in Fine Arts from Complutense University Madrid, and besides working on illustration projects has exhibited personal work at galleries in London.
Tell us a bit about yourself: how did you get into art and illustration?
Since I was a kid, the thing I enjoyed the most was drawing and creating. I always knew the path I wanted to take, so I studied Fine Arts and then Illustration.
Where do you find inspiration for your work, and how do you melt your sources of inspiration to create a unique style like yours?
Expressionism has been always my biggest source of inspiration. I'm interested in anything related to the expression of the human as an emotional, irrational and intense being. Since my degree, I got great influences to which I come back again and again, such as Picasso, Schiele or Klimt. I also keep discovering other great artists like Kati Heck or Rick Bartow, among others.
You really blur the borders between fine art and illustration in your work. Is it hard trying to get those two worlds together?
When I finished my degree, I was making drawing projects in big format, always around woman's representation in society and media. I was trying to generate explicit and controversial images to try breaking beauty stereotypes. My interest kept moving from women's body to self-portraits. While I still think and work on these matters, I had to tune down that when entering illustration, in order to communicate other people's text and stories. At first, it all felt a bit alien to me, after indulging myself in purely personal projects.
I think there's a bit of both illustration and fine art in my pieces right now. There will always be more illustration on pieces where I have to tell an outside story based on a briefing. On the other side, I feel totally free when doing personal work, and there are also professional opportunities happening there.
What good (and bad) things do you feel the Internet and the new technologies have brought to illustration?
The most positive thing is how easy sharing your work has become. Making your work visible creates a lot of opportunities. All my work-related opportunities came through Internet and the profiles where I show my work: Facebook, Instagram or Behance.
Most negative aspect to me is the indispensable need of constant presence in the Internet. It takes a lot of time to be constantly updating, creating that feedback loop between showing off and inspirating yourself, to be aware of what others are doing and show what you are making everytime. As every other matter in life, I think finding a balance is key.
And last, but not least: any advice for aspiring artists just starting up their careers?
Be persistent and enjoy the creative process, even if it becomes a fight many times. And be honest with yourself when creating. That helped me to improve, learn, communicate and being overall happier.
Thanks a lot Marina!
29 Sep 2015
We are happy to say that will be launching our Stores feature soon. With it, you can have an online shop and order management on your own portfolio website.
As you know, we had Stores on private beta during the last couple of months, with 30 of our PRO users testing them. One of the most requested features has been the ability to setup different order delivery prices for different countries of the world. We've been working on that, and here it is!
We focused on making this extremely easy to use, as always. Just click "Configure Delivery Prices" in the "Store and Products" section. You can setup your delivery prices there, and the one most suiting your customer delivery country will be applied.
If we can't find a delivery price for your customer country, we will apply the delivery price set for 'All countries' by default, so we recommend you to have set a delivery price like that. This way, your store can always have a default delivery price for your customers. Just as we did in the following example:
For any doubt, question, suggestion or problem, please contact us at uservoice or write us at [email protected].
15 Sep 2015
Just a quick post to tell you that, if you happen to be in Valencia during this month, you've got two great events to attend to. And not just because we sponsor them!
First comes Blendiberia, the spanish convention of the Blender community. Blender is the free, open-source alternative to the big 3D modelling and animation software suites. This year, the spanish convention is happening in Valencia, at Barreira Art + Design during 14-20 September. On Friday 18 we will be talking about Drawfolio, and also will be hanging out the rest of the days.
Ilustrafic is the International Illustration and Visual Arts Congress organized from the Fine Arts Faculty of Valencia Politechnic University. This year edition will have a great set of conferences by artists such as Alvaro Pons, Ben Newman, Miguel Noguera and many others. It will happen during 1+2+3 October, and we will have a stand there so you can try Drawfolio, talk with us and get free badges and discount coupons.
See you at Blendiberia and Ilustrafic!
07 Sep 2015
It's been a while since we released a new template for your portfolio website, so let's fix that!
This time we named our new template after american artist, illustrator and writer Howard Pyle. Pyle is known for his young people novels and illustrations, but also for pioneering tecniques such as color printing and photoengraving.
On this template, we exploit space for images as much as we can, and we put an extended header on the home page so you can get maximum impact communicating your value proposition.
This template does not come alone, we also made some improvements on the overall product:
Images from a gallery at home page: Until now, you could choose to show a gallery index, a single picture or random pictures at your home page. Now you can also get to show the images from a chosen gallery.
Even more social icons: On "Information" section, you can set up links to any of your social profiles on the web. We made that even more flexible adding a series of more generic icons so you can properly link any other site you got on the web.
For any doubt, question, suggestion or problem, please contact us at uservoice or write us at [email protected].
