07 Apr 2016
Maybe you already saw on our social media accounts that we visited Primer Frame 3D Animation School together with 3D Value (partners of Wacom and Adobe) and Repro3D.
Our goal was to show the students at Primer Frame a lot of useful tools in all the phases a 3D creative project goes through: from the production of 3d art, to the variety of options available to 3D print it, to communicating it to the market and making a living out of it (which is the part we care the most at Drawfolio!)
First, Edmundo Irigoyen, sales manager at 3D Value, showed us in detail the Wacom professional tablets on the very known Cintiq line, and did a real life demo of Wacom's latest technology to digitalize any paper sketch: Bamboo Spark.
Next, Jose María Ferrandiz, founder and CEO of Repro3D, gave us a quick perspective on the current state of 3D printing, the variety of material and printing methods available, and how to choose the right ones for each kind of 3D project.
Last but not least, our CEO and founder Luis Roig talked about taking that creative production to market and finding customers who value it, through tools like personal branding, sales funnels, social networks, portfolio websites and analytics.
Thanks again to everyone for coming, and to the Primer Frame team for inviting us to make this great event become a reality!
05 Apr 2016
We got more and more customers in our STORE plan, and we are improving our initial product to be more flexible while keeping it easy to use.
Today, we bring you two small improvements that will make things easier to you and your potential customers:
Weights in products and shipping prices: You can now set a product's weight, and set a minimum and maximum weight in your delivery prices rules. This way, you can have different delivery prices on the same set of countries depending of the order weight: as flexible as it gets!
Product Categories: You can now create product categories, and add a product to one or many of them. On your store main page will be still showing all products by default, but your customers will be able to filter them by the categories you set on the navigation menu.
For any doubt, question, suggestion or problem, please contact us at uservoice or write us at [email protected].
24 Feb 2016
Two weeks ago, we launched the revamped version of our Discover Artists section, and lots of our users have already listed themselves on a category or tagged their portfolios.
If you created your portfolio time ago, it is possible that you portfolio will be in the latter places in a category or tag listing. To mitigate that, we are now featuring invidual images in the Featured Pictures list.
You can also go to "Edit" in a picture you uploaded and tag it to better describe it and be more easily found.
For any doubt, question, suggestion or problem, please contact us at uservoice or write us at [email protected].
22 Feb 2016
Victor is an illustrator and designer from Valencia. We met him while he presented his last work, The Festival at Manhattan Comics. We are also big fans of Providence's most famous author, so we didn't think twice and interviewed Victor as soon as we could.
Tell us a bit about yourself: How did the road began for you to get into illustration?
I always loved drawing, and slowly moved my educational path towards the art world: I went to art school, finished the Graphic Design degree later, and tried to work on projects afterwards.
You recently illustrated a book by H.P. Lovecraft: "The Festival". Can you tell us a bit more about this project?
Sure! I've always been a big fan of Lovecraft and always was drawing stuff about the Mythos, specially the Great Old Ones.
When I finished my bachelor's degree, I spent some time looking for a corporate job with little luck. I decided to complete my education with a final graphic design focused course, where I had to make a final project.
I spent some time thinking on what I could do, and then found out that it was H.P Lovecraft's 125th aniversary, and decided to make a little tribute for all the great times I had enjoying his stories.
The process of making the book was slow and frantic at the same time: I had only 6 months to complete the project, but it was a slow process because I spent 4 months just getting the right style and format, because I really wanted to do something original and unique. That left me just 2 months for illustrations, layout and printing!
The crowdfunding campaign at Verkami was instrumental for making "The Festival" possible. How was the experience of planning and making the crowdfunding campaign a success? How do you think crowdfunding has changed the comic and illustration fields?
It was crazy! I threw myself into it without the proper planning and had to calculate packs and rewards on the go: I also had problems with two printer shops and my budget was a bit fuzzy. But it worked well in the end! For promotion, I walked over to every comic-book shop in Valencia and worked intensively on social networks.
Crowdfunding has changed every creative area for the better. Now you can try to release your work on your own: sometimes great work won't be given a chance by publishers because of being too controversial or because it has little commercial potential.
You are working on other projects, like Twist Comics and "The fucking badass". What new things can we expect on the next few months?
I don't know if I can talk about this yet, let it be a secret between us: at Twist Comics we are working on a card came that it's going to be great and with lots of humor, mocking action films from the 80s-90s. It's going to be a fun, fast-paced game focused on friend-backstabbing. You can't get any cooler than that!
I'm also working on another Lovecraft-inspired project. It's on a very early stage, so I cannot tell anything yet!
And last, but not least: any advice for aspiring artists and illustrators just starting up their careers?
Yes: never stop drawing, and if you cannot get something right, just copy! Look for references and models, you won't get things right the first time but you surely will get it the 30th time.
I don't mean copying other people's work as it was your own: I mean copying to learn by practice!
Thank you, Victor!
08 Feb 2016
Slowly but steadly, Drawfolio has been growing to more than 4600 registered users. They come from countries like Spain, Argentina, Chile, Colombia, Peru, Costa Rica, USA, France, Russia or Arab Emirates, but they also work on a diversity of fields: illustration, photography, fine art, 3D modelling, tattoo, architecture or interior design.
That's why we've been working to evolve our "Discover Artists" engine. Now, finding portfolio websites from any of our users, PRO customers, or the ones featured by our team, is way more easy.
You can also filter by Categories and Tags. In "Information -> Be Discovered", you can now choose the Categories you want your website to be in, and add the tags you want to better describe you and your website.
We think it's better for you to be easily found, but if you don't want to be listed on "Discover Artists", you can always enable the "Prevent showing in discovery" option in "Settings".
For any doubt, question, suggestion or problem, please contact us at uservoice or write us at [email protected].
