Comments for Artistic Doom

Comment on Portfolio vs. Store by Joenis

Joenis — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:29:52 +0000

With a Battle Axe perhaps?

Lol, i don’t need to prove myself in anyway. I value the opinions of others, I need to hear other peoples views to help me make the most logical decision about this. This isn’t really a forum to debate who’s right and who’s wrong, though the use of words like “pretentious” which have the negative connotations that allude to this being a debate…. It’s more of a decision of, do I need to be business focused towards my entire brand or self focused towards me an as an artist. I’m leaning Brand (largely as part of my current financial situation).

::AXE TO THE FACE::!!! j/k

Comment on Portfolio vs. Store by Teddy

Teddy — Sat, 05 Jun 2010 00:00:08 +0000

I see what you are saying. I see that they do not see what you are saying. Show them.

Comment on Portfolio vs. Store by Joenis

Joenis — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:41:46 +0000

That’s just the thing though, I’m not trying to market my portfolio, I’m trying to market my art that is for sale. Basically I’m trying to run a business.. not show off my work. I’m individually marketing myself fairly well at my two comic sites, I dont see the point in working just as hard to maintain a third site every time I post a new comic. At some point I’m wasting energy in the wrong areas. Portfolio site = no money. Store = Minuscule money (but enough) to keep me drawing comics and putting them online for free. I don’t think you realize this, but I don’t have a full time job. I part time work with Autistic kids, when families call me.. and I part time work on comics but mainly I work on comics. In a perfect world I wouldn’t have to focus my art in a direction that I need to make sales.. but if I am too keep doing this, i HAVE to change the direction of this site to be sales of quality products rather then an art gallery of unsellable art pieces.

And I’m not getting rid of the portfolio, just focusing my energies towards something profitable.. for once.

Comment on Portfolio vs. Store by nixonagnew

nixonagnew — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 23:09:14 +0000

I guess we have different views. I don’t think it’s pretentious at all to have a portfolio site where people can see what you’re capable of and find out how to get in touch with you. That’s a pretty reasonable way to market yourself, I think.

Comment on Portfolio vs. Store by Joenis

Joenis — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 21:40:52 +0000

…And again, and again, and again. ^.^

Comment on Portfolio vs. Store by shi

shi — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 12:40:14 +0000

sounds good. see how that looks and if it doesn’t suit you, you can always change it again :}

Comment on Portfolio vs. Store by Joenis

Joenis — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:26:09 +0000

You’re completely missing the point though. It’s not like LAWLS is going to have a store on the main page, that would be exactly what you said “a pretentious turn off.” Artisticdoom to me isn’t anything worth promotion and not something I am too proud of at the moment infact i dont really want people come here for anything. I want them to look at my comics at their respective sites, not here. I only have this site to link to job applications and if someone who is picking me up for freelance, i can give them a quick over view of some of my best stuff on one link… of which i can just provide to them on those respective cases. The direction i want to take Artisticdoom as an overall item is simply, just a store.

To me it’s overly pretentious to try to say “hey look at me, I’m an artist, look look look at what I can dooooo!” And throw the portfolio that no one cares about in their face.

Overall, and I don’t mean this is a negative way or anything, but you aren’t my target demographic. I want people who don’t really know my comics too well, but they like the merchandise they saw of mine at a convention, to have an easy time finding the stuff they saw at the event and if they care to look around and see what I’m all about, they very well can, if they chose.

Either way, thanks for voicing your opinion.. It’s really interesting to see how different everyone’s views are on this whole subject. :]

Comment on Portfolio vs. Store by nixonagnew

nixonagnew — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:03:18 +0000

don’t get me wrong, it’s a good idea to get it all together in one place, but store up front is a turn off.

Comment on Portfolio vs. Store by nixonagnew

nixonagnew — Fri, 04 Jun 2010 00:00:21 +0000

I actually agree with Joe. I always find it a little pretentious when you’re first met with a store before you can see the rest of the site.

Comment on Portfolio vs. Store by Joenis

Joenis — Thu, 03 Jun 2010 20:46:22 +0000

For ease of the matter (though i completely agree) I may have to just do extensions for the time being, Pretty much cos the time I’d have to invest into changing /reederrabbit /ui /blog /project etc into sub domains would take too much time from art and all that.

Otherwise I’m glad you see things my way on this matter, I’m gonna probably dumb down the main page into a few categories that are very simple and clear from the get go. What I’ll probably has is a few large images that say: Portfolio, store, Projects, shows. Something like that. the header will have all those anyway but at least you wont be bombarded by 30 portfolio images right when you get to artisticdoom.com. The store will be the top most item of course. :]

…that or leave it how it is and on the right side bar ill have a large image that says “take me to the store” or something like that.