--- title: Portfolio Building description: Portfolio building is the process of curating and presenting your best design work to secure clients or employment. You will understand how to select projects, write case studies, structure your presentation, and showcase your unique problem-solving process. category: arts-design subcategory: graphic-design difficulty: beginner, intermediate, advanced url: /subject/portfolio-building --- # Portfolio Building Portfolio building is the process of curating and presenting your best design work to secure clients or employment. You will understand how to select projects, write case studies, structure your presentation, and showcase your unique problem-solving process. ## Available Resources 2 Books • 4 Websites ## Websites ### 1. behance.net Behance.net is Adobe's platform for publishing and exploring design portfolios, where creatives share project-based case studies with images, videos, and process notes. It’s a rich source of portfolio examples and inspiration across graphic design, photography, illustration, UI/UX, and more. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://behance.net **Tags:** websites, arts-design, graphic-design ### 2. dribbble.com Dribbble is a designer-focused community and portfolio platform where designers publish 'shots'—visual previews of UI/UX, branding, illustration, and other design work. You can browse projects, study portfolios, follow creators, save favorites, and connect with designers for hiring or collaboration. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://dribbble.com **Tags:** websites, arts-design, graphic-design ### 3. portfolio.adobe.com Adobe Portfolio is a built-in portfolio website builder for Creative Cloud users that lets you quickly create a personal, responsive site to showcase your work. It offers drag-and-drop templates, image/video galleries, and project pages, with integration to Creative Cloud and Behance to publish and sync your content from Lightroom or Behance. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://portfolio.adobe.com **Tags:** websites, arts-design, graphic-design ### 4. ArtStation Portfolio and showcase platform, owned by Epic Games, where professional concept artists, illustrators and 3D artists publish their work, alongside a job board and paid tutorials. Browsing industry portfolios shows how working artists select, sequence and present projects to studios. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Free **Link:** https://artstation.com **Tags:** art-portfolio, concept-art, portfolio-hosting, game-art, art-careers ## Books ### 1. Burn Your Portfolio **Author:** Michael Janda Michael Janda's field guide to the non-design side of a creative career: client relationships, agency politics, pricing, deadlines and self-promotion. Readers come away understanding the business and interpersonal skills that decide whether designers get hired and advance beyond their portfolio. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/0321918681?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, graphic-design ### 2. Show Your Work! **Author:** Austin Kleon A short illustrated guide by Austin Kleon on sharing creative process publicly: documenting work in progress, posting regularly, telling stories about your projects and building an audience online. Readers learn practical habits for making their work discoverable instead of waiting to be found. **Difficulty:** Intermediate | **Language:** English | **Price:** Paid **Link:** https://www.amazon.com/dp/076117897X?tag=edmonddante07-20 **Tags:** books, arts-design, graphic-design --- *This content is part of Dantes.io - Your Treasure Map to Knowledge* *Curated by humans at Dantes.io. Personal study use welcome; republishing this curation requires permission (team@dantes.io).* View this page online: https://dantes.io/subject/portfolio-building