Illustrationquebec.com | Purchasing a Portfolio | Membership application form | Rates | Questions and Answers
Thanks to the financial support provided by Canadian Heritage, Illustration Québec offers you the possibility of having a self-managed web portfolio which is effective and affordable. The illustrationquebec.com site comprises search tools for its clients and offers you a privileged space to distribute your illustrations as well as making available to you a window on the world and on a large number of potential clients. A friendly and complete web site, easy to access, which offers very appropriate tools to the clients.
Are you an illustrator? Whether or not you are a member of the Association, you can get a portfolio on our site. Illustration Québec members, however, benefit from a special rate. A portfolio allows you to access a personal page that can contain up to 21 images, your biography, contact information, your news updates and a list of your major clients. You will also have unlimited access to your portfolio's control panel, enabling you to modify your images and parameters as often as you like.
To purchase and activate your portfolio, all you need to do is send a cheque payable to Illustration Québec or call us with your credit card payment. See our rates below.
As soon as payment has been processed, we will send you an activation email that will give you full access to your portfolio. See our rates below.
Web Portfolio.
Student member: $253.97 (taxes included)
Associate, professional and corporate members: $282.19 $ (taxes included)
Non-member illustrator: $395.06 (taxes included)
Does this really work? I already have a web site, I don't need another place on another site for my images.
It is, in fact, appropriate to have one's own web site. However, to be visited, your site must be known. Clients who don't yet know you must be able to find your site. A site containing a portfolio collection opens a client pool to which you would not necessarily have access alone and gives clients tools to rapidly find exactly what they are looking for.This is the place where the illustrators' offerings meet the demands of the market. Our site is accessed by many buyers of illustrations who do not yet know you. Investing in a collective site gives you a visibility that your personal site does not offer. Above all, illustrationquebec.com has the financial means to do intensive and effective marketing, something that the artist who wants to promote himself is not always able to do on his own.We know that in order to get new contracts, to advance into new territory, to find new clients, it is important for the illustrator to advertise himself and to invest in a varied marketing plan.Your future clients are waiting for you ... if only they knew you existed!!! Help them find you! What makes illustrationquebec.com a site that is attractive for illustrators to do their promotions?
Operated by the Illustration Québec, which has accumulated more than 25 years of experience in the promotion and the distribution of illustrations, this web site benefits from the expertise and the reputation of the Association within the communications milieu. Known for its magnificent Repertoire and the unique talents to be found within its ranks, Illustration Québec is thus capable of offering a web site with a portfolio collection that is highly prized by its clients. In fact, this site will be a very useful working tool for them.How many illustrations can I have ?
You can have up to 21 illustrations on-line and you may identify your illustrations according to their subjects, their styles, or their mediums You will have access to your illustration portfolio and your identification data via the "Enrollment" space on the web site home page. After entering your name and password, you will be able to add to, to remove, or to modify your illustrations and your identification data as often as you like. You will also be able to indicate your most recent accomplishments or successes in a section called "Your news".What will clients find on this site ?
Clients will be able to navigate on the site either randomly or in a very precise manner, thanks to the search tools. Thus, if a client is looking for illustrations of a particular style, implemented with a precise technique, he will easily be able to find it thanks to the information that you will indicate on your illustration. Also, a client will be able to choose his preferred illustrations and be able to display them on a single page ("My favorites" tool).How do I improve the visibility of my portfolio ?
We encourage you to regularly update your illustration contents, so that it will appear in the "What's new" section of the site. This insures that it will enjoy a certain visibility for the regular visitors to the site. In addition, we recommend that in your portfolio you include a link to your website. This will attract countless Internet users to your personal site