Derek Boshier - Digital Portfolio

When you open this up at first glance it's first impression it gives you is a rough sketchy feel, when in fact it is very well composed. The the impression of control is present while maintaining a simplistic feeling. There is a wide variety of different kinds of works available to look at, but his most prominent pieces were his paintings, which allowed his popularity rise as an artist all while being a student. I found this out from the biography listed on the main page.

The purpose of this portfolio from what I've gathered  is to show how his artistic side of life stemmed with drawings and paintings but progressed onto finding other ways in which to express his love of art like graphics, photography and film. Although he did these great things he would always come back to painting as from the portfolio shows was his passion.

The advantage of having all this work online means you can view everything he has ever done with annotation and dates to which they were created. It gives the viewer and great insight of how he worked. The down side is not seeing them in person means you can't properly view the size of the piece, or the detail of brushstrokes and close up detail in general. This can possibly give the viewer a substantially worse experience.