An artist's portfolio is an edited collection of their best artwork intended to showcase an artist's style or method of work. A portfolio is used by artists to show employers their versatility by showing different samples of current work. Typically, the work reflects an artist's best work or a depth in one specific area of work.
Before, Portfolios were printed out and placed into a book. Nowadays, with the increased use of the internet, most of the artists use website to show their portfolios.
Internet changed the whole world. Website portfolios can reach anybody at any time at anywhere. It is easily edited, with the techniques of website design, it still can show the artists own style. It almost has unlimited capacity. You can put on as many work as you want. It can clearly put your work into different catalogues which will make it very easy for people to find the work they want to see. It is a very good way of advertising as well. Some artists have their blogs or their social network links on their website, make it easy for people to follow them. And some artists sell their work on their website too.
Compare with the website the traditional way of portfolio has its limitations. But I think it is really personal, it is really depends on the way how you want to show your work. Especially for artists, artworks are so different from normal products. A lot of times, you need to see the real work with your eyes, even samples, not just a image from a computer screen. Also computers can be cheating, images could have been edited with those clever software. A paper book portfolio may not reach so many people, but it is more real.
Fast is not everything. Sometimes, you need to slow down so that you can see and feel!
Here are two links of website portfolios:
http://www.wendeliendaan.nl/
http://www.linea-studio.co.uk/
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