How portfolio posts work on openmog
A portfolio post is the piece itself: a title, up to four images, clips or tracks, one to three categories, and one switch, Original or Fan work. It opens in a closeup and fills the galleries on your profile.
Guide · 6 min read ·
On most networks your portfolio is a link in your bio to somewhere else. On openmog the portfolio is made of posts, and each post is the piece: no separate upload, no gallery to maintain, nothing to keep in sync with the feed. This post walks what a portfolio post is, where it goes and what it is not; how commissions work is where the money comes in.
What makes a post a portfolio post?
The kind. In the composer you arm the portfolio kind and the post gains a title, a category field and the switch; the media rule is the same as every kind, one to four images, clips or tracks in the piece itself, with up to four more on the post around it. You can post it as one of your characters. What it does not have is a price: a portfolio post shows work, and the two ways to sell work here are a commission post and a sealed post.
What are categories?
Your words for the work. A category is the word or two you type, character design, pixel art, plein air, and openmog offers the categories already in use back to everyone as suggestions, so the vocabulary converges without anyone having to pick from a list. A post carries up to three, shown in alphabetical order so the same three words read the same way on every post, and each one is also the hashtag the post is filed under. Explore filters by category, the right rail counts the categories in use, and a profile’s Portfolio gallery can be narrowed to one.
Original or fan work?
The one switch, fixed when you post. Original is your own work of your own subjects, and tagging one of your characters puts the post in that character’s gallery as part of its canon. Fan work is your work of someone else’s subject: tag their character, if its owner allows fan work, and the post lands on the character’s Tagged page with a notification to the owner; tag a person and it shows under Fan work on their profile. Your own profile keeps the two apart, Work and Fan work, so a client browsing your originals is not reading someone else’s designs as yours. Characters has the owner’s side of that switch.
How does the closeup work?
A portfolio post opens in a closeup rather than a thread: the work fills a column at full width, with its title, categories, character and the artist beside it, and the replies below. From a profile gallery or Explore the closeup opens in place, so browsing a portfolio is a run of closeups rather than a run of page loads. Every image can carry an alt text description, shown behind an ALT badge, which is also what search reads.
Where does a portfolio post show up?
- Your profile. A profile shows Posts and Replies by default, and the owner chooses which kind galleries to add: Portfolio, Commissions, Characters, Duels, Learn. The Portfolio gallery splits into Work and Fan work and can be narrowed by category.
- A character’s page, when the post tags one, in its gallery or on its Tagged page.
- Explore, scoped to portfolio posts and filtered by category, and the feed, in posting order like everything else.
- The spotlight. Every six hours, for each kind of post, a draw picks one entered post and shows it at the top of the right rail to everyone until the next draw. You enter by choosing the post you want shown, one entry per kind per draw, for nothing.
- An exercise’s Takes gallery, when the post is your take on a learn post.
Can a portfolio post be sold?
Not as a portfolio post, and that is the point of keeping it clean. A portfolio post is the sample; a commission post is the listing that takes requests, and a finished commission can be linked to a new portfolio post with the client’s consent, so the work you were paid for becomes the next client’s reason to ask. Work that is already finished and worth money on its own, a print file, a full-resolution version, a tutorial, is sold as a sealed post of its own: pay to reveal puts a fixed price of $5 to $1,000 on the hidden part and leaves the rest public as the tease.
The first portfolio post is the whole setup. Post one, add the categories you would search for, and the profile, the closeup and Explore take it from there. The glossary defines every word above.