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Today with the internet has made communication with getting clients and work more accessible. You don’t have to pay for a portfolio of work to be printed which you would show to people, you can put your work on a website or post to social media for free and it is visible to anyone that comes across your pages. However that eliminates them meeting you in person and vice versa, they can only see the work on a screen rather than in larger print, but with the way society is going it can be more convenient to keep everything digital, and printing something off may not be worth the time and money when there are other options. Also accessibility, it costs money and time to travel to meet others, the fact being that these meetings/events are mostly in cities.
So in my opinion it is better to connect through email or social media to get in contact with those you want to work with, you can be more direct and save time/money on the traditional way of illustrators gaining work. LinkedIn is another good way of finding people as well as connecting, as it is a platform designed for finding work/clients, so contact information is available. Sources of AdviceDo I Need a CV?
I would say yes I need a cv for jobs that perhaps are not in the creative industry, as with creative jobs your portfolio/website becomes your cv, but I think you still need a cv as it is an important element to getting work for certain jobs. I have seen that some illustrators do have a cv/resume on their website, but all have loads of examples of jobs they have done to put down on them while at my stage in my career I have very little to put on it that relates to creative experience. I think the simpler a cv is the better, there as some examples in the links below that I think have too much imagery or colours were it takes you away from the information and makes it appear as an illustration on its own. You can still have a sense of creativity in the cv but I don’t think it needs to be fully illustrated.
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