How Designers Promote themselves?
I have chosen Himaruya Hidekaz
Himaruya Hidekaz is a Japanese animator and a manga artist. He was an art design major until he dropped out in 2008, following his publishing contract with Gentosha Comics. He makes posts about his day-to-day life on his blog the Bamboo Thicket, along with the latest character designs and sketches. Himaruya created Hetalia in college and put it on his blog as a webcomic, showing his ideas, character bios and drawings.
http://himaruya.blog61.fc2.com/ - This is Himaruya's blog which shows his portfolio of work and his plans for Hetalia, his main webcomic.
His blog is a form of promotion as it shows his plans and his artwork, it also shows merchandise from the webcomic.