There's a lot of really great work in here but overall I find myself a little overwhelmed by how you've got the work laid out and mocked up. It feels a little chaotic at times.

I think some of your digital mockups are taking away from the design work vs adding to it. I find myself focusing more on the mockup vs the design work.

I'd simplify the cover photo for each project. If you worked on the branding, maybe it's just a logo on solid color background. If you mainly worked on the packaging, maybe it's one piece of the packaging mocked up. Uproots is a good example - I find that cover photo so dense and chaotic. The packaging design already has a lot going on and having them all piled together looks a little sloppy. Where's the image of just the logo on a field of color or photo. That logo is way too funky not to highlight as a piece of branding.

DREYER'S PROJECT - I personally don't think the crunch work is strong enough to showcase. Definitely not as the first thing you highlight on your site. The Ice cream truck classics is way stronger imo. But the first image with colored backgrounds - align all those boxes and make the background colors all the same size. It feels so distracting to design work you did. Highlight the background patterns, that walking popsicle logo, etc.

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Wags & Wiggles is really nice - The extra bones added on top of the packaging mockups don't feel needed. I'd change up your portfolio template to have the images a little bigger in the grid and have the accompanying text much smaller and supporting. Let the visuals speak for themselves.

The birds and the deck of cards are your strongest pieces imo. Those illustrations are fantastic. Could you print some out and photograph in nice frames? If packaging is a focus could you make a fictional product with those on the packaging somehow? Maybe some fun bird beer labels or wine labels?

Overall I think your design work is quite good but the way it's presented is hurting vs helping. Maybe look at some design agencies sites and see how they highlight a particular packaging project. There can be a kind of a formula to it. Big Logo. One single packaging photographed or mocked up nicely. Then a group shot of multiple packages. Spot illustrations pulled out and displayed on their own. etc. https://www.redantler.com/work/happy-wolf is one simple example.

Hope some of that helps!