Ryan Durney

Resume - Online Version 1.1

656 Worthington Forest Place

(614) 985-6596

permanent contact number: 814 793-3613

RyanDurney@hotmail.com

or OnDrawnWings@excite.com

Goal ~ Seeking employment utilizing my professional

skills in creating and/or directing artistic projects

Contract,Part-Time or Full-time

Education:

Columbus College of Art & Design

Awarded $26,000 scholarship

Obtained BFA May 21, 1999

Major: Illustration

Areas of Concentration: Illustration,

Graphic Design, Digital Photography

Illustration skills:

Completed hundreds of finished full color and

black-and-white illustrations for Children’s and

Fantasy projects. In most cases prepared digital

files and oversaw press preparation.

Working on a more fines arts related series for

possible showing in a gallery.

Layout and Design skills, software experience:

Photoshop 7.01 - over 30,000 hours

Pagemaker 6.5 - over 10,000 hours

InDesign 2.0 - thousands of hours

Golive 6.0 - hundreds of hours

Imageready 3.0

Illustrator 10

Painter 7.01 - hundreds of hours

Bryce 5.01 - hundreds of hours

3D Studio Max 5.0

Maya 4.5

Amorphium 1.1

Poser 5.0

Adobe Type Manager

Xara 3D

Quark Express 4.0

Dreamweaver 2.0

Premiere 5.0

Video Editing Software

Color Adjustment and Press Preparation

PDF management, Streamline, Genuine Fractals

Employment History:

Began internship at Seedling Publications, Inc. (4/98-4/99)

Worked on publication layout, advertising design and press preparation.

*sidenotes* Spring 1999 ~ enrolled in Illustration Workshop

class consisting of three contests as assignments with real-world clients,

won 1st place in all three. Also won illustration placement in

Columbus Dispatch daily newspaper and designed poster for the 1998-1999

International Orton Cone Box Ceramics and Sculpture Show. Finished 1st

illustrated book “Not Very Messy, Unless” and spot illustration for Young Isaac.

Finished Spot illustration for Artisan Books “My Bug”

compiled and edited by Michael Rosen.

Graduated from Columbus College of Art & Design,

Obtained BFA degree. (5/99)

Accepted position of the head of Seedling Publications, Inc.

art and graphic design department. (6/99-2/02)

Finished multiple children’s educational art projects under these duties:

Layout and design for hundreds of children’s books, posters, yearly catalog,

cardboard packaging design,

single-page advertisements and product photography

Helped in conceiving product identity and stylization, including trademark fonts,

colors, and logos

Finished company website - over one-hundred pages of content

Finished multiple projects in teams of three to five fellow art directors,

editors and designers

Color correction and pre-press manipulation of books, catalogs and print media.

Experience at press checks and a developed eye for fixing color problems at press.

Helped design and direct yearly catalog.

Finished Cover for May 2001 issue of Focus On the Family’s “Clubhouse J.R.” magazine.

Accepted part-time work Studio 612 ~ high-end photography retouching and

digital archiving. (9/00-1/01)

Finished illustrations for 16th published children’s book for Seedling Publications, Inc.

Titles include: “Look! Bugs...” “The Little Rabbit Who Wanted Red Wings”, “Puffins”,

and “Pussy Cat, Pussy Cat”. Also wrote and illustrated "Giant Bugs Were Real,"

Turtles Everywhere "and “Prairie Town.”

Featured in 2002 winter issue of “Dark Realms” magazine as fantasy illustrator.

References furnished upon Request