Ryan Durney
Resume - Text Version 1.3

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/teaching 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 - thousands of hours in the following
Imageready 3.0
Illustrator 10
Painter 7.01, 8.0 
Bryce 5.01 
3D Studio Max 5.0, 
Maya 4.5, 5
Amorphium 1.1, 3.0
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.

Completed numerous projects as a freelance illustrator

completed cover art on January 04 cover of TIME Life Magazine for kids

*Won international art competition hosted by ibooks and 3D World Magazine

References furnished upon Request