FuzzyInk Designs

FuzzyInk Designs Welcome to my portfolio! Don't let my love of pink fool you, I have a plethora of different examples of my work featured here. From character art, to high quality photo editing, to metal band logos, to book covers, and plenty more! As you look through these pages, you'll hopefully find me to be quite the versatile artist. I am taking commissions, see the links above for more information. If you have any questions or other inquires, please drop me a line and send me a message or an ask.

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A larger image of a piece from my original portfolio post featured HERE. Around midterms, my college wanted the graphic design class to create posters to put up around campus advertising various techniques to keep from getting stressed out. My idea was meditation, as it has lots of factual evidence behind it’s benefits and it dipped into my interest in Buddhism. I designed my poster to be androgynous, with a person in the middle being of indeterminate gender and race. Meditation is for everybody, so I wished to portray that with a generic person that could anybody while still staying without in Eastern/Buddhist style I was going for.

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This was an interesting challenge as it made me think about lighting more than an average piece does. Since televisions give off different amounts of light, depending on what’s being shown, I had to be mindful of which parts of the image would be brighter when the tv flickered since it wouldn’t just light up the room equally. This was fun, considering all the folds in the cloth, the curves of their bodies, and the depth of the picture. And of course, drawing and painting the base image was loads of fun too!

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In addition to the logo, I also created an advertising campaign and brochures for the parks. The advertisements are simple, much like simply going to the park with your dog is. Dogs don’t ask for much, so I thought it best to reflect that in the easy, one word inquiries they each offered. For the brochure, I wanted to design something easy to print out and put into boxes that people can take once they get to the dog park. It includes the committee’s mission statement and rules for the dog park. I went with a softer, more fun font for all of the titles to help emphasize the fun and enjoyment of the dog park. 

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Here is a logo designed for the Common Grounds Dog Park Committee in the Scottsbluff, NE. In addition to that, I created mockup business cards, letter heads, and envelopes to show how versatile the logo is. I’m very proud of this logo, as it has a very friendly design with the green being reminiscent of the dog parks the committee is dedicated to making in the area.

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Being the only graduating graphic designer, it seemed natural for me to be the one who designed the poster for our senior show. People said it was the best art show poster they had seen in years, and the show itself was a raging success. Since there were only three of us graduating, we decided our theme should be the Golden Rule of Three. We ended up using lots of triangles in our advertising and even displayed our pieces in groups of three. Everybody seemed to enjoy our work, including the poster.

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I LOVE the show Rick and Morty, so when asked to make an inforgraphic for class featuring facts about any subject, I didn’t hesitate to show one of my favorite shows some love. All the above facts are true to the show. A fun challenge of this project was finding a font that fit the feel of show and the artwork. I found that a messy, handwritten, sans serif font worked perfectly

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For one of my projects, the school asked our graphic design class to create posters raising awareness to text neck, an issue affecting lots of teens created by staring downward for prolong periods of time, often caused by an overuse of texting. (hence the name) Something I disliked was the overall condescending “technology is awful” tone a lot of the other posters took. It felt even worse for me, somebody who works with and embraces technology on a daily basis to make my work, so I decided to embrace it and come at the problem from the same angle a lot of people experiencing text neck would understand - hopefully making it more likely for them to research more into the problem instead of just seeing it as a poster acting like it knows better than them.

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An 8-page layout of a pamphlet mockup to be set out and available for the taking as you walk in the door of Chadron State College’s Memorial Hall.The pamphlet is meant to be printed out all on one page and folded in half, and then into a gate fold. I decided to use the Chadron State colors, as well as shades of rich purple to reflect the rich art history the building houses.

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Ah yes, character art! Kitty Boulton, a tattooed dancer, is usually quite colorful when I usually depict her, but this time I thought it would be a good challenge to work with the linework and depict her many tattoos without color. As such, I brought some soft colors into the background to really emphasize the stark black/white lines used in the picture.

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For a class project, we were asked to make a poster for a Shakespeare play, but set in a different style decade. I chose 80s Othello! Pulling inspiration from places like Miami Vice and the movie Drive, I went with the traditional 80s neon, but toned the colors down to reflect the dramatic aspects of the play. Something I thought was a clever sort of “easter egg” is the subtle placement of Desdemona’s handkerchief in the background as a nod to it’s importance to the play as well as adding in some more shapes to ground the feel and style of the project.

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A prototype book cover for a sci-fi fantasy story. The author requested a simplistic style and for the attention to be focused on the title. He was very specific about the pose for the character in the front, and for dark ominous and mysterious tones for the cover as the featured character isn’t a traditional “good guy”, and I achieved this with the dark purples and contrasting orange in the center.

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My graphic design portfolio! It shows quick snippets of a lot of my work from the past 2 years or so. I will certainly post detailed photos of many of these projects, if not all. See each slide for more information about each project.