Dimitri Kelly

Character Sheet Illustration

This project is a redesign of a personal Dungeons and Dragons Player Character of mine, named Miya, who needed a proper visual reference for gameplay. To do so, I made a fully painted piece along with simpler supporting illustrations that explored the character’s color palette and design.Programs: Clip Studio Paint

Podcast Business Card: Welcome to Night Vale

Welcome to Night Vale is a podcast presented as a radio show for the fictional town of Night Vale, reporting on the strange events that occur within it. For this project, I was tasked with creating a physical business card for a completely digital product. I created a card specifically for the main character and narrator Cecil G. Palmer, by illustrating my interpretation of him and playing into the eye imagery that is consistent with the podcast.Programs: Illustrator, Photoshop

Ace's Gaming Lounge & Cafe Rebranding

Ace’s Gaming Lounge & Cafe is a small cafe that rents access to gaming systems and computers located in my hometown in Columbus, WI. With such a cool concept for a place for teens and young adults to go, I wanted to create a new branding for them, exploring a new logo, menu and stationery for the establishment by drawing inspiration from retro and neon aesthetics.Programs: Photoshop, Illustrator, Indesign

Twitch Stream Layout Package

Twitch is a video platform for watching live streams of all content from video games to art to chatting. My goal for this project was to establish a visual brand and design a layout for the stream, along with other items such as information panels, personal emojis, and transition screens.Programs: Clip Studio Paint, twitch icon tool

The First Step

Elden Ring is a Fantasy Action RPG by FromSoftware co-directed by George R.R. Martin. In this piece, I was inspired by the opening vistas of the game and wanted to capture the beauty in painting form. In part, this was a study and a reawakening of previous passions for landscape painting.Programs: Clip Studio Paint

Bloodborne Character Art

This piece is inspired by game studio FromSoftware’s Bloodborne (2015). Bloodborne is an action role-playing game that takes a spin on H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu Mythos. This piece in itself an exploration into new Artificial Intelligent art generation software to concept and build a digital painting. I took multiple generated pieces, photo bashed and stitched them together, then painted additional elements into the design.Programs: Clip Studio Paint, Wombo AI Art Generator, Photoshop

Ebongarde Library

In this piece, I utilized 2D and 3D assets to illustrate an environment, directly placing and adjusting said assets in Clip Studio Paint and Blender 3D.Programs: Clip Studio Paint, Blender 3D

Kodiak Cakes Ad Series

Kodiak Cakes is a pancake and waffle mix brand that works to support grizzly bears and other wildlife habitats. This project I wanted to take a spin and create a photo composed series that focused more on the importance of eating breakfast by showing the versatility of their product.Programs: Photoshop, Indesign

Little Soul Cafe & Bakery Branding

This project is a combination of two previous projects, one from the Typography course, the other from the Print and Digital Production course. I wanted to redesign and expand upon the projects, focusing more on typographic design elements for a fictional cafe and bakery subscription service.Programs: Clip Studio Paint, Illustrator, Indesign

Death Before Decaf Coffee Illustrations

Death Wish Coffee is known as the World’s strongest coffee, with double the caffeine content as a normal cup of coffee. In this project I was inspired to explore a more illustrative approach to their branding. As a result, I created a “generic” design, along with other themed designs for different blends.Programs: Clip Studio Paint

Creative Mornings Event Posters

CreativeMornings is a free monthly breakfast lecture series designed for creative communities. This project in particular was a collaborative project, in teams of two. We both chose a theme for one of these lectures and Art Directed for your theme, by creating a poster and then handing off the assets to our partner so they could make Instagram ads, a web leaderboard ad, and a main hero image for the website.Web Banner/Leaderboard & Instagram ads by: Alyson HarrisPrograms: Clip Studio Paint, Indesign

Darksword Armory: Antiques Archives Brochure

Darksword Armory is a Canadian based historical reenactment weapon supplier. Along with making quality swords and daggers, they also recover and restore ancient antiques. For this I wanted to display their antiques collection and make them a brochure.Programs: Photoshop, Clip Studio Paint, Indesign

Columbus Countryside Vet: Website Redesign

Columbus Countryside Vet is a veterinary clinic in Columbus, WI. For this project, I wanted to redesign and streamline their website to make the site more readable and breathable. I wanted to give the site a fun yet professional feel while still staying in their current styling.Programs: Adobe XD, Photoshop

Elden Ring Zine

Terms of Service

What I will draw: Canon characters, OCs, Furries/Animals (will take longer to complete), Mild blood/gore/body horror, Weapon designsFor commissioning, I need detailed descriptions and/or reference material of any kind!
For example: poses, accessories, expressions and backgrounds.I also send WIPs of sketch stages for your feedback! I allow small adjustments free of charge.Payment is through Stripe invoice. If interested, message me at any of my socials or by email.Please wait 1-2 weeks for completion.For character/weapon art: Simple backgrounds are free, complex backgrounds can be negotiated!You can use the commission for personal use; for commercial you must credit and/or link back to me, and please no reselling.I only accept refunds/cancellations if I have not started the work.

Character Sticker

Bookmark Design