Hello! My name is Makenna Judy, welcome to my portfolio. Here you’ll get to sample some of my artistic designs, photography, and writing.

I am a design and writing alumni from the University of North Carolina Wilmington. I’ve had a passion for art ever since I was old enough to hold a pencil. My parents happily indulged me and signed me up for any and every summer art camp. Over the years, I have grown my art skills to range across a variety of mediums including painting, drawing, sculpture, and digital art. I also have experience using a variety of digital art software including Adobe Creative Suite and Maya.

I design anything from logos, business advertisements, info graphics, and marketing materials to character design, 2D and 3D animations, and abstract works of art. While I work on both sides of the graphics spectrum, I have a love of 2D design. My best animation work includes a mix of different 2D styles, all combined using Adobe AfterEffects.

My love of traveling has helped influence my designs. While traveling, I kept blog to help improve my writing skills and show off my photography. I am skilled in editing photos and shooting images on a DSLR digital camera. While my skills with the camera usually shows in landscape photography, I am knowledgeable in portrait work as well as product shoots.

As a writer I am versed in all three major genres of writing: fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. I focus mainly on writing fiction but have been pleased to publish work in all three genres. I am currently working on editing a novel I wrote, as well as gathering information for a memoir I hope to write in the future. During my college career, I had the chance to intern with a local literary magazine in Wilmington, North Carolina named Palaver. There, I was the layout editor for the 2022 spring edition. This internship taught me valuable skills about working in the publishing industry. I learned skills for both my writing and design career that have helped to push me to become the designer I am today.

I look forward to hopefully working with you in the future and sharing my skills!

Awards and Accolades

Art Awards

• Honorable mention: Kaleidescope Art Show 2016
• Third place: Kaleidescope Art Show 2018
• Publication: Atlantis Creative Magazine issue 85
• Acceptance into GutterBliss Art Gallery

Writing Awards/Publication

• Honorable mention + Publication: UNCW Randall Library FlashLit Anthology 2019
• Publication(poetry): Grismy Literary Magazine issue 2, 2021
• Environmental Horror Contest Winner 2021 (poetry): Grismy Literary Magazine
• Publication(nonfiction): Atlantis Creative Magazine issue 87
• Publication(fiction): Atlantis Creative Magazine issue 88
• Honorable mention + Publication: UNCW Randall Library FlashLit Anthology 2022