Madison Downey

Rhea Character Sketch, 2022, character sketch for a graphic novel, 8x8 in.

2022 Senior Exhibition Artists

Madison Downey

Art + Design: Animation + Game Arts

About Madison Downey

Madison Downey is an artist and animator who has been studying art for over 8 years and practicing art since she could hold a crayon. She holds a certificate in Graphic Communication & Design, an Associate of Art in Animation & Motion Graphics, and will be obtaining a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Animation & Game Arts in the Spring of 2022. Madison’s work focuses on her diversity of techniques and mediums and her interest in exploring all that art has to offer her. She is constantly honing and expanding her skills, widening her expertise and experience, and as always, playing with new ways of creating.

Statement

The focus of my work is that there is no focus, seriously! One of my favorite things to do as an artist is to learn new skills and techniques, I always like a challenge and I’m not shy about charging ahead and trying something new. In fact, I try to get out of my comfort zone with art as much as possible and I find the more often I do that, the more I learn from it. But my work isn’t all about learning, it’s also about taking what I learn from these various methods and mediums and mashing them together to create pieces and projects that are expansive and intricate.

The only overarching theme of my work is that I’m a big picture person who enjoys creating vast and detailed world-building projects, from forging a fictional realm for a graphic novel to detailing each aspect of a video game or animation, I make sure every element of these fictional worlds feel just as real as our own. And I do this by using my wide range of skill sets and experiences in different mediums to create multilayered projects that integrate these processes in order to construct an immersive and captivating environment.