Hi, my name is Renee Ryckman! I am a concept artist and illustrator. I explore fantastical worlds and engaging characters through art! "Renee Ryckman is a Washington D.C. area concept artist. She graduated from the University of Central Florida in 2019 with a B.F.A in Experimental Animation. She has worked in a variety of traditional mediums, acrylic paintings, charcoal drawings, clay and paper sculpture, watercolor illustration and collage. In 2017, she was acknowledged by the Whitaker Foundation for her watercolor illustrations. She is also an experienced digital painter and predominantly explores environments, characters, story and conceptual design in her work. She has worked with Coslen gaming to develop a splash screen for their flagship title and was the lead concept artist on the VR escape room game, John's Wizard Tower. She conducted research into conceptual art that was recognized and presented at SURE (Showcase of Undergraduate Research) UCF 2019. Her conceptual artwork was displayed in the University of Central Florida art gallery in Nova (2019), the biannual B.F.A show. She is also a published Children's Book Illustrator, illustrating "Earth to Adanna" (2020) and future additions to the Adanna series."