Hello! My name is Jocelyn Stewart. I am a Finnish American illustrator, designer, and cartoonist. I love cute, girly, and chic things!If you would like to learn more about my work, please consider clicking my portfolio link! If you would like to learn about me, check out my about me link!

Things and people that inspire me . . . Aranzi Aronzo, Blythe dolls, Spongebob Squarepants, Japanese commercials, mid 2000's web graphics, and Geordie Greep.In my free time, I enjoy reading, playing video games, and hanging out with my friends!For information about my work history, please refer to my portfolio! I also post my art to Instagram and Bluesky!

I was tasked with creating three typographic centric book covers. I'm an illustrator first and foremost, but I had an amazing time working with type. These are the results, and I had the most fun time putting them together! Thank you for checking this out!

* Crime and Punishment

For this cover, I wanted to push my understanding of colors and how "simple" shapes can create more complex compositions. I wanted to showcase my ability to create foregrounds and backgrounds with shapes.
For the trailer, I wanted to reincorporate that skull shape that appeared like blood splatters.

* Developments in Dairy Cow Breeding: New Opportunities to Widen the Use of Straw

By far the most fun I've had in a while. I had the opportunity to work with really fun and exciting type faces, and completely hand sew the cows in this cover. I really wanted to push the "handsewn" by including a cursive font as if it were string coming off of the page.
Originally, my plan was to just use string as cursive type, but decided it would be a lot more readable if I just put it in digitally...

* A Death in the Family

This was the cover that made me fall in love with typography. I really love working with color and composition, so when I thought about A Death in the Family, I thought about loneliness and emptiness. So, I knew the composition needed to reflect that in some way.

Apple Farm is a Youtube variety channel made up of several artists. I played a massive part in the channel's art direction - from creating the introduction to creating the logo to making character designs!

* Creating the Logo

For the channel logo, I wanted to take massive inspiration from Aranzi Aronzo's felt stitch work. In his felt work, seeing the stitches is part of the charm! I drew out an apple shape, fit the "farm" word inside of it, and then stitched it together with felt. Then, I scanned it, and it became real!

* Character Designs

A gimmick for the channel was going to be fruit. Everyone represents a fruit! I had to get really creative, working with shapes and colors in order to not only represent a fruit but also represent the person.

* Introduction

At the beginning of every video, this introduction would play. It centers the channel logo, and relies on the music and sound to propel the motion design.

Character design is one of many passions of mine. I enjoy realistic human designs, as well as silly, small characters.

* Oso and Loony

Oso and Loony are my mascots! I was incredibly inspired by Japanese mascots and branding while creating them. Bears and fish are my favorite animals, so it felt only natural to make them represent me.

* Little Ringo

Little Ringo is an apple character I designed for a collection of paintings. He is defined by his big, round apple head and his stubby cute bodies. I describe him as being "the size of a polka dot" and he likes to surf on sewing buttons.

Supermega is a comedy duo podcast and Youtube channel. I was self-assigned them during my color theory course, and then tasked with creating three different posters. I had to utilize a new color palette and showcase my ability to create exciting compositions.

Fusion is Kent State University's LGBTQ+ magazine. Founded in 2003, Fusion remains the region's only student magazine focusing on LGBTQ+ issues. I have been working with Fusion since August 2023, illustrating for both print articles and digital articles.

* Fusion's September 2025 Spotify Playlist Cover

I was given full creative control for this project. I was on the bus with a friend and saw so many people listening to music. It inspired me to create a scene with two tired people, listening to music. Quite mundane, but I felt like I could relate to them. I focused more on the real and less on the fantastical.

* The Dating App Dilemma by Alex Miller (Spring '25 Issue)

I was given the honor of illustrating for Alex Miller's article in the Spring 2025 issue of Fusion Magazine. I wanted to do this really intense green/pink color palette with ghost apps floating around the page to represent just how scary the scene is.

* How Kent State Recordkeeping is Putting Student Safety in Jeopardy (Online Article)

For this project, I needed to create a visual that was simple but heavy. In order to do this, I limited myself to only three colors. Then, I relied entirely on silhouettes until I added small details! The type on the letter was almost more important than the illustration itself. I made it super grungy and kind of off center in order to represent something darker.