PRATT MUNSON COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN
Ruby Scoville is a second-year illustration major, hailing from a small town in Upstate New York. Her work focuses on art as storytelling, utilizing evocative compositions and period-inspired designs. In her spare time, she is constantly developing, writing, and illustrating projects based on her interests in film, history, literature, and the supernatural. Ruby is looking forward to completing her second year after receiving Pratt Munson’s Outstanding FirstYear Student award. Once she graduates, she hopes to continue developing her personal projects alongside a profession in the illustration industry.
WHAT IS ONE THING THAT DESIGN SCHOOL HAS TAUGHT YOU THAT YOU DID NOT EXPECT?
Above all else, confidence in my personal passions and interests, and the ability to share my enthusiasm about them with others.
WHO IS SOMEONE YOU LOOK UP TO IN YOUR FIELD? EITHER TODAY OR HISTORICALLY?
Marc Davis has been a huge idol of mine since I was very young, his illustrations possess a degree of life and personality I hope to match someday.
WHAT ARE YOU READING, LISTENING TO, WATCHING (BOOKS, MOVIES, TV, SOCIAL MEDIA, MUSIC)?
I am currently watching W. S. Van Dyke’s The Thin Man film series, reading P.G Wodehouse’s Jeeves books, and listening to anything by Ambrose and his Orchestra.
DO YOU CURRENTLY, OR DO YOU PLAN TO, DESIGN FOR ANY CAUSES OR CHARITIES?
I would like to design for and raise awareness about the Old Growth Forest Network.
