About

I’m Diane and I live in Ohio with my great husband. I turned in my traditional pen and watercolors for digital pixels several years ago when the digital art and animation software arrived on the scene. In 2002, I started my design business, dCipollo Designs LLC. As I learn each new software program, I enjoy teaching others how to use the software for graphic design and motion graphics.

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Since 2003, I have been editor for several sections of the BellaOnline.com website, including currently the Digital Art & Design section and previously the HTML, Flash and PHP sections. Thanks to BellaOnline, I have a venue for teaching others to create digital art and animation, for use in both their professional and personal lives. My readers learn how to create their own visual content for social media, branding, marketing, licensing, fun and crafts.

Teaching & Writing History

2003 to Present: Editor at BellaOnline. Editor for several sections of the website. Most recently, editor for the Digital Art & Design section. Responsible for writing and maintaining weekly articles and tutorials. Also responsible for the email, forum, social media and weekly newsletter for these topic areas.

2007 to Present: Art Director for MUSED Literary Review Magazine. As Art Director, my tasks include coordinating the artwork submission evaluation process, designing the layout and producing each issue in PDF, HTML and print formats.

2016 to 2017: Project which included the design and development of an iBooks Author template for children’s book authors and the accompanying user guide. The user guide was produced using the iBooks Author template and published to the Apple Book Store. The Children’s Storybook Template User Guide is available in the Apple Book Store.

2014 to 2015: Writer for Canvas Corp Brands, Craftaholics Anonymous and The Robin’s Nest company. Responsible for designing the SVG cut files and the written tutorials for desktop cutting machine projects, featuring the company’s paper and craft products.

2012 to 2014: iOS book app project which included creating the graphics for and designing and developing two interactive book apps, Dracula’s Guest and T’was The Night Before Christmas. The graphics were created in Photoshop and the app was built using the Kwik Mobile Application Development Plugin for Photoshop.

2008 to 2014: Graphic Artist and Web Designer for DIYeStores. Sadly, this eCommerce hosting site has closed.

2010 to 2012: Animator for Pamela Gladding Ecards. Pamela had many artists contributing artwork for her ecards and I really enjoyed bringing that artwork to life with animation. Many of the ecards were used as examples for my animation tutorials on BellaOnline. Sadly, the ecard website has closed its doors.

Software and Programming Languages

Affinity Publisher, Affinity Designer, Affinity Photo, Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Adobe Sketch, Illustrator, Adobe Draw, Adobe Spark, InDesign, Acrobat Pro, Keynote, Tumult Hype, ScreenFlow, iMovie, Motion, iBooks Author, Kwiksher Kwik, Rebelle, SketchBook Pro, Gimp, Pixelmator, Canva, Artboard Studio, Procreate, Vectornator, Swift Publisher, Amadine, P5.js, JavaScript, HTML5, CSS3, PHP, MySql, WordPress, Gutenberg, Elementor