Benjamin C Carr

Birds on Booze Screen Process

2012-02-20T07:48:00.001-08:00

Earlier i posted the finished version of this screen print

Here are some delighfully hipstamaticated shots of the drawing process

Bird on Booze

2012-02-20T04:44:00.000-08:00

An A1 Screen Print

Lions and Champers

2012-02-16T10:41:00.000-08:00

An A1 Lino Print

Hiut Denim Commissions

2012-02-07T14:31:00.000-08:00

A couple of Illustrations to accompany an article by the creator of twitter Ev Williams, for the Hiut Denim Yearbook!

A Teaser

2012-02-01T11:14:00.001-08:00

Because ive been neglecting my blog as of late

Workin'

2012-02-01T05:13:00.000-08:00

Heres something for you, to keep you tiding over until i have finished stuff to show.

Im doing a tonne at the moment

2 Wine Label commissions, 2 magazine commissions, 2 A1 lino prints, 3 A1 screen prints, 3 A2 posters, 2 book covers, 1 magazine cover... and packaging concept and design for a whiskey bottle!

Busy busy

Featured

2012-01-31T08:57:00.001-08:00

A little piece of my work was featured here

http://welovetypography.com/post/12026

and here

http://showroomandemporium.blogspot.com/2011/10/benjamin-carr.html

and here

http://ragehaus.com/?p=4664

Mamas Limoncello

2012-01-17T13:29:00.000-08:00

Limoncello Label Type

2012-01-15T15:53:00.000-08:00

Here is some some type work for a limoncello label im working on!

this isnt the the layout of the label this is just the type for it!

MUNICH RECOLOURED

2012-01-13T06:21:00.001-08:00

Another Treasure Island Map

2012-01-11T15:05:00.000-08:00

Trying out a mix of more traditional styles with the way I usually love to draw

Amnesty campaign

2012-01-11T15:04:00.001-08:00

Crop of Map

2012-01-10T16:45:00.000-08:00

Treasure Island Map

2012-01-10T15:59:00.000-08:00

Elbel!

2012-01-09T11:58:00.000-08:00

A piece i did for my good friend eleanor's birthday!

Thing

2012-01-02T07:56:00.000-08:00

Heres a phone snap of a commission while im busy working! Cant show any finished commissions yet, hopefully soon!

redone the website

2011-12-27T09:37:00.001-08:00

Click Here
http://benjamincarrillustration.com

Something Going Down

2011-12-21T09:44:00.000-08:00

You will soon discover your hidden talents

2011-12-06T11:13:00.000-08:00

Discover

2011-11-28T14:14:00.000-08:00

See the set in order here:

http://benjamincarrillustration.com/

Scroll right a bit and yourll see them!

Your Hidden Talents

2011-11-28T06:42:00.000-08:00

You will soon... understand what this is all about

2011-11-27T16:51:00.000-08:00

HTco

2011-11-24T07:15:00.000-08:00

Here are two small things

While Im working on two big things

Screen Prints

2011-11-22T11:18:00.001-08:00

Squaresville

2011-11-17T12:55:00.000-08:00

Squatsville Print

2011-11-17T12:25:00.000-08:00

Lippy Kids Type

2011-11-17T11:55:00.000-08:00

Accompanying type for the build a rocket illo below for Flamingo Mag

Spectacular Type

2011-11-08T14:37:00.000-08:00

Ipad App Roughs

2011-11-04T16:21:00.000-07:00

Quick roughs for an IPAD APP. The idea is an introduction to a jazz band. All the instruments would interactive, by completing certain touch movements the scenes would become animated and have the sound of the instrument! Will complete this project into final pieces sometime soon!

Soul

2011-11-01T16:29:00.000-07:00

Site Update

2011-11-01T12:45:00.000-07:00

So BENJAMIN CARR ILLUSTRATION DOT COM is back up and running

http://benjamincarrillustration.com/

with lots of new work!

If you run on cargo follow me too!

Every Teardrop...

2011-10-28T17:18:00.000-07:00

Travel Roughs

2011-10-27T17:10:00.000-07:00

Roughs From a Travel Guide Project

Build a Rocket Boys

2011-10-27T14:09:00.000-07:00

Seconds Slide One

2011-10-26T17:18:00.000-07:00

Sad Man

Sailors Arms Reworked

2011-10-26T03:44:00.000-07:00

Just tried a new colour scheme, not sure if it works better!

TGB Finished

2011-10-25T13:15:00.000-07:00

Team GB!

2011-10-25T10:46:00.000-07:00

Some typography im working on for a very very alternate Team GB olympic logo.

Bring back the properness of our grand island!

This is a sketch, ill upload the finished one when its done.

Havent had a scanner for ages hence the lack of work, will sort it out asap!

Benj

Seconds

2011-10-20T08:33:00.000-07:00

One more Typographic

2011-10-03T12:57:00.001-07:00

Yeh this is the last typographic I promise, full illustrations up here soon!

& More

2011-09-30T16:13:00.000-07:00

Teller Brown and the New Jersey Hurricane Choir

2011-09-30T09:42:00.000-07:00

Just a small extract of a uni summer project, nice to post something simple after all the big A2 heavily detailed illos i did over the summer!

Boutique.

2011-09-17T07:32:00.000-07:00

A2 print on white paper

The Sailors Arms. Liquor Store

2011-09-06T15:03:00.000-07:00

Finally finished this badboy, only took about a day to draw really, then tweaked bits etc

New Framed Stuff Part 1

2011-09-05T03:08:00.000-07:00

Sailors Arms

The Sailors Arms

2011-09-04T16:36:00.000-07:00

Something im working on, will be finished sooon

MR Benson

2011-08-27T04:25:00.000-07:00

A Bloke I drew init.

Just wanted to do something a little different to the large amount of sketchbook prep work, and very heavy pattern illos im doing at the moment. Not too sure on it!

Update

2011-08-13T04:06:00.001-07:00

'been doing a load of sketchbook work these last few months hence the slow pace of finished work coming out. Ive been doing a load of work mixing the pattern illos i used to love doing with some of my more recent ideas. Currently working on a nice little travellers to Le Marche Italia, also a short children's story as well as a few random illos.

IF YOU HAVENT ALREADY PLEASE CHECK OUT MY NEW PIECE BELOW!

I might post some sketchbook pics soon!

Benj

Flaming Joes Cafe

2011-08-13T04:02:00.000-07:00

Flaming Joes Cafe
Not sure on it but yeh!

Site Header

2011-07-29T08:37:00.000-07:00

New Website Update!

I made this a sort of welcome message/side header/introduction to my website, as it just said benjamin carr before and that didnt look cool. What do you all think?

http://benjamincarrillustration.com

Mr Treasurer

2011-07-14T03:02:00.002-07:00

An enormous A2 illo I did inspired by all the drawings of patterns and bits of the dollar note which you can see below!

All the normal facial features are in there if you look hard enough!

Ps sorry I havent posted in sooo long ive been doing this! Took a long time!

2011-07-14T03:02:00.001-07:00

1917

2011-06-24T14:42:00.000-07:00

http://nineteenseventeenclub.tumblr.com/

Dollar From The Haiku Piece

2011-06-19T06:27:00.000-07:00

First things first, sorry I havent blogged in a while, ive been so busy on none work related events!

But I will blog more soon!

I have lots of great news!

I will be in two exhibitions between now and september!

And the 1917 blog goes live tomorrow!

And(!!!!) Im working on some cracking projects i cant wait to share bits with you soonn

Below is the dollar from the Haiku illustration i did. Its very detailed so i thought you may be interested to see it bigger!

The 1917 Club

2011-06-07T09:52:00.000-07:00

The 1917 Club is an illustrated film fan club, dedicated to your favourite film moments, and favourite cinemas/film theatres. It is open to all submissions, for submission guidelines please email benjamincarr@live.com or tweet me!

New scribbles in the ol' sketchbook

2011-06-05T11:47:00.000-07:00

Inadvertent Haiku

2011-06-02T12:04:00.000-07:00

My Inadvertent Haiku Illo

Can be found here:

Haiku

2011-06-01T04:23:00.001-07:00

First new piece of work posted in ages, ive been very busy in my sketchbook, working on a ton of new ideas, Lots to post soon!

This is for the news blog Inadvertent Haiku. Ill post the link when my illo is up!

Some Kind of Recent Sketchbook Pages

2011-05-24T17:20:00.000-07:00

Some sketchbook pages including recent drawings and plannings.

End of Year Show

2011-05-17T13:34:00.000-07:00

A quick snap of the selection of work i put up for our end of year show

Maxiim Browne's: Human Anthology. The Printed Snaps

2011-05-16T09:40:00.000-07:00

Back Half of the Book

2011-05-16T09:31:00.000-07:00

The Final Image To Upload

2011-05-08T10:00:00.000-07:00

Now the whole book is finished!

All but the last one finished now

2011-05-08T04:51:00.000-07:00

TWO MORE FINISHED PAGES, TWO MORE TO POST!

2011-05-07T08:46:00.000-07:00

NEARLY DONE THANK GOD!

Another finished Page. 3 more to finish then the book is done!

2011-05-06T08:28:00.000-07:00

Another 3 Entirely Finished Pages. 4 More To Come Tomorrow

2011-05-05T14:17:00.000-07:00

Will put it all up in order on my website soon!

Finished Pages. The first half of the book

2011-05-05T14:02:00.000-07:00

Yes, another page in progress!

2011-05-02T13:00:00.000-07:00

A lottt of kinks to iron out in this one still

Only 3 more pages!

Another page in prgressss

2011-05-02T10:37:00.000-07:00

end sheet or what?

2011-05-01T12:48:00.000-07:00

Please help me pick one

2011-05-01T12:44:00.000-07:00

So i need a little help, these are my cover ideas for my book, could you Tweet me your favourite one please!

A little Sketch

2011-04-28T04:56:00.000-07:00

This is a crap little sketch i did a while back, just coloured it in in 5 mins, to get some colour in my life after all this black and white work!

Two of the 24 Possible Cover Designs

2011-04-28T03:45:00.000-07:00

I will post more of the 24 cover ideas later today maybe. I need to pick one!

These arent final images theyre just tests then when ive picked which one i want to do ill do it properly! haha

Repeat Pattern for the Soul? Page

2011-04-26T02:38:00.000-07:00

Yeh Something slightly diferent to most the other pages. Quite happy with how this is coming on

Some more pages im developing

2011-04-25T03:40:00.000-07:00

11-12 Body Spiral

2011-04-24T09:23:00.000-07:00

19-20 The Facial Machine!

2011-04-24T06:43:00.000-07:00

2011-04-23T03:53:00.000-07:00

More Work In Progress

2011-04-21T15:23:00.000-07:00

The book is now going to be in b&w!

LOW RES SCREENSHOTS, IM NOT CRAP AND MAKE BLURRY PICS! haha

Another Work in Progress Shot

2011-04-19T09:07:00.000-07:00

I Am Going To Show You a Lot of New Work This Week

2011-04-17T02:49:00.000-07:00

I have about 14 A3 sized illos on the go right now that will make the28 double spreads that make up the book im working on. None of the illos are done yet but i want to get some pics of the process up here as im rather enjoying it, Ive started already with the 2 faces illo below. Ill quick explain it a bit better now! The book is about a bunch of chaps from a alien planet who endeavour to build a human being, and the two faces page represents the planning stage of their process. Its going to look abit like blue prints from architecture etc. Ill post some more process shots of it from photoshop later!

Work In progress

2011-04-15T06:10:00.000-07:00

Just a Taster

2011-04-14T10:52:00.000-07:00

...of the sort of thing that im doing for the new book. Ill post a few more snippets soon, this is a drawing for a double page spread where two chappys are starring at each other, this will be coloured all nice n that on photoshop as i always do!

(As you can see its a work in progress... from all the tipex! my bad.. obvs wont be seen in the final piece!)

Just pretty much finished the book plans.

2011-04-04T11:20:00.000-07:00

Now on with the illustrations! lots to do, will post some bits tomorrow of what ive been doing!

Got my copy of Nobrow 5 today, making my collection up to date again, all nobrows 1-5.. Nerd!

Its a pretty beautiful book with a brill gold spot colour really setting it off.
Anyway theres a few pages I loved and they were the pages by

Jack Hudson, found his work a little while before nb5 came out and its so cool and chilled
www.jackhudson.eu

Bjorn Rune Lie and Rob Hunters pages are so nice, two of my three fav Bristol based illustrators, the other being Mr Mcnaught
www.bjornlie.com
www.rob-hunter.co.uk

and the brilliant page from the Golden Cosmos, I met them when I was in Berlin at their studio and I was shocked at how great their work was for their age, only a few years older than me, just finished uni and doing great, and such nice folk. Definately worth a look, and I believe Nobrow may sell their Degree show books which I need as they were OH SO BEAUTIFUL!
www.golden-cosmos.com

Now back to my book plans! only got 6 weeks to wrap up this project so need to get shifting!

End Papers Idea Numero 2

2011-03-31T04:05:00.000-07:00

Because the work in the book its quite dense and hand illustrated in ink, I want the end papers to be quite bold and clean, I want them to suggest a slight futurist feel, giving that idea of it being not so of-this-worldy, as the book is set on an alien planet.

This is one of about 30 ideas ihave for the end papers! need to narrow that down!

Endpapers

2011-03-31T03:23:00.000-07:00

Not really like the testers atall really.

This is one of of the possible patterns for the end papers of my book. Ill post a few more later

Inspired a lot by Bauhaus.

Bauhaus

2011-03-30T13:26:00.001-07:00

Also had a pile of books out on the Bauhaus movement this week. Loving them especially:
Herbert Bayer, Johannes Itten, Joost Schmidt, Lothar Schreyer, Anni Albers, Wassily Kandinsky, Avgust Cerngoj and Laszlo Moholy-Nagy.

Fortunato Depero

2011-03-30T13:21:00.000-07:00

Dont usually do this but wanted to post a few snaps of some brilliant works by Fortunato Depero, my head of illustration at kingston set my onto him a few weeks back and ive been researching so much of his work and loads more futurist artists recently, really loving it all!

New book

2011-03-30T13:05:00.000-07:00

Looking forward to starting my new book, been doing so much great research into Bauahaus, futurism, some amazing films by people like Stanley Kubrick and Alfred Hitchcock, and been doing lots of planning and sketches. Ive posted a few tests recently of characters and ideas, been whipping out a ton of these the last few days on photoshop to try to really quickly get an idea of what characters and layouts work and what dont. I feel like im getting an idea now, and ive planned out the rough layout of the book and the plans for all the illos. The final pieces are going to be hand drawn in ink mainly, as well as a few paper cuts and lino prints. I think the general aesthetic of the pieces is really going back to a lot of my older pieces and developing ideas and styles, like the illustrations from my outsider submissions, as well as some of my liar liar project pieces, and my last big lino, which is further down my blog. With the new work I guess im trying to fuse those messy hand drawn styles with the sketches ive been doing recently inspired by futurist paintings, and the simplicity of bauhaus.

I hope to be able to post some work in progress snaps over the next few days of some of the finished pieces.

Planets

2011-03-30T07:20:00.000-07:00

This is just a test sheet for a piece im working on. Outer space if you didnt guess already

These arent final works just trying ideas for the piece, this isnt how the piece will look! just some planning!

THIS ISNT A FINAL PIECE, THIS ISNT HOW I WORK, ITS JUST A BIT OF IDEAS GENERATION TO GO IN MY SKETCHBOOK WITH MY SKETCHES.

Rio

2011-03-15T10:29:00.000-07:00

Stuck In a Hotel Room In Rio De Janeiro

Big Poster Init

2011-03-11T09:03:00.000-08:00

West Side Story Poster

Very simplistic style, was going for almost papercut style thing

The Young Creatives!

2011-03-07T09:33:00.001-08:00

http://theyoungcreatives.wordpress.com/2011/02/27/benjamin-carr/

IM FEATURED HERE!

Christ The Redeemer

2011-02-22T09:54:00.000-08:00

Print Close Up

2011-02-09T12:32:00.000-08:00

Click on the image to see the print cose up in al its glorious detail!

Media Sequential Print

2011-02-09T12:20:00.000-08:00

Heres a A1 lino print ive been working on, it took 4 solid days to cut, and two to print.

Ill post a bigger version of the final print asap so you can see it close up!

The Final Print

And Previous colour options

Mount Everest.

2011-02-05T06:54:00.000-08:00

Airport

2011-02-03T03:53:00.000-08:00

New piece, well I say new, I actually drew it out a month ago but ive only just coloured it. Just something different to work on to give me a break from the two huge pieces im slaving away at!

Hairy Sequencial Illustration

2011-02-02T14:20:00.000-08:00

The last two of the four final illustrations for our group zine on hair myths!