About me

Artist & Illustrator looking for creative work ideally surrounding story telling & character/production design. Interested in animated films, concept art, comic books & drag and other queer art forms. Check out more of my work at my website www.benjillustration.com

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• My website is live! Check it out for more examples of my work, any feedback would be greatly appreciated. www.benjillustration.com

Projects

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  Missing GirlShort story written & illustrated by me following a young trangender boy on his first night on the streets after running away from home, with a splintered timeline and a focus on highly atmospheric scenes.
• How Many More?A series of portraits illustrating people of colour who have been killed by Police across the world, posted individually as gifs which slowly faded away. Each was accompanied by their last words and key pieces of information about their story, posted once a day during the height of the Black Lives Matter movement following George Floyd's death in 2020. I staggered them as my aim was to ensure the conversation was not forgotten again and to show that Floyd was far from an isolated incident.
• Rest In PavementsA series of cardboard gravestones memorialising homeless people who died on the streets of Bristol, left where they died for the public to walk past, read their stories & remember them.

Work history

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SupervisorFuller's Brewery
May 2017 - Aug 2020Bridport DT6, UKPart Time

Skills

• Illustration
• Adobe Photoshop
• Digital Illustration
• Concept art
• Drawing
• Character Creation
• Creative Writing
• Painting
• Visual Communication
• Graphic Design
• Logo Design
• Storyboarding

Education

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Illustration BA (hons) University of the West of England
Aug 2018Bristol, United Kingdom
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Foundation Diploma in Art and DesignOxford Brookes University
Sep 2017 - May 2018Oxford, United Kingdom
Gained a Merit specialising in Visual Communication