Stu Carpenter

Work experience at NIDA, and Armchair Productions (formerly The Magnificent Itch) animation studio in Sydney. (2017)

https://www.instagram.com/p/ByXC84wFtTr/ https://www.instagram.com/p/CM3vhLcFqwM/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B2COsMMFZRV/ https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Vd5OplTDo/

I like to chalk my reasons for doing what I do down to my disabilities, mostly because I think it’s funny. But in truth, it’s also precisely what has been one of my most consistent sources of inspiration and motivation.

When you’re autistic (if you ever decide to try it out), you often feel as though you’re looking in from the outside. As if there is always a thin gossamer film between yourself and everything else in life. It’s this point of view that I owe a lot of my inspiration to, and it’s given me a unique outlook to work from. Art has been one of my most reliable forms of expression, and I love trying to depict the indescribable sentiments and experiences in life through visual storytelling and abstraction of the mundane.

More recently, as I've been taking on commissioned work, I’ve been working at developing my illustrative style and character design as well.

I'm mainly a visual artist (both traditional and digital), so my work usually takes on techniques from that.

I'm proficient with Photoshop and can design logos, mascots, as well as work with lettering art.

You can see some examples of my work here:

(Illustration - Commissioned film production logo)

https://www.instagram.com/p/ByXC84wFtTr/

(Lettering art)

https://www.instagram.com/p/CM3vhLcFqwM/

(Illustrative work example)

https://www.instagram.com/p/B2COsMMFZRV/

(Illustration - Personal profile picture art)

https://symposterindrome.tumblr.com/post/641874451283247104/beware-the-hand

(Illustration - Fake product design)

https://www.instagram.com/p/B8Vd5OplTDo/