Robert Carter

Robert Carter was born in Albans, in England, he moved to America when he was 2 years old. He creates realistic and surreal portrait like works, combining portraits with visual and conceptual problem solving. He currently lives in Baden, Ontario, Canada. He works as a freelance illustrator; he works with acrylic paint and griffin oils. 

Robert has won many awards for his illustrations in the past, some of which are: Altpick Awards Annual, Communication Arts Awards Annual, society of illustrators Awards, Luerzer’s 200 best illustrators worldwide. He has worked for a variety of different characters which include:

American Airlines

Boy's Life magazine

Canadian Business magazine

Harvard Business Review

LA Times

Penguin Publishing

Scholastic Inc

Washington Post

Robert Carter graduated from Sheridan collage of art, he did the design’s illustration program in 2002. He works in his home, he paints in his basement and he designs using graphics and computers in his office. Roberts’ biggest influence is Norman Rockwell, his paintings has always inspired him. His ideas come from near enough anything, movies, music, pictures…

I think Robert Carters’  work is unique and special, it looks like a lot of his work has been designed on the computer, but you can see some elements of oil painting in some of his work. I think that his illustrations are very clever as he manipulates images like the Shakespeare one he done, I thought it was quite funny. I think he uses a wide range of colours and most of his work is often colourful.