Category Archives: Illustration

Peter Crawley

PeterCrawleyPeter Crawley is a product designer and illustrator based in Buckinghamshire, UK. He has created these incredible stitch illustrations by painstakingly hand piercing paper with a pin and then stitching the paper with a needle and cotton thread. His subject matter includes iconic buildings, geometric patterns and typography. His work can be viewed and purchased here on his website.

Images: Courtesy of Peter Crawley.

Tugboat Printshop

TugboatPrintshopHusband and wife team of Paul Roden and Valerie Lueth are the artists behind Tugboat Printshop. In their Pittsburg, PA studio they create intricate woodcut prints in limited editions.  They talk about their all-manual, labor intensive art process in an interview on the website, Silverlake Voice:

“Working with our hands gives us the greatest satisfaction and creates, we think, a superior end result.  We value the tradition of the craft and take part in its legacy. Neither of us is very satisfied to be working on a computer screen, and so we choose not to.”

“The bulk of our time working on prints is spent drawing and carving. We trade woodblocks back and forth, first sketching our ideas out in pencil, then defining them in pen for carving. We use sharp handtools (knives, chisels) to carve blocks in low relief. If we are making a multi block print, we will ink the key (first block drawn & carved, usually with the most detail in the print) and print to paper then back to blocks creating a ghost ‘transfer’ to work from as we draw new info on color blocks. When all blocks are carved in full, they are hand-rolled with brayers (using oil based inks) and printed to paper through the press.”

You can follow Tugboat Printshop on Facebook and Instagram. Their prints can be purchased on Etsy.

Images: Courtesy of Tugboat Printshop.

Karan Singh

KaranSinghKaran Singh is an Australian artist and illustrator living in Tokyo. He draws inspiration from graphic design conceptions and op-art minimalism. We find it best to let the artist explain their work as he does here on Sugarlift:

“My work is an study of interaction using the notion of ‘presence through absence’. I’ve found that stripping images back completely to convey contour and depth through simple forms and repetition, exposes this interaction. Composition too, is a subject and tool I explore, particularly in communicating one’s relationship with their environments. My use of bold and vibrant colours reflects a playful curiosity in my ongoing explorations and culminates in an abstract re-imagination of traditional still life imagery.”

You can view more of his work here on Instagram.

Images: Courtesy of Karan Singh.

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