'us' art print

  • Ben the Illustrator

I released a new print this week and wanted to share it's background. I've been building sidelines recently, creative ventures to expand me as an illustrator, a business and a human. I want to do new things out of my comfort zone I started playing with fat lines, making layered flowing lines (like melted sugar work) playing with new colour combos. I played with these lines being typographic, but I did it on a bad day (MH etc), the only word I created was 'FUCK' so I shelved the idea completely. And then I read a couple of articles about songwriting from the acid house era through to 90s indie, about how the musicians were making music for all people as a collective, and how those eras brought about a sense of community, everything was about unity and 'us' ...so I went back to my chunky lines and tried to make something positive to share, something that said togetherness, and so it says 'us' ...and it's available from my store right here... bit.ly/ArtForUs.