ElRat Originals - Where my Black mind becomes visible

Original hand-drawn designs by female UK artist ElRat, featuring unique wearable art that celebrates the weird and wonderful human animals that we are.

🎨 The Creative Process

These designs come from nowhere and everywhere at once. I have Aphantasia - no visual memory - so when an idea strikes, it's urgent. I might be listening to music, walking down the street, working at my "real" job, or just existing, and suddenly there's this clear... not vision... but... idea... as close to "Minds Eye" as I have ever known, that needs to be captured immediately before it disappears forever.

The drawings are scrappy and urgent because they have to be. I can't hold these visual ideas in my head, so it's a race against time to get them down on paper. I always have  a notebook and pen in my pocket, but sometimes those ideas are gone before I get the page open. That raw, immediate energy is what you see in every design.

🖨️ Hand-Pulled with Love

Every t-shirt is hand-pulled by me, using traditional screen printing techniques with water-based inks - making them super soft, fully washable, and environmentally conscious. Each print carries the imperfections and character that only come from human hands.

✨ Never Mass Produced

Just small batches of hand printed art. Each design exists because it demanded to exist, captured in that moment of creative lightning before it could slip away. Every shirt here, is here because I want to wear it, and some of them exist only in my own collection, and that's OK, because I would rather not sell a shirt that I love, than sell a million shirts that I hate.

Be the Strange. 🖤