Original Bug Art, Hand-Drawn and Hand-Pulled
🪲We love bugs and beetles
They're so fascinating, and there are so many weird and wonderful species that really do exist. There is so much we don't know about insects and arachnids, my kid has loved catching them and looking at them since she was tiny, and she still does now. I feel so lucky that I was able to go back and look at these things through her eyes... reminding me how fascinated I was with them when I was a kid. I did want to draw a beetle, and I had presumed I would draw one that actually existed, but in the end this is what came out. I keep thinking that more of these are going to happen, and I have no idea when... but it seems likely... There are around 400k species in the world, maybe this one exists somewhere except on this shirt.
Hand drawn "Vine beetle", for the people who love the world of insects
⁉️I make shirts for myself
I don't make T-Shirts for anyone but me... if they connect with other people, that's an honour, here they are, actual ElRat shirts... out of my mind, and into the world.
🖤 The ElRat Paradox
I am an artist who doesn't "love" visual art. I would never go to an art gallery, never look at an art book. I know nothing of other artists, or their work. Aphantasia means I have no visual memory, and it's hard to love something you can't remember. I *LOVE* drawing, it calms my head like nothing else, and I do like the pictures I make, but I can look back, even just a couple of days in my sketchbook, and have absolutely no memory of the picture there. I only really make art for the love of making it. They are intense, and scrappy because they have to be, I can't come back to a picture because as soon as I turn away, I forget it exists. So when I start, I have to finish before I lose concentration. Because for me, drawing is the point, not the pictures. If other people like it, I consider that an honour.
📏 Art is for everyone, and merch should be too (S-6XL Available)
At ElRat Designs, I want as many people as possible to be able to support the things they love. That's why we print every size up to 6XL - because every one deserves to wear their art.
🌱 The ElRat Experience
I am not some faceless company, I am a real person. Every print is hand pulled by me, using eco friendly water based ink. You can always speak to me at any point before, during or after your order is complete, and all items come with a money back guarantee. Every order ships in plastic-free packaging, I usually have some extras hanging around - test prints and the like, I love to send you something a little extra in your package. I always want ElRat packages to be a little sliver of light in the chaos, I only send packages, I would love to receive.
⏳Directly Supports a Real Independent Artist
Every ElRat item, directly supports a female owned small business, run entirely by the artist.
Support the Art you Love🖤
Be the Strange
