Poppy Crew x Miles tewson

Me and Miles are both third year illustration students currently in Bristol, UK. Miles is 23, originally from Brighton, and I’m 21 originally from Cheltenham! We’re both about to start our lives as new freelance illustrators, with a shared heavy interest in all things printmaking. 

We met during the start of our first year on our illustration degree course, and have been a couple since! 

We started out by taking a look at all of our favourite existing work and creating a mood board to see it all together. We then took small parts of our work that we thought went best together and starting planning out designs from there. Luckily our work is quite similar in style and subject so we found that it worked really well together quite effortlessly, and we both work quite a lot in little boxes to tell a narrative which is something we wanted to carry through this design. 

There wasn’t any particular subject matter behind this design, we just wanted to create a piece that we both felt really showed what we love about creating the work we do, and that showed what we feel are our favourite parts of each other’s work and we’re really happy with the outcome! 

We’ve always though that collaboration is so important when creating art because it helps us both to be the best we can be by working together and supporting each other, and during our degree that support has been very crucial to us coping with the stresses and work load. This collaboration in particular is so important to both us because we’ve been working alongside each other for nearly 3 years now and with our degree coming to an end, this feels like the perfect time to put all of our favourite parts of our own and each others work together to make one thing that we both love. We’ve also never previously collaborated together before on something big so this was the perfect opportunity.