Like many illustrators, Sam Peet knew early on he wanted to draw for a living. But he didn’t rule out a skateboarding career. “I grew up in a place called Nettlestead, just outside Ipswich where my brother and I would spend most of our time skateboarding,” he recalled in an interview with Lecture in Progress. “I loved the graphics and illustrations on a deck.”
With the full support of his parents – his father, a carpenter and his mother, a headteacher (and both, hard workers) – Peet went on to pursue his creative passion. Having received an illustration degree from the Cambridge School of Art, his work centers around editorial illustration.
“My work used to be very different and I was unhappy with the level it was at,” he explained. “The turning point for me was creating screen and Risograph prints back in 2012. It was then I started to use Adobe Illustrator and producing more direct and graphic work. Without going through this process, I don’t think I would be anywhere near where I would want to be creatively.”
His work has is composed of geometric shapes that make for a very messy-but-organized composition. Take a look at some of his illustrations in the gallery below, and follow his Instagram page for more.
