Illustrator George Greaves on using a smartwatch as the canvas for his bold style

Illustration takes on many media, but smartwatch faces and straps are relatively new canvases For the launch of its Magic Watch 2, Honor commissioned four artists to create artworks to be used on face and strap, including London-based pop artists Jacky Tsai, Chinese calligrapher Wang Dongling, Italian multi-disciplinary artist Giovanni Ozzola and Bristol-based illustrator George Greaves While you might think that the choice of materials - a digital screen and a stitched leather strap - might be the biggest hurdle to creating a design like this, for George it was the shape that was the main constraint.

This enabled George to create a design that runs from the part of the strap with the catch onto the digital face and then onto the longer, lower strap piece with the holes George doesn't know how Honor discovered him, but he assumes it was via Instagram, which is where he finds most of his new clients George has been a professional illustrator for around three years - alongside running prints-and-fashion label/store Printed Goods with his brother Raphael.

"We started a Risograph press and that was our first foray into business," says George. . Source