The hands behind the paper
Every Postxcard begins with an artist and an obsession.
We don’t publish stock images. Each card starts with someone who couldn’t stop looking at one particular thing. A few of them:
Karen Lai
Illustrator · Hong Kong
Karen draws Hong Kong at eye level — the potted plants crowding a fire escape, the weeds pushing through a pavement crack, the green that somehow survives between towers. She works in gouache and coloured pencil from a walk-up studio in Sham Shui Po. Her “Botanica” series began as studies of the plants her neighbours leave out on the stairwell.
“In a city this dense, a single leaf on a windowsill is a whole landscape. That’s what I draw.”
Marco Bellini
Illustrator · Milan
Marco draws cities in fog, and only in fog. He works in ink and wash, staying in greys until the very last layer, when a single warm tone is allowed to arrive. His “Cities in Fog” series is built from mornings when Milan belonged to no one.
“A drawing can hold the fog longer than a photograph — it lets you leave things out.”
Yuki Tanaka
Illustrator · Kyoto
Yuki draws skies the way she once cut them from paper — patiently, one shape at a time. She works in thin layers of watercolour, leaving as much white on the page as she dares. One “Paper Skies” design can take three weeks, one held breath at a time.
“White space isn’t empty. It’s the part of the sky I decided to trust.”