Daughter of God
I've taken a year off from work as a product designer and I'm now studying at a Bible School in Bergen, Norway, called Impact of Revival Europe. The other day I made a drawing of some classmates in Bible School and then the teacher prophesied about one of their identities in Christ and telling that about that there is a big angel going with her and protecting her. So I updated the sketch of her to symbolically resemble the prophesy, as a reminder to her and an encouragement to others that everyone is so valuable in God's eyes and that we should be proud about our true identity = our identity in Christ. So the angel wings is not actually her, but rather the wings of a big angel standing some distance behind her, watching her back at all times.
F1 2022 Futuristic Concept - Post-it Sketch
Finished sketch with shadows and key words:
Original (Post-it) Sketch:
Old Painting from 9th class
I just found some pictures of this old painting that I did in 9th class. It was on the topic of Surrealism and I got 4 words that I was supposed to incorporate in the picture: Candle Light, Propeller, Glasses and Notes. I'm still quite happy with this painting. I'm going to try to find some more old stuff to post on the blog :)
Electric Sportscar (2020 Update)
This is an electric sports car concept that I did when I was studying that I spent some time updating for my portfolio. We had a task to get inspired by some designer from the past (I got Vladimir Tatlin) and to use his philosophy (in my case Constructionism) when sketching on some product. So this is my version of an electric sports car where the main thought is that I want to show how it work, instead of hiding everything behind a metal bodywork. Therefore it has one big part of shaded transparent plexi glass that reaches all over the car, showing both the stearing device, the cupé and the electric engine at the back. The metal part that is twisting around the coupé together with the supporting structure of metal pipes that is visible through the plexi glass acts like a roll cage/exo cage. It's just a fun concept, but it was a fun way to practice car rendering and at the same time do the assignment! I also tried two different designs, as can be seen below.
Pirate Dragster Sketch - Fine Liner Pen
Playing around with a red fine liner. Trying to be playful to remind myself that sketching is something i really enjoy to do in my spare time just because it's fun. Lately I have almost only sketched at work in my projects which always has deadlines, which always makes you choose the most efficiant way forward rather than the most fun or the most developing way. I'm really pleased of the style of these red fine line sketches and of the way the shadow turned out. Sketchy, but still defined and most importantly - I feel free when sketching to explore new ideas and forms.
SUV Sketch - Fine Liner Pen
There is something in the perspective that is slightly off with this sketch, but anyway I think there are some interesting shapes going on there, so I thought I'd post it anyway. As you can see I took some creative freedom when it comes to editing the image in Photoshop. Because it turned out to be such a big difference I choose to add also the original.
Liquified version:
Liquified version:
Original version:
Evolution of man - Where are we heading?
I got some inspiration to improve the typical evolution of man image. Personally I think this is spot on for where we're heading nowadays...
F1 2019 Sketch
Here is my interpretation of the 2019 Formula 1 cars with larger front and back wings compared to the 2018 regulations and with the wide tyres and the Halo that has been used for a while now in F1. In the months to come I'm planning to do some more exploratory and visionary sketch work in the to contribute to the build up for the new 2021 F1 regulations, where Formula 1 cars will change drastically to enhance racing and to even out the teams more.
Edited with Liquify tool and enhanced contrast in Photoshop
Original
Car Sketch - BMW SUV
Taking the opportunity to do some sketching in the free days inbetween Christmas and New Year. Always relaxing to grab a pen and paper and just sketch whatever comes to mind. In an ideal world I would love to do this much more often and to start experimenting and go crazy a little bit more and just see what my intuition can come up with.
Edited with Liquify tool in Photoshop
Original
Widala Garbage Bin & Coal Bin
This is a presentation image for a project that I was working with together with a colleague some time ago at ÅF Design (at the time, nowadays Inuse). It's fun now when I have been working for a while and more and more real projects starts going public, which means I'm finally allowed to show some of the work I'm doing. For more information about the project, check out the Case presentation Inuse homepage: https://www.inuse.se/case/produktdesign-i-offentlig-miljo/
Widala Case Presentation
Original Photo
Rendering from Keyshot (originally transparent background)
KIA Concept Sketch
This is a concept sketch of some sort of sporty Kia model. I really liked the feeling in the original sketch, where I was just playing around with markers, starting with a bright one, and then going darker and darker, but it had some perspective problems. So I've had it laying around for a while, until I took the time to experiment with the perspective. Because the wheels already had quite different angles, indicating that the car is seen through some sort of fisheye lens, I choose to make the perspective more apparent, meaning that the closer part of the car becomes bigger and the part further away becomes smaller. Also the original sketch had a sort of backwards tilting, which I tried to correct.
When making the original sketch I imagined that it would be a quite small, sporty, SUV inspired car, so in the correction process, using the tool Liquify in Photoshop, I also made the whole car feel a bit smaller, to become closer to my original vision. Sketching is only a tool to concretize ones imagination and to find new ideas, so if the end result is close to what you had in mind, it doesn't really matter what your process looked like to get you there, even it could feel like cheating. In the end Photoshop is also a sketch tool, just like paper and pen is. One thing that does matters is time consumtion and because of that it is always good to keep on improving your sketching skills until you find the fastest way to work, where you don't need to correct the perspective of every sketch, which can often be quite time consuming.
When making the original sketch I imagined that it would be a quite small, sporty, SUV inspired car, so in the correction process, using the tool Liquify in Photoshop, I also made the whole car feel a bit smaller, to become closer to my original vision. Sketching is only a tool to concretize ones imagination and to find new ideas, so if the end result is close to what you had in mind, it doesn't really matter what your process looked like to get you there, even it could feel like cheating. In the end Photoshop is also a sketch tool, just like paper and pen is. One thing that does matters is time consumtion and because of that it is always good to keep on improving your sketching skills until you find the fastest way to work, where you don't need to correct the perspective of every sketch, which can often be quite time consuming.
Corrected Sketch (using Liquify tool in Photoshop)
Original Sketch
Gokart Event Picture
I'm hosting a small gokart event (of around 10 people) together with two friends and yesterday it was time to create a Facebook event for the race. Of course I felt we needed a proper event poster, so I spent unreasonable much time yesterday evening to put together an extremely over worked racing infused image with the theme "Extra Everything" at the expense of less is more thinking, inspired by the name of the race preset that we choose from the gokart place's (Göteborgs Gokartcenter) offers - "Maxi Race". I used some pictures that we took some years ago when we had a similar event + some gokart/F1/racing related images from google and some other images. To quote the guitar virtuoso from Sweden (originally), Yngwie Malmsteen, who is world famous for being a pioneer in playing super fast guitar solos: In this case I choose to go with the mindset "More is more". Sometimes I just feel that is much more fun even if the end result often just becomes a mess! :)
"People kept on telling me to slow down, you know, they said "hey slow down, remember less is more" I always said "How can that be? How can less be more, it's impossible! More is more!"
/Yngwie Malmsteen
Time: 3-4 hours
The image consist of the following images + some good old Photoshop Magic:
(Me in the top right corner)
"People kept on telling me to slow down, you know, they said "hey slow down, remember less is more" I always said "How can that be? How can less be more, it's impossible! More is more!"
/Yngwie Malmsteen
Time: 3-4 hours
(Me in the top right corner)
Sketching in Porto Old Town/Castle Area, Portugal
This is a sketch from a vacation in Portugal. When you are backpacking with two other designers, how can you avoid to have a sketch session in the beautiful Old town/castle area in Porto, Portugal's 2nd largest city?
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