Kitchen collaboration pt.2

Robert just updated his blog with some new photos of our collaboration, So I thought I would post them here too. Check out his post here for more information.








Photos by Robert Lindström

Picnic time

So it's getting colder and colder here, and I'm starring out the window and the snow is falling once again. Time to get ready for 6 months of winter. Anyway it's about time to bring life to this blog again. First up is a illustration I made back in the early summer, for a invitation-card to a picnic celebrating the birth of our daughter Myra.

I really like how some of the characters turned out, might just see more of them in the future.

Here are the first few character sketches.


And a rough layout sketch.

The final inked piece.

Kitchen collaboration - NK STOCKHOLM

This spring me and Robert Lindström did this illustration together. It will be put up on a wall in the kitchen at the North Kingdom office in Stockholm.

Robert worked on the overall concept/art direction and the girl on the left, and I did the octopus and jelly fish on the right.

Here's the first sketch that I received from Robert, and by that my starting point.

At one time it was just going to be jelly fish in the right area but we decided on a octopus as well to give it more life and for me to bring something more to this concept. Here's the first sketch I did, but it didn't feel just right.

So I reworked the octopus into a new style. But I liked that the octopus is asking her for a cup of coffee :) so that I kept.

Here's the flat colored version, mashed up with Roberts illustration.

A Close-up of Roberts part.

A close-up of my section, with textures and shadows.

The final piece. Click to view bigger, that goes for all pictures :)

Check out Roberts blog post about this illustration as well over at his blog.