Work in progress / North Kingdom Showreel

The last weeks I have been preparing a little for our new (and only) showreel. North Kingdom will turn 5 years this summer so I thought it could be a good idea to finally collect our work.


This concept drawing (which I have made with Poser & Photoshop) is showing how the dress and the main character will look like. The dress will be made by Omoi Form in Umeå and the horn will be built by Mats at Popcore Film.


Some rough first sketches for the storyboard. I have wanted to build a little story around North Kingdom instead of just showing all projects as all other showreels look like. The story is about our North Kingdom Godness who connects to our flower.


A first animated test of the flower from our 3D artist Mathias Lindgren.

New serie of nuns in progress

Why does time go so fast? I had totally forgot that I started to do some new nun illustrations last winter :/ Here is one of them, and absolute not finished. Based on a photography I have published here earlier. However, I hope to get some time later on to finish these. I have been experiment with some new techniques which includes Photoshop, Illustrator and Painter. However, I love doing this kind of job and now I will not forget these pictures ;)

North Kingdom goes fashion

This is a first glimps on our new fashion brand MINK / Made in North Kingdom where I have drawn the logotype in Illustrator. The hangtags (on the right side) is for the t-shirts and will be printed on canvas. The idea about MINK is for now to focus on designed prints, but we have lot of fun ideas for this in the future.


Logotype work in progress...


For a couple of years ago I started an internal project at North Kingdom where our different designers made their own version of our NK symbol. It turned out pretty cool actually! Here above can you see 4 of these t-shirts prints designed by Kenny Lindström, myself, Charlotta Havh and Bjarne Melin. More to come :)

Designchapel II in progress, part 2

I finished another background for DCHPL-2 this weekend. The illustration is painted in Photoshop, 9000 x 6300 px. My plan was to finish these in Painter but I have had to much problem with the sizes there so it will only be Photoshop work.


I have figured out that I work to much on small details. Details which you probably never will see in the final version on the web later on. However, it is fun to paint but I have to keep in mind that I should finish this project soon so I can move on with other fun stuff :)


Work in progress.

North Kingdom at Hyper Island

We from North Kingdom will take care of one module at Hyper Island this winter. It is for there new one-year program called Interactive Art Director in Stockholm. We will give the student a Big Task (subject is still secret) among work shops, inspiration lectures etc. When it is finished we will gather the students work in a printed book. Can be pretty cool!




I had nothing to do last night so I did this illustration which I will use for a testprint for an internal book project.

Designchapel II in progress

Sketches of the three dresses made for Designchapel II. This was my first sketch made in Painter.

The last two-three years I have been working on a new portfolio, a new Designchapel. Starting up a new own company like North Kingdom (2003) have ofcourse taken almost all my time, but I think it is important to have some kind of side project where you can express your creativity, free from clients feedback, and where you can experiment with new medias and new ideas. Designchapel II have been a long experiment time for me where I have in the first step focused on the nuns dresses and learning to paint in Photoshop and Painter which will be an important part of my backgrounds.




Hantverksutbildningen at Balder, Skellefteå, helped me to made the dresses. Big thanks to Charlotta Havh who both was my model and a helping link between sketches and textiles and big thanks to Harriett Lundsten, their excellent teacher. I hope we can do more stuff together in the future :)


Håkan Moberg, who is a great photographer in Stockholm, took care of the photoshooting. The shooting was made in Stockholm, November 2006. Here is just some shoots showing the different dresses and how they was going to be used.


A photo of Charlotta who is sitting and designing the cool green neckless.



The first background is almost ready. It is first made in Sketch Up and then I have paint in in Photoshop. Some final touches will be made in Painter.


Father Robot will be one of the characters Designchapel II. I did the first sketch in Flash (the one to the left) and then Mathias Lindgren built it up in 3D Studio Max.


Ofcourse we will see a nun who has the control over Father Robot. The photo is by Håkan Moberg and it is not a final retouch.



Some early concept sketches of how I wanted some 3D/paint attributes around the models. Made in Illustrator.


Some really early sketches of the coat. The final version turned out pretty close to the one in the middle though.

Painting for my sis

A painting for my little sister Rebecca. Sorry it took so long time ;) It is basically from an illustration I did back in 2001.

Gouache on canvas. Size 140 x 110 cm.


The rough drawing from 2001 made from a scanned ink drawing which I fixed in Freehand.


My first sketch on the painting.

Two Faced

Two Faced was a book project I was invited to last year. At WIWP site you can read that the book "approached a large variety of creative people ranging from Toy Designers to Art Directors, Photographers to illustrators, Musicians to Designers. The Artists were paired off and given the task of creating a portrait of the person they had been teamed with, using their own style for which they have become renowned."

I was teamed together with the talented designgroup Vasava from Barcelona. You can see their portrait of me here above.


This is a print of my work of Vasava I did from my site Blaugallery for a local café.


The final result. This picture is from my portfolio Designchapel.


Alternative coloring I liked pretty much...



Work in progress... I draw all the lines in Photoshop (I like the speed better there) for coloring it in Illustrator. Unfortunately I did to many nodes for the computer to handle so I sat 3 hours just taking away stuff I hoped I wouldn´t need :/

d-mode

This is just a snapshoot from my livingroom I took this morning. I have printed the illustration I did for D-Mode from my Blaugallery.com project. Size 160 x 103 cm. The chair is redesigned by Charlotta Havh which I got as a present.


d-mode magazine from Buenos Aires, Argentina.

Some other prints I have done lately. Photo from my office.

Father Robot

A first concept drawing of Father Robot. A priest robot for next version of DesignChapel which I hopefully will launch during 2007.