My Free Illustrations, Watercolors and Thoughts
Sketches, Hikes, Visual Stories and Free Drawings from Frits – HikingArtist.com
Ignorance, progress, tresshold or turning point? illustration
sometimes ignorance is not the best way forward
Free drawing to download and use
and here is a slightly different version with text (also free)
texted version, ship in trouble
My free drawings about copyright and the open internet
A collection of some of my free drawings, that I have picked because they might be useful visualizing the debate about Copyright, Creative commons, Public Domain issues and the questions about the free nature of the internet.
Free to download and use:
All artworks here by HikingArtist is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.
You are also free to translate the text on the illustrations, to scale them and to change the colors to black and white, if you like
Love to have my feathers back, girl – illustration
Just as she found the balance...
Bird detail
Close up, Drawing - the girl with peace sign meditating
Cat and Dog online 2.0
Things can sometimes look different in a digital context
Cat and Dog in the Web world
Eco Experts getting ready for a green 2012
The Eco Experts getting ready for a green take off 2012
Dragon professor drinking tea illustration
A very old discussion seen from a different angle
Looking at the illustration I wonder if it would be better without the “animals” like this:
Dragon version without "animals"
Move kids education outside Free drawing
Kids should spent more time outside playing and learning and less time inside the school Box
Today we spend more and more time indoors and our kids use up all their days in more and more crowded schools, learning less and less about how to BE in the outdoors world, how the rain feels, how you can find shelter from the wind, enjoy the shade of a large tree, find food, find trails, find peace and live – instead we put them in front of screens, blackboards and tv’s and somehow hope they will gain the knowledge there, that will make them happy.
Not sure that is the best strategy, not sure at all…
Free drawing to download and use.
Noah’s Digital Ark for Threatened Animals illustration
Noah's new i-Ark
Free Drawing about biodiversity, conservation, ecology and the experiments with digital zoos, and efforts to save, at least, the DNA of the threatened species
Why people work – 3 answers illustration
Drawing about why people get up every morning to go to work:
Three reasons to go to work
Different Office Building illustration
Just a drawing of a strange work place / hang out / club / internet cafe
What the Baby bird want for Christmas
Bird parents trying not to give in
Bear that can’t hibernate – cartoon
Waiting for spring, can be a long time…
Waiting for the spring
version with november instead of winter
can’t decide what version I like best…
Public Domain illustration – Fear Perspective1
I am working to try to understand the “Public Domain” – just saw a lot of very beautiful Cezanne sketches in there, but I also hear many critical voices about it, and how the Creative Commons etc. can be a better perspective.
Here I just retwisted the last drawing, to try to visualize one of the perspectives on the Public Domain:
Drawing on perspectives on Public Domain
To the extent possible under law,
Frits Ahlefeldt
has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
The fear of Public Domain illustration.
Wealth drawing, Fear of Loss
Rich Mans Fear of Loss
CastAway Comfort zone
Creating a Comfort Zone as a CastAway. Making a Sandbox or bathtub, thinking about ways of controlling the environment…
One way of controlling your environment
Insomnia or login to sleep illustration
Sliding into the digital world
Just made this one about sleep, one of the mysteries, our consciousness have a really hard time figuring out what is all about…
Wonder if someone will make virtual sleep some day
too much work by the computer...
Free drawing to download and use
Digital Fireplace illustration
Grilling sausages at a flat screen bonfire is not as good as the commercials might make you think…
Long night at the digital bonfire
All in the Same kind of Boat Public Domain illustration
Drawing of a lot of people sitting in their own private small boats, on a big ocean
Free drawing, ink and watercolor
To the extent possible under law,
Frits Ahlefeldt
has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
the illustration: all in the same kind of boat.
Public Domain as Free Green Office Space
How Users might like to work in the Public Domain Office, I’ve tried to sketch up a green, creative, eco office here – and place it into the Public Domain:
The Green Office (sketch)
To the extent possible under law,
Frits Ahlefeldt
has waived all copyright and related or neighboring rights to
The Green Office Space illustration.
Free to download, use etc. - the resolution should be large enough for most things
Frits
Goldfish bowl driving
mobile goldfish bowl
When Ecologists Divorce illustration
When the threatened species are your own kids…
Version with title
Small Town Snails – illustration
Not so friendly snails - texted version
Hand texted version
Illustrations about snails, by Frits Ahlefeldt, HikingArtist.com
Death by Powerpoint, and other illustrations about presentations by Frits
Just a little collection about presentations, with my ”death by Powerpoint”, “the fish Strategy consultant” and others to keep it company.
Free to download and use as always – and these are XL sizes, please enjoy:
tough penalty
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- tough penalty
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- Time’s up
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- Getting ready to perform
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- When the old strategies fail, but the show goes on…
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- Like coming home
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- Any comments?
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- Wrapping can be many things
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- talking from far away
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- Consultant presenting the all new great strategy
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- Same rabbits, new hat
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- Ready for the great speach
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- Talking about growth from a distance
When business meets ecology illustration
Drawing about how our business models just ain’t cut for sustainable living
Wonder if this is the most used business model in the modern world?
version without text
Drawing by Frits Ahlefeldt, Free to download and use
Hiker in re-commercialization therapy
Can be hard to go back to the urban shopping reality after being out hiking… and I’m sure there are therapy and support groups for that too…
Taking one small shop at a time...
Free drawing from Frits, HikingArtist.com
If only Penguins could spell to global warming – illustration
Wondered how it would look if those thousand of pinguins I see pictures of, would gather up in large letters, protesting against Global Warming…
Free drawing about extreme weather and Global warming – from Frits Ahlefeldt – HikingArtist
Famous apples & Steve Jobs
Some people change the world so everything become different…
And somehow apples have been an important role in several occasions…
Today sent chock waves through the web when it became known that Apple’s founder: Steve Jobs has passed away.
Steve Jobs have had the most amazing influence on the way we use digital technology, the way we interact with and understand, connect and use this all new dimension… and that means on the way our global connected society live and understand the world today… I’ve seen people compare his influence to Isaac Newton
World changing events involving apples
According to Joseph Campbell (great American mythologist, the hero’s journey) The Classic adventure/innovation/change starts with a departure from the known, then reality changing insights that give new and unseen possibilities, and then the design and implementation of these new possibilities… that change the world.
Strange how apples have become an important part of this.
I did the drawing in a couple of versions – and details – also free download:
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- Very early confrontation, involving an apple
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- Drawing version 2
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- World changing events involving apples
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- The Apple falls – Isaac Newton realizes the connections that changes the world
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- Steve Jobs – amazing man, inventor, and designer and…
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- Version 3N
Apple's first logo
Found out that Apple’s first logo looked like this
Frits Ahlefeldt – HikingArtist.com
Paradise in at tube illustration
- Designed experience flow
Autumn. Holding On To Summer illustration
Drawing for September…
Trying to hold on...
Free Drawing by Frits Ahlefeldt – HikingArtist.com
Reality gap or green corridors? Free illustration
To us it is a road... to the rest a deadly gap in reality
Illustration about how our roads cuts through the reality of nature, in a way that is not something that is likely to be survived by most animal species
Drawing to show the importance of green corridors
Illustration by Frits Ahlefeldt, HikingArtist, free to download and use
Academics avoiding reality illustration
Hiding from action in the intellectual tower
Free drawing to download and use
Electrical outlet tree
Ecological solar power from the source
Getting green electricity from the source
And here is the Black and white line drawing version (also free)
Black and white version of the Electrical tree
Drawings about how it would look if we could get our power right from the woods, instead of cutting them down.
Illustrations by Frits Ahlefeldt
HikingArtist.com
Economic growth illustration
Alien professor giving a lecture far away from a small planet called Earth about a species called Homo Sapiens
Lecture about human ambition
The Drawing is made by me, Frits Ahlefeldt
And it’s free to download and use.
Penguin sketches watercolor
Trying to get closer to the penguins, here’s a few fast sketches, trying to learn their shapes and colors
Watercolor sketches - penguins
Fish among hooks illustration
Fish hiding
Fish hiding
Green Help desk in Labyrinth illustration
If there where a help desk in the jungle
Help desk - you just have to find it
I think therefore I am illustration
When did we start to wonder about it all?
Thinking about when mankind first started to divert from the path of the other mammals.
The drawing is inspired by the Philosophical statement: Cogito ergo sum or “I think, therefore I am” proposed by René Descartes.
An illustration idea about if prehistoric early man, were just a lonely neerd among the other mammals – or became one, because he was thinking?
Illustration made by me – free to download and use:
I think therefore I am? - early man wondering
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- I think therefore I am? – early man wondering
The Other Side illustrations
Illustrations about crossing the river
Always thought that the idea and concept of “the other side” is one of the most challenging – so I will keep coming back to it, but here are a few illustrations about that strange concept:
Crossing the river illustration, Flower version, no text
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- handtextet version
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- Black and white drawing, going across the river
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- Crossing the river, ink, black and white
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- Crossing the river illustration, Flower version, no text
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- Going to the other side illustration – with text
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- same, same – crossing the river, color illustration.
All drawings by Frits Ahlefeldt – Hikingartist.com
Illustration New York Hurricane
Statue of Liberty in stormy weather, as New York awaits the approaching Hurricane, Irene.
Sketching real world events
A couple of drawings I did about how the New York weather is changing – an experiment – doing drawings about the real world and world events.
Statue of Liberty facing stormy weather
Storm heading for New York - Hurricane Irene
Watercolor sketch working with the composition on the drawing – Free to download and use
I wonder if it is an idea to do more drawings about real world events?
Illustration – Art Director pulling rabbits from hat
Creative Director that found the perfect recipe, getting the original, innovative, creative and original concepts gets in trouble…
Advertising magic
Free illustration about being creative in the canned, fast food way. by Frits Ahlefeldt.
Animals in the city – illustration
Animals in the city
Drawing I did wondering about how wildlife would look in an urban setting
illustration – Indian looking up
Indian wondering on a platform somewhere far out in the jungle…
Mother of twins illustration
Twin happines
Just a drawing of a happy mother with two kids
Free to download and use
The sky’s the limit – not?
When the sky IS the limit
Free drawing by Frits Ahlefeldt – HikingArtist
Fishing for the last Tuna
Finally back here with new drawings:
- Tuna fishing
Here are a few free drawings about how tuna fishing is more and more about bigger ships and diminishing returns as more and more tuna species are pushed closer to the brink of extinction
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- black and white version
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- free black and white illustration
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- Tuna fishing
Drawings by Frits Ahlefeldt – free to download and use
Read more about the threatened tuna on Greenpeace
Bridge over troubled water illustration
Bridge over troubled water
From Superpower to Supermarket illustration
How new times works with different strategies
How to influence a modern world
Free to download and use
Drawing I did about how things are changing from “powers” to “markets”
( “know your enemies” sentence made famous by the classic: “the Art of War” (By Chinese Sun Tzu – late-sixth century BC)
Monster under maintenance illustration
Nature’s great – even the largest and most dangerous monster needs to shot down for maintenance
Repair birds checking the monster
Link to the drawing without the text:
Getting the teeth fixed
Man eating man illustration
Playing around with the Fish eating fish illustration here
Free to download and use
Man eats man eats man illustration
Woman eats woman version
Combined Idea for card or book, can be folded in the middle
Climbing the wrong tree illustration
Climbing the wrong tree
climb-wrong-tree illustration, originally uploaded by HikingArtist.com.
Classic saying about picking the wrong path somewhere and facing the consequences
New free illustrations on Flickr
Just added new illustrations to my Flickr account, large illustrations.
Now passing 300 free large illustrations in all
Sitting on the head
- among them are these:
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- Sitting on the head
Your mother is here – illustration
Isn't that your mother over there?
Does Music exist or can it only be created
Wondering if music exist
I was thinking about if music really exist, or what it is… what to think about it – I found this article called does music exist – from composer Steven Chesne - writing much more about it.
Sketches hike April 2011
Left yesterday on a three days solo hike here in Denmark.
Great weather so far.
Plan to upload my sketches along the hike.
Gps illusion killer
not exactly where he planned...
Planning categories and menu
Getting ready to put up different stories and categories – galleries and more
test illustration 4
Back to scratch
Moving to new servers… 2011
It’s back to start with my site HikingArtist.com
I still got my drawings on Flickr:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/hikingartist/
New everything here 22 February 2011.
Decided to begin from scratch and build up a new HikingArtist site and I know it will bomb me back and take some time, so hope you are still here in a few weeks
I’m testing and refining the next week… come back later to see my illustrations and read my stories – if you got some feedback to the new site, please tell me here: Contact
Or keep updated with me on Facebook or Twitter
I decided to try a new solution for my site HikingArtist.com – and this is where I will build up this new site, with illustrations, stories and galleries – during the next few weeks
Glad to see you here…
Frits Ahlefeldt
HikingArtist
Copenhagen February 2011
Taking a break from time
Taking a break from time, originally uploaded by HikingArtist.com.
So will it work to post directly from Flickr – wonder if… think this will show it…
My watercolor gear
“Less is more”, that is what they kept telling us on the architect school where the old architect professors with shaking hands, looked at watercolors as old friends in a way that I think no one will ever look at AutoCAD. Most of them had to spend years sketching and painting outdoors in the days before it all went digital.
And I was lucky enough to learn the basics before it all disappeared – Ever since I have loved my watercolor gear and the simple fact that all you need is just a few colors, some paper, water and a brush…
Watercolor from a walk on the rocks on Bornholm
Easel
A few times I bring an easel – but most of the time it just gets in the way, easier just to sit on the backpack. When I bring it I have a metal type one that easy can be tilted in the right angle for the water to flow… or stop flowing.
Colors
I normally use the small winsor&Newton half pans colors but as I run out of the originals I normally use tube-color in the same artist quality of the brands I can get my hands on: Rembrandt, Maimeri, etc. – I just fill up the pans as it is much cheaper.
A5 paper - Bornholm
Brushes
The one place I am not compromising – it dosn´t have to be the series 7, winsor newton, ( I gave up on those as I realized my 4 years old daughter liked to use them when I didn’t look. ) but I stay with sable brushes as I have never met anything that can compare.
Papers
For papers, I also use whatever is thick and won’t darken if exposed to years of sunlight, mostly in A4 size. Cotton paper is nice, but I finally realized that it is not going to make me a better artist.
Most of the time I work in papers between 200 and 300grams.
Water
I have been using small Nalgene bottles (plastic bottles) for a few years now as they lock very good, they work perfect and are cheap and unbreakable, I use the 125ml/4 oz size, but you can get them in lots of different sizes.
Stuff I gave up on…
I used to carry around expensive sitting chairs, chairs that combined as backpacks, easels that had a small room for papers and colors, large amounts of Canson Arches cotton papers (outrageously expensive and very addictive) and other fancy stuff.
But then I met some of the old watercolor masters that were so much more experienced and better than me – and the equipment they used, looked so simple and worn out…
A few times I bring an easel – but most of the time it just gets in the way, easier just to sit on the backpack. When I bring my easel, I have a metal type one that easy can be tilted in the right angle for the water to flowor stop flowing.
Colors
I the small winsthe colors, but as I run out of the originals, I normally use tube-color in the same artist quality of the brands, I can get my hands on: Rembrandt, Maime – I just fill up the pans as it is much cheaper.
A5 paper – Bornholm
Brushes
With my brushes, I am not compromising – it dosn´t have to be the series 7, winsor those I up on those as I realized my 4 years old daughter liked to use them when I didn’t look. ) but I stay with sable brushes as I have never met anything that can compare.
Papers
For papers, I also use whatever is thick and won’t darken if exposed to years of sunlight, mostly in A4 size. Cotton paper is nice, but I finally realized that it is not going to make me a better artist.
Most of the time I in papers between 200 and 300grams.
Water
I have been using small Nalgene very (plastic bottles) years now as they lock very good, they work perfect and are cheap and unbreakable, I use the 125ml/4 oz size. can get them in lots of different sizes.
Stuff I up on…
I used to carry around expensive sitting chairs, chairs that combined as that had a small room for papers and colors, large amounts of Canson Arches cotton papers (outrageously expensive and very addictive) and oof the her fancy stuff.then I meet some of the old watercolor masters that were so much more experienced and better thanme – and the equipment they used… looked so simple and worn out…
My drawings are free:
All artworks here by HikingArtist is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported License.You are also free to translate the text on the illustrations, to scale them and to change the colors to black and white, if you like
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