drawing of woman meditating

Thrive

Thrive

What is Thrive?

I really like doing illustrations about thrive, because thriving is so essential to how well we like to be on this planet, how we feel and how much we want to take care, both of each other, but also of the environment, our relationships and the different communities we belong to.

Here I have collected some of the drawings about psychology, thrive and the challenges to feeling well

By the way… All the drawings here are free to use for non-commercial use under CreativeCommons license:

The illustrations here by Frits Ahlefeldt is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.

Drawing of a beached sailor

Time to let go?

Drawing of a big fish, with a fisherman inside

Catching a big fish?

drawing of woman meditating

Can you find the balance

clock with the seasons on it, summer, autumn, winter, spring

What scedule are you on

drawing about climbing the wrong tree

Climbed the wrong tree?

illustration: Man hiding in a book

Can you find answers in books?, can you live them? illustration by FritsAhlefeldt.com

Old man, in love, sitting drinking tea

Are you good at being alone? illustration by FritsAhlefeldt.com

illustration of two headed worm in conflict with itself

Can you handle conflicts? illustration by FritsAhlefeldt.com

illustration of a Woman dressed up exactly like the wall

Do you know how to blend in… too much? illustration by FritsAhlefeldt.com

illustration: Woman made up of a puzzle

Is everything a puzzle? illustration by FritsAhlefeldt.com

illustration of a stressed man

Can you recognise stress when you see it? illustration by FritsAhlefeldt.com

Drawing of a kid trying to stop its parents from getting a divorce

Do you listen to your kids?

man saving of the branch he and his family is sitting on

Are consequences something you consider twice?

Drawing of a chicken that regrets leaving the egg

Do you have many regrets?

Drawing of love, small guy with bow and arrows, in a heart

When where the last time you felt love?

man with a little man breaking out of his head

Do the real you want to break out?

Artist painting the number one illustration

Painting up the dream of being best

drawing of a man with a bottle as body and head smiling while it says anger on the bottle. Illustration

Man keeping his feelings inside

Man walking on a thin line with two people argue on him

man line walking with two angry persons along him

Man in a very big shoe illustration

Walk the talk can sometimes be hard

Words making up a bridge between two persons

using words to reach each other drawing illustration by FritsAhlefeldt.com

Chain of people failing

Sometimes it is all about who breaks first, but the result is the same…

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Drawing of a group of people making a wheel and rolling together

Working together real time

Man sitting on a dead horse illustration

Man trying to decide if his horse really is dead

Man sitting depressed between a lot of bottles

Sometimes the bottles fills more than the trouble they should solve

Illustration of a man saving of the branch he and his family is sitting on

When consequences hit more than yourself

illustration of a Little fish sitting in its bowl, in a big ocean

Little fish that changed it’s mind and just want to go home again

Drawing of a lot of different people sitting on the same string

We are all in this together drawing

illustration of a lot of hearts

Feelings are our reality

Princess ready to jump from the tower into the arms of her lover illustration

Ready to jump metaphor drawing

Drawing of a group of people on a raft on open sea, one of them wants to quit illustration

When quitting is not an option

Two persons in a tiny boat among big waves, one saying it is only waves illustration

Out at sea big waves can seems scary – sometimes they are, sometimes they are not

Two people meeting in the middle of a conflict, kissing

The art of loving the compromise illustration

Drawing of two persons in a half filled glass

Is the glass half full or half empty?, the difference between the optimist and the pessimist illustrated

Drawing of a snail with hearts

Snail that love itself

Illustration of a man sitting looking tired at the menu of life

Expectations and perspectives

Drawing of a man and woman in the mud, woman looking at the stars drawing

We are all in the gutter, but some of us are looking at the stars (Oscar Wilde)

Man trying to hit a nail, with a screwdriver illustration

Sometimes you got the right spirit, but the wrong way around the challenge

Drawing of people in a network

We are all connected somehow

Old couple, man and wife looking at the man fishing, with a cat. illustration

Roles and expectations illustrated

Drawing of a lot of people digging in different directions

Digging a way out will most of the time work better if you can agree about a plan

Drawing of a woman putting up stepping stones

If you can do it, many others can too

Drawing of people going through a transformation machine that makes them happy

Change often first feels good afterwards

Drawing of two people painting up targets

Different people, different targets illustration illustration by FritsAhlefeldt.com

Drawing of two fishes in a bowl, one of them presenting the new "swim around" strategy

Consultant presenting the new strategy… that looks familiar

Drawing of the divine and a man sitting along a lot of books - touching fingers - inspired by Michelangelo painting

Inspiration rip of from Michelangelo

Drawing of deaf, blind and silent man ignoring reality

The “we don’t want to know” attitude

Drawing of a man drinking time from a tank

Time – the ultimate resource?

Drawing of a restless guy who made it on the moon, but want to move on

On the moon – check, what’s next, type of guy

Drawing of a woman ready to jump, looking at her family

Facing the consequences

Drawing of people with roots, being connected and happy

We are all connected illustration

That was a few of the many illustrations I do about thrive.

You can see more of my new stories about thrive

More collections:

Drawings about technology, computers and digital life

Drawings about the environment, resources and sustainable living

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