Leif Engström

Big metropolis

pencil on paper
2014
a sketch from a project I'm working on right now. It's the base drawing from one panel from a comic which centers around a big metropolis and it's suburbs, flocks of jackdaws and levitating sleepwalkers in pajamas, among other things. More soon!

Bäckströms

"Bäckströms", oil on MDF
2014

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Glowing heart

watercolor on paper, 2013-2014

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Room full of stones

Ink on paper

july 2014

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The barn

"Ladan"
tusch på papper

"The barn"
Ink och paper

Mer brädor

tusch på papper

ink on paper

Svävande brädor

Något från ett litet ritblock som jag brukar sitta och klottra i då och då. Jag har blivit så fascinerad av att teckna brädor och träbitar på sista tiden

Hothouse Magazine

The web magazine Hothouse writes about me and publish three of my drawings on their website. Read it all here!

Source:
http://www.hothousemagazine.org/three-illustrations-by-leif-engstrom/

Thingshuset website illustrations

Cover image,
ink, 2013

Art,
ink, 2013

Music,
ink, 2013

Litterature,
ink, 2013

Illustrations and background-images for the cultural association Thingshuset's website. The drawings represent the different areas of creative work that the association is promoting: Art, music and litterature.

thingshuset.se

Skateboardrampen

olja på MDF, 2014

detalj

Asymptote illustrations on Behance

I've collected all my illustrations for Asymptote's January 2014 issue in a Behance-project here!

Lightsphere - animated gif

Read the comic which the animation is based on here

Poster: Tommy Christensen

For Alto

"For alto" digital collage of bits of ink, watercolor, printed material, etc

Illustration for the section Tonart in the latest issue of Orkesterjournalen. It's my interpretation of Anthony Braxtons classic 1970 album "For Alto".

"For Alto" illustration in Orkesterjournalen

a spread from the latest issue of Orkesterjournalen, with my illustration on Anthony Braxtons groundbreaking free jazz album "For Alto" . A single image with only the illustration will come soon!

Poster for Gerlesborgsskolans elevutställning 2014

I got the honor to do the poster for my art school's exhibition, which will take place 8-11 may, thursday 15-19, following days 11-16. The school is situated in Hjorthagen, Stockholm, metro-station Ropsten.
Read more on the event here:https://www.facebook.com/events/744168998938368/?ref=ts&fref=ts and welcome if you are in town!

Dockan

"Dockan"

pen on paper

a sketch of a doll

Fire music doodle

The Shell

detail

"The Shell" illustration for "The Shell" by Syrian author Mustafa Khalifa.

The text has been translated from arabic by Elisabeth Jaquette and it has also been translated into chinese, by Francis Li Zhuoxiong. The bio-text from Asymptote explains in a very fine way who Khalifa is, and what the text is about:

"Mustafa Khalifa (b.1948) is a Syrian author who was imprisoned for more than twelve years by the Syrian regime for his political activities as a member of the leftist opposition to the regime of Hafez al-Assad. From 1982-1994, Khalifa was held without trial at various state security prisons, including the infamous Tadmur Military Prison, a detention center described as a "kingdom of death and madness" by poet Faraj Bayraqdar and the "absolute prison" by dissident Yassin al-Haj Salih. He is the author of The Shell, which has been lauded as one of the finest examples of Arabic prison literature, and which has been translated into French as La Coquille. He currently lives in exile, where he continues to write against the al-Assad regime."

Read the full text here.

Zugzwang

illustration for the short story "Transglottism" from the book "Zugzwang", by Eduard Màrquez. Translated from Catalan by Lawrence Venuti.

Transglottism was the first illustration I started working on for Asymptote, in november last year. The story takes place in a stuffy library auditorium, where a student and the simultaneous interpreter, in the middle of the boredom starts and amorous affair, through the air and the airphones. It's a resourceful and amusing story and on the site there's also another beautiful short story by Eduard Màrquez, which I recommend you all to read.

Read the full story here.

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