Steel string -guitar and Digger

Musical instruments are fun to draw.


Two more illustrations; steel strings for phosphorus and a digger for manganese. The digger is drawn from a photo I took a couple of years ago of a old digger (Åkerman) belonging to my brother. The light in the photo was from the wrong side so I mirrored It.

Iodine and Camcorder

I take the opportunity to start creating as many icons/drawings as possible now when it is winter and I got the time. The plan is to finish them up later when I don't have so much continuous time to spend on them. These (Iodine and Indium) however was finished some time ago. Lots of unfinished drawings laying in my desktop makes it easy to find something to do.



One drawing is bothering me a little;
I was planning drawing a car for Palladium to illustrate a Catalytic converter. If I draw a normal car the catalytic part wont show, a car who is nice to draw and viewed partly from down-up is hard to find and if I draw only the Catalytic converter it may be hard to recognize. These thoughts have made me put this drawing on hold, but I have to start it now so any opinion is welcome. To summon up, I can:

• draw a normal car and the part won't show
• draw the part without the car
• draw a car witch show the exhaust system from behind (the part is hidden in the front)
• wait an uncertain time until I find a car I can take a photo of from the down-up (not my favorite now, since I have been doing only this until now and it may not happend)

Status rapport from me: mainly start working on new drawings, not so much work being done on finished them, and some times consumed by experimenting.

Crt-TV, Xerox-machine, Oven and Nightlight.

Some more drawings for Kalzium and a "remember to prepare for X-mas"-drawing. Maybe someone could make use of it for resepies or something these days?



OK, long time since the last drawings were send. I had to get the hang of it again after been away from it through the summer.

Coins, Flashlight and Satellite

Some more icons for Kalzium finished:

• Nickel and copper -coins
• Flashlight with krypton light bulb
• Satellite with atomic clock (Rubidium is resonant element)

More icons mostly done but not finished yet:
P (guitar strings), Sr (CRT- TV), I (antiseptics), Sc (Xerox-machine), In (LCD-screen on camcorder), Mn (digger-machine) and Ce (oven).
Next icon to create: Pd (car exhaust).

Microscope and Lead-glass door

A microscope for Germanium to replace LED. The changes are:


As suggested by Blue Lightning: LED for Gallium instead of Germanium who is now represented with a microscope.
The old microchip for Gallium, represent Arsenic instead now.


Made another variation to the radioactive-icon, so there is more to choose from. J is from the first version (K), but with a black dot in the middle (thanks to the commenter's).
A to I is the new ones. They are all the same with different colors, except C who also have added transparency to the far out parts of the rings.
Since many elements is going to be represented by the radioactive-icon, I may try out more ideas later.

Tambourine, Pipe, LED and Chip

More drawings for Kalzium. It was difficult to find nice objects to draw for beryllium, chlorine, germanium and gallium. These have often made me uncertain, but I hope they turn out OK.

Update: Copper-colored tambourine. Thank to all commenter's.

Tyre and TNT

Made some changes to the tyre for Tellurium (after the preview) and finished the TNT for nitrogen. Have started work on a flashlight for Kr (krypton).

Milk and Glass

The glass for Si (silicon) should be the empty one, i guess.


Have started to work on; tire for Te (tellurium) (the preview), TNT for N (nitrogen), PVC-pipe for Cl (chlorine) and microchip for Ga (gallium).

Think I try a solar-cell for Rb (rubidium), and are looking around for a model.

I have some problems finding good objects for Ge (germanium) (something common, easy recognizable in 40 x 40 pixel - object). It seems like some optical-electronic devices uses it, but which devices and which part on it? (remote control? CD-player?) Maybe someone know? ;-)