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Styngvi • Vegan artivism

I'm Stefán Yngvi and I'm a full-time artist and illustrator from Iceland. In 2017 I started combining art with activism.

The causes that I advocate for are all close to my heart, such as animal liberation, climate + social justice and LGBTQ+ rights.

06/09/2026

Earlier this week I shared sketches and creative process behind this concept. I wanted it to look like connection, a reminder that humans are nature.

Some of the first iterations gave a lot of people darker associations.. like we were squishing the whale, overpowering it, dominating it. With what is happening in Iceland, Norway and Japan, I can 100% understand this view.

I made a few adjustments and I hope this piece now brings a feeling of connection.

The fact that humans are detaching themselves so far from nature is everything that is wrong in this world.

Building cities and roads with no green zones.
Culling or poisoning wild animals that dare to enter “our” zones.
Claiming that the ocean and fish stocks are ours and ours only.

As if we are somehow separate from all of it.

We can’t survive on a planet that is out of balance, and yet we seem to be doing everything we can to push it over that edge.

I’m scared of how far we are willing to push things for profit and growth at all costs. Because at some point, that cost is going to be our lives too.

We are not separate from nature.

We are nature.

21/08/2026

Kristján Loftsson continues to kill fin whales... up to 3 per day. I don’t know, it seems like he is in a rush to kill as many as he can and not taking any breaks.

While I was in Iceland, he finally admitted publicly that he has no buyers for the meat. He also shared his plan to grind up the whales and make iron supplements out of them (with a side of mercury poisoning).

It’s not like we have a bunch of other cheaper ways to produce iron supplements. Killling massive key stone species to produce a small amount of toxic iron…

Is it a sign of desperation or just stupidity? 🤡

09/08/2026

Heyo, it’s been a while 👋🏻 social media took a backseat since life has been very admin heavy with moving to a new country, opening a company with my wife, finding a long-term home and a so many other adult tasks. Portugal is even more crazy about bureaucracy than Germany... 😵

I’m happy to report that we have now managed to do all that and we’re officially settled in Portugal in a beautiful flat with a brand new creative company! 🕺🏼

Achieving all this calls for a celebration (and a vacation 😂) and it just so happens what I’ve been accepted to attend the IWC70 in Australia next month. We will make a trip out of it and are open to AUS travel suggestions 🦘

I’m also open for new projects starting in October so if you have anything in mind, shoot me a message!

27/07/2026

I have no words for this terrible act at Berlin Pride, but it's important to speak up, show support and not be controlled by fear and hate. Love will always win ❤ 🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️ ❤

***r

17/07/2026

Touch grass, tax billionaires 🐶 Illustration inspired by my sassy small doggo.

This is the last one in my Earth First series (for now at least). Let me know if you have any suggestions for other nice phrases/ideas similar to this and I might get inspired!

Also, people have been asking me about stickers and I just may make that happen. I'll keep you posted 🌱

16/07/2026

I want more fields of wildflowers, bees and wildlife instead of data centers 🐝 I want to hear bird song, not the non-stop hum of computers 🐦‍⬛ Nothing is more valuable than what Planet Earth gives us.

If technological advancement comes at the cost of nature and our ability to live comfortably on this planet.. is it really worth it?

14/07/2026

A quick end-of-day post to remind you that sharks are incredible beings that don’t deserve the bad reputation they’ve got.

Today is Shark Awareness Day so of course I wanted to make a post today, but got caught up in a cat rescue which took a lot out of me mentally (lucky had a positive ending though ❤️)

All animals deserve respect and compassion. Yes, even sharks. I’ve been creating illustrations for shark conservation since 2018 and will never stop trying to communicate the importance of this species 💙🦈

10/07/2026

I was scrolling through folders and found this illustration I made a couple of years ago. It was commissioned by a client, but the project somehow fell off the tracks and this piece never saw the light of day. It makes me a bit sad, because I think it deserves to be seen.

The idea was inspired by whaling in Iceland (obviously) and by this common misconception that fish stocks are falling because of whales 🙄

🧌: “Whales eat all the fish”
🤡: “Whales are bad for the climate”
👆🏻 an actual comment by Loftsson himself.

Whales help the ocean by simply existing. By diving deep, moving nutrients around and even just by pooping. They help fertilize the ocean and create the conditions for more life.

But somehow, it's still believed that we need to kill whales so there will be more fish for us to catch (and kill). I say we just leave the ocean alone for a while, and let it recover. Because if we f**k up the ocean, we f**k up everything.

07/07/2026

A little late since he's technically no longer a trillionaire, but he's still very close to that number and I don't think that kind of wealth should be in the hands of any one human.

I decided a goose was the most fitting animal to illustrate for this phrase, they can be very intimidating when they want to be 🪿 I also had play with colors for this illustration, let me know which version you like the most - 1, 2 or 3!

Oh, and comment below if you think I should make these into stickers (or anything else) available in my shop 😎

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http://www.styngvi.com/

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