Howdy intranets! As I suppose is evident to anyone looking at the dates of the few posts on this blog, there hasn’t really been a steady torrent of work flowing into it. Hopefully that’s about to change, if just ever so slightly. Caught by an impulse, I recently threw myself head first into two rather overwhelming projects, the details of which I will not go into further at the moment. Although my hope is that this will force me to get that drawing pad out a bit more often. It will also, hopefully, result in a series of pictures on this blog that, taken out of their context, might seem a bit random. Hopefully they will still be somewhat interesting, even if you don’t have the whole concept. I’ll kick it all off with a sketch for you.

Ladies and gentlemen, Underwater base.

This is a fish-thing, inspired by something Lovecraft describes in “The Shadow Over Innsmouth”. I think I didn’t quite capture the typical disgusting, horrible, lovecraftian atmosphere though. To be honest, its actually kind of cute. Damn.

On a side note, I’m working on a few bigger pieces, though all painting has been on hiatus for a while after I managed to wreck my pen. Two years of rough abuse got the better of it, I suppose. Ah well, it has been a faithful servant.

I just realized how long it has been since I did a completely physical piece. Nowadays, even though I still use physical techniques, they are usually just a means to a digital end. Originally it was going to be just a straight depiction of what the landscape around where I live looks like. But then I started spacing out, “what if the fields where water, and the hills little islands, and there could be bridges connecting them, and little houses on the slopes…” and off it goes.

As so many other of my paintings, this one started as a doodle in my sketchbook that I got somewhat attached to. I like how it turned out, almost a bit submarine.
On a side note: this update is actually done during ongoing performance, so I try to manage both the keyboard and the light desk at once. Gotta take the chance when it appears.

Man, it took some time to get that background right. If everything works out there will be a speedpaint of this one. I’m not that good with video though. I can be a wizard with images as long as they keep still, but once they start moving I’m lost.

This is a poster for a party that I and some friends are arranging. There will be weird music, weird people, and all the other wiedness of the universe. It was a lot of fun drawing all the little senseless gizmos and gadgets in there. All done by freehand, that’s the way I like it. Just because I’m so proud of that mess I’ll post a textless version below. This is an art blog and not a rave blog (maybe I should start one of those), but I’ still take the opportunity to make some advertising. Search for “Hacker Whacker” on Facebook, and you will be a wiser person. It would be lovely if some of the fellow Sweeds out there found it in their hearts to come by and pound the ground with us!

Some people have been telling me that I need to get better at updating the blog. But I assure you, that is not the issue at all. I need to get better at painting that’s what It’s all about. And I am working on that.

Textless version:

Yay, my blog now has two pages! Starting to build up!

Damn, I just realized I haven’t posted in over a month. The reason for which, can be seen above. Working one, and sometimes two full time jobs, sleeping enough, eating enough, having a social life AND getting a couple of pictures painted a month has proven slightly harder than I imagined.
But as some wiseguy somewhen said: “life is a series of things we’re not quite ready for.”

The first picture in a while that was completely digitally made. It changed a lot from beginning to end, originally the color palette was completely different. However slow and ineffective they might be, there is just something about balloons that never seizes to fascinate me!

An image I made for a friend’s music project, or band, or whatever he likes to call it. I was extremely unhappy with it right up until the end, when I completely changed everything, threw half the image out the window. After that I suppose it might look kind of okay. Just a little bit. I decided to post it here, even though I’m not very happy with it, just for the fact that I put so much effort into it.

And now for a short study of a rare, peculiar creature; the workaholic.
The young male workaholic has three basic needs that he must fulfill in order to maintain his existence. They are as follows, in descending priority:
•WORK!
•sleep
•eat
Now, as the primary need of working his ass of is fulfilled, and it is late at night, he will go seek to fulfill the second one, sleep. He can update his artsy-fartsy sketchblog another time. The need for attention, and the third of the primary needs, feeding, will have to wait.

Funny little thing I found in my sketchbook. Done in a sleepless night if my memory is accurate.

An old concept that I made for one of those projects that I started, but never had the patience to finish. But I still hope to some day find that energy that was driving me in the beginning, to finish the whole thing. I really liked the idea and the story and everything. I suppose it was just to big for me at the time.

This is an old quick little watercolor sketch that I found laying around. Simple, but for some reason I’ve always liked it. Done in only three steps: backgrond green, black, highlights, done.