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Creator of the webcomics Silver Vein & Neurostorm. Listens to a lot of heavy music, plays games sometimes and occasionally even draws stuff worth showing. Maybe. Contact me at: [email protected]

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I'm hoping for a productive 2015. I managed to get through 102 pages in 14 which is okay but a bit on the slow side by my own standards.

Anyway, have a gander at the front cover for volume 2 of Silver Vein and a page from chapter 4. I'm currently finishing up chapter 4 which is sort of a 20 page introduction to the expansive second volume. I'm going to take a break from drawing SV and Neurostorm the coming moths while I post chapter four since I have other things to work on.

One of them is a one-shot called Berkeley's Thread that I'm hoping to have done and ready for SIS 15. I'll likely post something about that in the coming weeks. I've got my old job back for a spell but I hope I can keep things in perspective this time. Last time I got so stressed out that I couldn't draw anything for a few months. I don't want that again.

tl,dr

Have a happy new year and let's work like hell in 15.

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Page 13 - 24 of my 24 hour comic 2014 named "It Passes Through Waterless Places"

Read the first 12 pages here.

PHEW. I finished 40 minutes ahead (+30 if you count when I finished yesterday) but I felt pressed for time all the way. Urr, my hands hurt and I'm tired but I'm really glad I did this. I feel refreshed and think the result was better than ever before.

The story kept developing a lot in my head but I managed to not think about it between the two 12 hour segments. That's really good. I think the story turned into some sort of jab at religion at the end there but that wasn't really the intention.

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The first twelve pages of my 24 hour comic 2014. I'll be doing the rest tomorrow. I'm really not up for doing the whole thing in one go. Title was given by my GF: "It passes through waterless places".

EDIT: THE SECOND PART CAN BE READ HERE.

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I can be really slow in discovering obvious things sometimes.

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He makes lot's of weird faces. Still, it's great practice. Have a few more cat-themed comics up my sleve, but this will do for now.

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I didn't understand a single word he said but I still got through the purchase just fine. Cool dude.

Drew the first page on the train home from Stockholm. I'm surprised I actually managed it.

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Dropping by SIS/SPX in Stockholm this weekend? Then make sure to stop by and say hi at one of these tables. It seems the table I'm sharing with people from my university class in comics and the ones I'm sharing with my studio, Serieateljen i Göteborg, ended up right across from each other so you'll find my comics on both of these tables. This year I don't have much new to offer. I have a few copies of Silver Vein vol 1 left and I also have a few strips of Neurostorm appearing in my studios anthology (pics on the lower left and lower right, respectively). Anything else is just not ready yet.

Anyway, see you there and hope you'll have as much fun as I!

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Art by Ronald Betfjord, colours by me.

It didn't quite make it to SIS this year but soon, Ronald Betfjord and I are re-launching "Lake". We weren't confident with the series the way it was drawn and planned, so we decided to start from scratch. The first parts of chapter one will be familiar to those who read the first version but it will go down a different path after that.

That said, hope you guys are still interested and will enjoy reading it this time as well. More news in a week or so.

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Keeping it in tune with last year's SIS mascot fan art, this year I managed to postpone it until the same week (one day earlier though!). Just as last time, I drew & inked this in A3, then went on to color it in manga studio 5. This year's mascot was created by Nina Hemmingsson and looks like this.

The anatomy's a bit off but all in all, I think this turned out ok :)

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I saw a really shitty horror-movie a few days ago (not going to name it) and got this idea from watching it. Drawing & inking this took a LOT longer than I thought it would. I'm kind of surprised I could keep it down to two pages as well. That first panel took a lot of drawing with a ruler and redrawing but it showed me that I actually can accomplish some decent perspective if I'm just patient enough (never am).

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Submissions for annalandin's RPG week! It's a little bit late but I've been busy.

First up, I drew myself as a darker kind of Summoner (with corpse paint!). I think the design turned out well but as always, I don't feel all that confident about the coloring. Ah well, it's good to have it done anyway.

Next up: My girlfriend Jenny drew herself as an Assassin and her cat, Buddha, as a "Fart Venom" peddling Merchant.

Doing this was really fun. I hope I have time for it next year.

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Did some thinking this weekend (rare)....and some drawing (even more rare). Mmm, tea.

Used some photo reference for this. I miss doing that.

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I'm working on stuff again. I still have my job but I'm no longer at the same place. This week I was given something to do that leaves me with a lot of free time. This, of course means that I'll be working on drawing stuff instead. So first up is a comic that I drew before Neurostorm had taken tangible shape. The drawing itself was not really up to my standard, though, so I remade it. I think I'm a bit pleased with the result and this is one of the better examples of where I want to take Neurostorm. Weird, unpredictable humor that creeps up on you instead of the usual punch line-oriented stuff. I'm finishing up the tones for this later since I have a fanart-pic to colour and some other job-related stuff to get to.

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Öhhhlölööööö 2

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Another comic the girlfriend and I made (again in Swedish). Same nun-character. Same nun-chanel.

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A while back a few of my friends made some redesigns of Zelda (from The Legend of Zelda, yes) that were and still are really neat. Since I thought it would be fun, I tried my own redesign of Link but it didn't really work out all that well. What DID work out well was the story that my brain automatically made up along with the pic. From there, I had plans to do a redesign of Zelda, a character that ended up way more interesting than Link.

So these are the results, which I've worked on now and then over the course of a year. This Zelda is supposed to be a hardened warrior, which I hope she looks like. I'm not completely happy with the results but I think that this little experiment was really fun so I still feel like I gained something.

I'll paste the plot summary I made here again, if anyone wanted to read it:

The Phoenix Order is Hyrule’s most consistently strong police force and has been for close to a hundred years. Meet Bearded Paladin Link. A paladin class novice, always at the bottom of his class. His first day of paladin school is one he won’t forget as he finds out that his sister Zelda, notoriously known for being the most fierce paladin in Hyrule, is his new mentor. He can no longer slack of as he used to. But his fear is short lived and replaced with a greater one as his sister gets kidnapped the same day by an organization simply known as “Ganon”. Confused, scared and fearful for his sisters life, he peruses them. What he doesn’t know is that Zelda has already managed to free herself and he is kidnapped in her stead. Now, “Ganon” uses Link as bait to lure Zelda out. Meanwhile, after a face to face inspection by “Ganon“‘s leader Aghanim, Link is promptly thrown into a cold, dark dungeon. The old man in the next cell over who calls himself “Nonag” helps him find a way out of the cell. Link is getting the hell out of there, but not before he finds out what Aghanim wants with his sister. What makes her so special? Zelda arrives just in time to see Link found out by Aghanim. Link panics and falls down an impossibly long cliff into the valley below “Ganon“‘s headquarters. In cold rage, Zelda retreats for backup and starts up a crusade to avenge her fallen brother. Presumed dead but still alive, Link finds himself washed up in a foreign land believed to once have been inhabited by the gods. He finds a long forgotten sword that he is asked to have delivered to the one who should wield it. But can he make it in time? Ganon, always oppressed by Hyrule for something that happened a hundred years ago, have finally found a way to defeat their sworn enemy. All they need is Zelda, the chosen one.

The backwards "Ganon" wasn't all that clever but you can't get everything right in one go I guess. The first coloured pic is supposed to be when Zelda breaks free and the last illustration is after witnessing Link's demise.

Well, that's that. I'm spent.

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NEW WEBCOMIC TIME!

So, here's Neurostorm, the comic I've been working on. It's an autobiographical slice-of-life humor-strip. I base it on things that happen in my life or thoughts I have, which adds a little fantasy element to it. I want to update this at least once a week but I'm not promising anything there. Hope you enjoy it!

The first opening artwork (many a manga studio 5 tones & effects went into that one :D )  and first strip is up right now on smackeeves. Read it here: http://neurostorm.smackjeeves.com/comics/1907922/0000-title-art/

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This was a busy weekend but I got something done, at least. I'm hoping to get the colours and a logo done so I can get the web comic going next weekend. 'Till then, enjoy this.