Freehand (leaky) pen drawings on rough paper with a Rasterbator dot pattern. The last one has textures and additional elements added/painted in Photoshop.

As part of an attempt to stay productive and focused on the road, some of us have started writing a tour blog for Scandinavia’s biggest metal magazine, Close-up. It’s still in its embryonic stages, but so far it feels like a rewarding venture, and it’s a nice challenge to be creative with words for a change.

Check it out at www.closeupmagazine.net (in Swedish only; apologies to anyone not versed in the tongue of the gods).

…for almost two months, which means that updates will be less frequent than usual.

However, there is plenty of time for sketchbook action inbetween the shows. I came across a new range of notebooks called Whitelines, with lines/grids that are more easy on the eyes than the normal black lines/white paper combo. These are photos as opposed to scans, so the quality is not stellar…

…made to the Cabin fever site.

The demand from people wanting to secure the last Gadus Morhua copies was higher than expected, but now the books are sold out for real. However, I came across Issuu, which seems to be a nifty service for publishing PDF books/magazine online, and decided to give it a try.

Click here to browse the book in a standalone window.

Just realized that my old website from 2002 still is online here. Ended up browsing some of the sketches - most of which were made 10-12 years ago - for a nostaligia buzz. Many of these were made at one of my old jobs, while providing customer service via the phone. The beige one with the curled up creature was my application drawing for the web/multimedia course I attended in 1998. Time surely flies…