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Feel the flutter!

Grim the grin!

Will you help the horrors in?

All Hallow’s Read is @neil-gaiman's tricksy treatsy thingamabob to get more people to discover the exquisite anguish of reading horror stories: smuggle people scary stories along with the Halloween candy!

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What story gives you the most chills? Mine must be The Hound by H.P. Lovecraft. Brrh!

Btw, here all my All Hallow’s Read book monsters from previous years!

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A weekend of contrast. Thursday and Friday I spent at Sweden’s largest book event, the Gothenburg Book Fair. I mingled with publishers, writers and fellow illustrators, visited my latest Olle books and attended the release of the illustrators catalogue. Saturday and Sunday was spent preparing the cabin for the autumn and winter season. And roaming the forest looking for moose and chanterelles. I saw no moose but caught plenty of mushrooms :)

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All Hallow’s Read, the Halloween-thing for us book lovers to share the exquisite delight of reading horror - by giving scary books with the Halloween candy. And it’s invented by one of my absolute favorite authors @neil-gaiman !

There are far to few special days of the year to manifest and rejoice as readers. That’s why I’ve been doing fan art in the form of monster books for this on tumblr once a year for a decade now. Insane it’s been that long!

Cheers fellow readers and tumblrers you fundaments of culture!

Now go share a favorite scare!

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A Swedish gårdstomte I drew yesterday. Trying to connect to the style of the late 1800 when artists like Jenny Nyström, Carl Larsson and John Bauer shaped the collective image of our fairytales and myths.

I was inspired to do this when I found two 120 year old original pen and ink fairytale illustrations at the secondhand the other day. A real find! And I even managed to find what books they originally were published in. More about that some other day.

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DemonDragonDemon

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Sketching is a life hack with quadruple effect, and a bonus.

1. It exercises your pencils in depicting real stuff

2. It helps your eyes to discover what’s in front of them and thus counters your restless brain as it simplify and skip the tedium of reality that keeps it from dreaming.

3. It commits stuff to memory, albeit a fuzzy compost heap of reference, coming handy when drawing stuff from your imagination later.

4. Putting stuff on paper for no one’s sake but your own is always beneficial for personal growth.

Bonus. You look really savvy and interesting when you sketch stuff.

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All the 👻 go: BOOOOOOOOO-KS!!!!

All the 📚 will go: RAAARGH!!!!

All of 🌏-tumblr should go: SCARY TREATS!!!!

Why? Because of All Hallow’s Read — the idea to get everybody to discover the exquisite pleasure of reading horror by smuggling scary books among the Halloween candy.

Is it a trick or a treat? Ask @neil-gaiman, it’s his idea! I’m only the artsy-tumblr-person who does AHR-fan art for Halloween. And this years marks a decade. Can you believe it? TEN YEARS!!!

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And Neil if you see this: an ask. If you ever land a haul of words that you deem would thrive in my pond of paint particularly, please don’t hesitate to call me? I’d be the happiest pencil on tumblr if ever we made a thing together. The happiest :)

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There’s this guy, Albert Collins, who a couple of years ago became the first master armourer in Sweden for a quarter millennium. I’ve met him a couple of times through mutual friends and now the touring exhibition about his work is coming to my end of the country.

I decided to make him something for the opening. And after a while I made a kind of small relief version of his armor, from a takeaway container. It was a fun material to work with. Try it!

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Seasoning tumblr with a pinch of pumpkin witch.

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Friends are getting married and I did a card sort of picture!!

I’ve been very into William Morris and co lately for another idea and it very much spilled over into this. I’m not sure what he’d say about my choice of off the shelf chem colour materials though :D

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- Where to draw the line…

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Sketch for dragon appreciation day! Sorry it’s just such a quick one, I really do love them so much my sketchbooks are full of them.

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Sunny afternoon spent drawing. Not fair to the troll though, it turned to stone immediately.

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All I ever want to do is let my pencils roam free and tell of the stories they hear from the vast paper plains.

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A bit more shadow and moss :)

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Working to understand birds at the Tidaholm library. So grateful for the conserved specimens still on display after spending a couple of days with the mindless tedium of “reference photos” in the 2D hell of the internet, and trying to catch glimpses of live birds to sketch on windy and rainy days.