Forty years ago today

[gkmoberg1]

The conjuration is also very good. Both of these are inspiring.

[Siggdalos]

[Siggdalos]

This is the other of the two scenes that inspired the project. It was the first one I drew, long before the rest. A lot happens in this chapter, but I knew from the start that I specifically wanted to depict this scene since it's one of my favorite ones in the book.

[Siggdalos]

The first day with multiple chapters dedicated to it.



I've always thought that this (a lone Oskar snowracing in the forest at night) is one of the most cinematic scenes in the novel. Before I watched the movie, I used to wonder if the scene was included in the adaptation and what it would look like on-screen. I think that doing it proper justice would take more patience and skill than I have, though.





This last one of Zombie Håkan is probably the drawing I'm most satisfied with out of all of the ones in the thread. It actually turned out better than I envisioned it, which doesn't happen often.
In case someone's wondering "What's with the eels?":

[Håkan's] naked, glistening muscles contracted and relaxed, contorting as if the head been replaced by a mass of freshly killed and butchered eels.

Like the eel that dead and butchered jumps in the frying pan ... never before observed in human tissue ...

Also, JAL doesn't seem to be a fan of eels in general. In the zombie tale Kommunion, the first horror story he ever wrote, the main character thinks about his drowned girlfriend getting eaten by eels. One of the later scenes of Handling the Undead features a drowned reliving with a living eel stuck in his chest, eating its way out. I can't remember if there are any eels in Harbour or Tjärven, though.

[Siggdalos]

Another one of the drawings I'm happiest with out of these. I drew it on a whim and only later decided to apply it to this specific chapter.



I wasn't planning on featuring the man in the wig again, but this was the best I could come up with for this chapter. My planning for this hasn't been the best, so I decided on the subject and drew the thing only a couple of hours before making this post. That said, I of course couldn't resist including the best character in the novel (the squirrel), albeit in a modified form.



The symbol on the door is (a crudely drawn version of) the logo used by the Swedish postal service from 1965 to 1984 (it continued to look pretty much the same with a couple of minor changes until 2015).

[Siggdalos]

[Siggdalos]

[cmfireflies]

these are really great.

[gkmoberg1]

absolutely! Been watching them arrive and it's ever a good jolt to see the next. bravo!

[Siggdalos]

The slightly belated finale. Some stuff came up that meant I couldn't complete or post the last three in time for their actual dates, so I'll post them all at once instead.







The last two turned out quite meh. I'm pretty good at animals and monsters, but I tend to struggle with faces and bodily proportions on subjects that are supposed to look like people.
Also, I was previously planning to try to depict the scene between Oskar and his mum for November 11 ("They sat a metre apart, an endless distance"), but for the aforementioned reason I chickened out, said "screw it", and did something really simplistic just so I could finally finish the project. Oh well.
On another note, this also marks the completion of the 20-word Morse code message I've been including under the image captions.