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Anyhow Japan was very nice, Amongst many things I got to play Street Fighter 4 for the first time, I won once but mostly got my arse kicked XD

Also I saw monkeys and snakes and huge wasps in the mountains. Apparently they also have small angry black bears. I had lots of strange expectations (due to much anime exposure) when I arrived, but it was totally different

I must have seen it a million times: take off your shoes like one does at home when you enter somewere, right? Still I manage to step on the floor in the ryokan with my shoes on :3 Gomenasai Kayo-san! >< Ah well.

I missed my chance to see a panda since it had died ;_; in Ueno zoo. R.I.P Ling Ling. I've never seen a panda so I really want to see one.

The Gibli museum in Mitaka was very cool, but hard for stupid gajins to get to since the only way was to type in a lot of kana in a strange Lawson-machine that printed tickets XD But we did it! I'm very proud of me and my friend Jens


I did endulge myself in otaku-bonanza stuff that I will talk about some other time XD


Well over and out for now.

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/20165138/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/20165138/ Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:01:54 PDT
Thinking out loud here:

Why does Saber from Fate/stay night fair better than Charlotte from Samurai showdown or Jeanne d'Arc from the PSP-game (with the same name) They all have an apperance composed of armour and blue and yellowish cloth

But it's only Saber that apparently sells like hot Haruhis(quote from dannychoo.com somewhere XD (if I remember correctly, maybe it's okay either way :3)). This is referring to figurines, I forgot to mention that. How do

they measure who is going to get figurinized in the first place? Does Saber have an otaku-appeal-impact of 9/10 or something?
8/10?

And they have to measure against some demographical traits too.. How many of the customers like things that are kawaii vs. things that are kakkoii?

Anyhow, I would like to know which ones are your top 3 favourite anime characters

Mine are as follows:

1.Yukari Sensei from Azumanga Daioh (for beeing the most evil character evarr XD and uh teacher fetish thingie. Yup.)

2.Jo Carpenter from Bakuretsu Tenshi (she is somewhat akeen to beeing a closet lesbian Clint Eastwood, you cant go wrong with that..)

3.Noda Megumi from Nodame Cantabile (wich reminds me of me in some wierd way)

I'll make a list of everyones opinions later and post them here next month

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/19284781/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/19284781/ Wed, 09 Jul 2008 02:12:03 PDT ) ah well.

I've just gotten home from the Roskilde festival It was fun, lots of people and bands and stuff. I'm happy that we were a bit late in arriving there, thus putting up our tent on a field with cows far from the stage area - which resulted in a bit more sleep and an untrashed tent XD It was good because we had borrowed it :3

I have two webpage projects running at the same time (money) + a cource in c# (update brain), but when that is done I'm going to draw something again :0


ThNKY0 everyone for the 14k hits *bows*

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/17747597/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/17747597/ Tue, 08 Apr 2008 12:44:49 PDT Recently, it seems that I've subsituted the lack of games with books which I hope is a good thing. You never hear about people that read too many books, like book addict syndrome vs. gaming disorder -(thingy) ah well..

Rather embarrasing but I'm starting to forget my kana, so I'm going to read my japanese-books every evening (note to self)



and....Vokaloid2 rules ^^
[link]


Hm, what does this "collect" button do?

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/16074492/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/16074492/ Mon, 24 Dec 2007 10:14:04 PST The distant worlds consert was amazing. Uematsu-san had white tabis on his feet And I gained otaku-status at anime-planet.com XD It's a good site because it helps out to find similar stuff to things one has seen.

Still waiting for an Alter - Jo from Bakuretsu tenshi. God I'm a degenerate XD I can buy one if I pay overprice on ebay ;_; Long live the cultural revolution.. I do fear for the day when these things become mainstream worries.

Merry x-mas everyone :0 When I manage to draw something that I think is better/more original than my last stuff I will post it.


I wish my lawn was emo. I have a hunters cap that I always wear that's -7 on the emo scale. I need to make up for that with a Dr. kitty bag or something..

over and out ..

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/13668706/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/13668706/ Mon, 09 Jul 2007 08:20:26 PDT Yesterday I red about a guy that, well he's 4 years older than me that made several million dollars in two years buy selling homepages wich he made whilst drinking coffee in a coffeeshop. In the article he made it sound so easy and was probably honestly wondering why more people didn't do what he did. Is it about being at the right place at the right time or is it something else? I don't actually have a point about all of this but anyway To me luck seems to be a sort of skill that you can train. Or to phrase it differently there's some sort of hard-work behind the scenes-stuff that doesn't show. All you hear is about the success. Or something :3

I need to do more interesting poses, feels like I'm repeating myself from last year, but that's the problem when you don't think

It's nice to be able to draw but to be honest there's not that many job opportunities open if you don't draw stuff that people want. And it's boring to draw like cars when you like drawing girls. So 90% of the time you'll be doing stuff that you don't want.

I better learn .net or something that generates income. But that also seems like a bad idea compared to the coffee-shop guy.. sigh XD

Think to much and you bang your head against the wall, if you're strong enough the wall brakes and you rampage freely to whatever end. Thanks for watching btw

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/13119971/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/13119971/ Mon, 28 May 2007 01:31:38 PDT Yesterday we went to Denmark, and saw various wierd things. Like mermaids, and the planetarium. There's lots of people here comparing to where I come from, I feel like a hillbilly

Bought a book about skin and lightning, mostly for photographers but I think it will help some. There's lots of ducks and other birds here, they look nice from a distance but when you get near them they attack you (almost) and there's birdshit everywhere in the city. Sigh.

Well, over and out. or as we say in Malmö: PANdA Awayyy!!

// 7/6 edit: made a custom css journalbox thingy ^^

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/12221160/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/12221160/ Sat, 17 Mar 2007 15:07:13 PDT
A lot of work related things swooped down upon me around christmas last year, and when it finally was over I totally lost my ability to draw :/ I dunno, to combine drawing with playing guitar seems to work fine, but apparently not with making homepages.

Yesterday after talking to Kuroi-san on MSN in the middle of the night I finally started to draw again. In the morning it was starting to look a bit less crappy :3 I have managed to make one single sketch after like 20 hours It feels like I'm starting all over again.. ah, well.

Since october I managed to move from Guild Wars to Anarchy Online to Rappelz :0 But I still miss Asheron's call 2 :S.. ah, well.

Thanks to Celestial for making me Psychofox and Wonderboy lizardman pearl, eh plates. Pearlplates.. for my birthday. They are in this thread somewhere, page 30 I think. In Sweden-go kamoshirenai kedo *lame rhyme sorry* [link]

<--over and out-->

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/10452075/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/10452075/ Fri, 20 Oct 2006 03:59:56 PDT /*-----------------------------------------------------------------------------*/

Uh, I'm trying to learn manga studio, that's why the manga suddenly stopped :3 And I have cought a cold.. Or did it catch me? :0

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/10278204/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/10278204/ Wed, 04 Oct 2006 03:39:00 PDT
Sort of...

Anyways, it's right here --> [link] <-- thank goodness for wordpress.. I had plans to make my own from scratch but it took to much time, didn't have any time over for drawing wich is the most important part :3 (I almost finished it but then I realized that the manga couldn't fit in the windows X0)

And the person that gets the 5000th pageview gets a dedicated free pic of some random anime character XD

and uh, if nobody gets it, I'll just do a hurray happy 5000 hits pic or something

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/10067980/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/10067980/ Thu, 14 Sep 2006 07:57:33 PDT
Then again some official education isn't that bad. But in this kind of work you are judged on what you have accomplished rather then your theoretical skills

The best idéas are always born from horizontal mode.

I dont know what to write any more so >>

yah, over and out

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/9685743/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/9685743/ Fri, 11 Aug 2006 01:44:00 PDT
Sidenote here:

Signs that you're getting pulled in by the Japanese cultural revolution is when your squeel in anguish-ness over translated japanese games. It does litterally feel like physical scarring of me poor eardrums sometimes, especially when it's poorly done. X0 How hard can it be to keep an option to include the original language

Then again, I'll guess I was quite happy with it when I was smaller and barely understood english so..

Uhm, the text uh, I still would prefer that in english. Almost forgot. :3 Oh I'm such a hypocrite XD

Over and out! Lulu lululu KIKKO-PUNCH!

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/9188705/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/9188705/ Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:38:29 PDT
From here it only gets darker and colder outside, soon it's going to be two meters of snow again. Since its only warm and sunny for 4-5 weeks at best one tends to appreciate it more I think (when I'm not wiping pidgeon-poo of my balcony) I'm a little at loss on what to do next, shold I try to write a script maybe, or practice drawing backgrounds. Heck knows note to self: make script before attempt at drawing manga. Not the other way around.

I discovered recently that my two fishes which are about 14 centimeters now, will grow to about 80 centimeters, and they can be up to 1 meter and 30 centimeters in the wild. I wish that someone in the animal store whould have told me when I bought them :/ Like, these fishes can become twice the size of your aquarium, maybe it's better to get some smaller ones.. sigh. Maybe it's cleaver advertizing to get me to buy a bigger aquarium :3 The fishes are nice tho, they are called pangasius hypophthalmus in latin and "shark-catfish" in swedish. I dont know the english name for them.

Off to eat icecream now, see you :3

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/8718340/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/8718340/ Tue, 09 May 2006 08:10:36 PDT I'll try to visit you every now and then (and critisizing back muhaha)

I realized that I need to spend about twice as much time on each pic in order to iron out common mistakes and flaws XD Thanks again to those that pointed stuff out, where would I be without you?

Please continue to do so ( but only if you want to )



It's somewhat hectic right now, my univ-japanese exam is in the beginning of july, and Tomiyama-sensei probably plans to hunt us with shinais if we fail. XD Nah, she is actually an amazing person. Tremendously overqualified for teaching us actually :0 I'm happy that she is there.

Right now I'm trying to design an Usagi MKIII armour, but it's hard. Got inspired by watching E3-stuff tho, I really liked the FFXIII clip like, Oaah, how do they do it? XD But I'm sure that they make heaps and heaps of stuff and just use the best design from there.

First you decide, then you do said Lacus Clyne, that's all there is to it really XD

]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/8497390/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/8497390/ Thu, 27 Apr 2006 04:30:00 PDT
I've kind of figured out that I need to get better at various things in order to produce better quality images.

Thoughts on stuff:

1. Study anatomy like there's no tomorrow. Which means continuity in drawing bodyparts on paper I guess. It's something that I should do every day.

24/4 - Hands and eyes are used to express feelings and therefore of more importance. General bodyposture is important too. I need more practice making them neat girly-hands X0

2. Learning to paint. Colour theory is good but what I really need is to be able to visualize how a finished result should look like and then magically conjure it up somehow

24/4 - Figured out some stuff regarding "warm" colours vs "cool" colours. There's a way to pick out cooler or warmer colour in photoshop. Instead of using the general colour picker you can choose the RGB-one and pic higher or lower values on R and B. And apply them as you see fit along the z- axis in your pic

This is probably only appliable when you have one lightsource.


3. My lineart is actually rather ok I think. I'm happy with trying to use the pencil tool and ordinary brushes in Photoshop. I tried flash for a while, but it looked to mechanical somehow.

24/4 - I'm really into not having to ink right now ^^, trying to improve with sketching.

4. Better design. I've found out that this is closely connected with the ability to make sketches. And the ability to be impression(ated) XD by your surroundings.

24/4 - When does it stop to be anime and start to be something else? For me it's mainly the eyes for some reason. Some drawings I do just don't look enough anime, I've yet to figure out what the key parts are that makes up an "anime"- drawing



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So, critique highly encouraged. Scream at me and tell me I suck XD
It's the only way I'll ever learn.

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27/4 - Thanks to everyone that has commented ^^ It's a bit overwhelming when you're used to 3-4 pageviews a day XD

Regarding the pageview crusade, uhm, I've been told that if one tends to the little things the big things will work out by themselves, to sum it all up I shouldn't worry to much about it XD (morrowindy reference again )

I've now a clear understanding of where I wish to go from here on.

I'll try to message everyone back, but there's only one of me 0_o

and thanks for reading this highly irrashional piece of text ^^

btw, I found a nice tut on composition here: [link]age=



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]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/8279733/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/8279733/ Sun, 26 Mar 2006 22:50:51 PST
Sorry for not drawing anything lately, but I've been confined in my bed due to fever for the last week or so. Well, it's a part of life I'll guess..

I got myself an account at [link] last week, they have amazing gear for drawing stuff there

aagh, oblivion is zapping my life away too! Oh nooooo........ ]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/7871293/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/7871293/ Sun, 12 Feb 2006 07:14:56 PST
Hm, when I watch my early pics it's like: omg what where I thinking, but that's probably a good thing if it continoues to be like uh, so.

Right now I find it much easier to draw on the computer, but I tend to make silly anatomical mistakes that I don't do when I draw on paper. And I don't know why X0

Colours is a big enigma, I discussed with my friend Jens on cromatic scales and how you are supposed to pick out certain colours, how they fit together and so on. (uhm, like music scales) I can analyze my pics after they are done but mostly I don't know which colours to use and why.

I need to get better at forecasting which colours to use I'll guess.

dewa.. ]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/7761962/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/7761962/ Tue, 31 Jan 2006 14:12:29 PST [link] trying to figure out how to paint. Made a few tests with complement-colours wich all looked bleh.

After that I had a go at Linda's hair-tutorial over at furiae.com of wich I understood almost nothing XD
(she is super amazing btw, I could prolly draw for ten lifetimes and not get anywhere near.. )
But uhm, I learned to do custom brushes


I finally figured out that I can get away with having like 6 layers in photoshop instead of 60 if I paint instead of making each colour a layer + shadows + more shadows and so on.

So yeah, I'm going to paint a lot more I think ]]> *flinden http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/7648703/ http://flinden.deviantart.com/journal/7648703/ Thu, 19 Jan 2006 13:36:00 PST
And welcome to my page.

Here I will discuss various topics that is of concern to me, like for instance, why are all my backgrounds either white or shades of purple? (almost all of them maybe XD). About me, uhm I am sort of an Illustrator/webdesigner. I have a master's degree in systems analysis, (I almost dunno what that means tho, don't flame me for it plz it's called something else in swedish) but here I'll (obviously) try to draw stuff.

Hm, if you play mmorpg's you tend to pick up ways of spelling that's faster but more anoying to the poor people reading.. I'll try to ease up on that.

Beginning my second japanese course in february.. waii! waii!

Akibahara wa doko desu ka..

hm, need food now.. See ya' ]]> *flinden