E. M. Syvertsen

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Hit two million pageviews on deviantART yesterday, and thus wanted to draw something to celebrate :D But happy-themed drawings didn't really work, just killed motivation, so I just began doodling whatever came to mind.
Hence this thing XD
Realised in hindsight that it is probably subconsciously inspired by various recent events, which may sound dark given the vibe of the drawing, but they have been heckin' amazing events :D
Without elaborating/rambling too much, one of the aforemention...

Harbour: Spam (Spike/Sam)

I still think that's a wonderful ship-name lol XD spam... Thank you guys for suggesting that ;D I dig your sense of humor XD

Also, not sure if I've shown you guys this already or if I just forgot it all together, but...

2018-06-03 23:25:38 +0000 UTC View Post

"ur character reminds me of..."

Is it the colors?

Is it that a happy kid is friends with a grumpy kid?

is it that Ray has a headband, blonde spiky hair and literally cat eyes and yet everyone says that it is not Ray but Sam who reminds them of Naruto? Even though Sasu-... Spike interacts with Ray as well?

Yes; we're in the self deprecating corner today XD

Honestly though, I never meant for them to resemble any of Kishimoto's characters.
I used to love reading Naruto when I was littl...

CCS: Grand Theft Motherheckin' Auto

One of the countless things Spike and Ray disagree on XD

All too real

(trigger warning: I'm adressing the topic of sexual assault in this post, including the link to a public confession by someone that is rather graphic. Reader discretion is advised)

Queue rant:

So, I just found out today that an artist I used to like the music of has been accused of raping her best friend.

I am not taking sides, but I want to address this either way because the situation described is actually far more common than a lot of people might know, and I also fee...

Stream updates

Yaaass! I finally got myself a Wifi Range Extender!

I am very eager to put it to the test OuO  Might do a quick little test stream tonight, either just playing Skyrim on Twitch or setting up the old art station and doing some livestream doodling on Picarto :D
But Netflix is finally working (like, it actually loads the pictures in the start menu, which it didn't before, so that sort of explains how bad my wifi was XD ) and my Playstation says it's got 4 Ghz in or something, so I'm prett...

CCS: s’all about posture

Ouch, right in the pride..!

CCS: Knight in shining buns

Nobody messes with Ray's colleagues, or he'll go full "fedora-mode"..! xD

.."sword" and all.. ( ' . _. ) *ahem*

And a gun.

CSS: Charles and Saunders

Did I show you guys this one already? o . o

Aw well...  :-1

I couldn't think of a title o _ o'

....

CCS: Charles and his father

"Charlie!"
"omfg WHERE?!?"
ratatatatatatatat

..and Spike lived happily ever after.
The end.

(sorry that was dark.. xD    o _ o )

Publication?

So, I still have to hold back a lot of information, but I also feel like I have to explain to you properly why new chapters haven't been coming up yet, even after the milestone goal was met.

One reason is sort of cynical, in the way that the pledges dropped so that said milestone goal isn't reached anymore.

The other reason is more of an "out of my control" sort of reason, and in a way actually requires me to remove those milestone goals altogether. But I have postponed the removal becau...

(work in progress)

I find myself in the odd situation where I relate to Sam, a lot.

Not the sexuality part though, more the part of loving someone similar to Spike and stuff, and really wishing shit was mutual.

It's okay though. After all, one can't make art without suffering, that's why it's called PAINting lol jk...

Honestly though, why not use heartbreak as a source of inspiration..? :)

It's still freaking me out though; how random stuff from the Spike novel keeps happening in my ...

CCS: uh..

.. I forgot where this one was going. I never really finished this CCS, and I just found it again today. I think I have a notion of where I was going with it though. I think this is where Greg has a real serious talk with Terrance about how he worries that Terrance is having an affair with Saunders.

Which he isn't.

But Greg doesn't know. He's just majorly insecure and fears that Saunders would be a better partner for Terrance.

And... Well, I think what Greg doesn't see is that his ...

A Poem

aka my first experience with nicotine (oh, the things I do for research).

Cause yeah, some of my characters smoke, and one of them starts smoking, so I kind of felt like I should do some proper research, like, have some basic experience to base my depictions off of, you know? Which is a terrible idea, because a lot of my characters have dangerous habits. And honestly, I don't want lung cancer, I can't stand the smell of cigarettes, and I've tried like, three puffs of one once before and that's...

Harbour: Spike x Sam

... I get why you ship them though
*totally unbiased cough*

So here's a little something for you Sam/Spike shippers and all patrons in general: thank you for your love and support <3

https://sta.sh/014jhxobut43

Harbour: CCS - Terrance's note

I just had to jot this down real quick, so pardon the sloppy sketches XD
But yeah... 

When I do my character research, I like to do it thoroughly. So, Saunders is Irish, right? He speaks English and American fluently, but he's also bilingual as he speaks Gaelic/Irish as well. He's tried to teach Sam this alas slowly diminishing language, hence why he thought the note was from Sam at first.
But yeah, to do proper research I am learning Gaelic as well :)  I'm not very good at...

Multistreaming with Oaks! :D

Doing a multi-stream with Oaks (https://oaksketch.deviantart.com) on Picarto this evening :D hopefully my wifi stays stable XD :O
Come join in! :D Watch, chat or draw along :D 

Livestream highlights

So, my wifi died on me last night unexpectedly, and before that shit was laggy as heck, so in an attempt to make up for that I'm posting the sketches from last night's livestream session :D

And also seemingly introducing a plausible new character? O3O

Freddie!

Freddie runs the record shop Lillith works at. Despite being Lillith's boss, he acts more like a fellow employee, partaking in the ...

Streaming Online!

Streaming for a little while :D

New milestone goal reached! :D

*Dance of excitement and gratitude* ;D

Our second milestone goal for this patreon page has been reached thanks to you guys <3 

What this milestone goal promised was that the updated version of the first chapters of SPIKE would be published, one per month until we reach where the DeviantART chapters left off, in addition to continuing a few chapters until reaching what would have been the long awaited "Chapter 16"!

Now, I gotta be honest, we reached thi...

Color sketch

Four notebook sketches, top left corner and clockwise: Hedy, Morgan (previously Morrigan), Lillith and Zee.

Zee is the only one who is not in the SPIKE story ;-) 

I drew these to practice more on giving the girls different physiques and figures, because I have long since realised I need way more practice with drawing anatomy, especially on female characters.
I have had this tendency to make them all look sort of the same, either that or very unrealistic. I've still got a lot of p...

Kavan's death

Not even Saunders is without some darkness in his past...

This is young Peter N. C. Saunders at age twelve, expressing his deep disappointment of his previously beloved but often absent father who didn't even show up for the funeral of his eldest son and Peter's older brother; Kavan.

This is also the year before he ran away from his home country for good.

CCS - Father's Day

CCS stands for "crappy comic shorts" which is what I call the comics I sketch out quickly and roughly just to capture a scene or an idea, not necessarily with any context, or effort for that matter :-P

I haven't got much to add to this one, other than I hope it isn't too hard to read it or that the image file is too small? If so let me know and I'll upload a better version :-)


Also thank you all so much for the love and support, pledges and feedback <3 It means a whole lot t...

Follow-up Bonus: Harbour - SaundeLill

In the previous Bonus update I talked about the Saunders x Lillith ship in the Harbour Alternate Universe, and how once upon a time it was in fact canon. I just want to point out real quick (and burst your bubble I guess) that it is no longer the case; this ship is not a part of the current SPIKE version, so henceforth in this post I'll be describing things related to a very old version of this story.

The SPIKE story is one that's been with me since I was fourteen, and naturally it's chan...

Bonus Update! Harbour: SaundeLill

Thanks to Cobain for mentioning the Saunders x Lillith ship in the Hedy x Spike post ;) 

Oddly enough, Saunders/Lillith is one of the oldest ships and stems from long before the Harbour even :-O But back then both the SPIKE story and the Alternate Universes were very, very different from how they are now.

And Saunders x Lillith was - back then - actually canon. Not that they were a couple or anything, but certain circumstances lead Lillith to approach Saunders in ways he was not com...

Harbour A.U.: Spike and Hedy

Some of you may be familiar with the aforementioned Harbour concept, but a brief recap to those you are hearing about it for the first time is that the Harbour is a side-project/alternate universe spawned off of the Spike universe sheerly for fan service and out of character (more or less) non-canon (as far as you know anyhow >u> sorry xD that was mean.. but time will tell I guess? ;) ), where anything can happen and it is all for our own amusement or just a way of passing time and filling...

Schedule

New posts have already been scheduled :-)

February 3rd, 10th, 16th and 23rd will all feature brand new posts and material. Stay tuned ^__^ 

1983

It's been rather quiet from me for a while now, but January has been a month filled with major changes in my personal life and I have had to focus on starting my life all over, sort of.

So I don't have any new material at the moment, however I still have lots of "old" material that is still new to you guys ;)

The last drawing I showed you guys was of Charles, with some hints towards his time in prison.

So I figured I might as well continue on that note, but speeding into Charles'...

SPIKE progress - some statistics

I have done most of my digital SPIKE-related writings in a program called Scrivener over the past two years, because organising individual documents in folders and external harddrives with countless backups all over the place was just... horrible to try and keep track of. With Scrivener I can keep it all in one file that organises it beautifully for me, sort of.

My main Scrivener file is based around the second draft of SPIKE, not including older files from the years before that because most o...