omputer for his work, which is designed to resemble 

oil painting.[2][3] Initially,
he attempted to use various physical media to mimic a more traditional style,
including gouache. Even after switching to digital methods, he has stated that
he puts "a lot of effort into making the digital brushes behave naturally and
preserve a certain amount of 'handwriting' in the brush strokes." The majority
of his work is based on pre-existing photographs that he takes; these are then
used as a starting point for a number of rough sketches before the final work
is completed.[5]
Books[edit]
Most of Stålenhag's artwork was initially available online, before later being
released for sale as prints.[9][4] Since then, it has been turned into two narrative
art books: Tales from the Loop (Swedish Ur Varselklotet) in 2014 and Things
from the Flood (Swedish Flodskörden) in 2016. Both focus on the
construction of a supermassive particle accelerator called the Loop.[10]
More recently, Stålenhag has covered the western United States in a third
artbook, The Electric State,[11] which was also crowdfunded via Kickstarter.[9] It
is centered around a girl and her robotic companion traversing the fictional
state of Pacifica.[12] Simon & Schuster published the UK edition in September
2018, and Skybound Books published a North American edition the following
month.[13] The Electric State (the Simon & Schuster edition) was one out of six
finalists for the Arthur C. Clarke Award in 2019.[14] Also in 2019, the Skybound
edition was shortlisted for the Art Book category of the Locus Award.[15]
Stålenhag's fourth art book, The Labyrinth, was announced in late 2020. As
with his previous books, a crowdfunding campaign was run on Kickstarter to
fund its printing and distribution.[16]
Adaptations[edit]
In 2016, a Kickstarter campaign was launched to fund a tabletop role-playing
game called Tales from the Loop, based on the book of the same name;[9] Set
in the 1980s and in either the United States or Sweden, players roleplay as a
group of teenagers dealing with the impact of the Loop; this focus on
nostalgia and young protagonists meant multiple media outlets compared it to
the TV series Stranger Things.[17][18] Different classes of characters are
equivalent to stereotypical childhood roles, for example, "Jock", "Bookworm",
or "Computer Geek".
An English-language television series, Tales from the Loop, produced
by Amazon Studios in conjunction with Fox 21 Television Studios, Indio Film,
and 6th & Idaho Moving for Amazon Prime, was released in its entirety on 3
April 2020, and adapts elements from Stålenhag's narrative art books.[19] The
initial season comprises eight episodes of 50–57 minutes each. All
screenplays were written by Nathaniel Halpern, while each episode had a
unique director from a diverse pool, including Mark Romanek, Andrew
Stanton, and Jodie Foster.[20][21]
The movie rights for The Electric State were sold to the Russo brothers in
2017, and plans for an adaptation were most recently confirmed in 2019.
[22] Slated to direct and produce are It: Chapter One and Chapter

Two creators Andy Muschietti and Barbara Muschietti, respectively.[23]