April post round-up

A quick summary of the March blog posts (not including Patreon posts).

The starred posts have variants on art and writing exercises and games I often use (tags: writing exercise, art exercise) art and writing activities (although, since many of the other posts are about process anyway, you can use them as the basis for activities.

• March post round-up
• Tor.com post: Illustrating Flyaway: Kathleen Jennings on Creating Art and Prose Together
• Sketch as sketch can (sketchbook)
• Cover art process: Welcome to the Bitch Bubble
• *Sketching the people glimpsed from the corner of your eye (sketching people without people)
• *A discovery of headstrong, obstinate girls (or: simple time-travel) (a Regency version of the above) — with activities
• Hundreds of dear little lines (sketches to build up project)
• *This is not a deck of cards (tropes and process) — with activities
• Tiny story: Hunters
• Sketching with words (keeping written visual notes)
• *Beyond the main event — experiments with sketching — with activities
• *The Key to All Mythologies (or: cultivating spurious links) (inventing connections to build stories) — with activities
• Swiss Army Spider (elaborating on the previous)
• Flyaway Cover Comparison (notes on the US vs Australian covers)
• *Bad Cover Versions (ill-advised book pitches as a way to test ideas) — with activities
• Sketching adventures (more sketching without people)
• Beginning sketches: The Tallow-Wife (a sneak peek of a new project for Angela Slatter)
• Bookmarks & remarks (making bookmarks, and taking notes)
• Small projects and tiny unicorns (some slight fantastic silhouettes)
• Ducks in times that try the soul (Sayers and ducks)
• *When in doubt, make lists (and shuffle them) (ways to rearrange what you already know) — with activities
• Clockwork Angel
• Flyaway in Library Journal (starred review!)
• Reference skulls
• Sketches and notes: their purpose
• Reviews of Flyaway — Michael Dodd
• Reference as it finds you
• “The treasure islands were his desired landfall” (a shopping trolley escapes)
• May unicorns (the calendar)