March 2021 — round-up of posts

Sketches from a gallery

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

Sketches from a workshop

The starred posts have variants on art and writing exercises and games (tags: writing exercise, art exercise), and the observation journal posts generally can be adapted for those purposes too.

• February 2021 — round-up of posts
• * Observation Journal — Paired points (on finding both sides of issues to work on)
• * Observation journal — practical application (on adjusting for habits, and using them as springboards)
• Crawford Award finalists (including Flyaway!)
• Sketching once more (sketching out and about)
• Observation Journal: Work at Play (leaving time to tinker)
• The tiniest things (drawing very small)
• Chain of Iron (with illustrations) — NYT bestseller
• * Observation Journal: Do it for the aesthetic (on how far an aesthetic can drive an idea)
• Observation Journal — do it for the aesthetic #2 (as above, with more pictures)
• * Sketchbook colours: blue and gold (on limiting colours)
• Map illustration workshop — 19 June 2021
• Heyer has arrived! (book post)
• * Observation Journal — do it for the aesthetic #3 (mixing and matching aesthetic/genre/mood)
• April Calendar: silver and gold

Posts over on Patreon, at various tiers, included a mood map of a work in progress, several tests towards an art style for a comic project, some week-by-week collected observation journal pages, a drawing hack, sneak peeks of silhouette dragons and workshop sketches, printable stationery, and advance notice of the calendar and some other ideas. Oh, and a seven page comic for those at the story level.

Tiny panel detail from the Patreon comic

Note: If you’d like to support art and writing and posts like these about it, patrons at (patreon.com/tanaudel) get behind-the-scenes process and sneak-peeks, starting from US$1, or you could buy me a (virtual) coffee or two at ko-fi.com/tanaudel (and I get through quite a bit of coffee).