October 2021 — round up of posts

Here is quick master list of the October blog posts (not including Patreon posts).

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

• September 2021 — round up of posts
• *Observation Journal — Getting meta with story shapes (turning narrative theories into plots, and inventing new philosophies)
• This Saturday! Festival of Cancelled Events at Avid Reader (done now, went wonderfully)
• Mystery 101 sketches
• *Observation Journal: In-world surface patterns (swapping the decorations of fairy tales, written and drawn)
• Cat sketches
• Sneak peek: Mirrors and clocked stockings
• Mother Thorn: The Special Edition (very beautiful, and available to be bought)
• Observation Journal: Industrial Fabulism (describing a style/mode of approaching machinery in writing/art)
• Books read, things seen — August 2021
• All the Murmuring Bones — limited edition (book cover reveal)
• Mother Thorn Process Post (lots of pictures)
• Map process: Amira and Hamza (even more pictures)
• Amira & Hamza — An interview with Samira Ahmed!
• On getting maps into books: An interview with Karina Granda (in which we interview each other)
• TV sketching: Shakespeare & Hathaway
• November 2021 Calendar — Chickens

Posts over on Patreon, at various tiers, included: updates on the next book-in-progress, a gaudy Dalek, early glimpses of stationery, more Observation Journal pages, advance looks at interviews, and early access to the calendar.

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).

S1E3: “This Promised End”