November 2021 — round up of posts

Mother Thorn process posts

Here is quick master list of the November blog posts (not including Patreon posts). This was an exciting month, in which my computer AND brakes died, but I still managed to finish the second draft of a book(?!).

Mother Thorn sketches

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.

• October 2021 — round up of posts
• World Fantasy Convention 2021 — where I’ll (virtually) be — which is to say, where I virtually was
• Some trees to be lost in — a map-planning sketch
• Observation Journal: Notes on Kim Scott’s “Taboo” — things to learn and run with
• *Observation journal — some less common points of view
• Process Post: Mother Thorn internal illustrations — lots of art and process
• Ditmar Awards open for voting — three nominations! (voting now closed and awards announced)
• Fairy tales and silhouettes: An interview with Juliet Marillier — in which we interview each other, with many more sketches
• Ditmar Awards: Flyaway and Mother Thorn
• *Observation Journal: Mixing and matching stories and imagery — using the textures and motifs from one story to adjust another
• *Observation Journal — much-used words and symbolism — unpacking what I mean by the words I use too often
• Science Write Now #5: Illustration and Illumination — featuring several observation journal posts!
• Celebrating Mother Thorn — online on 1 December 2021 — now available to rewatch here
• Books read, things seen — September 2021
• December 2021 Calendar — the mail — including art process

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Posts over on Patreon, at various tiers, included: seaside photographs for desktop backgrounds, printable chicken stationery, early access to the interview with Juliet above, more observation journal pages, updates on a graphic novel project (in its very early days), a tiny tigerish story, a nocturnal Dalek, a larger hi-res colouring version of the December calendar art, and stationery motifs drawn from that art, as well as early access to the calendar.

Colour and texture layers from the December 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).

A snippet. I’m gradually stockpiling Daleks again — they’ll escape containment eventually.