2021 Art — an incomplete survey

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An illustration from one of the illustrated stories for certain supporters on patreon.com/tanaudel

This post is a non-exhaustive round-up of this year’s art — projects published, projects completed, things I can’t show or can only discuss indirectly, and so on. Images link to posts, where they exist. (For writing, see 2021 Writing Update.)

It’s quite long, because of the images, so if you’re reading on the blog, the rest is below this cut:

Spread of three copies of The Tallow-Wife, on top of bubble wrap. The first is open to the story "Embers and Ash", with a drawing of a ship half-sunk in a cliff. The second has its dust jacket on. The third shows the foil-and-purple cover design on the boards under the cover.
Angela Slatter’s The Tallow Wife was published
4 photos of a hand holding silhouette elements: spider and web, cogs among geraniums, old-fashioned car, skull
Cassandra Clare’s Chain of Iron special edition illustrations published
Chapter header designs (1 per book) for Holly Black’s The Curse Workers trilogy
A book cover, with writing in Hebrew. The background is red, the writing is white, and a large silhouette image of a bear with trees and figures on its head (dogs, ghosts, girls, a comet) form the main image.
Cover for Frances Hardinge’s A Skinful of Shadows
All the Murmuring Bones limited edition cover art
Map for Samira Ahmed’s Amira & Hamza: The War to Save the Worlds
Front cover of magazine in brown, blue, and yellow: T, shears, moon, tortoise, rabbit, mayfly, girl with flag, I, swallow, M, shark, acorn, comet, pomegranate, rakali, E
WQ Magazine cover
Final four Corella Press covers (the main design was completed a few years ago)
Corella cover art
Special edition of Juliet Marillier’s Mother Thorn published
Tiny black-line drawing with dashes of blue and yellow marker. People stand in front of paper on the wall. One says "Tron motorcycle system. Fireworks - pew pew pew pew"
Defence Innovation Bridge sketching
Sketching at the Next Library Camp
Pencil and watercolour drawing of a long hairy arm and clutching clawed hand reaching towards a red spinning-top.
Illustration for “On Pepper Creek” published
Sticker of skull crowned by strawberries, with a coin in its eyesocket.
Stickers for Light Grey art swap (with a tiny story on the back)
TV sketches
All the 2021 calendar pages
A variety of printable stationery for patrons on patreon.com/tanaudel
12 new Daleks — I’m stockpiling them, they’ll escape containment eventually.
Playing around with tiny comics on for patreon.com/tanaudel
White card with a black cut-paper silhouette of a dragon holding a ring of keys that spell "BEN"
Family birthday cards
Illustrations for Shayna and Joel Kite’s invitation and card
Silhouette pen drawing of mermaid reading a book.
One of only a few Mermay drawings, this year
Other tiny tests & examples on patreon.com/tanaudel

And much other art, including:

  • Many, many observation journal drawings
  • Twelve-ish tiny illustrated stories and comics for supporters on patreon
  • Sketches, test patches, etc for future illustration, picture book and comic projects
  • Sketchbook generally, when it was possible to leave the house
  • Bookplates
  • Two more maps (forthcoming)
  • Illustrations for a privately published book
  • Cover art for a reprint of a novel to be announced

4 thoughts on “2021 Art — an incomplete survey”

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