Blue Bard

First illustration I’ve completed in over a week. I am starting to add more complexity and work over multiple sittings.

I pulled back a bit from the purely abstract pursuit to something that is more-reliable for me, construction-based character illustrations. But once I had the rough composition done, I thought, well, maybe I could do some abstract stuff in the background. I’m pretty happy with the result.

I’d like to create the abstraction with maybe a bit more unifying intention about the theme of what the abstraction should be or perhaps story elements that I can weave into it. This was very much just whatever I drew, but in the future I want to find a way to hone that ability to direct the abstraction and integrate it into the story of the illustration more.

2026 04Apr 14 Blue Bard, nathanparkinson.com