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Check out these books! (Not mine!)

Posted on by Standard 1

Hey, I know I have the two maze books, and I have posted before about a lot of other maze artists, but I know some other people who are authors too! Check out these books if they hit your interest.

R.C. Wagner (Some of you may also know him as Dirtbag Rob, drummer of AiXeLsyD!)

Joseph Hedden Jr. (A great friend and a perfect pastor!)

Evelyn Price (Anyone remember Sing the Evens, Play the Odds? She was a killer frontwoman!)

Misfit Escobar (We’ve been dudes on the internet via Misfits forums for a few decades now!)

Mark Berton (Local friend & professional writer!)

Also, I have been following Blythe Books on Threads and you should totally check out that store!

I apologize if I know you well and missed your stuff. Drop your books in the comments and I will totally update this post or make another one!

Check out these other maze artists!

Posted on by Standard 3

I have been slowly working on mazes for a second book, and contemplating how to compile my stack of older ones for a third. (Some of which have definitely ended up here over the years.)

I didn’t include solutions in my first book, as they are very small and relatively easy to navigate… and I was in a rush to kind of test the process and see how the KDP model of print-on-demand publishing worked.

I reached out recently on Reddit & Facebook to solicit advice on solving mazes, and got some great insight. (Check out r/mazes on reddit if you’re so inclined, there is a bunch of cool stuff!)

I learned that I draw perhaps a little more chaotic than some of my forward-thinking fellow maze artists. I generally keep a bunch of open paths from each end, then connect them. Sometimes, what I thought was an open path… is apparently not. I even just recently learned that at least one of my mazes in my first book is impassable – oops! 🤣

@aixelsyd13

Like mazes? I like to watch others do their art, so I thought I’d share this. #AiXeLsyD13 #Maze #Mazes #Drawing #LineArt #PenAndInk #BlackAndWhite #labyrinth #art

♬ Hocus Pocus – Focus

I plan to do better with this next book, to make sure all the mazes are passable, and to include the solutions. If you have any advice for a guy that doesn’t absolutely love solving mazes to solve his own mazes, please drop it here in the comments!

In my solicitation for advice, I realized that I have been seeing a lot of fantastic work by other people over the last few decades, and not sharing any of it. Here I will rectify that. Please, check out the following!

Check out these artists on Instagram too:

That’s a super random & not complete list. Please, let me know in the comments who we should all be checking out, especially if it’s you & your projects!