Choose a route that interests you.
The planner offers six stops and room for up to four in one fieldbook. Start with a place whose colour or shape catches your eye. Add another, then use “Move earlier” or “Move later” to change the order. Selecting a landmark again removes it.
The two suggested routes are starting points. “Coast to lanterns” connects the headland, falls and evening quay. “A colour journey” moves from the lolly grove through the orange harbour to the berry hollow. You can replace, reverse or clear either suggestion.
Look at three different distances.
First, notice the whole shape of the picture. Then follow one path through it: a shoreline, a string of lamps or a row of stepping stones. Finally, choose a small detail that would be easy to miss. These three distances give your drawing somewhere to begin.
Try making three marks rather than a complete drawing: one broad shape, one travelling line and one small detail. They may say more about the scene than a page filled with equally important objects.
Set time for drawing, not for travel.
The slider allows five to thirty minutes at each stop in five-minute steps. The planner multiplies that time by the number of stops. If you choose pauses, it adds three minutes between each pair of stops.
For example, three stops at ten minutes each, with two pauses, give a thirty-six-minute creative session. There is no pause before the first stop or after the last. These suggestions do not measure real distances, terrain or travel.
Keep what you want to remember.
Give the fieldbook a title and add a short note if you like. “Keep my fieldbook” downloads a plain-text file containing your ordered stops, drawing prompts, suggested time and notes. Your browser handles the download; no account or server copy is created.
Refreshing or leaving the page clears the working route. Save a local copy first if it matters to you. You can still explore every picture and read every prompt without using the planner.