The crazy idea to write a story about a match, or a lucifer as we say in dutch, came to me years ago.
I don’t know what sparked the idea in my head, maybe it was a drawing I made for someones birthday card with lots of brightly burning candles and a couple of smoldering burnt out matchsticks lying under the cake stand and wondering how many matches does it take to light 25, 55, 60 birthday candles and could one super match do it in one go?
Continue reading The Lucky Lucifer matches story
When Heske saw in ‘Drawing Your Own Child-part two’ the drawings her father Herwolt van Doornen had made of her as a child she commented “…is ‘drawing your parent’ coming up next? I gotta get in on that.”
Continue reading Drawing Your Own Parent – part one…
After my blog on June 15th – Drawing your own child – I was curious, from all the posted comments, if my fellow illustrators had experienced similar problems to me in drawing their own children, so I asked them:
‘Did you draw your own children when they were growing up and were your children an inspiration or daunting because you felt you just couldn’t quite capture them?’
Here are their answers – but more importantly some very beautiful drawings and artwork that my colleagues made of their kids growing up!
Continue reading Drawing your own Child – Part 2
My pregnant daughter was being drawn by a colleague at a book presentation this weekend and when she was asked if I’d also made lots of drawings of her she answered, much to my embarrassment… ‘NO!’
I tried to explain to everybody that I had made some sketches of her when she was a child, but I still felt terribly guilty that I hadn’t been more productive when she was little, seizing the opportunity of recording those precious childhood years of my only child.
Continue reading Drawing your own child
‘It’s Another Day’ is a digital sketch book, note pad and diary, filled with anything and everything that I see and that comes into my head…. sound familiar?
(read more about me on About It’s Another Day info.)
I hope you will come and visit my weblog often and leave comments, as it is great to get lots of feedback!
I’ll try and post regularly, maybe every day, maybe every other day but if not today then definitely… another day!
