A little over eight years ago we had this gut-wrenching day, where I wasn’t sure if my eight-year-old daughter would make it to adulthood. Well, today she turned 17 and she’s just fine.
She’s shy and so I don’t want to post a picture of her. So here is something she drew today:
Addendum: I feel old. Also, my wife was 17 when we met. So this age feels a little weird.
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So glad to hear your daughter’s A-OK. Also, that’s a great drawing there. I’m in Intermediate Drawing and I can tell you, that’s beyond what most of my class can produce.
Happy birthday, Rachel.
The drawing is wonderful, too.
:)
I’m so happy for you. Congratulations on raising someone, it sounds crazy. I hope my wife and I can do as well as you.
Happy birthday Rachel. Well done on the drawing and on reaching 17!
Happy Birthday Rachel.
Wow, I did not know that. I’ve only started following you here about the time you finished doing Stolen Pixels. Well, a year after that, actually, when I discovered DM of the Rings and found out “Hey! This is the same guy who did Stolen Pixels!” It didn’t help that for about a year I thought your website didn’t exist anymore because of some bizarre permission issues that didn’t allow me to access the site from my IP.
I had had a similar near-death situation when I was 9 years old. I was visiting my mother’s side of the family on the northern side of my country, when my family did a little trip to a village that pretty much belongs to that part of my family. There I got, I kid you not, Radiation Poisoning. Apparently the US extracted a lot of Uranium from the sand of the region in the 50s and 60s (something it did without my government knowing there was uranium there, but I digress), and to this day there’s traces of Uranium in the water there. The people there seems to be naturally resistant, or I’m just naturally susceptible to radiation poisoning, but the thing is I spent 4 days at a hospital vomiting anything that was put in my stomach. From meat to even water.
Everyone always told me I was going to be fine, of course. It was only in my teens that I realized just how close I was to meet the reaper back then. And of course, to this day I flat out refuse to go back to that village whenever I go north.
I don’t know. People tell me that sharing similar experiences allow people to cope with bad experiences. So here. Live long and prosper, Rachel. And try to avoid drinking the water if you’re ever in the Northeastern corner of Brazil.
Happy birthday, Ms. Young. Keep up the good hair, that little extra added detail in the weight and line of the strands makes a world of difference.
Great. Great! Now I’m thinking about TressFX again.
I’m gonna go drink myself to death.
mildly uninteresting facts about the Kreek and Birthdays
a few days ago was my birthday (Jan 13 to be exact)
i turned 30
i am now half my mothers age
i am a wizard
conclusion: i fail at life
Other: Happy Birthday to Rachel
Good Luck to Shamus :)
Damn, she has talent.
Happy Birthday Rachel! You have talent.
Happy Birthday Rachel! It turns out that you share a birthday with my best friend. Many happy returns.
Where can we see more of your art?
Good Christ, that hair is amazing!
Bad ass.
Happy Birthday, Rachel. Wishing you many more birthdays and beautiful drawings in the future :)
Shamus, that was then ans this or now, or was now, I mean… *sigh* time is so elusive, here is a clip from Spaceballs The Movie.
Congratulations, Rachel! That is a really cool, well-done drawing.
Congratulations to you and your wife as well, Shamus. :)
Time for celebration! Happy birthday.
My wife and I celebrated our sons first birthday yesterday too, so I’m certain that it’ll feel like a blink of an eye and he’ll be 17 too.
Happy birthday, and, wow, that is really well done picture!
May all your foes be stampeded by piglets.
Happy belated Birthday Rachel. As an artist with a metric ton of experience, let me just say you have a great deal of talent. I hope you enjoyed your day yesterday, and will enjoy it today!
For your birthday, I give to you some of my envy, which you have earned for your artistic talent.
Happy Birthday Rachel!
The drawing is really good. Proper flow of the hair is not an easy thing to pull off. Will we get to see more drawings?
Happy Birthday Rachel. Beautiful Drawing.
That’s an *amazing* picture. She has real talent and I hope she cultivates it for the rest of her (long) life.
Hope she had a happy birthday! Drawing is cool.
As someone who likes to draw I love seeing people develop talent at it. Happy birthday to Rachel and I think more awesome art should be posted on this site (nothing wrong with a proud parent show boating a little)
Everything you’ve told me about Rachel has made me believe she’s a smart and wonderful girl. I hope she had a nice birthday! 17 is such a weird age to be alive, but there’s so many good things on the horizon.
Happy birthday to Rachel, as others have said, that drawing is pretty great.
Also, happy unbirthday to the rest of the Young family. Because, who likes feeling left out on a holiday? :)
That is a great drawing.
Happy Birthday, Rachel!
And yes, this is a very nice drawing indeed! (My daughter – as of yesterday – has started to make circles for eyes, instead of poking points on the paper.)
I have been drawing for 22 years, and I don’t think I’ll ever draw hair that awesome.