Ask Renee Hoekstra discussion

I always get a chuckle out of the "Himalayas not drawn to size" on page 104. I remember coming up with this idea one night when I woke up around 2-3 AM and couldn't sleep. I was thinking of ideas for the book, so I spent a lot of that time doing some brainstorming.

I am also quite pleased about the chapter on getting "unstuck" from beneath an elephant's foot. I got a lot of feedback from mentors about how this chapter originally did not do the concept justice.

Sometimes, too, after drawing or painting a picture I am really tickled by how it turned out. One of those drawings was the guy running with the air pump (page 114) and one of those paintings the cartoon elephant under a magnifying glass (page 26).

If you are an artist you might related to having a concept in your mind but not really *knowing* what it will look like until you've got it in front of you. Sometimes you are really discouraged by what you are trying to do, but then other times you are pleasantly surprised.