Margreet de Heer's Blog, page 19

Small Summer Philosophies #1

DRAWING

What do I do for a living? I’m a drawer. Funny word that. Makes me imagine small furniture.

But there’s more to the word “drawing”. It also means “to bring, take, or pull out; to bring toward oneself, as by inherent force or influence”.

I’ve been drawing professionally for over ten years now, and one of the biggest breakthroughs for me was when I realized I had to visualize the thing I wanted to draw before putting pencil to paper. The more detailed I imagined it, the better the drawing....

Thoughts about Blogging and Marriage

Since I started this blog, I’m paying more attention to other bloggers and the choices they make. There are promotional blogs, ranting blogs, look-at-our-kids-blogs, look-at-our-cats-blogs. Blogs with endearing content in gruesome, flashy designs, with or without soundtracks. Blogs with superficial content in very slick layouts.And ever since Blogging became all the rage, there is an increasing amount ofstrandedblogs.

Blogs have lifespans. A blog like this, essentially started to help sell my...

The Trilogy Part Three

‘Philosophy: a Discovery in Comics’ is actually the first of three books I’ve made in the past three years. The second was on Religion, and the third one is on Science. This third one is now in the last stages of being finished and will come out in Dutch around the same time the Philosophy-book will be published in the US. Right now, I’m wrapping things up and starting to think about the upcoming promotion.

This is the cover of the Dutch ‘Wetenschappen in Beeld’:

With a bit of luck, it will als...