Jack Draws Anything

A few weeks back, Jack received a nice email from another Jack (lets call him Other Jack to save confusion), one with a very interesting name!

My name is Jack Henderson Graham and I am 7 years old. I live with my mum dad and my big brother and sister in a little village in central Scotland called Muckhart.

I am in primary 3 at Dollar Academy and our teacher Mrs Letford has asked us all to give our classmates a talk about an artist and mine is on 15 March. My mum told me about the pictures you did to raise money for the hospital your little brothers went to. I would really love to tell my friends all about you and was wondering if you could tell me some interesting things about yourself. I was also wondering if you had time if you could please draw a picture for my project that I could raffle or auction for the Sick Kids hospital when I have finished my project.

So Jack answered all of the questions posed to him by Other Jack and he has finally gotten round to doing your drawing. Jack hopes you like it and he was feeling a little bit naughty so he drew other Other Jack on the roof!

For reference, here is a picture of Dollar Academy.

Related Links

• Jack Meets Jack Thanks to ‘An Artist I Like’ Project

Jack would like to declare his new website officially OPEN!

Return of the Jack

After three months of hard work and late nights, Jack and his Dad have (just in time) been able to launch the second version of Jack’s website. It is still available at the same address — jackdrawsanything.com.

The boys managed to transplant most of the old website, over to its new home before the 30 April deadline. The old website ran on blogging platform Posterous (it was recently bought out by Twitter and closed down).

Jack & Dad had to move over 800+ pages of content, 2000 images and rewrite lots of stuff. They also had to come up with a whole new website design (as the original template was no longer available).

Sticking closely to the original website style, Jack and Dad incorporated more of Jack’s drawings into the new theme and hopefully made it a bit more fun, with more of Jack’s personality shining through.

All of the parts of the site were hand–drawn by Jack and incorporated by web developer Dad Ed.

The site should be a little faster, easier to maintain AND work a lot better on mobile/smaller devices.

There are still a few loose ends to tidy up so if you find any issues at all, please let us know.

Thank You

Jack and his Dad would like to say a big THANK YOU to all the folks who helped test the new website before the launch (in no particular order):

• Dean O’Dinosaur
• Iain “Mosh” Purdie
• Gavin Elliott
• Paul James
• Lynne Fettes
• Liz Howard
• Melanie Russell
• Lesley Smith
• Lucy Wilde
• Kat Pollitt
• Sally French
• Natasha Kemp
• Peter Williams
• Rose Henderson
• Toby Henderson
• Noah Henderson
• Joy Fraser
• Jackie Chapman
• Ailsa Wylie
• Debbie Saunderson
• Jane Dobson
• Vic & Max Rickis
• Simon Beckett
• Will Scurrell
• Carys Wheeler
• Martin Drinkwater
• Jo Flaherty
• Susie Elins
• Claire Holbrook
• Kevin Feely
• Anne Willicombe
• Lynne Fettes
• Mark Hodgson
• Jennie Atkinson
• Lynne Fettes
• Aidan Convery
• Gavin McLaughlin
• Chloe Gilder
• Lisa Walch
• Rowena Coulthard
• Lee Tennant
• Victoria Young
• Mark Rogers & SortSite – Web Site Testing Tool
• Haggistech
• exiledred
• Elizabeth Tassell
• Claire Cornwall
• Laura Jones
• Claire Wilcock
• Jamie Graham
• Sue Jones
• Fiona Bullen
• Derek Wilkie
• Kerensa Smith
• George Starkey
• Laird Orion Osiris of Glencairn
• Kat Moss
• Michelle Muirhead

We really appreciate the help and we hope EVERYONE likes the new site.

As you may or may not know, Jack’s website runs on the very popular blogging platform, Posterous.

As of 30 April 2013, Posterous will be totally shutting down due to their recent purchase by Twitter.

Since the announcement in February, Jack and his Dad have been hard–at–work, moving and building a brand–new home for Jack’s drawings, one that doesn’t rely on Posterous.

Jack Draws Anything has over 700 pages so it has proven to be a mammoth task but we believe its almost done, we have tried to make it more awesome with new design and features. Jack has been involved in every stage and we are all happy its a great new site which retains the fun, colours and spirit of the first version but with a little more oomph.

We need your help!

We need some help with testing the new website.

We are looking for about 10 volunteers who would be able to spend a couple of hours over the next couple weeks testing the new website on their computers, laptops and mobile devices. Looking for errors, typos and bugs.

I am afraid we are unable to pay anyone for their time but as a thank you we will make sure your name is forever included on our new THANK YOU page and we will be eternally grateful.

If you would like to help, please email us with your details. Thank you.

Jack and his family visited a very artistic and inspirational place last weekend. They headed North on the 101 from their Californian home to Santa Rosa in Sonoma County.

They were visiting the Schulz Museum. This is a place dedicated to the life and work of Charles M. Schulz, a fantastic and dedicated artist (did you know he produced a comic strip every day?).

If you are not familiar with the name, you will definitely be familiar with some of his creations, Charlie Brown, Peanuts, Woodstock, Linus, Lucy, Peppermint Patty and of course Snoopy.

Jack, Toby & Noah (and Mum & Dad) had a fantastic time. seeing all of the drawings, toys, exhibits, history, displays, movies and statues. There is even an ice rink, garden, theatre (showing Peanuts on loop), Labyrinth maze in the shape of Snoopy, the cafe where Sparky (nickname for Charles M. Schulz) used to visit (its called the Warm Puppy Cafe) and an amazing gift shop.

Jack really liked seeing the drawings (when you looked closely at his colouring–in you could see the lines) and his many sketches. Jack also saw how Charles worked (and WHERE he worked as there is a replica of his office where he drew for many years).

Jack and his brothers even had their own go at their own Peanuts artwork in a special kids art room at the Museum.

The whole family had an awesome time and will be going back in the Summer. If you are ever in the area, we urge you to check it out.

Jack wanted to do a picture for Charles M. Schulz since he is “so awesome’ (even though he died in 2000). Jack decided upon a dancing Scottish Snoopy wearing a kilt (Henderson tartan of course).

Jack received an email from Burnbrae Primary School (Primary 7 class), back in Scotland. They had been following Jack on Twitter and had seen his appearance on the Pride of Britain Awards.

They had ran an Apprentice topic in class which involved four groups to organise/market/undertake stalls for the school Christmas Coffee Morning. Each group was given a £10 start up investment and could use this as they saw fit to make profit. The profits are going to be used for the end of year treat.

As part of this they discussed the topic of philanthropy and discussed how it would be nice to give some money to charity. Jack’s name came up in class. The groups agreed on a 10% donation from their profits (in exchange for a drawing of course).

At the end, they had raised £133.70, so the class have decided to donate £13.37 to Jack Draws Anything.

Everyone here at Jack Draws Anything thinks what you have done is awesome, so kind to donate some of your profits to charity. THANK YOU!

Jack really liked drawing your Scotland bus as it reminded him of home and he is very happy at your fundraising support.

Jack’s picture arrives safely in Scotland

Jack posted his picture to the Primary 7 class in Scotland. Here they are, delighted with their 100% authentic Jack drawing!