For the parents when the child decides to choose one of his parents' profession is the ultimate proud moment. Though for most of the parents this happens in a later stage of life, when the child is all grown up but for a professional illustrator Mica Angela Hendricks this proud moment came a bit too early.

It happened so that one day Mica bought herself a new sketchbook that she had especially ordered, she had just drawn a lady's face that her 4-year old daughter noticed that her mother had got a new sketchbook for herself and asked her if she could also draw on it. When Mica told her that she was going to draw a body on the lady's face, her daughter insisted if she could do that, she grabbed a pen, took the sketchbook from her mother and gave that lady's face a dinosaur-like body which was beautiful and carefree. And that's how this artistic collaboration began.

Mica would draw a face and her 4-year old daughter would complete the sketch by drawing the body. Once the sketch is ready, Mica would add color, highlights and texture, giving it the final touch. The best thing about these sketches is that neither Mica nor her daughter knows what's the sketch is going to be about.

On her blog - The Busy Mockingbird Mica shares, "Sometimes I would give her suggestions, like "maybe she could have a dragon body!" but usually she would ignore theses suggestions if it didn't fit in with what she already had in mind. But since I am a grownup and a little bit (okay a lot) of a perfectionist, I sometimes would have a specific idea in mind as I doodled my heads. Maybe she could make this into a bug! I'd think happily to myself as I sketched, imagining the possibilities of what it could look like. So later, when she'd doodle some crazy shape that seemed to go in some surrealistic direction, or put a large circle around the creature and filled the WHOLE THING in with marker, part of my brain would think, What is she DOING?!? She's just scribbling it all up! But I should know that in most instances, kids' imaginations way outweigh a grownup's, and it always ALWAYS looked better that what I had imagined. ALWAYS."

Here are some of our favorite sketches from this artistic collaboration. Have a look:








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