Canadian Artist Gets Extra For Her 30th Birthday

You may not have heard about Daryl Januszewski, a now 30-year-old graphic artist and illustrator in Alberta, Canada. To cope with leaving her 20s forever, she made 30 individual 'snapshots' of each year of her life, many are drawn by hand, and the rest are digital edits.

Age 1

Daryl Januszewski

1988/89 with mum.

Age 2

Daryl Januszewski

1989/90, with Grams.

Age 3

Daryl Januszewski

1990/91, sketch from a photo.

Age 4

Daryl Januszewski

1991/92. Digital self-portrait as favorite character of the time.

Age 5

Daryl Januszewski

1992/93; drawn in coloring book style.

Age 6

Daryl Januszewski

1993/94, edited school picture. Ugly clothes were cool then.

Age 7

Daryl Januszewski

1994/95. Digital photo edit.

Age 8

Daryl Januszewski

1995/96 - edit of Daryl playing outside; addressed to 'Doug'.

Age 9

Daryl Januszewski

1996/97; a style Daryl used to draw in around that age.

Age 10

Daryl Januszewski

1997/98. Sailor Moon had recently been released in Canada and became an obsession for young girls then. Daryl in her Sailor Moon costume.

Age 11

Daryl Januszewski

1998/99. A trippy digital edit based on the zodiac sign Pisces.

Age 12

Daryl Januszewski

1999/2000. Daryl was teased in school for bad hair.

Age 13

Daryl Januszewski

2000/01: Mum's nightmare - a teenager!

Age 14

Daryl Januszewski

2001/02 - a selfie on 35mm film, kissing a vintage ALF doll.

Age 15

Daryl Januszewski

2002/03 - a pencil crayon sketch from a photo, after surgery on her left thumb to remove a cancerous tumor.

Age 16

Daryl Januszewski

2003/04 - A blue rose for the Sweet 16 Girl.

Age 17

Daryl Januszewski

2004/05 - being very extra with Christmas gifts!

Age 18

Daryl Januszewski

2005/06 - photo edit from high school graduation. Another blue rose.

Age 19

Daryl Januszewski

2006/07 - Another film selfie, just before starting to use digital photography.

Age 20

Daryl Januszewski

2007/08. Digital self-portrait.

Age 21

Daryl Januszewski

2008/09 - drawn after meeting true love and husband Rob.

Age 22

Daryl Januszewski

2009/10. Self-drawing while being in love.

Age 23

Daryl Januszewski

2010/11. Wedding collage.

Age 24

Daryl Januszewski

2011/12. Former Avon lady Daryl did a cover for a pretend magazine for former customers. Not good at looking serious.

Age 25

Daryl Januszewski

2012/13. Over-the-top Hello Kitty costume.

Age 26

Daryl Januszewski

2013/14. Another coloring book-style image of self.

Age 27

Daryl Januszewski

2014/15 - After seeing this hit Disney film, Daryl made herself as emotions, in a digital illustration with awkward wording.

Age 28

Daryl Januszewski

2015/16 - during a year-long art project dubbed Kawaii365, she drew herself in an anime style for one of the daily projects.

Age 29

Daryl Januszewski

2016/17. Taken by husband at family event, and edited with age.

Age 30

Daryl Januszewski

2017/18. An abstract digital 'selfie', perhaps a celebration of the new decade.