JuliaGraceArts

Guten Abend Devlings! I'm pretty sure most of you know about Neil Gaiman's Calendar of Tales project since it popped up in the contests in my inbox. I've been following it since Neil was asking questions on Twitter. I love the whole project idea and how interactive and collaborative it is. I'm hoping to submit some artwork to the project (assuming I can get it done in the next 14 days! Ahh!!) and drew up some concept sketches. I posted them on my blog tonight, so I thought I'd share them over here. You can read the full blog entry here. February Tale July Tale Both are concepts for sculpture. The sky-whale is going to be a needle felt woo

Hello Devlings! Today I'm featuring some of the work on dA that really inspires me. Each piece really makes me want to go *do* something with my own artwork and gives me something to aspire to. Of course, inspiration and aspiration can be a double edge sword because sometimes I end up battling my inner critic when I look at all the wonderful work and I despair that I'll ever be "that good" or "good enough". I used to let those thoughts get to me and keep me from my art, especially because I struggled with thinking that art wasn't really something I could do by way of a career. I thought I had to find some sort of "real job", so I floundered