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Yep, posting again. ;) I'm... *bites lip* I'm gonna try something kinda crazy, which I am very well aware has almost no chance of success. And... I'd really like some advice.
Okay, so here it is: I'm going to apply for an arts grant.
Honestly, the thought would not have occurred to me, except that at our last Creative Circle meeting (like a writers' group, only for all kinds of art/creative works) one of the members brought it up and encouraged me to try for it. She gave me a link for a local grant - apparently what you can do with the money if you're awarded it is really, really open. She told us one of the previous people who'd gotten it painted llamas, and was fascinated by Peru, had always wanted to go there, and so used the money for a trip to Peru for creative inspiration and the opportunity to study it firsthand.
So, I probably would apply for it for my book, because the money could be really useful were I closer to the publishing stages. But... I have been very distractible this year, and work has been progressing very, very slowly. I think it's going to be a few years before I'm finished, because if I'm going to do it, I want to do it well.
Thus - yes, a point is in sight at last! - I've decided I want to apply for a grant with my dragon and griffin art. Which sounds really stupid, now that I say it. I just... I've really started to love it so much more lately, and take it more seriously (heh, as opposed to, "Erm, yeah, I sketch during meetings 'n stuff. Well, yeah, I've taken art lessons, but... I'm certainly not a real artist."). And I have these vague longings and undefined dreams about what I'd like to do with it... someday...
Anyway. Here I come to the advice part. Along with my application, I need to send in a maximum of about ten samples of my work. I've posted a bunch of my drawings here . I have my own personal likings and ideas of which ones are better, but I'd really appreciate some outside opinions on which would be best to send in. I've linked to the last page, so if you work from there back it'll be from newest to older ones.
(Oh, and, erm... don't look at the earliest pictures, please. Or at least try not to laugh too hard? *sheepish* I'm still a very long way from where I want to be with my art, but I have been changing and improving and figuring out how to do this drawing-from-imagination thing, and the older the picture... the more embarrassing. So yeah.)
I'd really appreciate any input you'd like to give! (Heh heh, and again, yeah, I do realize the chances of actually getting this are pretty much nil, and I'm a beginning "artist" with a looong way to go, but... I want to try?)
Okay, so here it is: I'm going to apply for an arts grant.
Honestly, the thought would not have occurred to me, except that at our last Creative Circle meeting (like a writers' group, only for all kinds of art/creative works) one of the members brought it up and encouraged me to try for it. She gave me a link for a local grant - apparently what you can do with the money if you're awarded it is really, really open. She told us one of the previous people who'd gotten it painted llamas, and was fascinated by Peru, had always wanted to go there, and so used the money for a trip to Peru for creative inspiration and the opportunity to study it firsthand.
So, I probably would apply for it for my book, because the money could be really useful were I closer to the publishing stages. But... I have been very distractible this year, and work has been progressing very, very slowly. I think it's going to be a few years before I'm finished, because if I'm going to do it, I want to do it well.
Thus - yes, a point is in sight at last! - I've decided I want to apply for a grant with my dragon and griffin art. Which sounds really stupid, now that I say it. I just... I've really started to love it so much more lately, and take it more seriously (heh, as opposed to, "Erm, yeah, I sketch during meetings 'n stuff. Well, yeah, I've taken art lessons, but... I'm certainly not a real artist."). And I have these vague longings and undefined dreams about what I'd like to do with it... someday...
Anyway. Here I come to the advice part. Along with my application, I need to send in a maximum of about ten samples of my work. I've posted a bunch of my drawings here . I have my own personal likings and ideas of which ones are better, but I'd really appreciate some outside opinions on which would be best to send in. I've linked to the last page, so if you work from there back it'll be from newest to older ones.
(Oh, and, erm... don't look at the earliest pictures, please. Or at least try not to laugh too hard? *sheepish* I'm still a very long way from where I want to be with my art, but I have been changing and improving and figuring out how to do this drawing-from-imagination thing, and the older the picture... the more embarrassing. So yeah.)
I'd really appreciate any input you'd like to give! (Heh heh, and again, yeah, I do realize the chances of actually getting this are pretty much nil, and I'm a beginning "artist" with a looong way to go, but... I want to try?)
