“Being a dancer gives you a kind of fluency in another language, in what parts of the body you emphasize, how they look, ways that they move,” she relayed in an interview with CreativeFluff Magazine. “I tend to always incorporate hyperextended legs and arched feet in full-body pictures because it’s what I’m used to seeing in the studio. Being surrounded by that for so many years really shaped my view of bodies and proportions. Probably in a very unnatural way!”

Her illustrations are vibrant, loose, and full of movement. “I definitely went through a lot of phases,” she said, describing her creative journey. “I read a lot of comic books as a kid; my brother and I would sit for hours reading collections passed down to us from our uncle. That influenced me for a long time and still does. I fell into more classical art and portraiture for a while, as I got more serious, and recently have found a kind of happy medium between the two.”

She especially likes the expressiveness of graphic novels, to which she adds more classical techniques of character developing. “I really love a lot of engraving-style work, the old detailed plates, and I’ve gone back to that influence lately,” she says.

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Dancing is a physically demanding form of performance art, and for people with Scoliosis, it might even be impossible. Scoliosis is a disease that affects the spine, making it curve gradually and restrict movement. People with scoliosis suffer pain and discomfort, have to wear braces and sometimes even go under surgery to ease the symptoms.

Naturally, most patients with scoliosis don’t pick competitive sports as their first career choice. But Julia Carlile did. She’d been dancing all her life, even before she knew there was something wrong with her spine, and even though her Scoliosis is sever, all she wanted to do all her life is dance. Her condition has never stopped her from showcasing her natural talent, and she even competed in Britain’s Got Talent with her dance group, MerseyGirls, and won first place!

But here’s where it gets even more inspiring. On the show, Julia revealed that she would have to go to surgery, which would fix her spine, but would end her dancing career. A more advanced type of surgery that would allow her to keep dancing was available in the States, but she couldn’t afford it. When Simon Cowell, the leading judge of the show, heard her story, he decided to pay for her to go to the Stated and have the surgery there!

Thanks to Simon’s beautiful act of kindness, Julia can keep on dancing, and we hope she does do for many more years.  

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“Being a dancer gives you a kind of fluency in another language, in what parts of the body you emphasize, how they look, ways that they move,” she relayed in an interview with CreativeFluff Magazine. “I tend to always incorporate hyperextended legs and arched feet in full-body pictures because it’s what I’m used to seeing in the studio. Being surrounded by that for so many years really shaped my view of bodies and proportions. Probably in a very unnatural way!”

Her illustrations are vibrant, loose, and full of movement. “I definitely went through a lot of phases,” she said, describing her creative journey. “I read a lot of comic books as a kid; my brother and I would sit for hours reading collections passed down to us from our uncle. That influenced me for a long time and still does. I fell into more classical art and portraiture for a while, as I got more serious, and recently have found a kind of happy medium between the two.”

She especially likes the expressiveness of graphic novels, to which she adds more classical techniques of character developing. “I really love a lot of engraving-style work, the old detailed plates, and I’ve gone back to that influence lately,” she says.

Follow her artistic lifestyle on Instagram:

The post Meet Sarah Hartman: A Ballerina and An Illustrator appeared first on PlayJunkie.

Dancing is a physically demanding form of performance art, and for people with Scoliosis, it might even be impossible. Scoliosis is a disease that affects the spine, making it curve gradually and restrict movement. People with scoliosis suffer pain and discomfort, have to wear braces and sometimes even go under surgery to ease the symptoms.

Naturally, most patients with scoliosis don’t pick competitive sports as their first career choice. But Julia Carlile did. She’d been dancing all her life, even before she knew there was something wrong with her spine, and even though her Scoliosis is sever, all she wanted to do all her life is dance. Her condition has never stopped her from showcasing her natural talent, and she even competed in Britain’s Got Talent with her dance group, MerseyGirls, and won first place!

But here’s where it gets even more inspiring. On the show, Julia revealed that she would have to go to surgery, which would fix her spine, but would end her dancing career. A more advanced type of surgery that would allow her to keep dancing was available in the States, but she couldn’t afford it. When Simon Cowell, the leading judge of the show, heard her story, he decided to pay for her to go to the Stated and have the surgery there!

Thanks to Simon’s beautiful act of kindness, Julia can keep on dancing, and we hope she does do for many more years.  

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