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Grace Helmer

@grrrrace

Illustrator šŸŒæ she/her

 London
gracehelmer.co.uk/
Joined February 2009
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why wonā€™t you let me live my life
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5th day without power thanks to @BritishGas - another engineer not turned up, no urgency at all in trying to help even though they know we have a baby. Not sure what to do šŸ˜­ @BritishGasHelp
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I started a newsletter! rubbish at twitter and disheartened by instagram so thought this may be something nicer to try. Follow for occasional updates and waffling on about my work etc: mailchi.mp/455773694027/gracā€¦
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whyyy is this so pixelated! see - rubbish at twitter
ā€œSafety is something most of us who are not white or normative do not even have a baseline for.ā€
Suhaiymah Manzoor-Khan (@thebrownhijabi) profile pictureSuhaiymah Manzoor-Khan@thebrownhijabi12 Mar 2021
Shared on IG but may as well post here too bc white women especially have DMd me saying they hadnt considered gendered & sexual violence are always already racialised... whenever I go out I dont fear being killed bc im a woman OR a Muslim, I fear being killed bc im a MUSLIM WOMAN
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ā€œGrace Helmer's new comic is a wonky journey through space and timeā€ itsnicethat.com/articles/graā€¦ Thank you @itsnicethat @lucybourton !!! ā¤ļø
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why does he even exist?
jonny is fed up with Yank Nonsense (@sensiblehuman96) profile picturejonny is fed up with Yank Nonsense@sensiblehuman9622 Feb 2021
Tfw youā€™re the leader of the Labour Party
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Lovely review of Speck from @brokenfrontier and @AndyWPOliver - thank you!! āœØ
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Copies of my new comic Speck arrived! yaaay āœØ
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@happylittlebook wrote a sweet blurb of it: ā€œFollow Speck on a cosmic journey from the very beginning of time through to present day! Waves of time pass and Speck witnesses the formation of the planet, the rise and fall of the dinosaurs and gets...
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Finally finished this comic!! ā€˜Speckā€™ is a comic about a blob that moves through space and time, starting just before the Big Bang
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You can read the rest online here!: gumroad.com/l/cbtRXv
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Knew that Lockdown 3.0 + January would be bad, but didnā€™t expect it to be ā€˜bedroom ceiling falling in on usā€™ bad šŸ˜«
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love to rent in London
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I made them move, bit wonky cos theyā€™re drunk on mulled wine šŸ¤Ŗ
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thereā€™s a Christmas card of this in my shop: shop.gracehelmer.com
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Made a Christmas card, theyā€™re all going to a party (after 2 weeks of multiple health screens and asking everyone to quarantine)
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These are now up on my shop, along with some other bits and bobs: shop.gracehelmer.com šŸŽ„
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Found time to carry on with this blob again. From a new story Iā€™ve been working on and off again all year in between things, hopefully I will eventually finish it!! This is after a meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.
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Reading the replies made me think just how lucky I am, especially that I live somewhere with free healthcare, and didnā€™t have to start paying my student loan off until last year. Also the luck of getting an internship (turned job) at the time I needed it.
Litebox (@litebox_info) profile pictureLitebox@litebox_info21 Oct 2020
Could not give less of a šŸ¤¬ about how artists find inspiration. I wanna know how they make the low pay work. Like literally how many odd side jobs do they work, & if they don't work day jobs is their partner rich, or do they just have 10 roommates in their late 40s?
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I also knew I could always move back in with parents if I needed to. I was able to take risks, and they worked out. I followed the advice of ā€˜just work hard and itā€™ll pay off!ā€™ but a lot was luck of circumstance too.
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Ahhh recreations of a book I illustrated a few years ago! so cool šŸ˜Š
James Jones (@mister__jones) profile pictureJames Jones@mister__jones22 Oct 2020
Usually Iā€™m more of a fan of displays of childrenā€™s work that is wholly child made but Iā€™ve got to admit the recreation of this book by the kids and my colleague is so good! šŸ–Œ
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donā€™t understand what ive done to annoy the insta algorithm gods, may as well staple my work to my forehead when I pop to the shops itā€™d be seen by more people
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I saw someone in Camberwell wearing a mask -just- on their nose the other day
Mara Wilson (@MaraWilson) profile pictureMara Wilson@MaraWilson17 Oct 2020
IT GOES OVER YOUR NOSE! IT GOES OVER YOUR NOSE IT GOES OVER YOUR NOSE IT GOES OVER YOUR NOSE IT GOES OVER YOUR NOSE
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Some of the process behind a spread for Penguins & Polar Bears - from thumbnail to rough to painting to editing...
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... to final printed book!
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So excited for this to be out next week - my first proper childrenā€™s book! ā€˜Penguins & Polar Bearsā€™ published by Little Gestalten šŸ§ šŸ§Š ā„ļø
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