Officially the first message board I've ever signed up on/posted to, so, Crimson Daggers, you've taken my V card... thanks for being so gentle everyone.

Where to start...

I was always (heh) 'drawn' to art, which is probably true for most folks here. I remember being mesmerized by Smaug on his pile of gold on the copy of the Hobbit we had, magic cards, D&D cards, Boris V's cards, just amazed me. Jim Lee, Dale Keown were the first two comic artists I put my eyes too, etc etc, then I hit sixteen and discovered girls, and things get a bit blurry for awhile.

Eventually, lost and distracted I discovered you could make videogames for a living, which was a revelation. I went to game school, which was my first experience with the privatized schooling system where they milk you for a fortune and give you a mediocre education. It was ok though, me and a few others teamed up and took as much as we could from it and each other, and most of us got into the biz... it was sunshines and rainbows for awhile. I worked at Propaganda, Radical Entertainment and United Front games, about 2 years in is where the economic troubles started and the way we make games had to evolve to survive the gamePocalypse. Two years after that, fighting for contracts with more experienced game developers, I bowed out, broken.

Much to my surprise though, after some time not making stuff for others, that little thing in my brain that consumes media and defecates ideas in my skull started piping up. I decided that, since I wasnt gonna make textures anymore, I should probably use photoshop for something, and teach myself to draw digitally. I drew my son a poster of a dinosaur, it took months. That was two years ago. Since then I wrote a buncha kids books, and started illustrating to improve, so I could get to some graphic stories I wrote, and somewhere along the way it became apparent that this was what I wanted to do, period, and I'd sort the 'getting paid' thing later. I recently joined up for Noah Bradleys Art Camp, which is where I discovered Crimson Daggers.

I've been doing this totally alone until now, lurking like a troll in one basement or another, the community provided by the art camp has been... well words don't really describe, but I'll assume if you got this far, that you understand. We're past the halfway mark at Camp, and I realized recently that I was terrified of its ending, mostly because of the ability to share and talk and generally build momentum with like minded people. Then CD was brought to the conversation, and here I am.

Thanks for existing, thanks for taking part... lets make some cool shit together

cheers,

k

"Hi, Crimson Daggers, my name is st. alpentine."

"Hi, st. alpentine."

So yes, that was my extremely special and wonderful introduction. I don't want to tell too much, because that would require a lot of thinking and I need some sleep, so I'll just cut down to the basics.

1.) I've always loved art. Even as a little kid. I think that's usually a standard story for most people here!

2.) I originally was enrolled in an art program at my old university...but I allowed myself to be distracted by outside things and it caused me to fail a lot of my classes and lose confidence in my own work.

3.) Because of that, I couldn't draw for a year and I felt...well, lost.

4.) I enrolled myself into a smaller, more local community college as a Communications major. It's something I like, sure, but I still want to create, but I also know that funds are very tight and my family is far from rich. Art School has become a luxury and I feel like I need to improve.

5.) So, I came here.

Well, what can I say?
Hello will do nicely as a start.

I've been involved in all kinds of forms of art since the earliest memories of my childhood so it's something I am really passionate about. My art is something that I've never posted on the internet due to my lack of will to get out my scanner (I just moved to a new apartment). Joining this site will motivate me to look for it and upload my art. Currently I'm aiming to improve my art greatly by much practice. I have hugely varying interests so don't feel shy about talking with me!

-Crab.

Hi My name is Edgar, Actually I´m living in Panama (the country). I´m a B.A. in Graphic Design Emphasized in Marketing and Advertising, But my real passion is illustration and concept art, I have some skills in 3d / Modo, and fall in love with arts Since I was 5... some years ago :). also I´m a silversmith and design jewels, rings etc...Actually I´m working as in-house designer manager for an international consulting company, but trying to be a freelancer and more related to Concept art, I´m here thanks to Noah Bradley. Just hope to learn, improve and be helpful to this community.

Greetings. My name is Terry, i'm a second year art student in Malaysia. I aim to be a concept artist in the game industry one day. My interest in art started from video games and animation. I wanted to become an animator in the beginning but after encountering amazing concept artist like Jonas De Ro, Andree Wallin and such, i have decided to aim for a career as a concept artist.

I hope to learn alot from everyone.

http://fruitpunchsamurai13.deviantart.com/

Hi there, Gentlefolks and not so gentle others

I'm Squeeze and I look forward to sending text and great art back and forth with you all.

I'm currently in school for not much of anything and I dabble in watercolours, acrylics, reupholstering, mixed media and other.

I'm a bitter, jaded server and a youngin'.

I can't wait to be inspired by all of you.

Hey, I'm Miss Lilly, I'm an animator and Illustrator. I graduated from animation school last year and I'm currently trying to find a job in the industry. Aside from art I love music and history. I don't really know what else to say, I just wanted to say hi (:

Yo guys, just checking in.

I mostly introduced myself in my sketchbook, I like it that way because my sketchbook is like my little nook. It's my turf. Mine.

Wassup everyone... Member from Noahs art camp should just post Username here.

Hey there. My name is Per Moritz, and I'm nice to this site :) I'm 18 years old and I currently live in Sweden, and will start reading my 3'rd and final year in gymnasium, where I read game design (graphics).

I've been painting and fideling with graphics for about 2 years now, and it has quickly gotten to be one of my biggest passions :) I hope to share my art work with you and get some feedback, aswell as giving it. And ofcourse making a ton of new friends :)

After my current line of education I hope to go to a fancy art school, and study either ilustration or game art, and I dream of working with art day in and day out.

Sorry if it sound a bit rambly, just so excited!