My name's Junior, age 18, brazilian.
I've had drawing as a hobby ever since my childhood, and now, I'm eager to take it seriously.
I'm in design college, and I have been practicing illustration a lot in the past few months.
As for goals, I want to improve myself and help others to do so through this beatiful community you guys have.
I want to have art as my job, and I want it bad! This is me setting sails to happiness! Row with me, friends, and we will take over all our dreams!
My stuff: http://juniorkingart.tumblr.com/

Hi there,

my name is Sebastian Becker and I'm a 18 year old, german artist focussing mainly on digital art. I got into art via the incredible artwork by Todd Lockwood in the "Dungeons and Dragons" Corerule Book. Since then I do art as a hobby. Last year I decided I want to become a professional artist in the gaming industry making my money with illustration and concept art. In November I will start studying graphics design.
I found my way over here by Myrmirada and Wolkenfels which I met at myrmiradas stream.


So enough of talking, here are some pics I did so far:


Red Queen - Queen of Darkness



Adept of Erastil - Pathfinder custom Prestige Class



Sucker Punch - Rocket



So nothing left than to hope for getting better through this forum and meeting some nice people

Greets
Sebastian

Soooo,

My name is Ilari Gröhn, I'm a 22-year-old guy from Finland (yay, snow). I've been taking art seriously for 8-9 months now and I'm hoping to become professional concept artist in 2-3 years or so.

Conceptart.org has been my main hub (username LeaderOfZombies) for the past months, but now that the site's down I thought it would be a good opportunity to become active on the crimson daggers forums as well. I like the community here so I'd really like to be part of it.

Here are some digital paintings I've done. I've been doing mostly studies, so there's not much to show, but I think these represent my current skill level.

   

   

   

I actually wanted to join the forum for a while but sadly I don't have a lot of spare time. I've heard great things about the community only... so here I am :)

I'm from Bulgaria 24 y.o.

I started piano, then went to electronics in highscool and then bachelor /almost master now :)/ in industrial control. Resently I started guitar also /2 years ago but self taught only/. I am also working as IT/dev at a service center.

In all that mess I try to include drawing as much as I can, just because I enjoy it so well. I've been drawing for 5 years now. I was mostly doing portraits but soon I got bored of it and tryed some concepts/illustration.
I started using digital and I'm still getting used to it.

Although I'm just a hobyist I like to improve at what I'm doing and I think the best way to do that is to communicate with people that know more than you about it.

So yea.. :)

Aaaand I almos forgot to include some of my work here

   
   

Hey,
my name is Robert, but I tend to go by the name Raedrob on the internet.
I'm 21 years and picked up digital drawing around Christmas '11.
I used to draw a lot when I was younger, but at the end of primary school I stopped completely. The whole reason for picking it back up may seem a bit silly to some, but at the time I was truly enchanted by My Little Pony: Friendship is Magic (I still am tbh). For about the first year that was all I cared about drawing, but I've gotten more interested in expanding my art recently.

I've done studies for a little while, but I want to try and make them more regular and I usually do some croquis gesture drawings as warm ups each day in an attempt to get the roughs of the human body in my head. If I get to do what I want, I'll be starting a bachelor in virtual art and design this autumn, and my overall goal with my art is to be able to use it to sustain myself. I consider myself mediocre at best at this point, but I always strive towards improving!

I found this whole community by chance, and hope I'll be able to improve during my stay here!
I'm not 100 % sure how things work around here, but I'll be sure to do some reading.

If you're interested, feel free to stop by my gallery: http://raedrob.deviantart.com/gallery/

If there's any questions, feel free to ask.

Cheers,
Robert

Hi. My name is Ed (not really), and I am not a good artist (really). Better artists make me feel bad (rlyrly) and the only person I know that draws as well threatened to ground me and send me to my room if I didn't join. (Nexuunrly)

But I do love to draw. As a child, I drew on walls, cardboard in markers, painted, and all that. When I see great artists that say they've been drawing/painting since they were little, this doesn't occur to me though. I stopped at 13, feeling as if I could never get any better since I did the same thing over and over again. I feel as if I didn't start drawing again for a good reason. Others start to learn because it's a dream of theirs, because they love it and need it.

Me? I started last year, late July (the 28th, to be exact), because I wanted to draw a sequential comic. So, yeah, um, I don't feel very deserving. But naturally, over time the desire to make that comic disappeared, and now I just want to get past gestures. Oyvey.

I told myself then it was going to be a long road before I could draw, but I don't think I knew then, and I still don't think I know now. I consider myself a doodler, not an artist, so I'm a work in progress, but at least a WIP is better than something you never bothered to put any effort into.

Thank you.

My name's Mike Garn, age 27, from Phoenix Arizona. In early 2010 I started learning digital painting. I didn't start taking this seriously and studying on a regular basis until about a year ago. I'm self taught having relied on internet sources and books to learn from. I used to really suck at this stuff but through dedication and hard work I've noticed improvements.

My goals are to continue to improve as a concept artist and illustrator. I also want to help other artists improve too. I want to turn drawing into my primary source of income by mid summer (or sooner) so I don't have to have a second job anymore and do what I love. I'm hoping that by being apart of the Crimson Dagger community I can get even more leverage on my study habits and get some awesome insight on how to improve. I can take a brutal crit, so don't hold back.

Here's some sites I'm on and some recent images I've done. Any comments or questions feel free to speak up! Thanks for reading this!

mikegarn.blogspot.com
nrag.cghub.com

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Hello my name is Stewart, I am 29 years old, about two months ago I decided to try to create a board game that has been floating around in my head for a while. As I researched it I found out how much the art for a game would cost, so then I decided to do the art myself….let me just say that before that I had no experience in art at all, I never took art in high school or college never really drew anything but stick figures before…so I went out a bought a Wacom tablet that came with some illustration software… what I found out is that it is not very easy, but I also found out I really enjoy drawing.
I have come to the realization that I will most likely have to put my game on hold until I have developed my skills to a higher level. I stumbled upon this site while I was scouring the internet looking for instructions on drawing.
At this point I think I need to develop a foundation as far as perspective and proportion go. I really need to learn the basics. So if anyone can direct me to a good place for a very beginning artist it would be greatly appreciated.
Here is a link to my sketchbook, almost everything is concept art for my board game.
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-3030.html

Hey there, my names John, nice to meet you all!
I've come from conceptart and deviantart trying to improve, but haven't made that much progress as of yet. I've been drawing on and off for a few years, and procrastination is pretty much my middle name by now lol.

I'm 21 years old from down under, I studied architecture after high school and now work night fill as I try and improve on drawing. I have the time, I just need to do it haha. I haven't got much art education, just high school which was basically do whatever you want lol

After over a year of not drawing I've realized how much I need it in my life, and I know I want it to be my career.

My end goal is to be a freelance illustrator or something like that, but ultimately I just want the ability to express the ideas and concepts I come across. I know what I want, but motivation is always an issue, as I'm quite lazy haha.

Hopefully I'll be updating soon, thanks for reading :D

Hello everyone! My name is Adori and I am a tiny junior in highschool.

I've started my art career when I was very young and I've been drawing aimlessly for a while, but only recently have I decided to buckle down and really put forth effort to improve my art.

My main goal is to invoke more depth in my drawings, improve and gain confidence on drawing backgrounds, improve my digital painting skills,get a full grasp of colour theory, draw animals more, and improve on my realism.

I hope that I am able to help you reach your goals, as you are able to help me reach mine!