Hello everyone,

I was recommended this forum by Jonathan Powell and am happy to be here. I'm turning over a new leaf with my artwork and improving my digital stuff. I'm an adult student who basically decided to go back to school for 3d (and 2d) and am finishing up this semester. Am really excited to try new PS painting techniques and have been poring over a lot of the artists' work on FB as well as CGHub.

Happy to meet everyone :)

Hey people.

I'm Mike. In Concept Art I am Line, in everything else (DA, CGhub etc) I use my name like here.

Basically I'm a semi-pro, learning more about painting and picture-making, trying to make it to
where I wanna be on my own, no formal training or anything (there's none available here).

I had no idea about the forums here, I knew about the live streams, my eye never caught a
'forums' link.

Anyway, it's good to see some familiar people in here.

Hiya folks, my name is Nathan Seabolt. I'm one of those guys who abandoned art for a while and is now trying to make up for lost time. I make mini comics, draw and paint, and my goal is to break in to the world of professional illustration. I'm also a big fan of concept art and character stuff, so expect to see what might pass for some of that from me.

I've enjoyed the 'streams for a while now, and learned a lot by watching. Now I feel it's time to get serious and start gathering critique on my stuff so I can focus and get better.

Speaking of critique, let me just put this out there up front: I don't mind harshness at all. The way I see it, critiques here are for the benefit of the artist, so anything goes! You guys say whatever you think needs to be said, and I'll try my best to use what people say to make the work better.

Looking forward to learning with you!

My name is Milek Jakubiec and I'm sort of in the middle of the long awaited transition from Idontevenknowwhat to full time freelance illustrator and concept artist. I enjoy painting/drawing and plan to share what comes out of me in hopes of honing my craft, encouraged by the spirit of motivation bursting out of Dave and Dan's livestreams.

my name jithin i wud like 2 bcome a concept artist i am hoping that this forum will help me a lot
here is few of my works
jithinroda.carbonmade.com

Hey, I'm Nate. I've been following Crimson Daggers for a long time, I've watched many livestreams, but never went and made a forum account. I was on ConceptArt.org since 2007, but with the recent events, I'm not going there anymore.

Quick info about myself: I'm going to AAU right now focusing on Illustration. Before I went to TAD for 2 and a half years, I eventually had to quit due to not having enough time to get work done because of a full time job I had while attending full time. I'm hoping with the information I get from school and from CD, I can get some freelance work or get picked up by an entertainment company before I need to graduate.

I can't wait to get started on my sketchbook and actually be part of this community.

So... I left art school two years ago. I couldn't finish... and I've kind of, not done much since.

I don't really have the space to break out paints where I live so I've been doing some digital painting, except I suck at it. Like, a lot. I've noticed that I've actually been slipping and my stuff from the past few weeks is worse than stuff from months ago. That's just... wrong.

My real interest is sculpting tho. I want to be a better 2D artist and I'll never stop drawing, but I want to make a living as a sculptor. Somehow. Is it ok if I post my sculptures?

I'm pretty much only active on furry sites and I'm really only interested in drawing and sculpting furries and animals. So yeah, I'll probably be posting a lot of animal studies. I hope that's ok?

I used to be on CA off and on, but I never really stuck with it. I need some kind of motivated, critique positive site to be on tho. The thing about furries is they're not really great at the whole critique thing.




Also... I was wondering what the rules are on posting adult art here. I get a lot of my nude references from porn sites since there's really not a lot of good traditional ref material out there :/

Thanks.

Hello all,
I'm Giorgio, aka Erebus on the web (it's my nickname from the ages of the Commodore64, BBS and smarthmodems, and has becomed my signature and the name of my little design and illustration company :) ).
I'm from Italy, born in Torino, living in Firenze (Florence) area, in the middle of nowhere, with my wife and our 4 cats (+4 kittens now, wich will go to new houses the next week, sob, if you like cats you can see them on my wife website, it's in italian but a lot of photos there: www.cuccioligatto.it).

Here goes my (long) story. If you have time and want, read it...

I worked and still work as my main business as a graphic/advertising designer and web designer, I've been Art Director for an advertising/communication company for some years, then I decided to go freelance. It has been an hard work, but satisfying at times.
Then, with time, I started to get less and less work for printed graphics, and more for web... in the end I got tired of php, javascript and server headaches, and decided that, if I wanted to still work on graphics, I could have tried to revamp my old passion for painting, and so I started to self-learn drawing and digital painting again.
Again I say, because I used to draw and paint until I was 14, then my parents forced me to abandon art (I still remember my father saying: "what you want to do with art? To live under a bridge and paint portraits for fairs? If you want to do art, then come to clean and paint houses walls") and to pursue a "serious job", so I took a diploma for building houses (geometra) and studied several years as an architect, because it was my closest excuse of a "serious job" to do some drawing, while working in my father business (building houses, you guess :P).
In the end, I got to do the job I wanted to do, or at least something similar in the advertising company, and renounced all the benefits of working in my father business for going finally my way. Maybe for a non-italian it can be hard to understand, but in Italy when I was 14 you could not choose what to do of your life if your parents wanted differently... probably is for that reason that we are full of doctors, lawyers, and lack technicians...

Anyway, I restarted painting, with the digital medium that was already very familiar to me. I worked in 3D, 2D, anything I could try and learn. I like to learn new things every day.

Lately, some years ago, when my illustration skills becomed decent, I united my passion for games and boardgames to my work, and I started working for italian boardgame publishers.
So here I am now, illustrating boardgames for italian, american and chinese companies, not much bucks to earn, but much satisfation when a client recognizes your work makes him sell more games at fairs :D
I do the whole package when needed (riles, packaging, cards, layouts, illustrations, etc), since I'm also a graphic designer, and so my boardgames usually have a coherent image (I'm a brand identity designer also, after all :P).
I'm also a boardgame and rpg designer, and I like to create narrative worlds.
I've created a lot, and if I can I will try to take them to live/publish them sooner or later.

But the story it's already too long, I hope I don't have bored you too much ^_^

So, to close my presentation, I had no time to learn the "fondamentals" of art with time. I have no "free time" actually, I work almost 12 hours/day to earn enough to mantain my family (My wife had got no earnings for almost 1 year now), so I have to learn what I can while doing works, bending my mind as much as I can to understand what the client wants, and making it real as best as I can.
I learn, I get better every year that passes, but I had to get things done even without proper preparation.
So I'm here now, willing to learn what I miss, to get better at figure anatomy, at composition, and creating interesting images, while doing professional work in the meantime: "THINGS NEED TO GET DONE!" is my motto :D

Giorgio aka Erebus

P.s.: I'm posting my sketchbook too, so you can see my evolution, and my professional and less professional work ^_^

I'm Bruno Cerkvenik, 27 yo currently living in Dublin.
I'm a freelance concept artist and illustrator and I´ve done works from Game Console and Ederon TCG.

I've alwayes lurked and admired the Crimson Daggers group and must thank again to all the effort Dave and Daniel are doing for the community.

Let´s make some awesome art guys!
Slainte!

Hello everyone,

I want to improve my illustration abilities and look forward to working with everyone :)