Hello there!

My name is Nick, and for the past year I've been living in a cave.

Before that I was a 3D character artist with the desire of one day becoming a concept artist, impatience got the better of me and I packed it all up to focus purely on concept art.

The isolated life hasn't really done me any favours, sometimes I would take part in various forum challenges, however procrastination has kicked in and now I'm floating around the net, not doing enough work, so I figured it's time to step it up and get more involved with the community.

Look forward to conversing with all you folks out there.

Allow me to introduce myself.

My name is Joseph. And I learn how to improve my art and eventually become a working illustrator.

I work traditionally, mainly in pencil. My motivation is to learn who to render imagery clearly, with a mind to illustrate my own stories. (Illustrated prose)

I look forward to receiving your critiques, advice and suggestion.

Thank you for creating this forum and thanks to Brad Rigney for bring this forum to my attention.

Hi, I'm Leoni from Brazil.

Hello Everybody,

About a year ago, maybe a little more I befriended Brent Hollowell on Facebook and noted his remarkable productivity. After a little while I also noticed he was improving significantly and I started to pay more attention to the Livestreams and things he shared. Eventually I found out about this little corner of the internet through some link he posted. I used to be moderately active on CA.org but got kinda burnt out on it and the community there and have been more or less forum-silent for a few years. I figure now's as good a time as any to leave my virtual hermit shack and step back into the stream.

About Moi: I just turned 34 (Feb 28th) and am currently working as an artist at Harmonix in Cambridge. Mostly I do environment stuff, but they're pretty fluid with titles/responsibilities around here so I get to do a bit of everything. (I'm doing some effects work right now! :P) Previously I worked at 38 Studios as a Principal Environment Artist which was the greatest place I've ever worked, and with some of the most insanely talented artists I've ever worked with.

Aaaaanyway, I've been feeling lately that it's been a while since I really felt or noticed any kind of improvement in my work. In fact things have been feeling pretty stale. After 38 Studios imploded I had a bit of depression and lost a lot of momentum as well as confidence in my work and it seemed to be the worst with my painting. I've managed to shake that and get back some of the confidence I had, but doing so has also made me aware that I hadn't been actively seeking improvement for a little while. Mostly because the people that I worked with were a constant source of inspiration of great critique. I even got to have some concepts I painted and levels I was principal on critiqued by Todd McFarlaine! So I'm looking to take hold of the reins again and drag myself up to whatever awaits. Looking forward to being involved with this community!

Hello, I am Matej Budimir, 19 years old and live in Germany. I paint stuff.

Hm, I probably started around November 2012 to paint digitally; so you could say I'm a newbie.
I am open to any critique or comments; the harsher the better... I can take it.

Some sites were you can find me:

• dotbudi.wordpress.com
  You can find almost all of my stuff there.
  
• dotbudi.deviantart.com
  I only upload the "good" paintings there.

My name is Mark, Incinerated on CA, some of you may have seen me around before some of you may never have, so yeah , im a grafics designer from Denmark. I am currently employed at Trifork A/S. I don't do Illustrations professionaly, although I do sell a few here and there on the side. Concept art has been a pass time hobby for me since 2007 although i'm still pretty shitty at
several things.

so there, stuff and things.

   

(Hi doctor Nick!!)

Ok, My name is Quike Garcia and I'm also at CA.org, and knew of the site from Dave's webpage.

I'm a semi-professional artist always looking forward to improve as much as possible, wich brings me to forums with a refined taste and kickass critiques. So fire away :)

Chhers everyone!!

Hey all!
My name is John Sidoryk, almost 18-years-old beginning artist and socially awkward penguin. Striving to become concept artist and/or illustrator in entertainment industry.

I came here because of people mentioning this forum on CAO.org. You know what shitstorm is going on there right now. I have nothing against CA and will be a member further on. However, I'm gonna expand my activity on this place. Because "Crimson Daggers" sounds so cool. :D

I'll put up my sketchbook soon and post some copy-pasted stuff from CA. Also you have some interesting looking community challenges I'd like to join.

Hope I'll fit in here :p

My name's Alex. I'm 19 years old and I want to take art seriously as a career choice. I'm pretty much a few steps into this life-long, never-ending journey, but I've enjoyed a every single one. I'm currently attending Pasadena City College aiming for a transfer degree in Studio Art. My main goal is to become an illustrator, but I also want to dabble in preproduction work for various types of media. Anyways, if anyone wants to hang out online and study or whatever my timezone is GMT -8; you can contact me on these sites:

https://twitter.com/sknawt
http://www.facebook.com/dela.sknawt

And you can email me at [email protected]. I'm really eager to learn and have a lot of ground to cover.

Hi,

Refugee from Concept art :)

This place looks cool, thought id give it a go :)

My names alex, i want to be a concept artist/architect (both) im 27 and not getting any younger or smarter. hope to meet loadsa people who are into ideas and art and have a great time

nice to meet yall

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