Hey fellow artists!

I live in Germany, I'm 17 years old and in 11th grade.
I stumbled upon the Crimson Daggers 2 days ago.
Saw through some live streams since then, really liked the new one about freelance.
The site is great and the community looks great as well.

I started doing art "seriously" since December last year.
Try to do a lot of digital and traditional every day.
Have to get the basics down first, before moving to the "fun" stuff.

Currently try to learn a lot and draw whenever I can and learning everything about the human by books and study.

Looking forward to critic and the livestreams.
As I said I am still in school and can most likely only see them at the weekends (also limited time for drawing in general).

Slowly realizing that I should have started earlier with drawing, hope I can get to a decent level before going to university. I am not sure yet, if I should start doing art professionaly (concept art most likely), going for informatics atm and art as a serious hobby.

After one month drawing I already can see some improvement.
To see my process check my deviantart!

You can post your deviantart informations as well, going to add you for sure.
Thanks for actually reading and have a nice week!

Hello everybody,

My name is Roy Ugang, I am an illustrator from Cebu City, Philippines. I graduated fine arts major in painting. My work experience after school was a children's book illustrator for 2 years in a self-publishing company. Now, i am full time freelance illustrator.

Although, i have been freelancing for 2 years now, i feel like my abilities remain stagnant and really need lots of improvement.

I really want to improve my art, and hope you guys can help me out on this journey and sight the things that really lack on my artworks.

I would like to ask you guys what books (anatomy, color theory)or research references that helped you improve your art.

Thank you very much and have a good day!

Best,

Roy

Hello Peeps,

My name is Shaun and I am a Video Game Artist, Illustrator and small business consultant. I have been working in the creative field for the last decade and am now trying to branch out with my freelance work. I am looking forward to contributing to this community.

i just made an account for this website because i thought this place gave critiques on your drawings? i want to get much better at painting. and anatomy and backgrounds too.

i guess i have to figure out how to work this site first
if im not supposed to post this here, then please tell me U_U'

Hi guys!

First of all I want to introduce myself... I live in Germany, I'm 23 years old, I have two cats and I study something called "Intermedia Design" ;)
I stumbled upon the Crimson Daggers a while ago and have gone through a lot of threads and sketchbooks. There are so many talented people here! So I decided to join.
I really want to become better at what I do and when I look at the things I've done in the past year, I DO see a progress... but (maybe some of you know that feeling): I feel I can't get better fast enough.
I just got my Bachelor of Arts degree and am now working on my portfolio for the MA admissions... (there are only 5 spots available.) So that's one thing I have to get done in the next few weeks :s
I work hard, I love what I do but of course I have tons left to learn... so I'll start right here ;)

Hey there! I'm Moh, and I'm a full-time 2D artist (working mainly in Vectors). Since having a fulltime job as a vector artist 2 years ago, I've become quite rusty in my conceptual art paintings and sketches. I hope by joining Crimson Daggers I can get back up to speed and learn lots of new things and meet great people.

Thanks for having me!

Mohzart

Hey There,

My name is David Shearer aka davidtheartist. I am a freelance illustrator and graphic designer from BC Canada. Im 28 years old, havent gone to art college, was in AP art in highschool, and have been working in art as much career since I graduated in 2003. Ive had my freelance business since 2007.

I spent a lot of my years on conceptart.org and am now looking for a new home since that site seems to be going down. Dave Rapoza and Daniel seem to have a great thing going on here so Im happy to come join. It feels like there are people here who are eager to grow.

I think conceptart.org went wrong because they became too diluted. Their site became over-saturated with different rooms you could visit, places you could go, and outside links to classes. They became greedy and tried to sell more learning than giving it for free, which in a way is understandable. But in my mind it killed the community. We need limited rooms, specific places to put things, and the goal should always be to providing a great experience for those who are aiming high.

i appreciate this new forum and hope I can add to it!

Hello Daggers! I'm new here, that's why I'm introduce myself, right ?) My name is Nikita and I'm from Ukraine (It is not part of Rassia! at least for now o.O) just a joke)
I like to draw and i want to be an awesome artist :) Who don't ? Seriously I started drawing at october 30, 2012 when I saw a painting of my penfriend from social networking site ) And after this at october 31 i connected my tablet (i tried to draw before) and started to draw something. And until now I'm learning the art of drawing. Hah, not a bad story turned out ... I hope I am not wrong thinking that this forum (saying this, I mean you guys:blush: ) can really help me to improve my skills. Ahah Courage on my avatar saying "Hello guys" too )

Sorry for my English if i did some mistakes.

So i think next step that i should do here: make my sketch book thread ?

Well hey everybody. My name is RJ Palmer and I am a freelance concept artist and illustrator living in San Francisco. I've been feeling my level of improvement has been stagnating. As soon as you start receiving comments like "amazing as usual", I feel like its time to start focusing on changing up your level. I just outlined a plan for myself to really try and do studies with much greater regularity as opposed to whenever I might be in the mood or avoiding a job I don't want to work on.

Long story short, I'll try to update here regularly. Nice to meet you guys. You can check out my work here: my deviantART account and my tumblr . There is even a page on my tumblr just for my studies here