My name is Matt and I've gotten to a point with my art where I don't know what to work on to improve. Should I work on portraiture, environmental design, shading, or anatomy?. Recently, I saw a user in the community art section of a forum I frequent post about this group "the Crimson daggers", so I checked it out and this looks exactly what I've been searching for.Hopefully I'll be able to team up with some great people who can give me a nudge in the right direction while we have fun growing together as artists.

Hello there! My name is Marius, i live in Romania and I'm here to learn and further my skills. Currently I'm working in the gaming industry as a graphic artist for a company specialized in Facebook games but I'm looking for a switch to concept art & illustration.

I know the only way to improve and always stay motivated is through others, being a lone wolf never worked for for me. I'm really excited about being here with all you guys and can't wait to start working!

Hi everyone,

My names Peter. I've been drawing since I was a kid. I've always had a passion for it. In the past year i've become increasingly interested in digital painting and have started following a lot of artists via blogs and facebook. Through following them I learned about the forum and I figured i'd come check it out and hopefully meet more fellow artists, learn new things, and hopefully improve as an artist ^^

-Pete

Hey everybody, I'm new and just made my account. I just bought an intuos5 and have little knowledge of the fundamentals of art, but hope to learn them here. I was referred to this website from deviantart. Hopefully, through Practice, resources, and the support of you guys, I can improve as an artist! :)

Hi to all of you guys!

Finally I have decided to become an active member here.
Currently I study computer science, but lost interest half a year ago I think, when I saw some of FZD School work on youtube. Since then I watched some tutorials, but never thought that I will want to pursue this as a career. After a while I bought a tablet, but I haven't draw almost anything until 3 weeks ago when I saw an interview from Sycra with Alex Negrea. From there my motivation started to grow, I found out about the daggers, and started to watch Dave Rapoza and Dan Warren's streams and that was the breaking point and I want to express my thanks. These three weeks I draw every single day in my free time. I'm 23 now, realizing that it's a bit late, but I will give all to improve myself until graduation(7 months left).
I was very confused where to start, but finally decided to catch up with the classes one by one, until I see how many I can do simultaneosly.
Hmm, the thread became large enough and I have things to draw!
Best wishes, Martin from Bulgaria.

hello my name is Taylor, im 21 years old from crescent city, California.

I only recently started seriously putting time into digital art maybe 4 months ago, i am married and work a full time job but i manage to squeeze time in b4 i got to bed. i love landscapes and big concepted worlds and environments, and i hope to improve as the days go!

I heard about the crimson daggers while livestream chatting with gdsworld via skype. so today i decided to make an account.

you can find me at taylorjdw on D.A. =)

Hello!

My names Corey, I'm 20 years old and live in Australia.
I haven't done art for a couple of years, but just started getting back into it.
I play guitar every day (actually what resulted in my doing much less art) and am a huge fan of music, pretty much any genre.

I've started to get random commissions from around my town now so I am looking to brush up on my art and get back into improving it, and possibly see where I can take it.

Look forward to meeting everybody on here!

Thanks

well .. hi! i'm purin (or pur1n, since purin is taken on dA :< )
if you're able to pronounce it, you could call me meike ;)
i'm 20 years old and i live in germany. right now i'm doing an internship at a printers shop, which i need to be able to study in fall 2013 :)

okay i feel a little strange about doing this, since this seems like a huge community and i feel so small in it. but i've been lurking around here and on livestreams for a while now and want to give it a try.
so here's a little summary of my art-related background. i'll try my best keeping it short :P.

i've been drawing since i was little kid, starting with horses that have six legs. as if i knew this was an epic thing :D.
when i was somewhere between 10 and 12 years old my mothers ex-boyfriend installed photoshop to my first own pc. that's when i first got into digital art, although i didn't use it to paint at that time. i also had my first experience with a tablet which wasn't a wacom, but it's a start! :P
at that time i actually was addicted to creating homepages. i started at one of those "build your own page" things and slowly learned html and css. there was a time when i changed my design every week. i still have my page up, but was too busy with painting this year :) (if someone's interested, it's http://psychocrayon.de/ . i feel like if i do something with it, it will be completely renewed :P )
so actually the first time i really got into painting digitally, and by really i mean like practically, was in late 2009 (first painting) which is around the time i already had my tablet for a little while. after that and even before was a long time of nothing. i didn't really use it for a long time and therefore looked at tons of tutorials and other artists works, which actually seemed to help me a lot!
i did one painting in the beginning of 2011 which i think my feelings kinda helped making it so awesome and then i really got as busy as a bee (for my standarts so far ..) in this year.
for further insight to my stuff you can check out my dA gallery

So what i want here i think is finding some mates to motivate each other, maybe do some challenges, look at stuff (which is really helpful for me :P) and especially GET BETTER!
because the only thing i'm really good at so far is portraits, what makes me a little sad.

so i guess that's it. hope it isn't too much :D
and now lets have some fun .. or go to sleep .. where did that time go again?

p.s.: feel free to add me on skype ;)

I'm new to Crimson Daggers. I've never really attempted to put my work up on forums but I've decided that if I want to be serious about it this was the way to go. Please check out some of my stuff at:

moebalingerart.com
moe-balinger.blogspot.com

Please give me some feedback! I'm excited to meet all you artists out there.

I'm very glad to be here.

See you around!

M.