My name is Victor Maury. I'm currently a student studying illustration/animation and trying to build up a professional skillset and portfolio. Some of my goals include illustrating card art for Magic: the Gathering, working on a Cartoon Network cartoon, and ultimately being able to live from my drawings. I joined Crimson Daggers after being referred here by Brent Hollowell, who I have been following for a while and was literally about to message about which online communities to join in order to stay motivated and meet like-minded people. If you're reading this Brent, cheers.
Alright guys, I hope to stay active and participate in the design challenges, learn from yall, and maybe even teach you a thing or two.
Hello there!
I heard this is a good forum to register on if you want to get into digital art and so I thought why not and registered just now.
My name is Daniel and I'm 18. I've been using Photoshop for about 4 years I guess? Maybe add or take a few. I am from Germany and so far I have kind of focused on web design. However, I always wanted to draw my own stuff and since my girlfriend gave me her drawing tablet a week ago I thought why not and am trying to start out and get into digital drawing since 2 days. I admit its a very new experience trying to draw with a tablet. I mostly spent those two days getting accustomed to it.
I guess first you sketch where you want what to be.. but I dont quite get how you make things look so sharp and stuff.
Oh well I'm seriously a bloody newbie. I just started using my tablet :P
I'd be very glad if I could get some help and support here because right now I feel kind of very clueless :-/
Just finished some major projects and done exhibiting at NYCC. Dan n Dave came by us in artist alley table V11 and showed my partner Mel and I some serious love. Now that the show is over and deadlines are easing up I hope to really participate on here and other challenges to have some fun.
My partner and I are TOMMEL design and you can check out some of out work at http://www.tommeldesign.com or Facebook.com/tommeldesign
Let me know whatcha think! I'll be lurking and posting more soon!
Whoops i already started posting but didn't introduce myself properly:
My name's Nick Chrissis, i'm 34 years old and from the Netherlands.
Besides my "day-job" wich luckily gives me oodles of free time i'm chasing a lifelong dream to make my own animations and draw my own comics. I've been plugging away at the animation side for a while now but i decided it's time to get serious about my drawing as well!
A couple of weeks ago one of my favourite artists Roger Dean came to my town to give a talk and he talked a lot about his creative process.
One thing that really struck me was when he said that drawing/painting should become as automatic as driving a car, only then can you truly let the inspiration an "visions" flow onto the page. And that to get to that point you need a looot of practice becuase frankly drawing and painting requires a lot more fine motor skills and spacial perception etc. than driving a car!
So after that i decided to treat drawing like working out: try do it every day even when i don't really feel like it. And just like working out once you get going you usually start to enjoy yourslef ;)
I found this forum via facebook and i really like the vibe! Also i hope i can get some honest critisism about the stuff i'm doing wrong.
I'm currently also in a weekly life drawing class - i take one every year - and it really struck me last time that the instructor can walk by and notice big flaws like a nose out of place that somehow you just don't seem to see when you're working on it.
Ok enough of me blithering on, let's go arting about! ;)
My name is Jennifer (obviously) and I'm currently working as a graphic designer. It's always been my dream to work as a professional artist, but where I grew up there was no college for it. Since then I've been continuing to draw on the side without really going anywhere in terms of improvement, until I began to slowly discover the wealth of knowledge that is available online. I've been watching CD livestreams and absorbing all I can, and practicing when I can (I currently draw about an hour a day, and I know I need to step that up) It's so exciting to see, and I have to say that professional artists are some of the nicest and most inspirational people I've ever met/spoken to.
I have taken 4 courses at CGMA masterclasses, I found the Gnomon Workshop, and I found the Crimson Daggers. For the first time, I actually feel like I have some of the tools to work toward my goals instead of just dreaming about them.
I found Crimson Daggers via Facebook, Livestream and follow quite a while. It was very helpful :) I am happy to be here. I am a student in Fine Arts Faculty and last year I decided to improve my technique and skills for concept art and illustraiton. I am very late i know but at least I am here now :)
New to the forum. I've just discovered this after watching some interviews on youtube. I really enjoyed it, and had a few good laughs, great loose vibe, so I decided to check this site out.
Also I've known Dave's work for a few years and always loved it.
So, about me.
I'm Jonas, I'm a concept artist that started out about 2 years ago. Still new in the game, still learning a lot.
Some of my more recent work was on the movie Cloud Atlas (released in the US next week somewhere) where I did a ton of environment concept art, prop & vehicle design, etc.. The trailer has quite a bit of my stuff in it (Trailer)
I've done a bunch of freelance jobs such as Magic The Gathering, things like that.
If you want to check out my work my most up to date portfolio is on dA: Deviant Art Gallery
Uhm that's it! I'll be checking out this forum and the upcoming interviews with fellow artists, I really enjoy them.
Hi all, my name's Gordon and I'm a beginning/amateur artist. Been drawing and painting for many years but have just started getting a bit more serious and teaching myself through tutorials and advice from other (working) artists. Concentrating on basic form and mainly working in pencil. Dabbled in Painter but I need to practice more before launching into digital art. Trained in Graphic Design I know Photoshop pretty well and have used it a lot over the years, just not to produce digital art.
Hi, My names Nick,
I'm trying to shift into an art based job, from currently doing data analysis. I've no real training, I left artschool 13 yrs ago after 9 months there, and have kinda muddled through,
I just joined, hoping that i can get some feed back on how to improve the work i'm doing. I've been painting digitally for about 2 yrs...on and off, and i'm slowly starting to get to grips with photoshop. I can paint what i see pretty well now using that software (Portraits etc), but I struggle with good composition when it comes to original work, and i want to be working doing fantasy/sci fi illustration full time. Naturally i've got a DA account, but i very very rarely get constructive feedback...its usually just comments such as "nice job" or some such (always nice to get comments like that, but not entirely constructive when you know the piece is nowhere near the epic quality the pros are producing)
this is my most recent "finished" piece
I like many other wonderful people came across this place after discovering Dave's kick ass artwork. I discovered the holy grail that is Dave this last spring and later this last summer I came across dan warrens stream late one night. Dave and Dan were chatting away and I just couldn't pull away from my screen. I was hooked, and so I have decided after much lurking to join this group and join the grand effort to turn our noobish selves into bad asses!
Soooo who am I?
I am a 21 year old college student who initially started college pursuing a degree in Biomedical Engineering.
I drew a bunch as a kid and through out high school with dreams of becoming an animator, but somehow none of this ever really translated. But alas my artists roots wouldn't let me go so easily.
Starting this last year I started really getting back into my drawing and trying to make some serious efforts in improving my artwork skills. I would love to make concept art & illustration a career and show my friends and family that you really can pursue the things you love if you make an honest effort.
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