hey, I am a 19 year old dude going on the self taught route. I will be joining Crimson Dagger to show my progress and also most importantly make art friends.

   
   
   
   
   

Hello again!
I registered to CD back in 2016 under a different alias, but I recently decided to purge what little content I had on the account and start over under my name Shawnté. I hope to be more of an active participant in the community this time around. A few days ago, I applied for a mentorship with an artist whose work I really admire and while we are still discussing the details, I want to take the opportunity to open up a sketchbook on a site I am familiar with to start documenting my progress in general.

First, I'd like to apologize for the wall of text, because finding this forum randomly through Google images made me feel that excited. 

Secondly,

I'm known as Sifter online, but my actual name's Ismail. I'm from Morocco, 21 years old, and made myself jobless because I chose to focus on art the most—I'll go look for another regular job later when the Cintiq arrives in my country lol. 

I teach myself figure drawing and other aspects of figurative art to become an illustrator, because I love making things look as nice as I can make them be. My idea is that, once figure drawing, and all that comes with it, becomes more or less automated in my brain and muscles, I can move on to bigger things, because jumping into actual illustrative works so soon, to my personal belief, would be a death sentence, if not made with the intent of study and evaluation. For that reason I chose to stick to specific studies, which is why my sketchbook will not look the fanciest of them all. 

I just want to express how pleasantly surprised I was when I saw there was still a forum out there that is active, considering how forums are becoming more and more of a dying concept in general. Scruffled through some sketchbooks in here, and I was in awe at the level people are at—I'll make sure to reply to their threads after I'm done posting this one. It's sort of like that one LevelUp facebook group, but organized.  

 It made me feel happy because once I saw there were posts from 2019, I knew I'd get at least one critique or two, after every 20 updates in my sketchbook, from people who are, to me at least, actually decent, so such critiques will be invaluable to me, even if dropped once every full moon. 

I'm showing below some of my recent stuff, while saving the rest for my sketchbook, just to follow the trend of pairing your stuff with your intro, based on what I've seen in other intros.  

Anyway, I'm glad I found this place, and I hope to me active in the future! Also, would really appreciate the harsh critiques, since those tend to hit the nail on the head. 

Hello everyone,

I decided to join a few groups to help me accomplish my art goals. This year I really want to put together a good portfolio. I've spent the last two years studying value, faces, and landscapes. I love dark fantasy art and the female form.


Digital Inks


Portrait Study


Portrait Study


Landscape from reference


Illustration


Figure Drawing

I look forward to seeing your art and sharing feedback.

Hi my name is skimmon. I've always doodled but I wanna *draw* ya know?

It's time I started to post sketches and attempts to get better and get an eye on my stuff.

I'm from Sweden.

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        ]Hi guys!  
I'm a new member (I've subscrived just two minutes ago eheh), and I wanted to say hi :)
I'm italian, and I'm still a student (actually I'm studing at the accademy of fine arts in Naples), and it's a long jorney lol, but maybe making new friends will help me improve as an artist and as a person, who knows c:
Anyway, this is my latest study/ sketch of my dog (my fatty), soooo let me know what you think!!

Hey my friends! I'm Zodd, a 20 years old Brazillian art student and i'm trying really hard to improve my art skills! I've decided to come to the forum to show my evolution and get some critiques and friends, hope we be productive, i'm really excited to learn! :-)

Here's Bridgeman practices i've done today:
   

And some from life i've done in the last week:
   
   

Greetings everyone! I'm from Malaysia, 27 years old, I'm joining Crimson Daggers to meet new artist friends and I want to improve my skill in art. I hope to receive a warming welcome from you guys, as well as receiving some advice and critics on my art in the future, thanks!

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This is Mickie the number 1 fan of creative art. Show me love by giving me a warm welcome.

Hi! My name is Matheus Chastinet I'm 27 and I'm from Brazil, I'm a former Graphic Designer and I'm studying hard to get into the world of art and illustration. Nowadays I study digital art for games at the Skill Tree course with Yan Kyohara (https://www.artstation.com/yankyohara) and being mentored by Alexandre Leoni (https://www.artstation.com/leoniarte) everything online. I'm looking foward to put myself to prove and post everyday sketchs here to improve my skills and have some feedbacks and critiques :D. Here is my first piece that I'm working on, hope you guys enjoy it. Critiques and feedbacks are welcome! I have some struggles with understanding color and light yet.