Hi, I'm Celanna.  Celanna isn't my real name, it's actually my WoW main.  I'm an aspiring artist stuck in the desolate wastes known as central California.  I've been trying for twenty odd years to better my craft.  Progress has been slow to say the least, but I'm still working on it.  In the mean time I work a regular job to pay the bills and cosplay for fun.

My endeavor is to get improve my skills in painting and draftsmanship.  I hope one day to leave the wastes and work professionally as an illustrator.

Allo peeps Goob here.  Just a artist/painter trying to figure out what I am better at and such.  I am hoping this forums a bit more active than some I have been on.  Heard a far bit about this place so there is that.  Anyways drop me a message anytime but I shall be posting things here now too hopefully.

Hello everyone! I'm Bobby,23 years old girl from Bulgaria. Introductions are always difficult for me because it's so hard to sum up with a few words what I want to say. But I''ll try to keep it brief (already failing ). 
I'm self taught artist and right now I study the basics. I've never been part of huge art community (well, I've never been part of any kind of forum actually)and this is really exciting for me!

My biggest problem is that as a self taught artist I can't always judge what I've done. And often I  have so many questions with no answers. This is killing me because for me art is not just a hobby- I want to succeed (oh, man I'm a little melodramatic right now ). So any feedback and critique will be more than welcome a.k.a. bring it on guys! 
Ok  I sound really cringy now so I'll stop . Have a nice day everyone and stay inspired (cringe points +10).

Hey! My name is Lorena Pimenta (my internet nickname is also Piloreta), and I'm a brazilian art student. I am 19 years old, and I have been painting digitally since I was 16 years, but I just started to study the fundamentals when I was 17. Since then, I have been struggling to improve my works, specially now that I have more time to spare, because I couldn't study art that much when I was in high school (I don't miss those school days hahaha).

Now I am studying visual arts here in Brazil, but my teachers are not very into the fundamentals, because they have a very closed mind in terms of what is art and what is not art (they are more connected with art of the 20th century). I respect how they treat their works and their objectives, but I will not stop to treat my own artwork according to my own personal taste... They should not be trying to make us do the same kind of work that they make, that upsets me a lot. I heard my future painting teacher does not like figurative stuff, perspective, lines: he hates all that, I am worried, because I also heard that many people at my school does not consider illustration as art, and I think this is so messed up... (This is very boring, but I also have many friends from my class that want to be illustrators, so we are all kind of sad on how narrow minded some art teachers are :( But we are determined to do what we like! Art is not something someone tells you what it is, in my own opinion ).

I dream to be a professional illustrator and concept artist one day. Internet really saves my life, tho: I may not have the best teachers that can help me in my objectives, but I have access to so much information online... I have been trying to contact other illustrators from my country and outside to gather as much as I can. And, thanks god, I know how to speak in english: god, everything is in english!

My biggest references are Ruan Jia, Miles Johnston, Jana Schirmer, Even Amudsen, Krenz Cushart, Sargent, Craig Mullins, Guangjian Huang, Anders Zorn, Monet, Degas and many many others that  I  may be forgetting!! So many amazing artists!!!

I wanted to create a sketchbook thread somewhere to show how my work is evolving and to get some nice feedback from other artist fellows around the globe. My buddies told me about this forum, so... Here I am. I'm very excited to get to know some of you guys and learn together more about painting! :D

(I tried to put some other previous works of mine in here, but I have no idea on how to attach files on this site. I'm very newbie in forums, sorry xD If you search for piloreta in deviantart or artstation you may be able to find some stuff I have. There is not much, but I am working to make more finished stuff).

http://piloreta.deviantart.com/
https://www.artstation.com/artist/piloreta

Hey everyone,

I'm an artist from America, I'm 18 and I have dreams of going pro. My interests are illustration and concept art. I'm definitely not good enough to go pro but I really love art. I started drawing seriously about a year and a half ago. I'm currently looking for classes in my area but I'm not finding many, and with work and school, it's hard to find the time. My other passions are video games and music. My favorite artists are Ilya Kuvushinov, Ross Tran, and Zeronis. 

I'm super interested in improving my art as much as I can. I hope I can get some good feedback here. I struggle with anatomy, and I think that's because for the first several years, back when art was more of a hobby, I focused on drawing things that I liked from reference and only recently realized that "oh crap, I don't know any of the basics." As of right now, I'm focusing on just going hard on the basics and learning as much as I can. 

Thanks everyone and Nice to meet you!

Taunty

Hello All,

My name is Eric and I'm a stay-at-home-dad and artist looking for new challenges. For most of my life I dreamed of being a comic book artist. For six years I sort of made that happen with self-publishing. Over the past few months, however, I slowly realized that I never really enjoyed making comics. I liked it, but I didn't love it. So, I decided to pick up digital painting as a way to maybe get into doing concept art for video games, which I do love.

I've only been painting for a couple months, but I want to do whatever I can to climb that ever growing mountain of "getting better" And hopefully, someday, make a living. My work can be seen on Artstation or my personal website 

Anyways I'm looking to dive in. Start a sketchbook, start doing some challenges and hopefully climb that mountain a lot faster. So here are a few of my favorite pieces, so far.

Hi guys  !

My name is Sany and i want work like concept artist and ilustrator, I started drawing in the manga style but I'm changing it Gradually, I am willing to study hard and follow the tips and teachings of you.
I feel that need help and feedback of my drawings.  
I want to learn from you and in the future teach other members
 *(Sorry for my bad English)
Anyway, here are some drawings...




 

Suuup fellas! 

Finally spared some time to start showing up here.
I´m a brazilian guy dedicating time to maybe someday work in the entertainment industry.
After many years without drawing, I´ve decided to start studying last year, so I took drawing fundamentals classes and now I am currently on life drawing and digital painting classes. 

It´s going to be awesome to share and interact with this community, I´m really looking foward to develop as an artist.

Well, here are some of my stuff I did along this year:

Perspective


Landscapes


Gestures (then and now)


Head


Sargent color study


Still Life


Life Drawing


See ya on the sketchbook threads ;)
--
Jota

Hello everybody!

I heard about this place awhile ago and finally decided to take the plunge.
I've been looking to be part of an active community that will help me develop my skills. I'm also interested in possibly making some new friends here. :)

I'm currently studying to be a web designer/ developer, but art has always been very important to me and I've been drawing since I was a kid. Unfortunately, I haven't been drawing as much in recent years, but I'd like to change that and continue to improve my artistic abilities.

I'm very excited to be a member of this community and am looking forward to working with you guys!
:D