Hello there! So this is my first time on a forum based site and I am quite socially inept so please excuse the socially awkward mess of a person. 
   Anyways, about myself, I'm 19 and I'm working on improving my art in hopes of someday making some sort of career out of it. I first started back in sometime around 2008-2009 in my middle school years. However I only recently, as of the past 2 years or so, have gotten serious about my art. After being rejected for a tattoo apprenticeship due to lack of formal art education I decided to go about on my own and teach myself a thing or two about art. 
   I'm looking forward to meeting new people on here and learning along the way ^^!

[examples of the type of art I do]

Hey All, 

Thought I'd post and say hi to all you lovely mo fos. 

I recently quit my job, in order to give me more time to paint, so I thought I'd better get my ass active in some sort of community, and been as Dave and Dan are the ones who inspired me to start painting/drawing again. What better place? 

I gave up on art at about 16 after fluffing my school art class, I was a little shit and just didn't show up to any lessons. I started drawing again about a year and a half ago and after somehow getting into a creative role at a commercial illustration company my friend worked at I thought, fuck this... commercial illustration/greeting cards is not at all what I want to be doing. Anyway, I've post a recent piece below - I'm so self critical I hate posting stuff, but I gotta learn to get stuff out there, I guess. The second piece is a sort of companion piece WIP (I'm doing these posters based on beers that I love and my favourite local bar has said they'll put them up on the walls).

Anyways, eventually I'd like to be doing entertainment industry concept stuff and illustrations (as would most people here I'm sure), so I gotta start pushing in that direction. 

Look forward to my stay and getting to know you all / being active in the community! RUSTED STEEL onwards!

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Another newbie here on board! Please be kind to me :')

Let me introduce myself. My name's Céline, I'm 17 years old and next schoolyear I will attend a game art study. This/last year I actually attended an IT study in Media Design because the I failed the tests for that game art study, but now I'm back!
I started getting serious about art +- 2 years ago and after a lot of fiddling and procrastination and soul searching I decided that I wanted to just do it.
I'm aspiring to become a concept artist as an illustrator as well, creating awesome designs and making pretty art.
I'm looking forward to get to know this community ^_^

If you have any questions, want to spill your darkest secrets or whatsoever, feel free to leave a comment or a message.

Hey Crimson Daggers!

My name is Craig Martinez. 
Im striving to get better with painting, design, storytelling and pretty much everything.
I'm new to the forum and really excited to learn and meet some new people. Ive heard about this forum in streams and decided to check it out. 
After reading the threads and checking out the sketchbook section, I'm really excited to get involved in this!

Feel free to get in touch with questions and comments.
Thanks!

Hey guys.

Greetings from Portugal. I'm 26, work in IT and used to draw quite a bit growing up. That isn't to say I was ever good at it, mind you, but sadly it was a habit I kind of got out of over the years. 
Unlike most here, I don't have a background in art nor do I intend to work in the field professionally. You don't have to be a professional to enjoy art and drawing though, right? :)

I stumbled upon the forum just a couple of days ago, I think I first heard about it over on CA or something. Anyway, hopefully seeing everyone's sketchbooks will motivate me to pick up the pencil again in the near future.

And that's about it, I guess.

Nice to meet you all!

Hello there!
You can call me Lapa or Patschka, just as you like. I'm new to the forums and am excited to be here - everyone in here seems to be interested in progressing/learning new things and that's exactly where I want to be. :)

I don't have a lot to say about myself - I'm not a native speaker, so if you find any weird mistakes in my texts, sorry in advance.

I don't have a great story to tell as some def can - I was always drawing and interested in everything film-related, but I never really got serious about my art and I was struggling a lot not knowing what I really want to do. Since I have kind of a lot of interests - like writing novels, drawing and film - I tried to focus only on ONE of those things and not only "failed", but felt completely wrong about it (applied for Animation School etc).

Right now I slowly begin to believe that, if I only work hard enough, I can combine my interests into one profession and I look up to artists like H. R. Giger - not only because his style "speaks to me", but more because he just did what he loved in the end and worked on so many different projects as a concept artist.
I know that many of the people working in the industry would probably tell me that it's best to focus only on one thing, but I have the goal to be some sort of an Art Director some time. I know its a long and tough road and I'm struggling every day, but I feel if I dont pursue that, I wont be happy.

Hah, long post.
Looking forward to the journey :)
Thanks everyone!

I'm Liam and I live in New Zealand, I am also studying at Massey University in the Creative Media production course.

I mostly work in a sketchbook and do some traditional painting, I'd like to hone my skills and improve my digital painting.

Hey everyone.
I'm 26 and have recently graduated culinary school. I realized while I was there that art is the only career I see myself doing happily for the rest of my life. So I'm currently teaching myself the techniques to become a concept artist. I'm also gonna dabble in 2D animation. Since art college is too steep for me in price I'm going to study using online tools and forums as well as take classes online and at local Ateliers. 

I'll post my stuff as soon as I can get my scanner to work and download the images. Otherwise I'll have to use my camera or just upload digital works only.

I'm really glad I found a good community of other artists who want to study and learn from each other. I'll try to help out as much as I can and would appreciate any advice you could give me on my art. 

See you around.

Hi All!

So im super stoked to be getting started on this site :) Ill admit i've been wishy washying away in the background since 2015 and not really making any progress, but for the very first time ive decided to do something active and say hello! 



Ive just submitted a sketchbook thread which you can look at here if you like:
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-7655.html

All in all, i've decided to kick myself up the bum now that im finishing up with university, so that i can start with a disciplined regime and get my illustration work up to the standard that i want it to be.

I see so many beautiful pieces of artwork featured around here and on facebook and i always think to myself in the most pitiful voice "Awwwwwww i wish iiii could paint like thaaaat xD" and then i end up saying to myself "Well, like? Get some bloody work done then?? Yer lazy nincompoop???" And today i've finally found the resolution to do so haha.

...I talk to myself alot, pay no attention.



So! Glad to be here :) hope to make some friends, aquaintances and colleagues of like minded individuals up for a fun (and most likely gruelling) time of becoming awesome artists :D And thanks for reading my 'hello' post ;)

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Hey guys! 
My name is Filipe and I'm a portuguese digital artist. I'm 21 years old, 22 in about 2 months. 
I've recently come across this forum (a friend of mine mentioned it) and I decided to join. I hope it's ok :D 

Don't know much about forums to be honest, so if you have any cool stuff you want me (or think that I should) take a look at around here, please let me know ^^ 

I've started doing sketchaday challenge a bit over 2 weeks ago so I might open a sketchbook here if that's ok. 
For now I guess I'll leave you with a few links and my last 2 sketches.

Sketchaday Blog: http://colormate-sketchaday.tumblr.com
My website/Portfolio: http://filipepintoart.weebly.com
Facebook Art Page: https://www.facebook.com/Filipe-Pinto-Ar...901908858/





I hope you like them. 
Feel free to talk with me some time if you want/need anything from me :)