Hi all,

You can call me 3upmoon, or just moon for short.
I am currently studying game development and recently decided that I would like to become a real-time VFX artist. However, I would also like to develop a skilset as a generalist artist. Grounding my skills in the fundamentals of visual art seems important, and CD looks like an awesome place to keep up and improve. This forum looks really cool, and I am looking forward to getting involved.

I have a little experience and with illustration, but nothing I would consider serious. I'm hoping to get a little sketchbook of studies going over the next couple of days, and I will post that here. It will be a lot of fun to record my progress!

Thank you for taking the time to read this, and I look forward to getting to share some awesome art with you all!

Hello everyone, nice to meet you. You can call me FallowGround or FG, since it's a mouthful. 

I'm a concept artist mostly working in games, but have done some work in comics and animation as well. I wasn't really aware of OG concept art forums (and too young to properly utilise at the time too, probably), but dabbled in ancient forum based petsites back in the day when I was a wee lass. I feel like I've had a tough time keeping up with discord groups and have been really craving an old-school online community. The sorta place you catch up with over tea in the morning, write an essay length reply on and where you can track progress in a 6-year old thread and all that, haha.

I have a lot of life and art-related goals for 2024 so I hope having a place to share and get feedback on will help. Most of my art goals this year are fundies related. I started drawing and doing commissions really young, without really actually /learning/ how to draw properly so I'm working on fixing those good ol' gaps now. I'm planning to tackle construction and human anatomy first. I draw full-time for work so I'm desperately trying to find a way to sneak in consistent practice in my schedule. (If anyone has figured this out I'd love to hear how you do it!) 

I'll do my best to not disappear after this post, and hopefully post instead of going into permanent lurk mode. I'm a bit nervous but also excited about meeting a new community and going back into study mode. I'll post some old stuff since everything recent I've got is under NDA and I haven't done any studies in an embarrassingly long time :') (Doing my best to change that though!)


           


Take care and thanks for having me! Looking forward to browsing through everyone's sketchbooks. Let's work hard and set solid goals for 2024.

- FG

Hello yall, I'm Eidothea. I'm an architectual student major in Urban planning but i also do digital and traditional illustration. I live in Vietnam and i might be a bit chronically online. 
I always have a knack for art ever since i'm able to walk but i never had a community to show my art and talk to. So i decided to join in this quiet space of the internet and meet up with like-minded peeps and have fun.
Hopefully i'm able to post art somewhat weekly and grew out this brand new digital sketchbook here.

Hello, it is nice meeting you all. I am seeking an art buddy because I am currently in the UK for studies and come from Canada. I don't have anyone else with whom to share critiques and advice. There's one friend from back home who I can't reach. My presence on the Internet has also been very limited. I also would like the motivation one would get from working together.

I have been drawing things for a few years, mostly with pencil and paper. I like drawing from life and occasionally furry art. Send me a PM if you want to contact me elsewhere. I have a Discord account.

Hey guys I'm Caleb, recently I decided it was time to fully commit myself back to art (well the time I have outside of working) It's certainly been a struggle, I've been serious about art for the vast majority of my life, but after quitting I just completely lost my purpose in life. Like it just felt I wasn't living up to my potential in anyway and just getting by.

Greetings! I'm an aspiring illustrator and I want to work in the game industry one day. Splash art is what I'm striving for. I aim to share my studies and sketches so I can log my progress. It's exciting to be able to share work with other artists, I hope to get along with you guys!

I'm a hobbyist, but i've been really into art since i was a kid. Going into my 30's it's nice to rekindle my old hobbies especially with all the other creative stuff i'm doing in-between engineering classes. Was in the Army National Guard for 8 years, got an associates in Industrial Electrical and now i'm trying to draw stuff from my book/tabletop series and figured this was a good place to come to for feedback.

One day i hope to pull off the same kinda work as Ronald Wong of aviation painting fame, Andrew Jones (Metroid Prime's concept artist) and RBT Designer from Deviant Art (that man's stuff is insane)

Salutations!

I was pleasently surprised to find an art forum that was still alive in these day. Most forum of this sort have long since succumbed to their wounds, dealt by the dastardly phantoms known as Reddit and Discord. What more, it's a forum in the style of CA.org!
I've been doing art for a long time now, but for reasons I stopped and stagnated heavily. My wish is to get back in to doing the craft more seriously and having a place to share my studies would be a great boon to that goal.

I usually do cartoons, anime-esque stuff even, but I've been switching gears to doing more fundementals, working with basic forms, line, composition and design. In general, my goal is to increase the amount of work I do, in the sketchbook and online.

Wow, I had no idea an art forum like this still exists. I missed creating a digital sketchbook like on concept art or Sycra's forums. I am happy to have found this place. 


I go by Og-san. I'm 30 years old and been drawing since I was young. I took it seriously around 2010. 13 years later and a lot has changed. Looking back on it now, I had no idea what I personally wanted to do. I just looked at a lot of my favorite internet artists and thought what they did was what I should be doing. I am not going to say that was a total waste of time because there was a lot of mileage gained out of just drawing. I have jumped back and forth between wanting to be a character designer, game developer, Animator, Storyboard artist, and comic artist. All aspiring to work a studio and have some professional career. Making connections with people in work and learning about what it takes to get into that world and what it is like really made me re-evaluate what I really wanted out of life and art. 

There a lot more in-between that but I finally landed on being an indie comic artist. I have landed a decently paid job in the financial world with a proper work/life balance that allows me to pursue Art in my own way and pace. Overall I just want to be a great storyteller. 

I have all my artwork from 2010 up until now but I did not start digitally archiving it until 2015. A lot of that is lost to the sycra forums closing down but I do have a Local drive on my PC that start in 2017. I am going to create a digital sketchbook on here that starts from 2017 and progressively upload from there. 

Thanks for reading and thanks for still being active Crimson Daggers!