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!

Hi! My name is Alan.

I like to draw!  Probably my principal focus is to learn the drawing fundamentals and apply them in my drawings and illustrations  

Some of the stuffs that I've made.

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Hi, all! Name's Rob, and I'm just here to find a community with some art geeks who like to share their works and their knowledge. I'm here to try and be a more contributing member to an online community. Plus, CD reminds me a lot of the communities that were around when I was a wee-lad. This place seems like a really cool place, and I look forward to seeing some awesome work as I lurk around these forums.

Recently watching Sinix old sketchbooks how he improve in 8 months I want to recreate those results like him. Shape form lines and anatomy to can't wait to improve with this sketchbook

Sketchbook: https://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-9435.html

Hello everyone, 

I just joined this community, I'm looking for a good place where i can post my art and talk to others about art. I really love studying art and the style I have the most fun is with anime/manga art style. However I also practice still life and real life human figures a lot. I look forward to spending more time here!

Hello

My name is Prince and I am 19 years of age.

I have been drawing on and off my whole life. I am  now going to college to pursue a different career.

And I wanted to use my free time when I am in college to become good enough at drawing or digital painting that I can have a career in art. From what I've read 4 years is a lot of time, I've seen artist improve or become professional within a year or two. Assuming that the people who improved in that short amount of time spent a lot of time drawing, I am hoping to use all of the free time I have while in college to be spent on improving my drawing skills.

My goal is to be able to draw in this kinds of style using only my imagination where it is not too simplified, anime-ish and not photo realistic.
with the likes of these:
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/3L2Ko
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/ybJgGR
https://www.artstation.com/artwork/kDKx86

I got access to a lot of good anatomy books but I decided to focus only on Burne Hogarth - Dynamic Anatomy (Revised and Expanded) because of Marko Djurdjevic, love his art style and he recommended the book is good if you want to draw the figure in motion with no use of reference.

Artists I like Marko Djurdjevic, Dave Rapoza, Eliza Ivanova, Karl Kopinski, Maciej Kuciara and many more.

I will upload my sketchbook soon and include a link.
Thank you for reading
http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/forum-10.html

Please dont be shy and message me if you have any questions.

Hello everyone

My name is Matthew and I am 22 years old.

I have liked to draw on and off for some time now. For the past year or so I have been more serious and consistent in studying. I can't really say how long I have been drawing exactly.

I work as an apprentice electrician. I don't have any goals for a professional career in art. Other than drawing, I like to lift weights and go to metal shows. I also like tattoos. I like to watch MMA and muay thai and have done a little muay thai in the past which I hope to start again when I move house.

I am currently producing a silly comic for fun. It's called steel cupid and I will share here from time to time. I hope you enjoy.

People I like are frank frazetta, jeff jones, r crumb, robert e howard, hp lovecraft, edward hopper and tsutomu nihei.

I'm posting here because I don't speak to anyone who draws in real life so it will be nice to see other people's work and share opinions. I also think it's good to share my drawings somewhere people will maybe appreciate them, since art is meant to be shared I think, and I don't ever show anyone my drawings.

I will upload my sketchbook soon and include a link.

Thank you for reading

Edit: Here is my sketchbook http://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-9400.html

Hello , 

I'm Dave. I'm self taught. I'm 46 yo. My dreams are to become DC or Marvel artist. Or at least Disney or any of the other big names. 

I'm just kidding. I'm here to learn how to work with lights and volumes. I want to Understand anatomy,  muscles and skeleton structure how they work.

I need to understand the behaviour of the perspectives and materials. Basically everything.
My interests are indeed with comics, illustrations and 2d animations.
I believe I've got a big sense of humor. 

Peace.