I'm new to crimsondaggers.... obviously! I came across this fantastic place while looking at Dave Rapoza's facebook page and thought it would be a good idea to join. I'm a recently graduated art student from RIT's fine art program. I'm 23 years old, working part time at a deli on long island living at home. (That sounds way more depressing than I thought it would.) My goal is to have a solid portfolio filled with designs, logos, illustrations, storyboards, and an animation by Christmas of 2014, or atleast as much of that as humanly possible.

My dream is to illustrate comic books, either my own ideas, or fleshing out someone else's story. I have a writer/musician partner on a great story that we've been working on for the past 5 months, but after a review at NYCC decided to hold off until my technical ability is stronger to make this specific story more solidly represented.

So what better place to improve my work than Crimson Daggers?! I hope you welcome me, and critique me as harshly as humanly possible. My website is www.daltonryanart.com and my twitter is @daltonsbreathin .

So without further ado, aka TL;DR:

Hi, nice to meet you, I'm dalton. Let's make some art and be best friends.

Hey folks, I'm joining Daggers to help me get some people around me doing art, to help keep myself motivated, and to get good crit.
Thanks in advance!

Hi guys, I am Flo, 24 years old and from germany.
Currently I am studying "Virtual Design" in Kaiserslautern, southwest germany.

Want to be an illustrator in the end, at University we almost only do 3d visualisations and stuff like that which I quite like, but I definitely won't do that for the rest of my life.

I hope to get a ton better and have a bit more motivation through Crimson Daggers to push through.

My favorite artists don't only belong to concept art/illustration etc but a lot artists I like are comic book artists, pop culture artists ( who do band artworks and posters etc.).

So let's get started. :)

Hello daggers!

I am Chris, 28 years old, from Germany. I was been heavily into art around 2005. Back then I almost went to art school. But at the very last minute I decided for something different. So I studied something non-art-related, I got a job, I made a career. I always told myself I would continue to pursue art on the side, but I never really did.

I'm not planning to quit my day-job in order to become a full-time artist any time soon. As a matter of fact, I do love what I ended up with doing for a living. But at the same time, I don't want to wake up one day when I'm old and realize that I never pursued this dream because I spent all my spare time lying on my couch surfing the web. I've done enough of that in the last couple of years. Now I feel like trying something new:

I'm going to make this craft a priority in my life. I'm going to put in the effort and dedication to learn how to draw and paint! And I'm going to finish pictures to a presentable level!

I'm a huge fan of 2D animation, obscure science fiction, academic art, and stories with sad endings. You can expect my own art to be inspired by these things.

Looking forward to studying with all of you!

Hello Daggers^^

I'm Maggie, 20yrs old from Bulgaria. I've discovered art 3 years ago and ever since I'm constantly trying to improve. I study Animation now, although I found out that this isn't exactly what I want to do in future. I don't actually know what I want to do but eventually it will appear at some point.
So I decided to join you because I don't have many friends interested in art and that sucks.. big time. It's always nice to do stuff with others. I've found that this really inspires me and motivates me to draw even when I don't feel like it. Besides, you all look cool n stuff!

Right now I'm considering dropping out of University because it's frickin useless and I'm just wasting my time there. I don't have the $$ to study abroad so maybe I'll take some online classes and I'll try very very hard to become more disciplined and organised.

I really hope this isn't another almost-dead-place where people have left because it really looks nice:)

Hello, there!
I just stared doing digital art. I always wanted to but i just recently bought a cheap graphics tablet and stared my journey. :D
I'm a 18yr old Croatian male who loves to game, so much of my previous and upcoming art is/will be based off of video game characters.
I joined this site mostly in hopes of learning more about digital art to improve my not so leet skills.
Hopefully i will find what i'm looking for. Now i'm off to explore this land! :P

I've made an account a year ago but I never managed to get as far as introduction. I'm Denis from Croatia and I'm 26 years old. A year and half ago I got into drawing and I'm pretty much interested in illustration, concept art, animation and comics. Hope I can learn some stuff here and grow as an artist and take it to another level. So that's about it..hope I'll be seeing you guys in the sketchbook threads ;)

Hohey Daggers ! I'm Tien, a french digital artist looking to improve a LOT, so thank you very much for your help -and don't worry you can go all out with my work, i'm not looking for praisings (but you can too haha)-, I will try my best to help you as well (from my poor level so take it if you find it useful, if it's not just tell me I'm advicing baaad things).

Oh yeah, My goal is actually getting into the game/movie industry. Thank you for your attention !

Hi there!

my name's Lilly (well my real name is Eliška Heřmanská) and I'm currently 17 years old. I just love to draw characters so I decided lately to spend more time improving my skill. I would like to become character designer.
I'm so glad that I joined this awesome community of people who has the same passion as I do. It's just great and inspiring to see your beautiful art! :)

See you around here
Lilly
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I pretend that I have parties on other planets to keep myself from rolling off the deep end. I don't know why I'm here or what I'm looking for or maybe I do . I just know that I'm an artist because I say that I am . I think I'm trying to connect. So let's connect. :)