Hello! Time for introductions after spending a bit of time lurking 'round these parts. My name is Beola, but you can call me Be, or Busy B., oooor...by my name! I've just turned 21 a few weeks ago. Not as exciting as I'd hoped for, but hey whatevs. The key to happy living is to lower one's expectations, keep disappointment to a minimum, amirite?

Anywho, moving on! I've tried this before (the whole art forum community thing), and I'd definitely be one of the first to advocate for communal learning and support. I'm just terribly uncomfortable with non-face-to-face communication, because body language is essential in understanding others. However! If I were to wait until I'm ready to jump into the fray, then I'd never be ready and I'd probably never do it.

I'm done waiting. MY BODY...isn't ready, but I'll manage. We'll manage. I hope to meld with all of you lovely people in a sea of golden goop. C:

Hello and thank you,

My name is Mikhail Holland and I've been drawing my whole life dreaming about becoming a concept artist / fantasy illustrator. Of course it took me 26 years to get myself truly focused and get down to actually making my dream into a reality. Through a couple connections and words of advice I was told posting myself here was a great place to start.
I'm looking for any more advice or connections to help broaden my web. I'm a very imaginative person and have always been a quick learn. So far I'm only working with pencil/ink/2D, just recently having picked up Photoshop CS6. I'll be getting a digital tablet (huion 610) in hopefully a week but that's not in cement quite yet.
Once again, thanks for the gander and I look forward to anything anyone has to say.

***Here is my stuff on Behance***

- M

Hi everybody! I'm a 24 year old English teacher who lives in Madrid, Spain. I'm originally from California. I went to UCLA and graduated with a degree in science.

After years of promising I would change careers to art for video games, I am finally trying to do it. Currently I am enjoying being in Spain, and I was thinking hard about leaving my teaching job here and going back to Los Angeles to study at the Concept Design Academy starting October 1st.

However, the idea of leaving was tearing me apart. The expat lifestyle here can be lonely (really, really lonely sometimes....), and I am poor, but being so close to all these different places to travel to as well as seeing more of Spain is intoxicating to me. Flights are ridiculously cheap. I just don't want to go home quite yet.

So, I am going to see how far I can get with tutorials online and maybe pay for some classes through the various CG Master-type websites, because cost of living here in Spain is a lot less. I can pay for my living expenses with my 16-hr week job.

So, let's see how far I can get with these tutorials. My goal is to evaluate how I'm doing by December. If I haven't made sufficient progress, I will move back to Los Angeles and try to get a part-time job SAT tutoring (which pays very well per hour, so I could theoretically pay all my living expenses with 10-12 hours of that), and then the rest of the time taking classes at CDA in February. My parents have offered to help me out with the cost of that, plus loans.

It's a scary idea for me (who doesn't fear failure?) but today I just started with my first free online tutorials from Ctrl+paint. For me the biggest stumbling block is overthinking and not starting. Once I get going I can get on a roll, but starting is a hurdle.

Anyway, hola a todos! También hablo español, si quieres. :-)

Looking forward to interacting with everyone here. I feel really isolated in what I'm trying to do, so I'm thankful that fourms like this exist.

Hello, community of Crimson Daggers. My name is Pookaball (not really) and I try to be an artist, but I can't achieve anything in art. I "specify" in digital art with a stylus on my IPad and Pixel art (Which I believe is frowned upon at this website) on PC. I also do pencil drawings, but they are horrendous.
So I came to this website, to join the community, get help and advice, make friends and buddies and, of course, improve on my art.
If you want to see my IPad drawings, you can visit this link:
http://imgur.com/a/yweH9#0
The drawings are in the album in reverse-chronological order, the first one in the album being the latest one. Keep in mind that those aren't all my works and I just picked the ones I thought were decent.
I hope links to imgur are allowed, I haven't even read the rules dont ban plis

Hello, everyone.

I've spent much of my life doodling here and there, and two years ago I began a college degree in art at a community college. I enjoy painting, digital design, illustrative and comic book (sequential art). I help market indie comics around here and love going to conventions. I am working towards getting better with my sequential art, trying to better enhanace my dynamics and also inking.

When I started my lessons at the community college, I also did practice on my own in addition to my other assignments, things that I enjoyed doing. I feel that extra work really helped me 'jump' artistically.

I work with manga studio, krita, paintshop, and photoshop (although it's not on this computer right now). I would love to learn , and I want to push myself further. I love to be challenged and I don't have an issue with my artistic flaws being pointed out.




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Hello all,

I'm new here and thought I'd better introduce myself. I'm currently an out of work computer technician. I studied a little bit of art back in college but only because I had some friends that were also taking the classes. I've never considered art more than a hobby but after lurking around here for a few months I've decided to join this forum to try and take my art more seriously and improve my skills.

Hello!

I'm Dany, I'm a student going into 2D animation in September of this year (2014) and I've been lurking crimsondaggers for awhile now. I figured it was about time to set up an account and get out there. Everyone on this site is so talented and I was feeling a little intimidated at 1st, but I realized this is a community and we're all here to learn. The people I'm around in my town aren't really the artsy fartsy type haha, but now that I'm out of high school it's a lot easier to get out there.

Feel free to send me emails or whatever, I'd love to get to know more of you!

Thanks for taking the time to read this :) I can't wait to meet all of you

-Daners

Hi, I'm Charles. I'm a college student in my second year doing foreign language studies. I've recently come to realize that foreign language isn't really what excites me anymore though. What gets me really excited and energized is video game art. I love video games and I love art, so making the two together is so much fun for me.

Currently, I'm working on a concept for a video game that I really have no way of making, but I'm thinking that I may just switch to an art school and start taking classes for drawing, painting, and 3D modeling. I'm not very good at art at the moment (I've failed every art class I've taken), but with this new found passion, I think I could really get used to doing art for my career. I want to create whole new worlds filled with new species and new languages. I want to inspire people with my art and creations the way I've been inspired by Silent Hill and Kingdom Hearts.

I think that may have gotten a little too cheesy, but you get the point. I'm here because I want to meet friends who can help me become a better artist. I just found out about this site a few hours ago, and haven't really looked around, but I have high hopes.

I want to be serious about drawing.I choose to come to crimson daggers to sharpen my knowledge and to learn from other people.I am seeking challenge and partner or mentor or just a comment.I am like pretty much everyone i need to kill the lazyness and get back to drawing.I am currently useing photoshop c6 and illustrator c6.So i am looking for tips tutorial website or streaming to improve my learning curve.
Goal:Concept artist oriented creature design
Thing I like to draw:Character,monster,fantasy,sci-fi,super hero,horror,dark,skull,pin-up,video game fan art

Known about this place for a while, finally joined. Fine artist/Illustrator, trying to get better at being both.