I'm a almost 20 year old college student hoping to become either a illustrator or concept artist, but I'm not at that level yet. That's why I'm here. To learn the skills needed to be freakishly awesome in my future career.

   

Hello Crimson Daggers! I'm Samuel Herb, a 19 year old student artist.
For the past three years, I've been meandering around the artsy side of the internet and working to improve my skill. While I've made some substantial progress in that time, I feel like I'm beginning to slow down quite a bit. That's why I came here- to get a fresh kick in the ass, and hopefully meet some new friends!

I'f you want to see some of my work, you can saunter on over to my tumblr blog or my DeviantArt page
I should have a sketchbook up soon.

Hey everyone. My name is Tony and I live in cold ass NH. I like drawing and metal. Here's a link to my DA account:

http://killtheanimator.deviantart.com/

I know, I know... pretty shitty. The hope is that I can learn some shit here and be as unshitty as I can be. Shit.

I've made a deal with myself recently to get better at art so that I can do something with it before I'm wormfood.

Anyways, comments welcome and I hope to be a part of the crits if Dave and Dan ever find the time to do them again.

-Tony

Hey, it's me, Saukem.

I'm 26 and looking to become a great artist. I know I'm a little late to the scene, age-wise, but hopefully not TOO late. And yes, I greatly regret not starting earlier. But I plan to make up for it now.

The road is going to be long, hard, full of frustrations, disappointments and many moments of rage and confusion. I know that. And I still wanna do it, because it's fun.

I'll start up a Sketchbook thread soon so you guys can see what I'm doing. Hopefully I'll find a creative home here and make some friends.

See you guys around.

:D

hello,
Giorgio from Milano, Italy.
31 years old, freelance illustrator for the past 9 years.
99% of my professional work always went into children and young adults books, did some advertising, posters and stuff, but lately i decided it was time to take a step forward in my career, speaking of style and genre.
working hard to make my way into concept art for gaming, or videogames, cards, whatever.

i've been part of the internet art community since forever, but always struggled to get a decent feedback, deviantart and other forums/communities has become so big that i'm less than a drop in the ocean, and getting noticed and receive professional critiques from other professionals is almost impossible..

so here i am, looks like this could be the place, i see there's lot of interaction between users so i'll try to be as active as possible, posting wips, sketches and finished works.. and why not helping others if in my capabilites.. ;)

Soooo I gathered the courage and joined this awesome forum. I heard so much about crimson daggers from many artists that I just had to check it out.

Anyhow, I'm a graduated graphic designer from eastern Europe, that was always intimidated by drawing and 2 months ago something in me snapped (probably due to the fact that I'm not happy as a graphic designer) and I decided to finally learn how to draw. I always wanted to be an illustrator and an artist but some kind of fear held me back. I'm hear to learn from you guys.

So far I've been practicing for last two months and I'm happy with my progress. I've opened a personal sketchbook thread (fetf's sketch book at that forum section) and I can use any help you can offer! Cheers!

Hi guys! My name is April, I'm 18 years old and a freshman in college but I'm not studying art - I am self-taught and drawing has been my hobby since I was small but it was usually pretty stylized and not very versatile. This year I want to focus on the fundamentals and drawing from life while I have lots of free time.
I'll be starting a sketchbook here to keep track of my progress and hopefully get some much needed crit. I'd like to be able to have commission worthy art at some point but my main goal is simply to draw a lot and improve a lot.

So I've had sketchbook on here since the beginning of the year and forgot to introduce myself, I'm Andrew Robinson and I am currently studying Graphic Design at University in the UK, I've been drawing for enjoyment for quite some time but over the past year I've been getting serious about becoming an Illustrator/Concept Artist.

I have my books, I have my mediums and I have a lot of time, so I'll be updating my sketchbook thread quite regularly, I've been doing some digital portraits recently but they're eating up my time and I don't feel like I'm learning anything from them so I'm going to focus on my fundamental studies a lot more with some time set aside for personal work, I've been wary of doing personal work because I wanted to be at a level where I can create good work, but I realize that without doing personal work, I can't really apply what I learn and see my own improvements.

Nice to meet you all,

pugsloth

Hiiiya!

Hi, my name is Marcus, i come from sweden.
I am a art-newbie and goes to a art school. My goals are to get way better in my fantasy and to learn my eyes how to see things as they are, and also learn more about colour/shade/lights.
I am here to learn, im a student and i am willing to upload my journey through my art.
I use a tablet for drawing but i am also painting much traditionally in oil.
Im glad to join you here at Crimson Daggers and i hope you will help push me, advice me and critique my work.

peace!

Hello, guys and gals;)
My name is Alena, i'm 23 and live in Russia.
I can't say I'm new to art world - I got a degree as a graphic designer. But I did't really enjoyed it, so I decided to move closer to my dream of being kick-ass illustrator.
So I'm pretty excited to be here, in the place full of people, improving their skills. I hope it will help me to push my skills to the next level.
And if my lang is bad, sorry :)