:blush: Hello, My name is ShadowLillium.

I am from the United States, and for awhile now, I have been watching this forum yet was too shy to join even though I have been undergoing mentoring classes from the lovely Istebrak.

I have been drawing since I was little and animated a little during high school, yet strangely never thought of doing it as a career. Art as a career was pretty much unheard of in my family, but for the past 2 years; I have been enamored with the idea of doing what I love for a living. I just recently started learning to transition traditional to digital. As of the end of last year, I have decided to make the jump and push towards a career in freelancing art and animation. Although I am still pretty new at this, I am so grateful to find such a wonderful community to grow and learn from.

Salutations and hugs,
SL

Hello there! My name is Nadia and am from The Netherlands.
and I just recently joined this community in the hope to get better in my artwork and get out of my comfort-zone!

I have been drawing digitally since 2005, but started out in the Lion King fandom, which caused me to draw mainly big cats (especially many lions) and other animals for 7 years. I have quite developed a lot with animal anatomy. My biggest inspiration is Terryl Whitlatch.

But it gets slowly boring and I have a huge desire to go to a different direction and to expand my horizon a bit more. Since I really want to work as a freelance concept artist and illustrator.

Last year in 2012 I have grown a big interrest in landscape painting and have created some nice works but I want to get better. I also want to learn to draw buildings and humans. I seek feedback and so my reason to join this nice place. I hope to fullfill this new years resolution. :)

Greetings,
Nadia.

Hi there,

My name is Jade and I’m totally new to the whole digital art scene! I mainly work in 3D with all sorts of media in my own little studio at home, but I’m a ceramicist at heart. But through the colder months in rainy England I felt like switching it up a bit and focusing on illustration and concept design (indoors) :)

So Recently I bought myself a drawing tablet as it’s always been something that has intrigued me, but really I had no clue how to use it once I got it home and out of the box! So naturally I was searching for help or tutorials on YouTube and I stumbled upon Dave Rapoza’s Knight sketch tutorial and that was it, hooked! What an inspiration!!

So that’s how I got here, I would say I definitely have a long way to go, especially with learning how to use photoshop. My spatial awareness and 3D way of thinking do seem to help somewhat, but I have a lot of good books on illustration and composition to get stuck into.

I’m looking forward to getting the chance to be inspired, gain motivation and possibly receive some critiques and feedback along the way in order to grow an improve as an artist.

Thanks, nice to meet you all x

Hello daggers,

After a few livestreams and several days of stalking I tought it was time to join in!

Had some fun on the google hangout having some fun and actually doing stuff!
Already some productivity!

Right, back to drawing, I know i'm lacking fundamentals big time.
So thats my new years resolution / deathline to actually get dem fundamentals correct.

Also will be going of ISra's classes and learning from the scott robertson at gnomon!
Insanity ensured.

Greetings from holland.

-Sjuu / Tjeunis

Hi there. Uhm.. I guess the basics is that My name is Chiritsu (or Chi). I learnt about the Crimson Daggers site about 4 hours ago after LiveStreaming, watching a stream then being linked to here and one of the Google+ hangouts.

You can see some of my work in my signature down there and I'm also currently LiveStreaming now. Feel free to ask questions and things cause I'm not entirely sure what is protocol for these kinda things lol.

Hello Everybody!

Hails! from New Jersey. Im Eric Kerke, or HypnoSaur. Here because I want to hone my skills as an Artist. Looking for a community of like minded folk looking to improve their skills as well. You folks seemed not so crazy. :P

I'm a senior at my state university's Illustration department, and I've just realized that I need to drastically kick my own butt into high gear in order to survive once I graduate.

Looking to become a regular.
So just saying hi.

PS- If one is looking for a study partner, please message me!

hi there im new here, my name is leonardo im 21 and im a mexican currently living in merida i recently found the streams of dave and dan and been watching them religiously and from there i found this nice community! :)

ive been drawing for around 3 years, its been tough having to learn from the ground up without any teachers but with the ammount of info out there it wasnt hard at all to fund good niches of information, ive read alot about drawing and lines but i would like to grow and start to make pieces this year so im glad to be here and im really eager to be an active part of the community :D so nice to meet you!

So I finally joined the Crimson Daggers after lurking around here for weeks :) My name is Markus, I´m an archaeologist and IT technician by trade and I started to get serious about painting about 2 years ago. Now, I want the real deal and become better and better to maybe one day turn my passion into profession.

Hey all,

Joined up with Crimson Daggers frankly because CA has gone well down hill of late. Looking for another art community to help me develop my skill s from okay, to amazing. I hope to get some help here and to help anyone else I can. And hopefully leech motivation from you all. Thanks!

I just watched a bunch of Dave's videos and blog posts... what an inspiration!!

I'm working on a new portfolio to solicit myself as a freelance Illustrator/Designer. I have experience as a production artists for video games... but I'm switching gears a bit and going for illustration (publishing) and concept design for film and games.

I've focused mainly on oil painting this past year, teaching portrait painting and doing plein air studies. Now I'm ready to go back and apply what I've learned to entertainment design and story illustrations.

Mr. Rapoza has some great tips on freelancing. I'm looking forward to join the ranks of all you hard working and obsessed artists.

cheers!

-Paulo