Hi everyone!

Hey guys, I am in my last week of college and am about to enter the "real world", and am nervous as hell. My time to to become an adult has come and hopefully I can grow into the illustrator that Ive always wanted to be. I have always wanted to be an illustrator, the idea of not being one never really occurred to me. At least until I got B's and C's on my art homework, not for lack of trying but for lack of ability. I also wasn't able to get into the illustration program in my university, that was a major blow to my dreams haha.  I realized then and there that I was not good at art, and all those years fantasizing about being an amazing artist came crumbling down. I started to study like crazy after that, and I can proudly say I have gotten significantly better in one year. Im certain I can hold my own against my peers now but I know I still have ways to go before I can get stable work. And now that I am in my last week of college, as I am writing this, I know the path ahead is only going to get tougher. I hope I can come here and post my work to get advice about what to improve on in order to get work. So yeah, if you read this whole thing thank you, I know I kind of ranted about how lame I am haha. Into the trenches I march.

Hi!

My name's Razvan Radulescu (with the ever most original and easiest to remember user/internet nick name :D - razvanc-r). I'm Romanian (not living in Romania tho'), finishing a PhD in volcanic ash forecasting (the type of forecast that is focused on atmospheric ash dispersion/deposition - cause I get a lot of "oh so you do geology..." no! :D). Anyway, I'm at my end of my studies but for the longest time I've been interested in game development and drawing/painting, except I never gave it attention. Until now. So yeah, I'm pretty old to "go back to school" for this stuff but that's what I decided to do! Because I'm crazy :D.

I have been lurking in the shadows of gamedev./concept art for some time now and I'm finally taking a step into the light!... a very mid-tone colorless, desaturated light! :D. I'm a very big fan of open source software and believe in the power of: blender, godotengine, krita, inkscape, linux etc. So yeah, I'm a linux user for about 7-8 years now and a programmer/physicist at core I suppose, based on my studies at least :). Speaking of which, some shameless ad: if you're interested in playing with game dev.-ing, I started a tutorial series a while ago for godot engine :), more info here: https://razvanc-r.gitlab.io/tutorials/. It's completely free, it's based off of a unity tutorial (I'm basically exploring godot features by taking the unity tutorial and porting it to godot and improving upon it). So there you have it... oh, there's also some stuff I drew the past year or so (on and off as I didn't have a specific plan when I started): drawabox homework dump - there are some ok ones, some really bad ones, most of them are ok-ish I suupose, except for some really crappy ones :D. I think I'm ready to try out more advanced stuff (tho' I know I still need to chip away at the fundamentals badly!)

Any comments/collaborations/tips/tricks/advice etc. is more than welcome :)! Thenx for your time! Have a great day.

Hi, I'm Celanna.  Celanna isn't my real name, it's actually my WoW main.  I'm an aspiring artist stuck in the desolate wastes known as central California.  I've been trying for twenty odd years to better my craft.  Progress has been slow to say the least, but I'm still working on it.  In the mean time I work a regular job to pay the bills and cosplay for fun.

My endeavor is to get improve my skills in painting and draftsmanship.  I hope one day to leave the wastes and work professionally as an illustrator.

Allo peeps Goob here.  Just a artist/painter trying to figure out what I am better at and such.  I am hoping this forums a bit more active than some I have been on.  Heard a far bit about this place so there is that.  Anyways drop me a message anytime but I shall be posting things here now too hopefully.

Hello everyone! I'm Bobby,23 years old girl from Bulgaria. Introductions are always difficult for me because it's so hard to sum up with a few words what I want to say. But I''ll try to keep it brief (already failing ). 
I'm self taught artist and right now I study the basics. I've never been part of huge art community (well, I've never been part of any kind of forum actually)and this is really exciting for me!

My biggest problem is that as a self taught artist I can't always judge what I've done. And often I  have so many questions with no answers. This is killing me because for me art is not just a hobby- I want to succeed (oh, man I'm a little melodramatic right now ). So any feedback and critique will be more than welcome a.k.a. bring it on guys! 
Ok  I sound really cringy now so I'll stop . Have a nice day everyone and stay inspired (cringe points +10).

Hey! My name is Lorena Pimenta (my internet nickname is also Piloreta), and I'm a brazilian art student. I am 19 years old, and I have been painting digitally since I was 16 years, but I just started to study the fundamentals when I was 17. Since then, I have been struggling to improve my works, specially now that I have more time to spare, because I couldn't study art that much when I was in high school (I don't miss those school days hahaha).

Now I am studying visual arts here in Brazil, but my teachers are not very into the fundamentals, because they have a very closed mind in terms of what is art and what is not art (they are more connected with art of the 20th century). I respect how they treat their works and their objectives, but I will not stop to treat my own artwork according to my own personal taste... They should not be trying to make us do the same kind of work that they make, that upsets me a lot. I heard my future painting teacher does not like figurative stuff, perspective, lines: he hates all that, I am worried, because I also heard that many people at my school does not consider illustration as art, and I think this is so messed up... (This is very boring, but I also have many friends from my class that want to be illustrators, so we are all kind of sad on how narrow minded some art teachers are :( But we are determined to do what we like! Art is not something someone tells you what it is, in my own opinion ).

I dream to be a professional illustrator and concept artist one day. Internet really saves my life, tho: I may not have the best teachers that can help me in my objectives, but I have access to so much information online... I have been trying to contact other illustrators from my country and outside to gather as much as I can. And, thanks god, I know how to speak in english: god, everything is in english!

My biggest references are Ruan Jia, Miles Johnston, Jana Schirmer, Even Amudsen, Krenz Cushart, Sargent, Craig Mullins, Guangjian Huang, Anders Zorn, Monet, Degas and many many others that  I  may be forgetting!! So many amazing artists!!!

I wanted to create a sketchbook thread somewhere to show how my work is evolving and to get some nice feedback from other artist fellows around the globe. My buddies told me about this forum, so... Here I am. I'm very excited to get to know some of you guys and learn together more about painting! :D

(I tried to put some other previous works of mine in here, but I have no idea on how to attach files on this site. I'm very newbie in forums, sorry xD If you search for piloreta in deviantart or artstation you may be able to find some stuff I have. There is not much, but I am working to make more finished stuff).

http://piloreta.deviantart.com/
https://www.artstation.com/artist/piloreta

Hey everyone,

I'm an artist from America, I'm 18 and I have dreams of going pro. My interests are illustration and concept art. I'm definitely not good enough to go pro but I really love art. I started drawing seriously about a year and a half ago. I'm currently looking for classes in my area but I'm not finding many, and with work and school, it's hard to find the time. My other passions are video games and music. My favorite artists are Ilya Kuvushinov, Ross Tran, and Zeronis. 

I'm super interested in improving my art as much as I can. I hope I can get some good feedback here. I struggle with anatomy, and I think that's because for the first several years, back when art was more of a hobby, I focused on drawing things that I liked from reference and only recently realized that "oh crap, I don't know any of the basics." As of right now, I'm focusing on just going hard on the basics and learning as much as I can. 

Thanks everyone and Nice to meet you!

Taunty

Hello All,

My name is Eric and I'm a stay-at-home-dad and artist looking for new challenges. For most of my life I dreamed of being a comic book artist. For six years I sort of made that happen with self-publishing. Over the past few months, however, I slowly realized that I never really enjoyed making comics. I liked it, but I didn't love it. So, I decided to pick up digital painting as a way to maybe get into doing concept art for video games, which I do love.

I've only been painting for a couple months, but I want to do whatever I can to climb that ever growing mountain of "getting better" And hopefully, someday, make a living. My work can be seen on Artstation or my personal website 

Anyways I'm looking to dive in. Start a sketchbook, start doing some challenges and hopefully climb that mountain a lot faster. So here are a few of my favorite pieces, so far.