Hello. 
My name is Sergei Knish, I am artist from Belorus. Now I am trying to develop my skill and start a career in game industry. Also I develop some games with friends in small studio called Empty Stage. 
Here is some of my latest works. 




Also, I am new to Crimson Daggers and my English a bit bad.

Hello. I'm BastionWing. Call me Wing for shorthand.
This is technically not my first time on an art forum - I did make an account on ConceptArt, but I wasn't very serious about art then and didn't really get much feedback because of it.

These past few months, I've been focusing on building a habit of drawing in my sketchbook every day. Now that I've done that, I want to use an art forum to help me improve.

I don't think I'm going to make a living off of art, but I do take art as seriously as if I were going to.

I hope that I can be a positive addition to this art community.

~Wing

Hi, I'm Ixspen. I'm a 20-something self-taught illustrator that's just trying to make their way in the world...
After a lot of major-hopping, I realize illustration is truly what I want to pursue and hope to one day be a children's book illustrator or work for a visual development team.

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Hello there! So this is my first time on a forum based site and I am quite socially inept so please excuse the socially awkward mess of a person. 
   Anyways, about myself, I'm 19 and I'm working on improving my art in hopes of someday making some sort of career out of it. I first started back in sometime around 2008-2009 in my middle school years. However I only recently, as of the past 2 years or so, have gotten serious about my art. After being rejected for a tattoo apprenticeship due to lack of formal art education I decided to go about on my own and teach myself a thing or two about art. 
   I'm looking forward to meeting new people on here and learning along the way ^^!

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Hey All, 

Thought I'd post and say hi to all you lovely mo fos. 

I recently quit my job, in order to give me more time to paint, so I thought I'd better get my ass active in some sort of community, and been as Dave and Dan are the ones who inspired me to start painting/drawing again. What better place? 

I gave up on art at about 16 after fluffing my school art class, I was a little shit and just didn't show up to any lessons. I started drawing again about a year and a half ago and after somehow getting into a creative role at a commercial illustration company my friend worked at I thought, fuck this... commercial illustration/greeting cards is not at all what I want to be doing. Anyway, I've post a recent piece below - I'm so self critical I hate posting stuff, but I gotta learn to get stuff out there, I guess. The second piece is a sort of companion piece WIP (I'm doing these posters based on beers that I love and my favourite local bar has said they'll put them up on the walls).

Anyways, eventually I'd like to be doing entertainment industry concept stuff and illustrations (as would most people here I'm sure), so I gotta start pushing in that direction. 

Look forward to my stay and getting to know you all / being active in the community! RUSTED STEEL onwards!

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Another newbie here on board! Please be kind to me :')

Let me introduce myself. My name's Céline, I'm 17 years old and next schoolyear I will attend a game art study. This/last year I actually attended an IT study in Media Design because the I failed the tests for that game art study, but now I'm back!
I started getting serious about art +- 2 years ago and after a lot of fiddling and procrastination and soul searching I decided that I wanted to just do it.
I'm aspiring to become a concept artist as an illustrator as well, creating awesome designs and making pretty art.
I'm looking forward to get to know this community ^_^

If you have any questions, want to spill your darkest secrets or whatsoever, feel free to leave a comment or a message.

Hey Crimson Daggers!

My name is Craig Martinez. 
Im striving to get better with painting, design, storytelling and pretty much everything.
I'm new to the forum and really excited to learn and meet some new people. Ive heard about this forum in streams and decided to check it out. 
After reading the threads and checking out the sketchbook section, I'm really excited to get involved in this!

Feel free to get in touch with questions and comments.
Thanks!

Hey guys.

Greetings from Portugal. I'm 26, work in IT and used to draw quite a bit growing up. That isn't to say I was ever good at it, mind you, but sadly it was a habit I kind of got out of over the years. 
Unlike most here, I don't have a background in art nor do I intend to work in the field professionally. You don't have to be a professional to enjoy art and drawing though, right? :)

I stumbled upon the forum just a couple of days ago, I think I first heard about it over on CA or something. Anyway, hopefully seeing everyone's sketchbooks will motivate me to pick up the pencil again in the near future.

And that's about it, I guess.

Nice to meet you all!

Hello there!
You can call me Lapa or Patschka, just as you like. I'm new to the forums and am excited to be here - everyone in here seems to be interested in progressing/learning new things and that's exactly where I want to be. :)

I don't have a lot to say about myself - I'm not a native speaker, so if you find any weird mistakes in my texts, sorry in advance.

I don't have a great story to tell as some def can - I was always drawing and interested in everything film-related, but I never really got serious about my art and I was struggling a lot not knowing what I really want to do. Since I have kind of a lot of interests - like writing novels, drawing and film - I tried to focus only on ONE of those things and not only "failed", but felt completely wrong about it (applied for Animation School etc).

Right now I slowly begin to believe that, if I only work hard enough, I can combine my interests into one profession and I look up to artists like H. R. Giger - not only because his style "speaks to me", but more because he just did what he loved in the end and worked on so many different projects as a concept artist.
I know that many of the people working in the industry would probably tell me that it's best to focus only on one thing, but I have the goal to be some sort of an Art Director some time. I know its a long and tough road and I'm struggling every day, but I feel if I dont pursue that, I wont be happy.

Hah, long post.
Looking forward to the journey :)
Thanks everyone!

I'm Liam and I live in New Zealand, I am also studying at Massey University in the Creative Media production course.

I mostly work in a sketchbook and do some traditional painting, I'd like to hone my skills and improve my digital painting.