I've followed this site for a little bit, first heard about it through the crimson conversations videos on youtube. I started teaching myself how to draw about a year ago so I am still pretty terrible at it. I have a wacom but am working on my fundamental skills with pencils for awhile first. Some of my favorite artists are: Frazetta, Brom, Bisley, Giger, Kovacs, Bonner, Komarck, and much more. I am a big fan of comics, magic the gathering, and heavy metal. Some of my favorite bands are Type o Negative, Bathory, Death Angel, I listen to a lot of old school thrash and black metal. Also a huge movie buff but I dont want to make this too long. I am 25 years old, was laid off from my job, and have been living in my apartment as a recluse trying to get better at drawing. I have several books on every subject that I try to study. My goal is to get into illustration but I dont know how long it will take me, right now I live in Vegas but I am moving in with my friend in Seattle she is willing to help me out so I can work on my art, because my family has had enough, lol. I will start posting my work on here when I can, just wanted to introduce myself.

Hi talented people, my name is Joan Maldonado my friends call me jovi im from Cartagena de Indias (colombia) i just finished Graphic Design, and i chose the path of the illustrator to earn my bread and coca cola and well i kept hearing about this site and all its great people and infinity knowledge about illustration how could i refuse such a charm hope the best to everyone
another fellow here to share good stuff!

all yours
jovi

Hello everyone :) finally decided to start posting here. My name is Aaron, I'm eighteen and have been drawing seriously for about 8 months now alongside school. Now that I'm done with school I am going balls out with art and am giving the next year to studying everyday (that is if my parents don't kick my out in the meantime. They really want me to go to college and it's hard to explain that art is something serious and that I can motivate myself to practice everyday and actually go somewhere with it).

I'll pull together everything I've done recently and start my sketchbook later today, I will post very regularly, see you there :)

hello there! my name is stradlater, but you may also call me fox. i highly enjoy drawing/painting, always have, just never was serious about it for long enough to get anywhere. my goal is to in 2 years go to art school for fine arts, or graphic design and just traditional art as a hobby. we'll see. i'm originally from the US, but currently live in poland (and i hate the cold). don't really know what else to say... hmm... i'm sort of insane. you'll see what i mean.

cheers everyone!

Hi all!

My name is Mario, I'm 29 and love art and artists. I've been lurking for a while and decided to jump in lol :).
I wish that one day I'll be able to produce great content and get the chance to work at awesome projects with crazy talented people. Right now I'm just a beginner who is trying to chase his dreams, maybe I'm too old, i thought a lot about this, that is too late, but I don't want to give up, I'm finally doing what i really like, and who knows what will happen in 5 to 10 years from now.

See you around!

Hey guys, I haven't been active on here in forever, but decided it's time I start posting regularly to get more involved in the community. My name's Jeremy, I am an aspiring illustrator, and you can see my stuff at http://jeremygordonart.tumblr.com .

I look forward to awesome conversations, crits, and all that good stuff.

Just another random citizen wanted to become an artist. nah...just kidding

Hello, name's Wison Hendrik. A self taught artist. After 3 years, work as digital painter on my local company which run on casual games, I just felt love of art. I wanted to push myself hard to become what I wanted. So by joining this community, I will dedicated self for practicing and also learn something from others. And hopefully.....someday.......one day, I can give it back the knowledge that I learn to the other generation who need.

Cheers

When I was a kid, I drew all the time--in the car, at home, at school, everywhere. Then at some point in high school I started becoming very frustrated with the fact that my drawings didn't match my imagination, and impatient with the amount of time it took to complete an artwork. And so, for the past ten years I have barely picked up a pencil.

Now I'm a graduate student in the sciences, and I'm finding that I really can't think as well (about anything!) if I don't balance out my technical studies with the arts. So, I've decided to get back into visual art again and see where it takes me. I love art that tells stories, so I am most interested in concept art and illustration. Hopefully, I can come up with some projects that meld art with science--and build a new skillset that may open up additional career options for me.

As of joining this site, I've logged seven hours of drawing practice. Here's to keeping up with it...

Hi, I´m from Mexico and I´m 20 years old. I´m currently studying graphic design and I have great interest in drawing and illustration, also in digital tools.
I am self taught in digital painting but I need some guidance.
I knew this blog on the website of Dave Rapoza (love his work <3!).
Good luck to all, we are in contact.

P.D.: Sorry about my english :)

Just got around to building my profile. I'm an aspiring digital artist/writer. I want to work on stuff like concept art, character design, props and such for video games, movies or shows.

I develop characters around the stories I write, and then spend countless hours expanding on the characters and details. I'd consider myself at an intermediate skill level. I strongly value my style, and I'm stubborn to try new things (bad habits, I know).

Everybody seems to like my mechs more than anything. I love designing mechs, weapons and gear.

Currently enrolled in Art Camp until February, and trying to grasp true digital painting.

Check me out :D www.setzuo.deviantart.com