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Hello World! - MDravos - 07-15-2026
Hi there, is great connecting with you all!
I don't really remember where exactly I learned about the Crimson Dagger Forums, but I saw some users that were from the old CGTalk Forums, that's probably where it came from... I don't know.
The truth is that I always wanted to be an artist, but life got in the way and I became an Accountant, then a Programmer and soon I'll be a Data Scientist without ever being able to become a true artist.
My desire to become capable of translating my ideas into drawings came from early childhood. I had a grandfather who was some sort of genius, a self-taught artist who could draw awesome stuff from imagination during times when references weren't easily available as they are nowadays. It's a shame that we didn't kept a single one of his works, he made it look like it was easy, but after many attempts from my side, I know what he did was different. There was no construction whatsoever, it was pure delineation, and trying to mimic the way he did it cost me a long time and caused a lot of frustration...
Then came the color-blindness diagnosis, it was one of or THE final blow to my dream of ever becoming an artist, that means I would never be able to communicate my feelings to an audience trough colors, because I'm simply unable to see the same colors as them. That's kind of true, but there's studies that says that different people see different colors, depending whether you have a word for such color or not, if you're male or female, if your mental health is in good state or even if you've been blessed with Tetrachromacy...
Now all creative professionals are facing the absurdity of AI, and I'm sure the artist community have been hit hard, but I wasn't following, all I remember was the protest on ArtStation with all artists posting the same image of "No image" or something like that on ArtStation... I personally don't care if a machine is going to steal my work, I'm so rusty that I'll have to start it over, and for a while it should probably suck real bad, probably I'll make the models worse.
In fact, what the f* happened?
I stopped studying CG to focus on my career as a programmer (I changed careers around 2018), and many artist communities simply disappeared, I feel like a homeless person now...
Well, at least this time I'm able to properly communicate, I hope I can make some friends while getting better as an artist, that's all that there is for me at this point and for a change, this time it seems enough.
RE: Hello World! - darktiste - 07-16-2026
You can't replicate what years of training as achieve by thinking you can skip over something like construction it like going straight for 2 wheel on a bike it somewhat silly i mean it ok to try but you will fall more often than not. Just because you don't see what it took to get there doesn't mean they didn't go through that phase in a stage of there learning but some do not like construction at all it doesn't mean they don't understand those concept it that they have a great ability to visualize .What he did was probably mostly drawing from life and that a very powerful way to learn to draw what you see once you get that skill you don't really need reference anymore because you train your brain to be better at memorizing and that what baffle people because they don't have that train yet.
Being color blind doesn't kill a dream it limit what you can do but it always how will you frame this limitation will you use it to create something unique or will you let it bring you down. There is great artist who does black and white and that doesn't mean they had any form of limitation it was actually self impose probably for most of them. It doesn't matter that much if we don't see the same color you still have your own unique way to see the world sure it a problem if you work for someone else on a commission where they ask for specific color but that doesn't mean you can't commission someone else to do the color it doesn't mean you can't sell your art if that something you want to do and it certainly doesn't mean you can't or should not enjoy being an artist