Back to the basics

[cgmythology]

Nice updates, glad to see you practicing and improving your techniques. Lots of fun doodles there too from what I can see, looks like you had a blast drawing them. Keep it up!

[Crowbit]

Awesome to see the pen sketches. I to have started really enjoying sketchbook drawing of late. Hope the laptop works alright for ya but naaaaaa I've seen people pick up art uber late and make a living from it ^^

[calebartist]

Thank you for the kind words, and advice they give me courage. Very sick past few days but hopefully will update with more artwork soon. 

I think for me, being an artist means working in the face of uncertainty. Living with doubt & contradiction. Doing something which most won't care whether I do it, and there may be neither audience or reward. It means setting these doubts aside so I may see it clearly , and finding meaning in the work itself.

[calebartist]

Some practice. If it wasn't for Crimson Daggers, I doubt I'd have started taken art seriously again.

Currently recovering from Pneumonia after visiting the ER for having difficulty breathing

[darktiste]

I really like the contrast and luminosity achieve in that.

[cgmythology]

Looking great, very strong composition, colors, and use of light on your latest. Hope to see it developed further and I'm hoping you're feeling better as well!

[calebartist]

Recovering with some antibiotics and starting to feel more normal- Thanks guys, I appreciate it. Some loose practice/ possible WIP from today.

[darktiste]

This one could use stronger silhouette i feel like that the problem sometime when there overlap shape it start to get confusing as to what we are look at specially at such a early state when i am trying to give feed back i want to understand the intention sometime it better to just post even earlier a quick lineart pass this way you can really determine if you have a strong silhouette value is for me something that more commitment and somewhat of a trap when trying to move away from piece that are not necessary working yet. Also it truely seem like there is a hate for thumbnailling now a day and this it a shame because it so much of the problem solving before problem persist...

This one as look like a dragon but there is no leg so i feel it even more important to get that wyvern look maybe have a longer neck. The wing are so big and the value and edge control is to soft that they turn into something like a cloud on the left side.

One other thing is description when presenting what you have done. I feel like saying it a practice/wip is just not enough there doesn't give us any of the intention behind what your are looking to achieve if you are looking to grow as an artist you have to start to be more intentional and vocal about your direction.

Take care .Hope to see more soon.

[calebartist]

This one was actually after a series of thumbnails, -I'm not a master at composition and was unsure of my current skill or ability in making it into a portfolio piece. I appreciate the advice and long answer. I hope you understand that It's all i can do some days.

With the life I have and recovering from illness I am not always in the mood to share in depth commentary, despite knowing I should. I am trying to grow, my sketchbook is filled with crappy drawings that I don't even share here, and I'm struggling to be a better artist each day I've had to relearn things that used to be easy for me, and find other ways around others. All I can do is what I can on my own, since I can't rely on anybody else. My focus some days is just surviving. I wish I could treat art like many of you others do, I wish I could see life (and even art) without equal parts suffering, and knew that choosing the right direction was actually right for me. I wish my hands didn't fight me to make things I know I can make in my head. I wish I can be more than what I am, a respected artist. I wish I knew this, and my life til now would be all worth it in the end..

 I'm just a former foster kid.with a.dream, but I try not to say things I don't know if I'm capable of anymore and not let myself down or others, I just want to be the best I can be, despite not having the talent or resources (or even quality materials) or people surrounding that could help me grow. Sometimes all it takes though is one person, to make a difference, thank you. My life isn't over yet, nor am I giving up.

Right now my computer is actually too slow for the kind of paintings I'd like to do in photoshop and everything takes 3x as long, which is a bit of a bummer, and was partly why I started doing pixel art instead.

[darktiste]

You know getting a finish result is nice but problem solving is most of the battle those juicy portfolio piece come with alot of time and investment to back it up. Art not easy. Art as no time for excuse it a discipline . If you have only yourself then you have to use that hunger to better yourself .

If you wrap yourself in a pity party you gonna choke yourself.

The thing is people probably feel sorry for if you been a foster kid and it been something you been pretty familiar with for most of your life.But you cant let that be what feed you otherwise you will be a beggar. There a great chance you did not have stability on your side and that i cant hold it against you will build that overever you can if you dont want to be swept away in those unstable time.

We are human we move on we struggle but above all we have to learn to get over the wall we build for wereselves even if life as dealt us bad hand we dont let it define us. We dont let what behind us drag us into the abyss. We dont grow cold into ampathy and self defeat we grow wiser. You might not be able to fully accept those cold word yet but sometime those cold word ignite the fire that keep us moving otherwise no momentum is created and we sink into a rot.

Here my little guide because you cant keep going like that you need a change of mindset. You need a cold head not to be drag into your own e-motion otherwise they move you and you lose control .Even if they remind us of how much alive we cultivate an emotional intelligence so we can shed away the thought pattern that hold us back.
Here a small thread i made when i was finding the fire in me... when i was shifting my thinking... toward success and abundance
https://crimsondaggers.com/forum/thread-6483.html

You will not give up . You will learn from failure you will learn from hardship. Growth is not an harmless journey it embracing necessary suffering will refraining form holding unto the unnecessary suffering of were trauma. Learning to forgive yourselve and other to move forward.