Introduce yourself - The Hello Thread

[Anne Tang]

Hi!

Well, finally got around to actually posting on this forum...

Been a lurker here for years and years, and always meant to start posting and maybe get a sketchbook going, but life intervened and I got distracted by other stuff. I'm a former game designer by trade, but I suffered a horrid burnout and decided to do something else for a change, namely to pick up art once again.

Currently I'm working on comics and trying to unlearn all the bad habits I've picked up during the years I wasted on other stuff. So in other words, it's back to basics for me.

I'm glad to hear that you were determined to make some changes about your current life. I'm also trying on the way to refine my mentality and my life.
By the way, I am Anne Tang, a newbie and musicomania from Shanghai, China.
So nice to meet you and wish you all the success!

[GHOST26]

Yo people, my name is Charlo, i finished school last year and im now working part time in a restaurant but my goal is 2 go 2 University. My problem is that i dont know what i wana do in Uni. I wanted 2 b a concept artist until i found out that unless your working for a good well known company then your pay wont b the best. I then realised i wana do anything that has 2 do with drawing that also pays and is a good carrier. I really need help deciding what to do with my future. If any one can help me i would really appreciate it. Thanks and all the art work iv seen here is really good. GOD SPEED people.

[Pr0x-E]

Well what a better place to start posting than an introduction thread

I hail from the south of africa and a in search of artistic interaction. i have been meaning to get around to using this site and have heard it is wonderful for proper crits and a place to get meaning full feedback about my art so i can get better at my attempts at it.
I've never really taken to forums, art from reading a few from time to time but i think this is a place i could get into.

....so where do i start now ? ...shall i be adding some of my work to the sketchbook section?

*yes first post out the way, \o/*

[Racquel]

Hi, my name's Raquel, and I've this account for a while. I've finally gotten up the courage to actually post something.

I'm primarily learning on my own (via video tutorials, books, etc) until I can save up the funds for classes. I'm living in Queens, NY right now.

[Ciel]

Hi everyone

I'm a complete beginner at drawing so I feel a bit out of place amongst all the talented people here.

I plan to get a sketchbook going once I get my scanner. Eventually I'd like to participate in CHOW.

Nice to meet you all!

[jkeener]

Hi,
My name is James. I graduated with a BFA in drawing and painting in 2008 but haven't done much since then due to a bit of burnout. In the past few months I have been drawing again and decided to try my hand at digital work ( I have worked mostly with traditional media). The switch to a tablet is a bit strange but I am slowly getting the hang of it. I am looking forward to giving and receiving critiques as teaching and learning are two of my favorite things to do

[M.elancholy]

Hello, everyone

I can finally post! on the forums. It feels like gaining my abilities to talk again.
Most likey no one is going to read this cause no one cares, but heres a little bit about myself.

I want to be a concept art. the end.

LOL no just joking. Im 21 wait 22 years old, and have decided to start a career in the arts, as to a specific field i dont know yet, but all i know is that i love to draw, Im allways with a pen of pencil in my hand, and if i see a white spot on anything i have to draw on it. Im not good yet, but im getting there. I dont want to be the best at what i do, cause most likely i wont master drawing, i want to keep on learning how to draw untill i die! wish me luck!

[InvincibleSoul]

Hello ! I'm new here !
I'm 22 years old and just started getting into sculpting

[Laura Lethal]

Hello!
I'm a weirdo from Romania who loves painting, drawing and fashion designing. I got my Cintiq 21UX in March and I'm here to discover and learn its functionality. Digital art fascinated me from the beginning, when I first saw a wonderful digital portrait. I'm working on photoshop cs4 and I'm looking forward to starting working on a 3D platform too. I hope that here, I'll find answers to my questions and of course, have a good time!

[MoonBunny]

Was I suppose to post my intro here? D:

[Falling Up]

Hey everyone. Name's Matt, I'm 15 and from Australia. Been lurking the forums quite a bit in the last few days and the insane artistic abilities of majority of you is incredible.

Right now I am focusing on traditional sketching, although my dream right now is to become a freelance digital painter.

[Snowdon]

Hey, all. Introduction threads are always fun. My name's Chris, been a freelance illustrator on and off over the years. Mostly very small stuff, like getting a couple limited run, small press comics published. The biggest thing I've done was work used in the RIFTS collectible card game back in 2001 or so.

The past three years have been a bumpy ride, but I am currently getting back into freelance work, and also searching for work among animation and videogame studios.

I recently revamped my website ( http://www.steampowered.net ) after switching hosts and combining my webcomic and portfolio sites into a single beast. I still need to replace the HTML in the comic section, since switching hosts all the links there are broken (except the comic navigation buttons).

Also, at the urging of a couple friends I picked up a tablet PC, which immediately became my new favourite thing ever. First day I had it, I spent a few hours doodling a rough 5 second animation.

Anyways, been wanting to get into an art oriented community while working on improving my skills. A few friends kept posting me links to interesting threads here so I figured I'd join up.

[theiiievolution]

Hello, i've been lurking around here since last year, now i've decided to create an account

Im evo, currently residing here in manila,philippines, an undergraduate, currently studying in a Technical School (wrong choice).
Now i have decided to return to my roots and master the basics, i hope to learn alot from you guys, and as great as well

checkout my SB http://www.conceptart.org/forums/sho...d.php?t=192401

[D'Ark]

Hi, everyone!
My name is Anatoly. 15 years old, from Russia, Murmansk. I'm just another guy, who is trying to learn digital and traditional art. Before registration, I've been lurking here for a few days. And, suddenly, decided to register.
Hope, that this site will help me.

[urgent flight]

Hi, CA members. My name is Janel and I'm glad to finally find an active and overall awesome online art community.

I've drawn only as a past time for most of my life and am mainly self-taught. Only up to now at age 20, I have decided to take drawing more seriously as a skill I am willing to dedicate a lot of effort into. I feel like I'm starting my knowledge of drawing from scratch, since right now I'm just trying to get myself to fully understand and use the basics. I'm also currently only interested in traditional media.

I have lurked ConceptArt for all the great tips, advice, and encouragement (and great artwork of course!) for the past month. Hopefully now that I've joined, I'll be able to get all of these more personally.

See you around. Maybe I'm put up a sketchbook up.

[Sumgai83]

Hi all, I'm a typical weeboo. I'm quite interested in anime/manga style art.

Because I am a weeboo.

That aside, I'm here to look at the top artists, get input and improve myself so that eventually I can become close to the top manga artists.

[Cocoa_Cool]

Hey everyone, I'm Dominick--I've made a commitment to excellence, and conceptart.org seems to be a place where others have made that commitment also.



Pleased to be among you all

[PeteJ]

I have been wanting to be a game artist for a long time. I'm just starting out.

[myschan]

Hi, i've been here for a longer while but not very active

[Krisjoe]

Hello everyone, my name is Krisjoe and I'm 24y.o, long time procrastinator first time poster. I have a degree in medical science but I am seriously thinking of going back to university and study to be an illustrator and hopefully become a concept artist, because that's the first thing I think of and do when I wake up, draw.

I have a DA account but I want to become a better artist that's why I'm here, so people can tell me how crap my work is and how to improve on it and not just give me high fives. My style is anime/manga but I want to move away from it and find my own style.

Thanks and hello again

[thrillwizard]

Hello, US student here. A bit frightened by what lies ahead for me, so I thought joining here would be a great way to help myself improve. I really love drawing (have ever since I was about 5). I dream of working for some company like Valve someday!

However I must admit I am not as thrilling as my username may sound. Nor am I a wizard.

[heidamonster]

Hi everyone, I'm new to the site and have only started poking around. I've been looking for someplace to connect with other artists and get some valuable feedback to advance my skills. I think I found the right place! I'm damn near an old geezer, so have some patience with me if I can't figure it all out, Ha!

[heidamonster]

So, here's my first geezer moment! How do I add a gallery? I've found the albums and added pictures to that, I think, but is that the same as a gallery?

[lovearthouse]

My name is Athena, and I'm the Director of an organization called Love Art House. The goal of my organization is to engage communities in arts activities, and help artists share their work.

I've joined because I want to interact with more artists, and collaborate to find ways to attract enthusiastic Arts audiences. I'm also interested in checking out artwork to share with the other artists and art lovers that my organization works with.

I am looking forward to looking around the forum and hopefully weighing in on a few discussions. Thank you very much

[Joerden Leigh]

Hi there My names Joerden Leigh, Im a former student of Vanarts and the Art Institute up here in good old Vancouver British Columbia.

I'm passionate about creating visual eye candy! I hope to see you around the forums, safe to say I have alot of reading to do haha. Hope to get some weekly sketches up and going as well as some of my doodles.

As far as experience goes... I can never get enough! I with drew from the AI due to my observations in their company structure and course design.

My favorite artists right now are kieran yanner, maciejkuciara and of course joe mad. I draw my inspiration from these awesome folks and many more.

See you around!

and here's a snippet of some of my doodles so far:

http://joerdenleighportfolio.blogspot.com/

[mejezfeld]

Yeah hi. I'm a little DevianTART turd who gets little attention or actual... err... what's that word? Critique. And when I do get it, tis minimal and well it's spread over several places. So I forget most of it.

I heard this place in general can help. Where can I start? Where's my left hand? What's the square root of 23?

[Blank Slate]

Hello. I'm Shepard, and am obviously new here. I'm not sure I'm ready to post my crap as I would like to improve before my crap gets torn to shreds -- I'm here mostly to learn from other amazing artists. I've been lurking for a while before I decided I should just join. :]

Edit: Just realized what I put, I go by "Shepard" 'cuz it's a nickname my dear friend gave me...hence why I introduced myself as such...lol. Force of habit.

[Disciplette]

I joined today after extensive lurking. I'm an art student looking to actually start making money soon and this site looks like a pretty good place to get info from sooo...here I am!

[WalkedAway]

I am WalkedAway (but I mostly go by the alias 'MAD').
I am 16 years old, I live in England and some day hope to become an art teacher for secondary school, or an illustrator.
I have two accounts on DeviantArt (one being a scrap account, the other being my 'main' account), but I think that in order to improve my art and learn more, get more helful critique and so on, I should come to ConceptArt to be helped by real proffessionals/almost proffessionals, so I look forward to hearing from everyone ^^
My 'style' is considered 'manga', but I would like to break from that style and study more realism, other techniques and styles of art.
Thankyou very much~!

--MAD

[NicoleWG]

Hello Concept art. I am a 21 yeaer old design student. I'd be interesting in doing different types of art as a career. Over the past few years, I have been improving my understanding of art fundamentals and, basically, how to draw. I joined CA because I want actual feedback, not just buttpats, which is hard to find for some reason.