Not a new member, but I just found out about the Forums!

[Sleepless-Puppet]

Hello Sweet people!
My name is Nadine, I am a young artist mostly known by a small Internet audience as Yartzana Serenade.

I subscribed years ago when I still was a High School student, but somehow I've never seen the Forum section, I just landed here miss-clicking something on my profile.

It's good to populate Art communities, it seems to me that we don't have enough participation these days, even the big places like deviantArt or ConceptArt seem pretty dead and it really saddens me.

I am currently a fresh Freelancer working on a couple of children books.
I didn't have the chance to get to college yet, but I try my best to keep evolving as an artist no matter what.

A pleasure to meet you, see you through the threads soon!

[woundedheartsmakeart]

Hi Nadine, From what I've seen of your gallery, you don't need college if you're intending to go for skill development purposes; you're fantastic! I agree about DeviantArt. I joined there almost a decade ago and recently returned, only to find it wildly different and not very community driven. I just stumbled across this place this week when I was looking for art contests, but it seems that there is a small yet vibrant community of artists here that regularly use the forums and give feedback. I hope you stick around; you seem nice.

[Sleepless-Puppet]

@woundedheartsmakeart
Thank you so much! I really appreciate your thought :3
I think one is never happy with what they make
I also would like to go a bit more in depth in the animation field, because for that I really do need to study, it's so hard! And also extremely expensive

Yeah totally. The only people left on dA are sakimichan and those other few big dA figures, the rest is just ponies, 10 years old and porn. An extremely odd combination.
I even had a DailyDeviation and not very many people cared as much as I thought they would. DDs aren't a very big thing anymore. I got late to the party it seems like!

Then there' are sites like CGsociety.org that are mostly for digital artists, it's a good place to keep a portfolio but it's IMMENSELY DEMOTIVATING cause the artist there are God-like. I am an amateur in contrast.
The Forums are dead though. It takes months to get a response if you ever get one.

ConceptArt.org is good cause their workshops are way cheaper than CG and there's more variety in mediums and levels. I am doing the free workshop right now, it's really helpful but it's a pity that it's also pretty dead.
I mean there are a lot of artists there. They just don't give feedback

I'm going to stick around for sure, we need this community to grow, it has a lot of potential.

[Singular]

Hi Nadine and November,

Glad you two found your way over here. Hope to see you around more often.

all the best,
Joe

[Sleepless-Puppet]

Thank you for your welcome Joe!