Hi, I'm Rachel from Essex, UK.

 Been lurking here a while, decided to register now I've sussed everyone's really friendly and gives good tips. *grin*

I did Fine Art at A-Level, but dropped Art for English at degree level. During uni I didn't paint or draw a lot as it was all so time-consuming, but now I've finished and realised how fun and quick digital colouring can be I've got the doodle bug again. =D

Great stuff here!
 

hi everyone, im sabrish... im an amatuer digital artist, i've been really impressed with imaginefx's contribution to the art world, although v dont get imaginex magazines here in our country, i did manage to buy a couple on my trip abroad.... feels so good to be a part of it now n i hope to improve myself as an artist here at ifx , thank you.

I just noticed that I have never actually introduced myself, how rude.

I am a-m. I'm a web designer and an almost-author. My dad and his best friend are/were artists so I was trained up quite young, although I didn't follow through on it as much as I now would have liked. Got into digital art several years ago but started off with a 14" monitor and a mouse and ended up getting frustrated and going back to the sketch pad untill recently. I've just had a baby so have a little more time for drawing while on leave during her naps, the rest of my time is spent trying to stop her climbing walls and licking the cat :)

 Glad to have found the site, tis cool beans indeed.

You know, a-m, I've never introduced myself either. How rude indeed.

Hi, I'm Callisto formerly from Ancient Greece and Tartarus. You can call me Lane, or Shady, or Shady Lane whichever, but not Lane Shady because that sounds silly. I've nothing to do with rap or hippety hop or any of that modern music. Give me a harp tune any day.

HELLO

im conrad from st. albans and im 15 and thats like well young on this site but stull the mag and shizzle is boom and ting and got be drawing digitally, although i onlyhave photoshop elementss like..

yeah, hi :) 

Brupp

soorry gangsta

issitt like safeting

thankyou my fine accomplice, i do hope our shared experiences on this website bring bountiful oppurtnities.

LOL 

Korad:

HELLO

im conrad from st. albans and im 15 

15! 15!!!!!! argghhh!!

oh, and yeah hi! 

Hello All,

 My name is Rick and i live in Aberdeen in Scotland.

 I am 26 and work as  health and safety coordinator for an environmental comapny for the oil and gas sector.

 my hobbies are painting miniatures, making models, riding motorbikes,  driving cars and (only looking at) aircraft

 To be honest i can't draw for toffee, however i do sculpt and paint miniatures, mainly Games Workshop stuff and my painting has come on a long way, especially my freehand work.

As i like to model scenes with my models i often turn to art books, from World of Warcraft, Half life 2 "raising the bar" book, and funnily enough Imagine FX magazine.

I find the mag offers a great wealth of inspiration for my colour pallete and the imagery (especially mecha stuff) is always top notch.

As a result i have tried my hand at playing with digital photo's (got a new Olympus DSLR for my xmas....from myself. lol) and i am trying to make Cartoon style images from real world photo's.

This got me to thinking, that Photoshop elements 5 is fine and all but i would like to take my hobby further, and start on some actual blank digital art work.

I have heard good things about Corel painter 9.1 so will look there.

 I hope i can get some advice, and show off my dreadful first attempts at creating some artwork.  I am aiming for a style like that of Ryan Church as his clean, photsharp imagery is the kind of thing i like to hang on walls!

so hello again, and i look forward to being part of the forum