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After a 2 month break, we are ready to get back on the horse.
Challenge 6 is ready and waiting for your entry!

We are honoured to have James Zapata as a guest judge and give critiques to the challenge winner and standout pieces! www.artstation.com/artist/jame…

For Crimson Crucible 6, you will have to produce a finished illustration of a pair of creepy companions (1 humanoid character and 1 creature using names inspired from the Halloween theme.

Brief
Please read the full brief on the blog to get all the info. crimsoncrucible.wordpress.com/…

Watch the announcement stream on demand where we talk about the brief:
www.twitch.tv/piotr_jasielski/…

Deadline: 29 October 11:00pm [UTC]

The focus of the Crucible Challenge as always is about the artistic self-development of all challengers. The Crimson Daggers is a tight-knit incredibly supportive art community forum.

I hope to see you there and submitting your pieces!

If you don't feel the burn, you aren't close enough to the fire.

Amit 
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Challenge 3 is ready and waiting for your entry!

We are honoured to have JohnSilva as a guest judge and give critiques to the challenge winner and standout pieces! John has done work for Legend of the Cryptids and Magic: The Gathering. It could be you getting a personal crit from John.

For Crimson Crucible 3, you will have to produce a finished illustration of a treasure hunter character on a desert expedition!

Please read the full brief on the blog to get all the info. crimsoncrucible.wordpress.com/…


The focus of the Crucible Challenge as always is about the hardcore artistic self-development of all challengers. The Crimson Daggers is a tight-knit incredibly supportive art community forum. One of the few remaining with that "this is your cave and these are your tribe" vibe.

I hope to see you there!

Amit 
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Hi watchers! Is this thing on?

Once again I haven't spent much time updating or hanging on dA, but I'd like to let you all know of a brilliant new monthly challenge that I and a friend started recently, called The Crimson Crucible.

We are really happy to have Alex Negrea come and be a guest judge and give critiques to the challenge winner and standouts! It could be you getting a personal crit from Alex.
For Crimson Crucible 1, you will have to design or redesign a Game of Thrones character or environment from one of the main houses of Westeros, and do an illustration of it.  


copyright: Alex Negrea

If you guys have heard of the Bloodsports challenges that Dave Rapoza and Dan Warren held for a while on the daggers forum, this is the re-imagining of those days on the Crimson Daggers forum. If you haven't heard of it man you missed out...but you can get involved in something that works to those same ideals!

I don't want to write too much more here, but please go to the blog to get all the info. crimsoncrucible.wordpress.com/…

You can watch the intro stream for challenge 1 here:


Apologies the intro sound is very low, our discussion is loud enough though.

The focus of the challenge is really about hardcore self-development through the course of the challenge, and the community is incredibly supportive.
I hope to see you there!

Amit 
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EDRocks Week 01

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So my little experiment in opensource learning has got off to a great start! 45 people registered from at least 10 different countries. 30 submitted their first assignment and got their video critiques. On top of that a further 4 or 5 non-registered folk who took the initiative to do the work and submit before deadline also got a bonus. I decided everybody would get video feedback for their work this week. 

I set up a quick website to contain all lessons, demos, streaming times and any info on the course so anybody who stumbles onto it in the future can get almost the same benefit as people in the class, for absolutely no cost. Check it out here: Environment Design Rocks!

We had the first livestream session, earlier today which was brilliant fun, check out and come watch the streams for tips and tricks or ask questions etc.
All streams are recorded and available on demand: Livestream

Hope you're having a great week!

Amit
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Greetings People!

I've been working hard on creating an 8 week long Environment Design class for some time now, and I am happy to say that I am all ready to go.
This course is entirely FREE! Yup you heard me. FREE.

The nearest equivalent I can see on the market is the CGMA environment design courses that are being offered at $US700 per student! Having taken those classes I know they are pretty good, but I can also tell you that I am aiming at offering much more tailored individualised critique and more interactivity than CGMA gives you.
And yeah...again...FREE! There is no catch. I really love teaching, I really love helping people, and I am trialing out this content before it might become a paid course, so I'm very excited to be able to offer this first class for nothing. This may be the only opportunity to get this much personalised learning out of an online resource for so little.

Class

I am hosting the class on the Crimson Daggers forum here: crimsondaggers.com/forum/threa…
Check out the first post in this thread for more information on what is involved.  You will need to sign up at the Daggers forum to participate, but you can still view the thread and participate in the livestreams and learn from them if you don't wish to sign up.

Weekly Demos, Assignments and tutorial videos

Check out and subscribe to my Youtube Channel here to get new demos and tutorial videos as they are published:www.youtube.com/channel/UCwnDa…  

Weekly group livestream critique sessions

These will be hosted generally for the next 8 Sundays (New Zealand Standard Time, UTC +12): sywork.tv/channel/name/monkeys…

Unfortunately, the demand was so high that I have had to close registrations for access to all the demos and to get personal critiques. I have almost 50 people signed up!
However don't despair, you will still be able to view any of the public demos I release, do the assignments, ask me questions, interact and learn with all the other students in the class, and generally have a grand old time. I will also be talking about my freelance experiences and the industry in general.

Come by and say hello anytime!

Amit
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