New Artwork Show & Tell

Have you or a friend ever wanted to have your likeness drawn as a Jedi or Sith Lord? Well now's your chance to impress that special someone in your life.

I am now taking orders for Star Wars Commissions based on the likeness of a supplied or taken photo. If you're in Perth, I'll arrange the photo shoot with props. If not, I'll require you to send me a hi-res photo of the person in the correct pose for the character to be illustrated. 

Priced at;

$150 A4 Colour Hi-res file and art print*

$250 A3 Colour Hi-res file and art print*

Here's a sample of how the finished artwork will look.

Send me message via this blog or email - design@dks.net.au to arrange your commission.

* Turnaround time 2 - 3 weeks.

Best wishes

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Damian K. Sheiles

dks.net.au

facebook.com/DKSartist

It's the time of the Preacher!

Here's the evolution of another long poster design. This time based on the Garth Ennis & Steve Dillon comic series, Preacher published by DC/Vertigo Comics. I'll keep the text to minimum and simply show roughs to character illustration to finished poster design as a sequence of images below.

UPDATE. I have since revisited this Jesse Custer, Preacher tribute. Below are the revised versions.

Best wishes

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Damian K. Sheiles

www.dks.net.au

DKSid - META Progress

Tonight's blog post will be short and sweet. Last March I provided a sneak peak at DKSid, a small publication I am working on with the intention to showcase my illustrative design skills to the IDW lads at Perth Supanova this June.

Further progress has been made this week. Here's another preview of some pages.

META - page 1 pencil rough

META - page 1 without text

META - page 1 complete with text

META - page 4 illustration (ink)

META - page 4 without text

Best wishes

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Damian K. Sheiles

www.dks.net.au

The Sandman water colour painting or getting familiar with brushes again

Here's a sequence of warm up sketches and paintings of The Sandman, the lead character from the DC/Vertigo comic series of the same name.

I have been familiarising myself with different art mediums, trying to get a handle on the process all over again. I'm finding an appreciation for water colour inks I never had before. There's something about the way you can build up colour and the translucent affect the paper can have through the paint as seen in the water colour fire detail below (see the last image - scroll down =)

Preliminary sketch

Inked value sketch

Water Colour Test 1

Water Colour Test 2

water colour detail

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Damian K. Sheiles