Custom Art!

I am available for commission with regards to Character Illustration, Portraits, Children's Book Illustration, and general art illustrations.

There are several options to receive art from DHdesignsonline.

• Artwork can be provided as a Giclee print on
  Art paper/or canvas.

• A high-resolution digital file of your ART
  in jpeg or tiff format.
  You can use these files to produce your
  own marketing materials.

COMMISSION categories and general prices are as follows:(Subject to change)

NOTE - I require a 50% down-payment to begin work on any project.
The fastest way to provide payment is by credit card using Paypal.
Rest assured that it is a safe and secure method.
I also accept certified checks and money orders if you prefer.

Sizes & Prices for Character Designs

Hi-Resolution image in JPEG/TIFF

• Character Designs. $80 - and up.
  This means a pencil render of your single character
  based solely on your text descriptions.
  No prior design is done and no reference images is provided.
  3 design concepts.
  
• Character Sketch. $150 - and up.
  A pencil line art of your original characters.
  Price is dependent on complexity of the image,
  and each image is unique.
  You are getting a Hi-Resolution image
  in JPEG/TIFF format in 11" x 17".

Requirements for a proper Price Quote: (Contact for Prices)

• Character reference images
  (screenshots and/ or previous artwork
  done by other artists)
  
  
• A general character description
  (personality, powers, age and anything that
  is significant to the commission)
• Image reference/s and/or specific description
  of preferred pose of character, environment, background.

Sizes & Prices for Custom Portraits
Black and White in Hi-Resolution image in JPEG/TIFF.
( Art is burned to a CD, in which you may take
it to any printing company :ex. Kinkos: and print as
many copies or size that you prefer.)

• single-$300 and up
  
• double-$500 and up
• group-starting at $1,500 and up

Color in Hi-Resolution image in JPEG/TIFF.

• single-$600 and up
• double-$1000 and up
• group-starting at $2,500 and up

Giclee Art Print - oil/acrylic painting
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
$150 (U.S. dollars)

Giclee Art Print -oil/acrylic/watercolor
on canvas(contact for price)
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm) , 11 x 17 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)

Giclee Art Print -Pencil
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Click on the image below to see the Price enlargement!

Reserve your spot on my schedule with a deposit of 25%.
I have a waiting list and I complete them in the order I receive the deposit.
Get you photos together -
I'll bet you have an adorable photo or two that could be turned into a work of art.
Gift Certificates available! Makes gift giving really easy!

All portraits prints will fit standard sized mats and frames purchased from frame, or art and craft store.
Ready to order?

Prices will vary accordingly and are subject to change WITHOUT NOTICE. Please note that some services cannot be quoted accurately without a consultation.

If there are any further questions please feel free to contact me at DHdesignsonline
Copyright © by DHDESIGNSONLINE
All Rights Reserve

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'Sangha'

'Sangha' by DHdesignsonline
watercolor om paper
In Mahayana Buddhism, the term 'Sangha' is in principle restricted to those who have achieved certain levels of understanding. They are therefore called 'community of the excellent ones'. Several Mahayana orders accept female practitioners as monks, instead of using the normal title of "nun", and they are considered equal to male ascetics in all respects.

"Why Not Me?"

"Why Not Me?"
Watercolor on paper
Prints Available
In many Asian cultures, adoption almost always occurs when another family member (sibling or cousin) gives a male child to the first-born male heir of the family. Adoptions outside the family are rare. This is also why most orphaned Asian children have been exported to countries such as the United States rather than kept in their native countries.

Jukarta Art!

"Julie Miller"

by DHdesignsonline
My logo was designed by a good friend J.Miller. Take a look at her website.

Logo design by Julie Miller/ Jukarta Art. Click on the

banner below to visit the Jukarta Art website! -

"Gone Fishin'"

"Gone Fishin" by DHDesignsonline
Watercolor and ink on Watercolor paper
Prints Available
Fishing is an ancient and worldwide practice with various techniques and traditions and it has been transformed by modern technological developments. In addition to providing food through harvesting fish, modern fishing is both a recreational and professional sport.

Child Soldiers - Against the Wall

"Child Soldier- Against the Wall"
by DHdesignsonline
watercolor on paper
prints available

Africa has the largest number of child soldiers with up to 200,000 believed to be involved in hostilities. Ugandan Lord's Resistance Army is particularly notorious for its use of child soldiers. Children from the age of 13 are permitted to join, but only with parental consent. Child soldiers are being used in armed conflict in various parts of the world.

Louisiana Creoles - "Pretty Baby"

Pretty Baby by DHdesignsonline
Prints Available
Creoles form a broad cultural group of people of all races who share a French or Spanish background. The general perception of a Creole is usually of an olive toned individual mixed with strong African blood.

New Items at Imagekind. CHECK THEM OUT!

One for the road!

Watercolor on paper
Prints Available
A hot spot for tourism, Mexican culture is the result of a historical process of violent and peaceful exchange of ideas. When Mexico became an independent nation they slowly began to create a national identity, becoming an ethnically diverse country.

DHdesigns Prices

I am available for commission with regards to Character Illustration, Portraits, Children's Book Illustration, and general art illustrations.

There are several options to receive art from DHdesignsonline.

• Artwork can be provided as a Giclee print on
  Art paper/or canvas.

• A high-resolution digital file of your ART
  in jpeg or tiff format.
  You can use these files to produce your
  own marketing materials.

COMMISSION categories and general prices are as follows:(Subject to change)

NOTE - I require a 50% down-payment to begin work on any project.
The fastest way to provide payment is by credit card using Paypal.
Rest assured that it is a safe and secure method.
I also accept certified checks and money orders if you prefer.

Sizes & Prices for Character Designs

Hi-Resolution image in JPEG/TIFF

• Character Designs. $80 - and up.
  This means a pencil render of your single character
  based solely on your text descriptions.
  No prior design is done and no reference images is provided.
  3 design concepts.
  
• Character Sketch. $150 - and up.
  A pencil line art of your original characters.
  Price is dependent on complexity of the image,
  and each image is unique.
  You are getting a Hi-Resolution image
  in JPEG/TIFF format in 11" x 17".

Requirements for a proper Price Quote: (Contact for Prices)

• Character reference images
  (screenshots and/ or previous artwork
  done by other artists)
  
  
• A general character description
  (personality, powers, age and anything that
  is significant to the commission)
• Image reference/s and/or specific description
  of preferred pose of character, environment, background.

Sizes & Prices for Custom Portraits
Black and White in Hi-Resolution image in JPEG/TIFF.
( Art is burned to a CD, in which you may take
it to any printing company :ex. Kinkos: and print as
many copies or size that you prefer.)

• single-$300 and up
  
• double-$500 and up
• group-starting at $1,500 and up

Color in Hi-Resolution image in JPEG/TIFF.

• single-$600 and up
• double-$1000 and up
• group-starting at $2,500 and up

Giclee Art Print - oil/acrylic painting
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)
$150 (U.S. dollars)

Giclee Art Print -oil/acrylic/watercolor
on canvas(contact for price)
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm) , 11 x 17 inches (45.7 x 61 cm)

Giclee Art Print -Pencil
8 x 10 inches (20.3 x 25.4 cm)

Click on the image below to see the Price enlargement!

Reserve your spot on my schedule with a deposit of 25%.
I have a waiting list and I complete them in the order I receive the deposit.
Get you photos together -
I'll bet you have an adorable photo or two that could be turned into a work of art.
Gift Certificates available! Makes gift giving really easy!

All portraits prints will fit standard sized mats and frames purchased from frame, or art and craft store.
Ready to order?

Prices will vary accordingly and are subject to change WITHOUT NOTICE. Please note that some services cannot be quoted accurately without a consultation.

If there are any further questions please feel free to contact me at DHdesignsonline
Copyright © by DHDESIGNSONLINE
All Rights Reserve

"Marilyn"

Marilyn Monroe (born Norma Jeane Mortenson on June 1 1926 -August 5, 1962 was winning American actress, model. and pop icon. Her death has been subject to speculation and conspiracy theories. Over 50 years after her death, she is still an object of fascination - Perhaps gentlemen do prefer blondes.

"Lust at Dust's Light"

"Lust at Dust's Light"
Watercolor on paper
prints available

Vampirism is the practice of drinking blood from a person or animal. In folklore and popular culture, the term refers to a belief that one can gain supernatural powers by drinking human blood.
This illustration was a practice in creating something a little darker. By mixing a potentially dark subject matter with bright "fun" colors, I was interested in the results. I think it turned out nice - Let me know what you think.

"Nefertiti"

"Nefertiti" by DHdesigns

Nefertiti (the beauty that has come) was the chief consort/wife of the Egyptian Pharaoh Amenhotep IV (later Akhenaten). She was the mother-in-law and stepmother of the Pharaoh Tutankhamun(King Tut). Nefertiti, after Cleopatra is the second most famous "Queen" of Egypt in the Western imagination and has influenced the changed standards of feminine beauty of the 20th century.

Giclee Prints

Giclee (zhee-klay) - The French word "giclée" is a feminine noun that means a spray or a spurt of liquid. Images are generated from high resolution digital scans and printed with archival quality inks onto various substrates including canvas, fine art, and photo-base paper.


The giclee printing process provides better color accuracy than many other means of reproduction. Giclee prints are created typically using professional 8-Color to 12-Color ink-jet printers. Among the manufacturers of these printers are vanguards such as Epson, MacDermid Colorspan, & Hewlett-Packard. The quality of the giclee print rivals traditional silver-halide and gelatin printing processes and is commonly found in museums, art galleries, and photographic galleries.
"Nefertiti" - Prints Available
contact me at DHdesignsonline.

Check out the items I have for sale. New stuff added often.

Watercolor

Watercolor designates either a painting method, the medium, or the resulting artwork, where paints made of pigments suspended or dissolved in water are used.
My first online painting shall be a watercolor. I want to experiment more with "wet into wet" because I have a habit of relying on dry brush. Not necessarily a bad thing just trying to broaden my horizons. One of the many reasons I enjoy watercolor paints is that it's very versatile and forgiving.

Introduction!

Hello Everyone!
I have been inspired to set up a Blog thanks to a special community of artists and friends. Thanks for the inspiration, guys! On this Blog, you will find art work and products that are newly available. This has been a passion of mine for a while now. I am aiming to improve my style, plus enhance my portfolio of work by devoting my time to do at least one painting/drawing week. It doesn't have to be anything big, or extravagant, but anything that I happen to view as inspirational, or want to study. If you're interested in one, and/or would like to see if a particular work is available, feel free to email me at DHdesignsonline@gmail.com

EL-Producto Melkweg.05.04.2007

Two weeks previously Big Daddy Kane rocked the Melkweg with his classic MCing skillz; constantly in touch with the crowd, barrage of name checks and tributes to rap's past, inviting the crowd to beatbox, breakdance and battle rap. I expected a concert but got a very good value for money old skool party.

Coincidentally, Definitive Jux, an independent New York hip hop label whose rap style was decidedly left-field have just been working its way through my playlist with an impressive rate. Company Flow started the interest with their only album released on seminal indie rap label Rawkus, with their 3 MC's; Big Juss, Mr.Len and El-P deliver tight knit rhymes play packed with political views, social injustices, graffiti writing and population control. EL-P's production isn't any less variative with essentially minimalist beat work accompanied with querky sound effect and spacey scratch pieces. Ever since Rawkus started going mainstream, EL-P started his own label, Def Jux which now stands as the benchmark for New York underground hip hop harbouring artists from RJd2, Aesop Rock, Mr.Lif and El-Producto himself. All that was good enough to convince me to wonder down to the Melkweg to see the man himself.

Supporting an orange prison uniform, El-P was flanked by Mighty Quin and his DJ whose name I can't remember. The 3 piece crew recited El-p's critically acclaimed I'll Sleep When You're Dead pretty much from cover to cover. Admitedly, the album is a hard one to digest as its theme is dark to say the least as El-p takes the listener through the paranoia of a 20 something living in the post 9-11 western world. It doesn't get any lighter performed live as the amps boom out ambient beats and trippy scratching by the annonymous DJ but certainly isn't danceable. Amusingly El-p still manages to make the crowd form a mini mosh pit smack bang in front of the Brooklyn cat.



His skits and instrumental interludes are quite different to any I've heard before as the DJ pumps out sampled cuts of old breaks mixed with El-p's characteristic electronic synth work not to mention hypnotic sitar samples. The 1 hour gig ended after the encore which feature mainy work from El-p's debut solo LP, Fantastic Damage and thus bringing a close to this ear opening gig and the man certainly justifies the hype surrounding the album he released only 3 weeks prevoiusly.

For an advert riddled video check out http://dl.aol.com/index.html?date=2007-04-20&video=1

Last plak- Rotterdam

Yeah!

kamikaze beemer-Rotterdam

Delft Station-on way to work

This tag is actually an ad for a furniture maker made by local grafitti artists in Delft.

The Spectacular View

This is the view I'm presented with for most of my daytime during week days

Automate this

Having decided to do my office work from University due to my 'Placement Report' deadline, I've had the opportunity to listen to all the albums I have downlaoded/bought recently. Curiously, all of them were produced by Dan 'The Automator' Nakamura. You see, within 2 weeks of JK giving me a taste of Del The Funkee Homosapien and Deltron 3030, I have gone searching for all Automator produced records I could get my hands on. This is the list I have:

1. Deltron 3030: Automator produced with Del The Funkee Homosapien and DJ Kid Koala
2. Handsome Boy Modeling School: with Prince Paul (De La Soul's DJ)
3. Gorillaz: Automator produced with Damon Albarn, Del The Funkee Homosapien and DJ Kid Koala
4. Dr. Octagon: Automator produced with Kool Keith (from the Ultramagnetic MC's)

I haven’t had this excitement with listening to records since I started to listen to The Velvet Underground so I’m still grasping my words for right words to describe these albums not to mention the quannum projects crew (DJ Shadow, Blackalicious and Latyrx to name a few) which I explored not too long ago. Once I do though, The Ludovico is where you’ll find ‘em.

The Lessons

For anyone remotely interested in turntablism, these 3 tracks by Double Dee & Steinksi, one of the pioneers of the art is a must:

1. Lesson 1: The Payoff Mix
2. Lesson 2: The James Brown Mix
3. Lesson 3: History of Hip-Hop

2006 goes by

2006 saw me go into hyper drive with hip hop records. My last post expressed my fascination of Jurassic 5's live performance in Amsterdam which prompted me to take a trip to Munich to see The Roots play live on December 7.

My trip to Munich also opened many chapters as the city provided me with much more options when it comes to searching for rap records. So it happened I managed to bag Blackalicious’ debut album Melodica back in ’94 as well as DJ Shadow’s Pre-emptive Strike in the form of LP’s and RUN-DMC’s Raising Hell plus Hendrix’s The Band of Gypsies on CD.

The performance of the Roots on the 7^th provided me with another view of hip-hop’s musical boundaries. The Roots largely differ to J5 as there was no DJ present and the stage set-up looked pretty much like any other band with a drum set, keyboards, a couple of guitars, a bass and percussions. Where J5 had Nu-Mark providing the basic beats, ?uestlove did the same for The Roots with totally different effect to his LA counterpart. DJ Nu-Mark was a one man producing machine with the help of 4 MC’s whereas ?questlove was largely providing steady beats helped by The Legendary Roots Crew’s® funk crew together with the rapping of Black Thought. Yet their similarities also show heavily with The Roots playing almost their entire set medley mixing tracks from 2006’s Game Theory as well as previous albums.

I never thought in my life time I would be able to see solo performances by musicians in an actual concert. Almost right from the beginning, perhaps 15 minutes into the gig we were entertained to L. Ron Hubbard’s bass slapping solo followed by ?questlove and their percussionist’s 20 minute psychedelic percussion bonanza. Half-way through the gig my man Jan commented whilst the Roots were playing ‘You Got Me’ that the song didn’t quite have the same pezzas without Jill Scott’s vocals. Luckily for us Capn’ Kirk helped us out by letting rip a guitar solo straight out of Funkadelic’s guitar solo book. Yet the fascination doesn’t end there as The Roots paid homage to their musical influences by slipping quick live samples of artists from the Police, The Sugar Hill Gang to Led Zeppelin. These live samples were slipped between solos I mentioned earlier which added to the feeling that you were half-way between a Public Enemy concert with one of Funkadelic’s.

It was a shame that we picked a spot in the hall close to the toilet passage which annoyed me no end and when the band played music I wasn’t particularly aware of, the nuisance of the passing crowd overtook the fun. Yet I can’t complain as it was an eye opening performance, completely different to Jurassic 5 yet staying to the basic values of rap and hip-hop, fat funky beats and tons of creativity.

The evening was capped by us going to ?uestlove’s DJ spinning in the Registratur, a nice small club in the centre of Munich. We stayed till about 4am after boogie-ing all night long to tracks and breaks of Soul and Rap’s past. Felt like I was in 1984!