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Doug-Wheatley
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[2009-02-11 05:46:33 +0000 UTC]
"DH Wheatley"
(Canada)
# Statistics
Favourites: 1; Deviations: 22; Watchers: 391
Watching: 2; Pageviews: 45906; Comments Made: 104; Friends: 2
# About me
I'm a comic artist, concept designer, painter, father and husband.# Comments
Comments: 83
magnifique !!!
rendez-vous au festival de BD de Chambery ( France )
Marc
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Happy birthday and all the best in 2015 for you and your family. Got your Dark Times Gallery Edition for Christmas. Imcredible book!
regards from Germany
uwe
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Doug, I've followed your work in Star Wars: The Dark Times for a long time. It's beautifully rendered and breath taking. I absolutely love what you've done; your comics are true artwork. I've heard there were some difficulties a while ago with the time it took you to produce your artwork, but your quality is well worth waiting for. Thanks for giving artists like me inspiration. Merry Christmas and have a great New Year, Doug!
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Spetacular gallery, Doug... Congratulations, my friend!
All the best.
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Hey Doug,
I just heard that the new "Essential Guide to Star Wars Characters" will feature your artwork! Congrats.
I'd love to collaborate with you if you ever want to work alongside a lightsaber designer. Especially in regard to the EU characters.
www.genesiscustomsabers.com
Rob
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Hey Doug, great work! I'll be attending the Star Wars convention and I definitely think I'll be pre-ordering one of your prints to pick up. Some day I hope to become more established in the illustration field and work for Lucasfilm or LucasArts, so I totally envy you! Keep up the great work.
Crystal Sully
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thanks for the kind words!!! so, did we meet at the con?
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Yes we did! I gave you one my business cards when I picked up your awesome "Bad Guys" print. I tried adding you on facebook but it said your friends list was full. 
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Amazing work Mr. Wheatley! Love it all! I hope to see many more issues of Dark Times since it's my favorite Star Wars story, so keep up the briliant work!
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thank you sulaco13, it means a lot!
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Very awesome stuff here, man! Just discovered you today. Beautiful pages!
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It is possible to see your variant of out of wilderness cover for tate?
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Check my gallery, I put it up!
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Hi Doug, I met you today at Tate's and I wanted to thank you for taking the time to give me some feedback and being so complimentary toward my work. It was really great meeting you.
I was the girl with the drawing of the flute player and children, just in case. There were so many people there.
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I remember meeting you, your work stood out and as far as the compliments are concerned, you deserved them, you have a lot of talent and I look forward to seeing your work continue to blossom with time!
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Sorry for the late reply. I've just started the new quarter and was really busy preparing for the move back to SCAD. I was curious if you remember what the work looked like from the other artists coming by? Though it's been awhile, so no big.
I really wanted to repeat how freaking nice you are! I'm excited to tell my professors about the positive experience once things settle down. I'd really like to continue talking to you, is this the best place to do that through?
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Alright! Kristal, let me assure you that when it comes to critiques, my rep is far from nice, in fact, there are some at Dark Horse Comics that think I'm down right mean! If I start out by asking, do you want the truth, or a fantasy, choose fantasy. This was not the case with your work, every comment I've made, I humbly think you've earned! Nothing was said out of kindness. Not that I'm mean personally, I've been known to pet a cat from time to time
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lol it's cool. It's good to keep personal info off public sites. Thanks, I'll email you shortly.
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give me a couple of days, and I'll write back, crazy busy right at the moment, I'd like to keep in touch too!
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No problem, take your time. Haha.
I'm really excited!
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thanks, I dig your work as well
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Hi Doug! Sent you a PM under my other account name, SparrowsMate. But my main DeviantArt account is mkuppe... hope to hear from you again! Great to see all your wonderful work... amazing.
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Just wanna say, I really enjoy reading Dark Times.
Your work is really amazing!
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Thanks Xennethy! you made my day!
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Just a Reminder to friends in the France area, I'll be there this friday, here is my wicked busy schedule!
• Saturday 30th
We leave to Vichy / Cusset for the Star Wars Festival
• Sunday 1rst
Star Wars Festival
• Tuesday 3rd
Signing session @ Album Comics or ApoKlips in Paris
• Wednesday 4th
Signing session @ Album Comics or ApoKlips in Paris
• Friday 6th to Sunday 8th
Comics festival in Toulouse
looking forward to seeing you there!
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I looked you up after picking up Road of Kings #1 - love the cover piece you did for it. Very true to the old barbarian
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Thanks for the kind words!!
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did I watch you again just now? LOL!
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Just crazy busy, but I'm back
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glad you're still with us doug.
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I plan to go to art school sometime in the fall and I wanted to ask you some specific questions about the field that you work, because I'm trying to make a decision about a career as a comic book artist. Thank you for your time.
-Clint Keffer
How would you answer these questions?
What's this job really like?
What can I expect?
What's the best part of this job?
What's the worst part of this job?
How much does it really pay?
How crowded is the field?
Is there stability? (Is this a field that provides stability or do people get "canned" a lot
How much pressure is there?
How many hours per week do you work?
What skills do I need?
What were you surprised by?
Do you recommend a good school? (Is there another school you'd recommend besides the Joe Kubert School?)
Thanks again!
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What's this job really like? -You draw and paint and design under pressure of a deadline and get paid poorly or really, really, reallly well for it.
What can I expect?-What you put into it, really.
What's the best part of this job?- You to get to create and paint and draw all day
What's the worst part of this job?-You have to create and paint and draw all day 
How much does it really pay? There are all kinds of figures out there, and truth be told most artist work for several clients and depending on the artist and the client there may be no flat rate set. I have heard anywhere from $7,000 and year in comics to $500,000 I think reality rests anywhere between $7,000 and $90,000 a year without royalties.
How crowded is the field? As crowded as any other, competition is a reality in every vocation. How good is my work? is a better question.
Is there stability? (Is this a field that provides stability or do people get "canned" a lot.-I've been working steady for 16 years, I've seen people come and go, shoot to the top and disappear. There are many who I've met coming into the industry who are still here. I have not been fired from a job.
How much pressure is there? that's an individual question that must be answered by the individual, what might be pressure to me could be a happiness for you...I am under severe pressure, but it is self inflicted. I demand the best from myself, usually more than the deadline will allow, and so I am in conflict from the outset. I have found a more peaceful place recently, that allows me to do what I need to in the time I have.
How many hours per week do you work?-Between 50 and 70
What skills do I need?-Business management program, Drafting/drawing, a knowledge of sequencial storytelling. 3d modeling, Photoshop/painter mastery. Time management.
What were you surprised by?-The year I broke in the comic industry collapsed into what it is now. You could say that Marvel comics filing for chapter 11 was a bit of a shocker.
Do you recommend a good school? (Is there another school you'd recommend besides the Joe Kubert School?)-The best and only school in the world for you resides between your ears. Your brain is a classroom and the world outside is the teacher of all subjects. You can feed that brain what ever it needs, and judging by the questions here, you know exactly how to do that. There are so many fantastic resources for art students today. Life drawing is a must regardless of where you choose to go, the skills you learn cannot be taught anywhere else. If I were to recommend a school, it would be one that could teach discipline, maybe martial arts, or yoga, no kidding, focusing your mind on the task at hand is everything, all things, Reality is "now" everything else is inaccurately remembered or invented. Learn to do this and you can accomplish anything.
Sorry it took so long to do this.
Crazy busy.
Best,
Doug
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I really appreciate your feedback. I feel like your advice is solid and I will follow it. Thanks for your time, I know you are very busy.
-Clint
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amazing works, doug!.....everytime it's hard to understand which medium u used..
feel free to check my gallery!
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thanks, I'm heading over there today, your gallery that is!
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