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DSBlake

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Artist // Professional // Digital Art
My Bio
A young artist from the UK. I do design work, produce artist's books and other print work under my real name (Sydney Cardew) and my old name (Simon Cardew), and portraiture, speculative illustrations, cartoons and colouring books under the name DS Blake.

I am available for commissions of all sorts.

My illustration books on Lulu:

www.lulu.com/shop/search.ep?co…

My youtube channel (timelapses and more):

www.youtube.com/channel/UCpqls…

My short fiction (horror and weird):

atmosphericfantasy.blogspot.co…

Redbubble Account:

www.redbubble.com/people/simon…

Society6:

society6.com/dsblake

Twitter:

twitter.com/SydneyCardew

Patreon:

www.patreon.com/IdleToil

ArtStation:

www.artstation.com/artist/dsbl…

Favourite Visual Artist
Otto Dix
Favourite Movies
Suspiria, Alien, Aguirre: Der Zorn Gottes, Bad Taste, Brazil, High Plains Drifter, The Shining
Favourite TV Shows
Brass Eye, The Prisoner, Blake's 7, Hannibal, Ultraviolet, Riget, Black Mirror
Favourite Bands / Musical Artists
Coil, Rudimentary Peni, Sun City Girls, Summoning, Dead Can Dance, Paul Roland, Hawkwind, Manilla Road, Current 93, The Legendary Pink Dots, Darkthrone
Favourite Writers
HP Lovecraft, Jorge Luis Borges, Ursula K LeGuin, Umberto Eco, John Berger, Thomas Ligotti, Michel Foucault, William Hope Hodgson, Iain Sinclair, Franz Kafka
Favourite Games
Dwarf Fortress, Fallout 1 & 2, Fallout: New Vegas, Planescape: Torment, Mount & Blade: Warband, Children of a Dead Earth
Favourite Gaming Platform
PC
Tools of the Trade
Digital painting in photoshop, pen and ink
Other Interests
Historical re-enactment, tabletop gaming,
I haven't been posting very much here or elsewhere lately, but that's not because I've stopped making art; I have a significant hired project in the works that is shuttered under an NDA, and it has taken up most of the time I have to work. Hopefully,...
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Wow! Just woke up to find that one of my pieces is a Daily Deviation; I have a few things that need to be sorted out, then I'll try and get through everyone's comments and so on. Thank you so much!
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Thanks for the llama badge :llama:
Happy birthday! :3
Thank you! Sorry, I wasn't expecting that!
Thanks for the watch.
Thank you for the fave of my Soom Dia Vampire boy! :hug:
No problem, it's a lovely piece; I love how you photograph the dolls, that sort of fine line between realness and artificiality, they're really engaging, and of course the craft and arrangement.
Thank you, again. I really appreciate those wonderful words and the fact that the photography is noted as well as the doll. Have a wonderful day! :hug: