Dheeraj Verma

Dheeraj Verma

Dheeraj is a comic book artist. He started his career as artist in Indian comic industry in 1991 with a New Delhi-based publishers Parampara Comics and Fort Comics. He got noticed by the industry with 'Divaystro Ka Raja', 'Ajoobey' ( Parampara Comics) and got a proper attention by INDIAN COMICS industry from comics 'Jangaroo' ( Fort Comics). Later in December 1993 he moved on to Raj comics, leading Indian comic company where he created his famous wolfman character Bheriya which is one of its kind character ever created in Indian comic industry. Bheriya (wolfman) represents Dheeraj’s immense love and dedication towards wild life and nature which has always been the strongest aspects of his artwork style. His debut issue in Raj Comics was 'Bheria Aya' in the year 1994. He wrote as well as illustrated its initial issues which were a huge hit such as 'Wolfano', 'Grahano', 'Lazy', 'Tilangey' and many more. He worked on almost all the major Raj comics characters as an artist.  Dheeraj Verma was the first artist to introduce digital colouring in Indian comic industry in 1996 through Parmanu’s Cover and then Bheria’s Digest. He worked with Raj comics till April 2000. He later began working for American comic companies, debuting on Avatar's Joe R. Lansdale's By Bizarre Hands and working for Marvel Comics, Devil's Due Press, Dynamite, and IDW Publishing. In 2004, he got his big break in American comic industry with Avatar Press where he worked as artist for writer Joe R. Lansdale, on By Bizarre Hands. His biggest series with Avatar were Escape of the Living Dead , Plague of the Living Dead, Yuggoth Creatures ,  Nightmare on ELM Street and Night of the Living Dead. He also worked on Dynamite’s ‘The complete Dracula series’ written by Alan Moore’s daughter Leah Moore. He also did cover art for Marvel Comics's Invincible Iron Man. He worked on Transformers series published by IDW Publications. His first series for IDW 'Transforemers: Fall Of Cybertron' was a superhit series on ComiXology, which was launched in Aug 2012. After this series he worked on Transformers: Robots in Disguise # 19th July 2013 and it entered in Top 300 comic.

Current Experience

• Coffin Comics, 
• IDW Publishing, 
• Marvel Comics

Previous Experience

• Edge Entertainment Ltd, 
• Langenscheidt Publishing Group, 
• Devil's Due Publishing

Education

• Delhi University

Also Knows About...

• Photoshop
• Graphic Design
• Comics
• Adobe Creative Suite
• Layout
• Texturing
• Magazines
• Creative Direction
• Image Manipulation
• Digital Painting
• Concept Design
• Traditional Animation
• Graphics
• Flash
• Comic Book Illustration
• Toys
• Painting
• Cartoons
• Vector Illustration
• Video Games
• Animation
• Flash Animation
• Drawing
• Posters
• Mac
• QuarkXPress
• Logo Design
• Typography
• Book Design
• Graphic Novels
• Conceptual Art
• Inking
• Computer Animation
• Book Covers
• Comic Art
• Maya
• Sequential Art
• Digital Art
• Motion Graphics
• Character Design