I found Dholl on http://www.deviantart.com/, an online community of artist varying from fine artist to photographers to web designer to film makers and a whole lot more.
You can see more off his work at dholl.deviantart.com
Dholl combines many different medias to create his art. I believe he starts with a sketch and then fine tunes it in photoshop, he may also use other tools to create different images. I think this is a great way to work, i see too many people restrict them selves to just one media and not explore the same image to other areas. This is something i am trying to do more myself, Dholl has really mastered his style, the backgrounds show signs of realism, however the front characters have there own freaky image. It is similar to comic book artist Roman Dirge (Lenore) and director Tim Burton (Nightmare before Christmas), but Dholl has a much more finished stylized look.
The images still look sketchy and real, they haven't been completely smoothed over in photoshop. I like that for the reason you can see and feel the emotion in the pen strokes. It has that man made quality, which can sometimes get lost in photoshop.
I would love to see Dholl do some cell animation in his style. It would take a long time, but the end effort would be worth the wait. Dholl uses a great colour scheme, he really captures the atmosphere and his use of textures make the art come to life. 
I urge you to take a look at the rest of his work, he deserves some attention.
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