Wednesday, 14 January 2009

2009 Update and Wishes

I decided to eventually break my silence and wish everyone a happy new year!

Truth is I wasn't really in a festive mood, so writing dark gloomy journals would just ruin it for everyone else too. Im glad 2008 is gone, it was a good year in terms of creativity, I started some new collaborations, made some images I really like, but in a personal level it was a really tough year. There were of course good moments, but the bad things that happened kind of shaded everything else. I wish this year is more joyful and light, and I wish mental and physical health and creativity to everyone!

Lately I was working on some uni project about modern gods and godesses. Here's some of them http://directors-cat.deviantart.com/art/The-God-of-Tobacco-109442630 http://directors-cat.deviantart.com/art/God-of-Fashion-109442475. The Christmas windows I made for the Sarafis shops around Greece actually looked kinda cool, unfortunately I don't have any pictures. The novel I illustrated came out but hasn't be presented yet, I"ll say more about it soon. Apart from that I'm still working on "Bleeding Hearts" stories for grand Guignol magazine, and by the way the new issue is out with a 4 page story I drew and Spuros D. wrote. http://directors-cat.deviantart.com/art/WhateverHappenedToFayWray-p-2-87739581 http://directors-cat.deviantart.com/art/WhateverHappenedToFayWray-p-1-87739449

Last but not least, Spuros D. and I are collaborating for a story for this year's Vavel exhibition. I'm copying and pasting this from Spyros Derveniotis journal, unfortunately i'ts in Greek but the exhibition is happening in Greece anyway.

"Aναρωτιόμουν πότε είναι η κατάλληλη στιγμή για να ενημερώσω για το Φεστιβάλ της Βαβέλ, που θα γίνει (τελικά) την άλλη βδομάδα, 22-25 Ιανουαρίου στην γνωστή έδρα του, στην Τεχνόπολη στο Γκάζι.

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Δεδομένου ότι το θέμα του φεστιβάλ φέτος είναι ο αριθμός “13″ (Οσα και τα χρόνια του), η σημερινή Τρίτη και 13 μου φαίνεται η κατάλληλη ημερομηνία.

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Κι από μένα τι να περιμένετε να δείτε;

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Κατ’ αρχήν το προς έκθεσην έργο, θα είναι ελαφρώς interactive (εχετε δίκιο, κι εγώ σιχαίνομαι αυτές τις artsy λέξεις).

Κατα δεύτερον είναι εξαιρετικά ‘μοβόρο και βίαιο, ή κατα την επίσημη ορολογία “καφρίλα”.Φτιάχτηκε σε συνεργασία με την Αλέξια Οθωναίου και το premise πάνω κάτω έχει ως εξής:

Διαιωνίζοντας μια ανορθολογική παράδοση που θέλει τον αριθμό 13 γρουσούζικο, πολλά ξενοδοχεία επιλέγουν απλά να εξαφανίσουν τον αντίστοιχο όροφο.Μεσοβέζικες λύσεις επιστρατεύονται, όπως «όροφος 12α», «όροφος XIII” ή απλά όροφος 14 κατ’ ευθείαν μετά τον 12, χωρίς περαιτέρω εξηγήσεις.

Εμείς προσφέρουμε οχτώ κλειστές πόρτες του επίμαχου «ανύπαρκτου» ορόφου. Εσύ πόσες θα τολμήσεις να ανοίξεις;

Σας αναμένω να περιεργαστείτε το αρρωστίδι από κοντά."


These are some more images we made (first one by Spuros, the next ones are mine)

Tuesday, 9 December 2008

Painter workshop

I made this today during a painter workshop at uni. Made from scratch on painter...

Sunday, 30 November 2008

Clay experimentation and Dreams





More sculptures photographed by me (with really good cameras) and then photomanipulated a bit.

Wednesday, 19 November 2008

Sunday, 16 November 2008

Clay experimentation and Dreams






Working a lot, little time left for anything else...I miss making comics a lot, but I hope I"ll catch up soon. Here are some of the finals and some of the pictures of more 3D stuff, made mainly from clay. Finals: drawing, painting, photographing my 3D stuff and photomanipulating.

Thursday, 13 November 2008

Clay experimentation and Dreams









Yep, I know, it's been a while, but I have been very busy and I also went through a cold, which didn't help much. Currently I'm working on a project on children's dreams and nightmares and I started making some 3D stuff with clay for it. It was more fun than I had expected! Here is my tree for the "Lost treasure" dream...

Sunday, 2 November 2008

Ripple Magazine Poster


Poster I made for the University magazine today, because one of my flatmates asked me to. The only part that was drawn the traditional way was the pen....I had to make it in two hours so give me a break okay?

Saturday, 1 November 2008

Kingston University Degree Show

















I went to the Kingston University degree show in London last night, which was taking place at an amazing gallery in London, "The Bargehouse". I took some pictures of the work of a couple of students from the "Illustration and Animation" course that I found interesting.(sorry about the quality of the pictures but they were taken from my mobile phone).