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Saturday, April 7, 2012
elections on April's fool's day or May 1st, that is the question
Sunday, March 25, 2012
Tuesday, March 20, 2012
Tuesday, January 3, 2012
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
Renault Twingo Poster
I was asked by the Sense Ad Agency to make this image for the Advertising poster of the local dealer of Renault cars. I took the photo of the car (the car was white) and retouched it, adding the leaves, butterflies, and notes.
Not something I usually do, but I accepted the job... It's a (crying) crisis time again...
Chanel Purse - Vogue illustration
Saturday, February 20, 2010
Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Saturday, December 6, 2008
Calligraphy sample
Thursday, October 30, 2008
Perfeksion Garantee by Mitsos
Magazine "Mastoremata".
One of the magazines for the handy men. Full of good advices and ideas...
The article with advices for people who are about to build their house. It says that people tend to buy expensive materials and try to save on the craftsman using the cheapest one, like my hero, named Mitsos. Mitsos is friendly, knows everything, and the result is perfeksion, like his teeth!
I like the sketch more then the final version, I did it with a cheap ballpoint, recently I learned to like that tool.
One of the magazines for the handy men. Full of good advices and ideas...
The article with advices for people who are about to build their house. It says that people tend to buy expensive materials and try to save on the craftsman using the cheapest one, like my hero, named Mitsos. Mitsos is friendly, knows everything, and the result is perfeksion, like his teeth!
I like the sketch more then the final version, I did it with a cheap ballpoint, recently I learned to like that tool.
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
James Bond Political Soup
Monday, October 27, 2008
James Bond x 4
Sunday, October 26, 2008
Saturday, October 25, 2008
James Bond - Pierce Brosnan
Friday, October 24, 2008
James Bond - Roger Moore Style
Thursday, October 23, 2008
James Bond - Sean Connery style.
Monday, July 28, 2008
Mr. Hristoforako’s Portrait Story
I was assigned by the magazine “Life & Style” to make a portrait of Mr. Hristoforakos for an article about the Siemens scandal. I made severals sketches with different concepts, and finally the concept with big pockets was chosen.
Most of the times I make my sketches on paper, this one was a digital drawing.
I came to an idea to do this illustration the unusual way. I printed the digital sketch light on 2 watercolor papers. While waiting for one to dry, I’d work on the other one, and use the one I like more.
I scanned both papers, and when I put one in a layer on top the other in the multiply mode, I liked the result.
After some color adjustments and a little retouching on the eyes I sent it to the art director, to show him this stage, with the idea to work a bit more on the hands and few other details, but it was decided to go as is!
I may do it for myself later on, but I am happy with the result…
Click on the image to see it bigger
Wednesday, July 2, 2008
One more portrait, one more kidnapping, one more ransom payed…
Mr. Mylonas was seized at gunpoint from his car outside his home in Thessaloniki. The ransom was payed and he was released."For me it was a bad experience," Mylonas said. "But, whatever doesn't kill you makes you stronger."
The brief was to show him relaxed, as if nothing serious happened to him. The magazine is Life&Style. Digital illustration
Sunday, May 11, 2008
Vladimir Putin - The Silent One
This is an uncomissioned portrait - caricature of Vladimir Putin. I wanted to emphasize his strength and peace.
Mr Putin is a Judo master, wearing a black belt.
...few days later: One friend just sent me an e-mail telling me that he FEELS DIZZY when looking at this, as with all the images when the distortion is made by some digital tool. I made this caricature drawing it the usual way when I work digitally, using my Wacom tablet, but, at the end, I wanted to see it distorted even more and used the warp tool in photoshop. This is that version, so my friend is right! Anybody else feeling dizzy watching this? I am really curious!
And her's a close-up.
Saturday, May 10, 2008
Court Illustration
Thursday, April 17, 2008
Saturday, March 15, 2008
Sunday, January 27, 2008
Black House or Pink House, what is it going to be?
Friday, December 14, 2007
Vaggelis Vekios, drummer, for the magazine GALERA
This is the story. They called me up from the magazine for the portrait with the interview with Vaggelis Vekios. I do not know of him, but he is famous drummer in Greece. They send me few portrait photographs and the interview. No usable key words in the text. No photograph of the man playing. Deadline- 2 days. What should I do to make it interesting? Make his portrait on a drum? No. Try to make him playing the instrument using some other musician's photo as a reference? - But what if he has some characteristic style of playing - holding the sticks - that I do not know about? ...Finally, I remembered the red calligraphic image I made previously. These unreadable letters do create a sense o0f rhythm and red is energy... Here's the final result.
And here are the stages and variations. Making copy of stages of work and making an animation of it usually produces nice results.
And here are the stages and variations. Making copy of stages of work and making an animation of it usually produces nice results.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Calligraphy x 3 - Latin letters, Greek Alphabeth, and Cyrillic
Saturday, December 1, 2007
Ideal Male
Illustration for the Esquire, Greek edition. Article about the ideal male. Woman's taste for men who are good providers and husbands the usual days changes towards "mucho" men during the days when she is fertile. Also,the research found out that the taste for different man's attributes has a big range. Some women like hairy chest, some hate it...
I want to a local toystore to take fotos of Barbies, and I had to buy one to rip her clothes off and photograph her in this pose.
Pen and ink, and photoshop.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
M is for Music
Illustrations for the book from which children learn to read. Half way to be finished the project was cancelled, and I was very sorry because I planned to dedicate the book to Ana, Jana, Jovana, Margherita, Mia and Sara. I imagined their proud faces when they show the book to their classmates
The figures were done separately, in watercolor, each being rather small, 4-5 cm (1.5-2 inches). Watercolor looks good when printed bigger then the original size, I think, that is why I show the close-up of musician's faces, I am specially proud of the expression of the drummer's face (top left).
The figures were done separately, in watercolor, each being rather small, 4-5 cm (1.5-2 inches). Watercolor looks good when printed bigger then the original size, I think, that is why I show the close-up of musician's faces, I am specially proud of the expression of the drummer's face (top left).
Monday, November 5, 2007
Christmas Poster
Together with Ashley & Holmes advertising agency and Le Spot productions I was lucky enough to work on posters and brochures for the Christmas Celebrations for the City of Athens 3 years in a row.
This is my favorite one. The theme of the celebrations was 'PLAY"
Watercolor on paper and a little play with colors in Photoshop.
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