These illustrations were made in oder to participate in a contest in deviantart with the sublect "Arcane Idol". In each image there should be a logo, a magic talisman and equipment.
I made two images:
Zhen was a blind dancer wandering in South China and dancing by the rivers with her veils. However she had little success until she found a magical music instrument that could play melodies never heard before. Since then people from all Asia gather to see and hear Zhen while she dances over the waters. Magical talisman: The Qin instrument Equipement: Her veils
Amelyn was an actress and storyteller in medieval Florence. Even though she was well respected she had little success. One day she found a magic scroll with infinite captivating and never heard before stories that could affect directly the audience's feelings. Instantly she became a spectacle everybody wanted to see -from kings to simple people and was invited to perform in all Europe. Magical Talisman: Scroll with endless stories Equipment: Masks and cape
Some first posters for my comic "for a breath of freedom" which was published in 2016 by the publication project Asymmetric Threat.
The comic through the story of a girl held under special detention conditions tries to speak about imprisonment, special detention conditions, the sexist and abusive treatment by the guards, the strength and resistance that come from solidarity.
The second poster in the gallery below is based on the front cover of the comic which used an older painting of mine called "BW Portrait".
Another romantic story with Rhodes landscape at the left and Syros at the right. The theme with the girl and the balloon has appeared also in another painting of mine.
The paintings were given as a gift to a friendly couple.
In 2013 the painting with syros illustrated the front cover of a freepress magazine called Serious.
These are some illustrations i made for a child book (by George Gouzounis) that was published in Australia by the Greek Community.
The outline of this short story goes like this: A young girl (Ellie) returns home one day from school and finds a small monster in her room. However she doesn't remove it and says she will do it tomorrow. This goes on quite a while with the monster growing up rapidly and doing damages. At the end the monster is so big that she has to ask for help by her mother and together they manage to drive it away.
The last years i have created (or designed) a number of web pages mostly as part of my job and sometimes helping some friends. In some of the cases apart from the site I designed the logos and banners of the companies also.
A great number of these works were made in collaboration with a friend of mine and his company WDesign in Corfu.
This joomla-based site that displays my work is also created by me, but i didn't add it to the list below for obvious reasons.
This is a small medieval fairytale about a lost kingdom, kings and dragons, and people that finally wake up...
It is made with flash and it's based on a 4pages comic of 2010
You can see the comic in the gallery below (or read more about it here)
Festivals
Once Upon a Time was presented at the Animasyros 6.0 festival (2013) and in the two day event "Tribute to Epic Fantasy: Greek Creators", by the independent movie projection area Cinemarian (Athens, march 2015)
This is an animation where a young man is forced to work more and more by a gigantic figure until at one point he realizes there is something peculiar at the difference of their size.
Festivals
Size was chosen to be presented (amongst other digital works) at the Video Art Festival in Athens, 18-20 May 2012 and at the Antifascist Festival in Syros, 7-11 June 2012. It was also presented (and participated in the contest area) at the Animasyros 5.0 Festival in Syros (Sept. 2012) and at as part of the animasyros collection it was also presented at the Moving Silence festival in Athens (spring 2013) at the Days of Rethymno festival (2013) at the Animafest festival (Cyprus 2013) and at the 8th Festival of Audiovisual Arts in Corfu (May 2014)
This semi-abstracted painting was made under the influence of ideas against prisons (the panopticon model gave me the inspiration for the building) and especially the new high security prisons greek state is trying to create. The second title comes from the game of thrones book to express the snow depicted on the painting but also the era we live and how human rights are being demolished and people are living under constant threat of their privacy and freedom due to states and laws.
UPDATE 2016: This work became the back cover of the comic For a breath of freedom, published by the publication project Asymmetric Threat.
the publications of colleagues, Nov. 2021
Summer of 1969, Italy. A year after May '68, FIAT workers began a dynamic and unmediated strike against their powerful boss. Their struggle marked the beginning of a decade of workers' and students' mobilizations and the rise of the Autonomy movement. It was characterized by many as the last invasion of the working class into the sky. Last ... let's hope until the next one ...