Visit to the Archaeological museum and other junk

Girls, girls, girls

I'm alive!

Sorry for the lack of posts, it's due to laziness i admit it... I think this post will make the guys that visit this blog happy (i hope)!

So, news so far... Internship at Cartoon Saloon was awesome, people there are very friendly! I was lucky enough to work on Song of The Sea!
I recently came back to Greece and i worked a bit on another project that the studio is working on, which is called "The Prophet". It's also looking beautiful, but unfortunately i can't show anything, so you'll have to wait.
Now i'm doing my own stuff and preparing for the next gig.


Recently, i've been studying Masters of Anatomy and today i got on a girl-drawing spree.I should be doing animations for my portfolio instead...
Tried a variety of styles. First 3 drawings are from playmate Raquel Pomplun. The other ones, in order of appearance are Greek tv persona Elena Papavasileiou and dancer Maria Antimisari. Not that you'll find any likeness, but just mentioning the inspiration.
Apologizing for the crappy image quality from my scanner, drawings are losing a lot and i probably have to make a digital pass if i wanna put the in my portfolio..

My new addiction

...is Breaking Bad.
I'm always reluctant to try watching new tv series. But after i start, i can't stop. Happened with Game of Thrones, Fringe, Deadwood, Walking Dead.

In case you don't recognize the girl on the right, that's Kim Kardashian. She's in Greece these days by the way. At the magic island of Santorini, which i haven't managed to visit yet...

Hope you enjoy! 

Gonna update with my life lately in the next post. It will also come these days. 

Cheers

Croquis + travel sketches

Came back to Greece for the Easter break in Denmark. Here are some sketches from my looooong trip (last image as  you can guess)

Should be working instead

Yeah...

Holiday sketches n' stuff

Happy New Year and all that jazz...!!!

I know it's been some time again since my last post, and it's only my laziness to blame, to put stuff together in photoshop and upload them.

Been thinking some stuff regarding:

Color: I realized that i should figure out the color of the light source and have that in every color i apply on the sketch, so that the painting looks consistent and not like patches of color put together. The shadows are another chapter on their own, that i have to practice on.

Sketching humans: For some time now, i've been trying to draw moments instead of doing elaborate studies of details. Next time i sketch people, i'll try to put a name on every pose i draw.

I hope you have fun with those:

Feast yer eyes!

Been years since i last uploaded anything here...

So, prepare for a massive update! 

Here's a little info on what i've been up to: during summer, i was mostly practicing drawing and going back to some basic animation excercises to prepare for the 3rd and bachelor film year. And this time is now! I'm back to Denmark and i'm working on a film called Borislav. There are some super talented people in my team, and this project has a lot of potential, so stay tuned!!

Currently we're in the phase of figuring out details about the story, and having superfun playing with character design and visual style!

By the way, you might have noticed a change in the layout. That's because i got sick of the previous banner!! I have a new sketch for a new banner, but i have to get myself to do the coloring.

Here's some stuff i've done centuries ago, in chronological order from the newest to oldest. Actually, that's not true, i'm starting with the...uhm...sexiest!:

Randers Rainforest

So i finished my showreel, but there are a few small things i'm considering to adjust, that's why i haven't uploaded it yet.

On Thursday, i went to this Rainforest-zoo place in a city one hour from Viborg. It was great, a very interesting experience indeed!! There were three domes, three different regions of the world: South America, Asia, Africa, and in each one of them, they were trying to simulate the environment as well. A non-artist friendly environment in a few words! Very humid and warm, especially at higher places that you could reach with stairs. There was this bird, that was at the highest place of the zoo that you could reach, warm as hell, that i couldn't help but take out my watercolors and sketch its colors!! It's the first sketch below.

You could also enter a cave-like, dark and kinda scary place, where bats were flying free. Eeeeek!! The monkeys were running free like most of the animals, and i had the chance to get very close to them. I touched this very small one, and after that a guy was looking weird at me. Later i saw this sign saying: "Don't touch the animals". I guess that was the reason :o)


Note: All the sketches, apart from the last one, are watercolors. I hope you enjoy!

Sketching in Germany

Last week i was in Germany, and i sketched a lot. Visited a zoo, so there are some sketches from there as well. I hope it is a visual feast for you, as it was for me, during all these days.

My inspiration is Chris Chua: http://cchua001.blogspot.com/

Here we go, in chronological order, starting from top to bottom:

In a sketchy mood

Glenn Vilppu for a day

I was very fortunate again this year to have Vilppu (only for a day this time), yesterday Saturday. It was fun to spend a whole day, after a long time again, with life drawing!!

Drawings from last time for anybody who's curious to see what i did last year.

The middle image with the hobbit-proportions figures has an excercise where we should draw from a clothed model, but making it 4 heads high, and thinking of the underneath structure and drawing the clothes in a way that helps to convey the gesture. The objective in this one was try not to copy the model. Quite fun!