Pink - collaboration short film

This is our first project at The Animation Workshop, a 4 people collaboration, two from the CGA (Computer Graphic Art) line and two from my line - CA (Character Animation). It was a great experience, and I got to know a lot of people from the CGA line.

The story is about a father whose son likes pink colors, and he asks a pink bike as a birthday present. He worries how people will take his son's difference, even though the father has accepted it. At the birthday party, something interesting happens...

Pink from IllusionOfLife on Vimeo.


Character design by Adrian Walt and Camilla Gunborg Pedersen
(The awesome) Background design by Adrian Walt and Asdis (can't remember her surname)
Animation by me (first father, and last, scene) and Camilla Gunborg Pedersen




From now and and for 3 weeks, we will be learning the basics of animation, so maybe i'll be posting something interesting.

Strong as a castle

This is a painting I did for my mother's name day.

Μαμά, να σε χαιρόμαστε και να είσαι πάντα ευτυχισμένη!!

Bloodthirst

If I was a vampire, I would probably look like this...

This image started as an idea when I saw a tutorial from a friend's ImagineFX. The tutorial was from an awesome artist called Melanie Delon, but don't find her vampire version because you'll disappointed by mine :P
Took me almost ages and an hour, but it was worth it! I feel like I could continue to the infinite refining the painting, but I guess it's time to move on to another one.

Caricature Jam - Groucho Marx

I had a really difficult time with this caricature. Did almost 10 sketches before starting the final one, and yet, I'm not happy result, neither I can call it finished.
Also for some unexplained supernatural reason, my scanner wouldn't scan the page properly.

I'll try to forget this piece and move to the next week's jam which is Carles Puyol, a symbol for the spanish national football team and Barcelona.

But before that, I'll try to finish the self-vampire portrait.

Caricature Jam - Angelina Jolie

Finally I'm calling finished the second jam. Here are the results (sorry Angelina fans!):

This week's jam: Groucho Marx. 

You don't know who this guy is? Me neither...

Caricature Jam - Jimi Hendrix

So, here is an illustration that started as a sketch.
We started with a few friends a weekly jam. There will be a different subject each week (hopefully).

This one was made during a lot of hours. I experimented a lot trying to find a proper way to do things, so I ended with something like this. The second image is the starting sketch.
Linework done with Illustrator, the rest were done in Photoshop. I also used some of these awesome people's brushes: B-a-s-h , circle--of--fire , LMSD , and a few others, that unfortunately, I don't remember where I downloaded them from.

See what my other two friends did: Humphrey and Natalia (hopefully, she will upload her attempt soon)

Next jam: Angelina Jolie. I hope I'll have it ready by Sunday.

Sketches made in UK

I'm very sorry for the quality of the scans.

The Drawing Academy - The End

God damn, it's hard when something so nice like this ends...Today we had an exposition of drawings, selected by our teacher.

The first days at the Drawing Academy seem so far away now... It was a beautiful trip! I learned a lot of useful things, and I got to know some awesome people!
The level of the class was amazingly high, and this was sometimes intimidating, but motivating also.
I still feel that I have a lot to learn, and I wish I could take more time with classical drawing.

Anyway, here are photos from my drawings. I kept a bit of myself in the photos, so that you can make a comparison of the size of the drawings. Almost all of the long studies, and a lot of the sketches were similar size. For a better quality of the drawings you can check my previous posts here.

Holland & friends

Today I returned from a trip to Holland, to a Van Gogh museum, which is called Kroller-muller museum. It was awesome!

On the bus I did a few quick portraits, so here they are:

Week 21 - Final week of drawing

Yes, I'm really sad to say, but this was the final week of drawing, as next week we're going to a short trip to Holland to a Van Gogh museum, and on Friday we're going to have an exhibition, so there will be a lot of preparation going on.

I also have a portrait long study, which I didn't scan properly, and I will add later. The first drawing here is the final body long study that I do at The Drawing Academy, which I cannot claim entirely mine, because I got a lot of help from my teacher. I think it took around 9 hours to finish.
The second is a 3-hour unfinished study . The next are 5 to 10 mins croquis, and the last one is an unfinished study also.


I started a digital self-portrait painting as a vampire. I'm mentioning this so that I will be more motivated to finish it eventually!

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