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Artist Profile: Andreani Soupashi

30/07/2017 by

Illustrator and concept artist Andreani Soupashi is returning to Cyprus Comic Con’s Artists’ Alley!

Andreani Soupashi was born in Nicosia on the 27th of April 1998. She grew up with a pencil in her hand, drawing whatever interested her at any given moment, mostly horses and comic book heroes. At the age of four, she enrolled in art classes where she was taught the basic disciplines of drawing, painting, and sketching. These classes lasted for eight years and helped spark her passion for design, illustration, and comics. In elementary and high school, she took small design jobs such as creating posters and illustrations for various school events and selling artwork for charity. She also designed costumes, props and sets for school plays.

Her lifetime dream is to become a video game designer and she set this dream in motion while working for her GCSE exams. For her projects, she delved into character design, scriptwriting, concept art and animation, getting a taste of the industry in the process. During this time, her love for the craft was cemented. Her work is largely influenced by fantasy artwork, comics and movies. She taught herself several programs including Photoshop, Adobe Premiere Pro and Zbrush to take her work to another level. Today, Andreani is a full-time Computer Science student while working as a freelance illustrator whenever the opportunity arises.

To see more of Andreani’s concept art, visit her website.

Artist Profile: Charalampos Ioannides (Colto Comics)

28/07/2017 by

Meet our next Featured Artist, Charalampos Ioannides from Colto Comics!

Charalampos, also known as Colto, was beamed down to Thessaloniki sometime during the glorious golden decade of the 80’s. Right after kindergarten (!), he studied Economics and Tibetan zoography in Hannover. He worked abroad and in Greece, both in the private and public sectors. His relationship to comics and books in general, had always been tight – almost an addiction. Besides his Hellenic mother language, he can read and write in English, French and German. Moreover, he speaks proficient Caribbean, occasionally Farsi and the language of dolphins!

“Caribuenos – Tales of the legendary Captain Mugbeard” is his primal attempt at his comic book art debut, which will soon be available for a broader audience, other than his usual, imaginary friends and the kind neighbour on the 3rd floor.

You can have a glance at his work at the following websites: ColtoComics and ArcTheOriginal.

Artist Profile: Gregory Santorineos

27/07/2017 by

Cyprus Comic Con welcomes illustrator and comics creator Gregory Santorineos, who will be showcasing his work at this year’s Artists’ Alley!

Gregory was born in Athens on 16/07/1971. He attended free-hand drawing lessons at Veloudakis art school under the guidance of Thodoris Pantos. He graduated from AKTO with a degree in Graphic Design, in 1995. In 2012, he participated in GC fanzine #3. Subsequently, he also contributed in the issues #4 and #5. His first personal project took form in 2014 and was called “Το ριζίτικο των Ανωγείων“, published by Comicon-Shop Renieri. Furthermore, he participated in “ΡΙΓΗ” issues #3 and #4, as well as in issues #2, #3 and #4 of “ΤΣΟΦΛΙ“, by the same publishing house.

He collaborated with the Editor’s Journal at KARE KARE with “Η Μέρα της κρίσης” (Judgement Day). In 2016, he began working with the Canadian online games company VESUVIUS MEDIA, that aimed to promote their games through comics. He has participated in various group exhibitions, including “ΚΟΜΙΚΟΜΑΝΙΑ”, “ME ΠΕΝΑΚΙ ΚΑΙ ΣΚΑΠΑΝΗ” and “CIVIL WAR”. In the second Athens Con, he participated in an exhibition titled “ΕΝΟΣ ΚΑΚΟΥ ΜΥΡΙΑ ΕΠΟΝΤΑΙ”.

To see more of Gregory’s work, visit his personal artist page on Facebook.

Artist Profile: Nearchos Konstantinou

23/07/2017 by

We are back with another returning artist, the multi-talented illustrator and animator Nearchos Konstantinou!

Nearchos graduated with a Master of Arts in Communication Arts (with Distinction) and a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Computer Graphics (Cum Laude) from the New York Institute of Technology. He is the owner of Framerender Studio and The Froo Mug & Co.. He is also the creator and co-founder of the Current Comic Book Anthology series.

He is a multi-disciplinary creative artist, with the hybrid skill-set of an animator, a motion designer and an illustrator. He has worked for nine years as a Senior Motion Designer at Lumiere TV, a Cyprus premium cable television network and for two years as a 3D/Graphic Designer at Rolandos Enterprises Ltd. Meanwhile, Nearchos has been working as a freelancer and taught a series of seminars and short courses in the areas of Motion Graphics, Animation and Illustration. He has participated in several Art, Motion and Comic Book festivals in Cyprus and Greece. He is currently working as a Special Scientist in the Department of Arts at The School of Arts and Education Sciences of European University Cyprus.

 

Artist Profile: Anastasia Kozlova

22/07/2017 by

The Cyprus Comic Con Artists’ Alley welcomes back illustrator Anastasia Kozlova!

Born in Latvia and raised on the shore of the non-freezing port of the Baltic Sea, Anastasia moved to Cyprus with her family approximately 6 or 7 years ago. As a child, around the age of eight years old, she attended private classes taught by a local artist. That did not last long – the artists’ dog was not quite as fond of an enthusiastic young girl as you would expect it to be. Therefore art became a hobby and English along with normal school subjects became priority. Fortunately, if art lives within you, it never leaves.

There were doodles in class notebooks, copy sketches from local shop supplies of W.I.T.C.H. magazines and finally, a music channel that showed “Chobits” and “Chrono Crusade” in the evening. Later came Internet and the wonders of Studio Ghibli along with more doodles in class notebooks. Anastasia can remember well, that no one could really figure out whether to shout at her, because her grades remained good, while half of her notebooks looked like manga! Somehow, it never became a job, though. She is completely self-taught in art and is now finishing her diploma in Communications while working in an office. Meanwhile, she established an Instagram profile and YouTube channel. She is currently working on a story with original characters and filming sketchbook reviews in Russian and English and is part-time designing tattoos.

Make sure to visit Anastasia’s profile on Instagram to see more of her work!