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Dorina Panayiotopoulou (also known as Aniro) is a 23-year-old artist from Athens, currently studying architecture. Dorina has always loved to draw, but never really thought of making her own comics until two years ago, when a close friend suggested that she takes a six-month seminar about comics.

For more of Dorina’s work, follow her on Facebook and Tumblr.

When she creates comics, Dorina feels very happy and complete. She usually draws inspiration from the city and people around her. In the future she hopes to make a living out of her comics and to travel all around the world!

Dorina has just completed her first comic book ‘Lost Soul’, which is about a girl who has forgotten her dreams and is trapped in the stressful rhythm of the city, in a social system based on money and exploitation, doing the same boring things day after day, living like a zombie. Until, one day something happens.

“In a period of time when the only thing they want is to control and manipulate us, the only thing we can do is to stay creative and continue to express ourselves.” – Aniro

Cyprus Comic Con 2015 is the first convention that Dorina is attending and she is very excited to be participating as a featured artist!

We are very excited to have Dorina featuring at our Comic Con! We hope you are also looking forward to seeing more of her work, as well as her first comic book ‘Lost Soul’! Leave us your comments below!

Siew Luan Anastasiou was born in Malaysia and studied Medical Biochemistry in the University of Birmingham in the UK. She is married and has been living in Cyprus since 1987. She has worked as a biology teacher in secondary schools.

Origami, the ancient Japanese art of paper folding, was an important part of her life from her childhood years when she was introduced to its endless possibilities and creative potential.

Samples of her work can be found on her facebook page, Siew’s Origami.

Η κόμπρα διπλώθηκε από ένα μακρύ κομμάτι χαρτιού, με διαστάσεις 25x300cm, ακολουθώντας το σχέδιο του Kade Chan.

Οι διαστάσεις του T-rex είναι 35×18 cm. Δημιουργήθηκε από ένα χαρτί 70cm2. Υπάρχουν περίπου 100 αναδιπλώσεις σε αυτό το μοντέλο, το οποίο δημιουργήθηκε από τον Kade Chan.

Το σκαθάρι Hercules δημιουργήθηκε με βάση το σχέδιο του Robert Lang. Υπάρχουν περίπου 150 αναδιπλώσεις.

Most of her origami are folded from a single piece of paper without any cutting and gluing. Some of her favourite designs are from master origamists such as Robert Lang, Satoshi Kamiya and Kade Chan.

Siew has made models of dragons, tarantula, snakes, Pegasus, T-rex, Super Mario family, roses, Christmas trees, elephants, rabbits… the list is endless!!

She takes part as an origami expert in exhibitions and public events, delivers lessons and takes orders for various types of origami creations.

Siew impressed everyone with her incredible origami designs at last year’s convention and we are confident that she will present something exquisite again this year.

Are you also looking forward to more of Siew’s origami creations? Let us know in the comments below!