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Artist Profile: Stephanie Nicolaou

19/08/2016 by

Meet the next Featured Artist to showcase their work at CCC16, illustrator and painter Stephanie Nicolaou!

Stephanie was born in Limassol in 1991. Ever since she a young age, she had a passion with visual arts, so after her final year at S.Antonis High School, she followed her dream to study Fine Arts in Florence, Italy. It was an amazing 3 years of experience, where she was exposed to new things, people and places through her studies and travels all around Europe. In September 2012 she submitted her final project for my Diploma, titled “The psychology of the non-verbal communication: The expression of felicity”, and was passed with flying colors.

To see more of Stephanie’s work, visit her page on Facebook.

After Italy, she returned to Cyprus and started working at Zorpas bakery as a sales person, which was not really what she had wanted for herself. After two and a half years she quit that job and started working as a waitress, then as kitchen assistant and bartender at a coffeeshop. Life wasn not easy for Stephanie after graduating, but she didn’t give up.

In 2014, she traveled to Slovakia for a Hitech Music Festival, where she saw for the first time how amazing UV glowing decoration was for a night party. This inspired her and she started creating cartoon paintings with UV colors that can glow under the blacklight. That was the beginning of her crazy crew that she named “Completely Fried Mind – KFM” which aims to create imagery of crazy and sometimes creepy cartoons!

Artist Profile: Kritonia Eleftheriou

18/08/2016 by

Kritonia Eleftheriou is returning to Cyprus Comic Con as one of our Featured Artists!

Kritonia is 17 years old and she is still a student. She has always been fond of the world of comics and it has been her main motive to practice and improve on her art skills in order to one day become a professional comics artist. Her first drawing projects consisted mainly of anime character fan art, while later on she started studying anatomy and developing more of a personal style.

Visit Kritonia’s page on Facebook for more of her creations.

At first she started experimenting with traditional art (pencil and ink on paper) and then she got more into digital art. Kritonia always looks for inspiration by researching other artists’ work, brainstorming ideas and writing notes. Her art teacher played an important role in her life and taught her many things that have helped shape her as an artist to this day.

Kritonia recalls her previous participation in Cyprus Comic Con as one of the “best experiences in her life”, for allowing her to meet other like-minded artists, learn different styles and techniques and more. She says she is always looking forward to the Comic Con every year and is very thankful to be able to participate once again!

 

Artist Profile: Raphaella Theodorou

17/08/2016 by

Young illustrator Raphaella Theodorou is the newest addition to our Featured Artists roster for CCC16!

Raphaella was born in 1998 and has been drawing since merely 8 years old. Her very first few drawings were primarily inspired by the popular Disney animation Lion King (1994). As a young artist, she loved drawing animals, while at the age of 12 years old, she first discovered anime and manga art, which subsequently became her passion. She continued practicing her drawing through high school and believes her illustrations now have more depth and detail, enabling her to do create more realistic art such as portraits. Her favourite drawing materials to use are pen and ink, watercolours and colouring pencils.

Follow Raphaella on DeviantArt to stay up to date with her latest artwork!

After visiting Cyprus Comic Con last year, Raphaella says her friends all encouraged her to keep practicing and improving her artwork and apply to participate as an artist! She is very thankful towards her friends and family for their support and she is very excited to proudly showcase her creations at CCC16 this September!

Artist Profile: Christofis Agathokleous

16/08/2016 by

Cyprus Comic Con has the pleasure of hosting sculptor Christofis Agathokleous among its roster of Featured Artists for CCC16!

Christofis Agathokleous was born in Limassol in 1990, more specifically the village of Agios Tychonas. He graduated from Linopetra high school, where subsequently he enlisted in the National Guard, and served on the Green Line. He studied Sociology at the School of Humanities at the University of Crete and is currently doing his master’s degree in Criminology at the University of Nicosia.

Visit Christofis’ page on Facebook to see more of his creations.

Christofis is an amateur scalptor that creates themed pieces inspired from myths, legends, and pop-culture. He developed his skills in this art form from early childhood. Sculpting remains a perpetual passion for Christofis, who through the process of “trial and error” has continued to practice his art and to improve his skills set. His creations are inspired by different areas of popular culture, such as cinema, comics, video games, TV series and more.  He specialises in two techniques, one being sculpting and the other one being hand-shaping, which is the creation of figures without using any tools other than the artists’ hands.

Christofis lives in Limassol where he works in social projects of the Limassol Municipality, offering assistance to vulnerable population groups that have been affected by the consequences of the recent economic and social crisis. He publishes his creations on his Facebook page named ‘Concept sculpting and hand-shaping creations CY’

Artist Profile: Stefanos Papadatos

15/08/2016 by

Our next Featured Artist for CCC16 is talented illustrator and animator Stefanos Papadatos!

Stefanos Papadatos (aka Esteban) was born in Athens and he is originally from Lixouri, Kefalonia. Stefanos studied Architecture at the University of Thessaly and since 2001 has participated in numerous architectural design projects and competitions, interior design of commercial spaces, installations and industrial products. He has collaborated with a wide range of companies such as Coca Cola, Mercedes Benz, Altria Group (Phillip Morris – Marlboro – Chesterfield), Johnnie Walker, Cosmote, Hellenic American Union, Wind hellas, The Mall Athens, ANT1 group and Notos gallery home.

To learn more about Stefanos and his artwork visit his personal website. You can also follow him on Facebook and DeviantArt.

Raised with Don Lawrence’s Storm and Brian Bolland’s Camelot 3000 he is actively involved in illustration and concept art for video games. Having always been fascinated by both architecture and animated technology he specialised in 2D -3D design and animation. He has developed special effects for short films and music videos and has also participated in Comic and video art festivals.

He is best known for “The End of Austerity”, an illustration about the Eurogroup meeting on February 11th in Berlin, concerning the Greek financial crisis. The poster went viral and appeared in several websites, blogs, magazines, newspapers and TV networks in Greece and abroad, such as Business Insider and Bloomberg Television. Stefanos lives and works in Athens, hoping for world peace and demilitarization.