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Artist Profile: Panos Kamoulakos

29/06/2016 by

Talented comic book artist, Panos Kamoulakos will be joining our Featured Artists roster for Cyprus Comic Con 2016!

Panos studied Illustration at Loughborough University of England and graduated in 2008. His first published work was a one page story he illustrated for indie magazine FUTUREQUAKE in 2008. Following that, he illustrated two more stories, one for FUTUREQUAKE and one for ZARJAZ, the fanzine of 2000AD.

For more of Panos’ illustrations, visit his blog or Facebook. You can also follow him on Twitter!

He currently lives and works in Athens as a freelance illustrator and teacher at Intergraphics school of applied arts. He has worked as a comic book and storyboard artist for international and local companies like Coca Cola, Unify, Vinito.gr etc. In 2015, he published his creator-owned comic MEDUSA by Comicworld Publications.

We hope you are all looking forward to see more of Panos’ work this September. Make sure to visit his booth to check out his beautifully illustrated graphic novel Medusa and other projects!

 

 

Artist Profile: Ilektra Chrysanthou

27/06/2016 by

Today’s Featured Artist for Cyprus Comic Con 2016 is Ilektra Chrysanthou!

Ilektra is a 3D artist and animator with a special love for digital painting, who also frequently returns to smearing paint on canvas. While growing up, she would often immerse herself in books, galloping alongside the wizards and dragons of her childhood imagination. It was that love for storytelling and drawing which drove her to study Digital Film & Screen Arts (2010-2013) at the University for the Creative Arts (U.K.).

To see more of Ilektra’s work, visit her website.

Since then, she has taken an active part in festivals such as Animafest Cyprus and Baltijos Banga in Lithunania to spread her joy for animation. Born into the digital age, she continues to develop as a digital artist through self-teaching, working in multidisciplinary projects.

Her work includes motion graphics for the documentary film The Great Goddess of Cyprus, 3d printed facial expressions for the stop-motion animation Fishwitch, facial animation for the VR video-game Pixel Ripped, TV spots as part of the fire prevention campaign for P.I.O., as well as a promotional video for the urban festival Imagine the Roads.

Ilektra is incredibly talented and we cannot wait to see what she is going to showcase at the upcoming convention!

Artist Profile: Nikoletta Kyprianou

15/06/2016 by

Cyprus Comic Con 2016 will be celebrating some amazing local and international talent again this year! The first CCC’16 Featured Artist we would like to introduce to you is Nikoletta Kyprianou, a freelance illustrator from Nicosia.

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

Nikoletta graduated with a BA Degree from Middlesex University in London. She enjoys creating intricate pen drawings of weird and out of this world characters. Growing up, Nikoletta was an avid fan of classic horror and fantasy movies and enjoyed reading books and comics such as Shivers, Goosebumps and Tales from the Crypt, which all eventually inspired her art.

For the past 6 years, Nikoletta has been the art director for Power of the Night Festival and most of her current work includes CD covers and booklets, concert and event posters as well as t-shirt designs for local bands.

In 2008, she was included in the D&AD Awards book introducing young fresh talent, for creating a unique look for a series of well-known fantasy novels for the Orion Publishing House. She has participated in various exhibitions such as the New Blood D&AD Awards Exhibition and was also a participating artist in Cyprus Comic Con 2015! Nikoletta will be showcasing her work at more exhibitions in the future, such as the upcoming 9th Annual Akamantis Exhibition, among others.

We are very pleased to have Nikoletta back with us for a second consecutive year! Those of you that didn’t get to see her artwork at last year’s Comic Con, make sure to visit her table and check out her incredibly detailed illustrations!

Artist Profile: ToonBoxStudio

28/08/2015 by

Paris Christou (ToonBoxStudio) is a Disney trained 2D animator, Cartoon illustrator and Teacher from London UK, currently residing in Larnaca Cyprus.

He has been mentored by some of the elite artists in the animation industry such as the legend Don Bluth, Andreas Deja, Richard Williams, Eric Goldberg and many more. Paris has grown a fun unique style similar to the “Golden Age” of western animation.

Visit Paris’ Youtube channel and profile on DeviantArt.
You can also follow him on Facebook and Instagram!
In the past 4 years, Paris Became a full time YouTuber and has established his trademark internationally as ToonBoxStudio by creating his successful cartoon pinup character “Cherry” (a cute red-headed girl and her quirky animal friends) who are adored by a massive fanbase of over 100,000 fans in 188 countries around the globe on YouTube.

Paris Christou is also the founder of a very popular online cartoon educational site ToonBoxStudio.com that hosts many cartoon courses that are packed with hours of detailed demonstration and explanation. Some of the courses are also best sellers worldwide.