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Artist Profile: Chrysso Vassiliou

01/09/2016 by

Chrysso Vassiliou is returning to Cyprus Comic Con as one of our Featured Artists!

Chrysso Vassiliou, (also known as “Chryssv”) is a young self taught freelance artist. She had always loved art but her true passioned awakened about 2-3 years ago, when she started learning digital painting. She loves video games, movies and comics. She is inspired by both eastern(anime/manga) and western cartoons, both 2d and 3d. She has been accepting freelance commissions for the past 2 years, and has been selling her artwork online and showcased her work at several events, including Cyprus Comic Con, Malta Comic Con and Japan Expo!

Stay up to date with Chrysso’s work through her Facebook, Twitter, Instagram and DeviantArt profiles! You can also watch her drawing videos on Youtube and visit her online store!

Currently Chrysso is working on becoming a better artist and improving her skills and aspires to work as a professional illustrator and concept artist in the future, for video games, cartoons and movies. Furthermore, she also hopes to expand my skills and knowledge of 3d-art and modeling.

Artist Profile: Andrea Pavlou

31/08/2016 by

Meet our next Featured Artist for CCC16, talented illustrator Andrea Pavlou!

Andrea Pavlou (aka Akina) is a young artist from Cyprus, who throughout her life has been experimenting with different types of art such as fine art, photography, digital film, concept art and illustration. Art has always been a creative outburst, in which she could expand and broaden her artistic side and abilities. Lately, she has been focusing on character and environment design and development, sculpting and concept art, with the help of Digireal Studios. She has just finished school and will go on to study 3D Animation & Computer modelling at the University of Hertfordshire in the UK.

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

For her illustrations she mainly enjoys working with inks and fine liners, to create delicate black and white pieces, with a hint of mystery, focusing on dot work, line work and inking. Andrea’s inspirations mainly come from the Japanese culture, nature, as well as traditional tattoo works. Her photography has been featured in annual calendars and has also worked as freelancer, creating illustrations and designs for tattoos. Her hobbies include crafting inspired from video games and movies, as well as the art of cosplay and cosplay photography.

As an aspiring animator, she is looking forward to exploring different areas of Animation, including 2D, 3D & stop motion animation, visual effects, as well as game design and development. She hopes to travel the world and work in major movie features, as well as become a part-time tattoo artist!

Artist Profile: Elpida Kyriakou

30/08/2016 by

The next Featured Artist to showcase their talent at CCC16 is Elpida Kyriakou!

Elpida Kyriakou (aka Elysper) is a young illustrator from Cyprus. Elpida has taken a gap year from education and with the help of Digireal Studios, has been focusing on concept art and character design. As from September, she will be studying 2D Animation at the University of Hertfordshire, in the UK.

For more of Elpida’s work, follow her on Facebook and Instagram.

She is mainly a self-taught artist and works both with traditional media as well as digital design, but also on crafts and sculpting. In the meantime, she particularly enjoys making ink and watercolour drawings. She is currently working as a freelance artist and has collaborated with the ‘Dreamcast’ gaming company, ‘Elysian Shadows’, where she created sprites and tiles for their new indie RPG game.

Elpida is an aspiring animator and also dreams of becoming a concept artist and story teller, as well as working in major gaming or film companies. Her goals for the future include her art reaching a global audience and creating comics that will make a difference.

Artist Profile: Anastasia Nicolaou

29/08/2016 by

Young illustrator Anastasia Nicolaou will be one of CCC16’s Featured Artists!

Anastasia is a self-taught artist from Nicosia, Cyprus. As a child, her mother introduced her to the world of art and Anastasia developed a passion that would only grow stronger with time.

To see more of Anastasia’s work, visit her pages on Facebook, Instagram and DeviantArt.

For years, a pencil was all she would use to try and recreate as close as possible what inspired her, but eventually she discovered her love for watercolors, acrylics, and inks through high school, where she got to experiment with new media and take part in several projects and competitions as well as festivals. She recently bought her first graphics tablet, which proved to be a major stepping stone for her craft, as it made digital painting possible and got her working in Photoshop and Illustrator.

Anastasia mostly does fan art for now and a bit of life drawing but she is learning and gradually working on her portfolio and original characters. In the near future, she aspires to continue pursuing art in university and of course later in life as a profession. Some of her favorite artists are Ahmed Aldoori, Ross Tran, Stanley Lau and Josiah Brooks.

Artist Profile: Antonios Noxis Antoniou

28/08/2016 by

Meet our next Featured Artist, illustrator and concept artist Antonios Noxis Antoniou!

Antonios was born in the beautiful island of Cyprus. From a young age, he remember himself drawing constantly. His dad had bought him a book about dinosaurs when he was 6 years old, and Antonios started re-drawing the beautiful illustrations he could see in its pages. For many years, he would only draw dinosaurs and animals. That changed when he discovered the existence of superheroes. It was love at first sight!

Visit Antonios’ pages on Facebook and Instagram to see more of his work.

He started drawing humans and figures and soon enough, he found himself creating his own original characters. Up until this day, he has created more than 100 original superheroes! At the age of 18, Antonios showcased some comic pages with his original characters and received an amazing and exciting amount of feedback. However, difficulties in branding and protecting his copyrights have kept his original characters in the drawers.

After high school he went on to study Illustration and Graphic Design in London. During the first year of his studies, he was given the opportunity to create a poster for his favorite comic company, Marvel. It felt like a miracle, I could not believe it myself. After graduating, he worked for two companies in the U.S., while still living in London, where he is currently based. For those companies, Antonios created character concepts for various projects and that triggered him to experiment with concept art. Lately he is focusing on character and creature design, but continues to draw and illustrate superheroes! His sources of inspiration will always include character design, costumes, comic panels, the invention of worlds and universes.

For the time being, Antonios works as a freelancer and is preparing his portfolio, aiming to apply for the position of a concept artist in big movie studios, like Marvel, Warner Bros Studios etc. As he continues to practice drawing, his style is becoming more and more realistic and conceptual. In the near future, he would like to finally copyright his original characters and publish his very first comic. Who knows, he might even be the next Stan Lee!