Alexakis Illustration and Design

self portrait

2008-10-05T03:18:00.002-04:00

Hi everyone, This is a portait I did for the Member show at the Orlando Museum. Every first thursday of the month they have a cool artsy event so Ruperto Ramos and I are going there and check the art and drink some beers. We decided to enter the show for November. This is my piece and you should all try and check Rupertos site in a week or so his portait is amazing. I am going to Print this 24X36 on a fine art paper and do some work on top of it. Enjoy...................................

Fresno Painting

2008-07-15T17:21:00.003-04:00

So I had to create a painting for Ruth's Chris Restaurant in Fresno, CA. They wanted a poster like painting style with a collage feel to it. This painting is painted digitally and then 60% to 70% painted on top. When you look at it up close it looks like an original acrylic painting. I hope you guys like it, tell me what you think.

house renderings

2008-06-24T21:48:00.005-04:00

I ve been painting a lot lately and most of y paintings are buildings, homes, aerial views of soon to be residential areas, and very complex interiors with certain lighting , fabrics and lots and lots of furniture. I ve decided to change my style of my renderings to somethign more fun so I just throw a lot of color sometimes I just throw color just because I felt like it. Well here is a sample of my houses. I hope you like it......

Portrait of SLug

2008-06-11T00:16:00.001-04:00

Slug is the MC of the Hip Hop Duo Atmosphere. I ve been listening to his music and lyrics for the last 3 years. He usually raps in an intensely personal, often introspective style, acting as a kind of storyteller relating his own experiences to his audience. Slug's songs often deal with alcohol problems, tour life and depression, and his difficult and destructive relationships with women. So here is SLug tell me what you think.........

Paper Optimus Prime

2008-02-21T14:26:00.005-05:00

Hi everyone, while surfing the Net I found a really interesting page which had a pdf file of Optimus prime. I printed the instruction and the template on a thicker paper and here are the results. Optimus can actually transform to the truck and you can bend his knees elbows and shoulders. For better info about him check http://www.paperrobots1999.com/. And if you have some extra time build one of the models included on the page. Have fun and enjoy.

Rooster painting

2008-01-23T21:43:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone, I ve been in the mood to paint lately. Unfortunately I don;t have time for my quache so I am getting some practice with painter and photoshop. EnJoY

Greek trip

2007-12-19T10:23:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone I am writing from Athens Greece. It is cold as hell and I got a cold and I feel like crap, and unfortunately I haven't got many pictures just a few from the aeroplane and a drive through Athens. I hope you guys like them and I hopefully I ll have more soon.From top to bottom The Greek Parliament, somewhere downtown Athens, Kifissia with Friends, view of Greece from plane and view of New Jersey . Have Fun.

Car painting

2007-11-30T09:45:00.000-05:00

Hi everyone I ve been working on a bunch of car paintings for a project at work. I find myself really into painting the reflections make the piece ultra realistic but if you zoom in you can see how loose it is. This piece was created from a photo. I put 2 images in there so you can see the piece just about half done. EnJoY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

New Work

2007-11-21T09:09:00.000-05:00

Hi Everyone it has been a while since I last posted new work. I ve been extremely busy and too tired to post on my blog. I am Posting some of the paintings from work. We purchase royalty free pictures and we turn them to paintings. I usually change the colors, sky, crop them and make them look something better than just a photo. I usually first turn the picture to a painting using Painter and Photoshop, then I print them on canvas or paper depending on the piece, Texture them and paint a good 45-50% on top of it with acrylic or oils. These paintings are created for themed restaurants/ hotels. I hope you like them. tell me what you think.

Alex, Alex, Duncan

2007-09-13T16:24:00.000-04:00

A pic of me on the left with Alex and Duncan at the Labbit show and my labbit. Dunc just drag the pic if you need it

New renderings

2007-09-11T16:37:00.000-04:00

Here are some new renderings that were created at Raleigh Design. I had lots of fun creating these and I feel that I learned and accomplished a lot by doing them. Mark Mitchell is the concept architect for the building and with his help and by looking at him sketching I have learned very valuable information. I created 4 renderings for the Disney presentation starting at 4pm thursday I finished at 6 am Friday(allnighter baby).* on the second rendering there is a wal design that I designed and it was approved, so it will be used for as a wallcover. Here are my favorites.

Kelis portrait

2007-08-28T15:12:00.000-04:00

Here is my celebrity portrait of Kelis. Lately I ve been really into quick sketching and painting fast digitally, I am really enjoying the feel of this and I am able to understand more about the colors and the shapes.EnJoY.

Greek Fires

2007-08-27T09:43:00.000-04:00

Massive fires have been burning my country over the summer, the fires are caused by arsonists that either burns the land to get revenge from the government or to help land developers take over beautiful forests and turn them to houses or hotels. That is insane. I found a satellite picture from Yahoo of the fires and I am posting it so people can see and understand the size of the destruction the fires are causing. Sadly Greece is not only the birthplace of democracy but the birthplace of the biggest idiots. I hope that no more people will get harmed and the fires will be extinguished without burning anymore parts of this beautiful country.

rebetes

2007-08-13T14:14:00.000-04:00

This is a quick digital painting I did. A rebetis (pl. rebetes) (Greek ρεμπέτης) is a musician involved in the scene of the Greek musical genre of rebetiko, which flourished between 1920 and 1955 (winkipedia). This painting to me represents Greece and the greek music tradition. I hope you like it.

Soulis the Weimaraner

2007-08-09T16:51:00.000-04:00

Hi everyone, I recently got a weimaraner puppy from Unity weimaraners ( you can click on my links on Greg McLogan) His name is Soulis and he is a crazy hyper dog and is probably the only dog that can hang with me due to my hyper activity, anyways here is a painting of him, EnJoY.......................

Greek Artists Database

2007-07-31T16:10:00.000-04:00

Hello everyone, recently I was added in Artaz.gr. A database of greek artists working in Greece or around the world for the design industry. I am happy that I finally was added to a site of my country and you can actually view the site in English so you can read my little bio. Check it. http://www.artaz.gr/eng/alexakis.html HaVe FuN

Borat step by step

2007-07-16T15:52:00.000-04:00

This is one of my most favorite pieces. Borat is a funny character and I have been a fan for a while. I took one of his sayings "God, man, horse, dog woman and then little critters" and created this piece. Here is how my painting was done. First i did couple of thumbnail sketches but I knew that the layout had to be diferrent to fit with the crazy personality this character has. I created a full rendered skecth. I always like doing that because I can use the actual sKetch as an overlay on the final piece like it happened on this one. After painting the piece and throwing lots of textures and brush strokes I lost my line work so I duplictaed my drawing layer and trhew on top as an overlay at 20%. After The whole thing was painted I created a layer and darkened the bottom left of the piece so the focus was his face and not the bottom. Enjoy my process and please feel free to leave any comments. HaVe FuN.

Architectural renderings

2007-07-16T15:38:00.000-04:00

It has been a while since I updated my blog so I decided to update it. The last couple of months I have been trying to lenarn how to create architectural renderings fast and clean. I am not sure I am there yet. I believe I need to treat these more like artwork instead of just renderings, which is a result of timing issues, these need to be created in less than 8 hours each. I believe the perfection of the pieces will come with time and experience.Here are some of the most descent ones. Most of them are digital and the wine bar is rendered half on the computer and half gouache. Tell me what you think.

From painting to production

2007-01-19T13:19:00.000-05:00

This is a digital watercolor painting I did. It started from a photograph from Michael O'donovan to a drawing to Photoshop from Photshop to Painter IX to photoshop again and then to an Epson 9800 pro. Enoy( this is my current workspace).

step by step painting of sign

2007-01-08T17:40:00.000-05:00

This is a sign that I painted I was given a black and white photo and turned to this. I have another 3 of them to go plus more stuff that i haven't upload yet .Have fun

IN ATHENS

2006-12-20T12:05:00.001-05:00

Stin Athina

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This song is called in Athens. Well it is a really good video of Athens from they eyes of a young person. this song is from Taki Tsan, enjoy

Lily Pads

2006-12-05T18:32:00.000-05:00

Here is another painting that I finished, At work I have to base my paintings to certain images so here is my process. have fun.
There are two versions of the finished painting the one on top and the one underneth it. Tell me which one you like.

2006-12-04T19:20:00.000-05:00

This is one of the paintings I did the first day at work. I used Photoshop to create my original file the way the Master P. Diddy a.k.a Octavio Perez then It was imported in Painter 9.5 I actually went ahead and treated the whole image as an actuall painting and thanx to my skillz with the cloning tools I added the ridiculous amount of branches. Tell me what you think!!! This painting is based on a photograph I don't know the name of the photographer. Enjoy!!!

Tshirt Designs

2006-12-02T09:57:00.000-05:00

This is some of my work I did at Oki wear INC. I also created some designs that were selected for the shows Biggest loser and My name is Earl but unfortunatelly I don't have them yet. well enjoy these ones. Peace.

I found pictures of an old hand painted sign

2006-11-05T13:14:00.000-05:00

COuple of Years ago I git a job to hand paint 2 huge signs on the 2 sides of the Blue water Grill. The one side was easy becasue I could reach the top of the mural with a ladder but the back side it was about 14 feet of the ground. Check the pics. Thanx to Nate Greco I finished the back side without any problem. I finished these sign in total of 22 hours.

Promotion pages

2006-09-18T22:46:00.000-04:00

These are some of my pages that I am using to promote myself and get some freelance. SO far so good. tell me what you think.

nightmare piece for bloigarians

2006-08-22T22:21:00.000-04:00

digital nightmare.

Mural at my uncle's restaurant

2006-05-18T16:38:00.000-04:00

I ve been bored so I decided to make a mural at my uncle's Restaurant. I ve already done two of them and this one is the third. This photo is after of 7 hours of drawing it and painting it, I am going to finish it this Saturday. The Restaurant is locted in North Port, and it is called" Alvaros" good food.

Perspectives cover

2006-05-16T17:15:00.000-04:00

Well finally they printed the cover I did for the perspectives magazine. Here is the cover I hope you like it. Peace..............

Graduation Movie

2006-05-11T21:35:00.000-04:00

This is the Ringling School of Art graduation 2006! enjoy

THESIS PAINTINGS

2006-04-30T13:09:00.000-04:00

Here are my thesis painitings and my proposal:

May 1st 1999, my family and I moved to the United states from Greece for a better tomorrow and better life. Through my first years I couldn’t think anything else but my country. While searching a way to get closer to what I really miss, I started painting scenes from the Greek islands. Painting was the only action that made me feel better.
Seven years have passed since then and I still find escape routes in my paintings. My thesis is dedicated in the loving memory of my grandmother that passed away Christmas of 2005. It is hard for me to believe she is dead due to the fact I spend the summer of 2005 with her. I never thought that would be the last time I would see her. These painting don’t only represent my thesis but a part of my self.

THESIS MOVIE

2006-04-29T14:03:00.000-04:00

I added all the pictures from most of the Blogarians I think I am missing John. I had fun making this video I hope you guys like it.

Grandmas portait

2006-04-29T12:21:00.000-04:00

A digital painting of my grandma I am trying to make my digital paintings look as close as I can to a real painting.

Digital illustration for my girlfriend's projects

2006-04-29T12:15:00.000-04:00

I just did these really fast for her projects the one is communications in Argentina and the other one abou the low benefits that walmart provides and women discrimination, something like that.
I just wanted to show these somewhere because other than my girlfriend's class noone else would ever see them.

Princess

2006-04-12T00:57:00.000-04:00

This is the weekly theme from Blogarians. I always wanted to paint an asian woman I decided to be really loose with this piece. I did a charcoal drawing and then I scaned some papers from my collection, some photoshop and ta-da. I hope you like it.

Another digital scetch

2006-04-05T22:48:00.000-04:00

just a funny image that I put together, I will change the closer figure the dark on from male to female. I t would work better with the kids.

FOX OF THE SWAMP

2006-04-05T22:43:00.000-04:00

I am doing a series of images that are influenced by a greek hip hop song called fox of the swamp by a crew called ACTIVE MEMBER. I love the lyrics of the song I decided to illustrate it . I hope you like what you see . please write . Pen and white acrylic on mixed papers. this is the scetch of it. DIGITAL

Pool Shark

2006-04-02T10:21:00.000-04:00

The weekly illustration from Blogarians. enjoy!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

LIZARD WARS

2006-03-26T19:17:00.001-05:00

THIS IS A HOME MADE VIDEO OF MY BEARDED DRAGON EATING A LIZARD> AWESOME

Watercolor

2006-03-21T22:04:00.000-05:00

SOme watercolor of some boat sin Greece. This was a really fun project. Actually the painting of it it was about 30 minutes. I like watercolor I am going to be palying more with it.

Some figure painting

2006-03-21T21:51:00.000-05:00

These paintings, were done in Fiore Custode's class. Most of them were done in about 2 to 3 hour sessions, except the secon painting of the woman with the earing.(the only one that looks more rendered). I hope you like. please give comments.

FISHING TIME

2006-03-05T14:36:00.000-05:00

i Went Fishing with my brother Chris and we demolished the sheepshead. Here are the fish after I cleaned them at my house. It was cool. I love fishing

Dream

2006-02-19T09:30:00.000-05:00

This is a quick photoshop painting I did about a dream I had. I enjoyed the painting and I loved the dstortion.

Owl on campus

2006-02-13T23:00:00.000-05:00

YEAH THE OWL RULES.................................................................

Samurai from a Greek

2006-02-12T02:42:00.000-05:00

This weeks theme.

FEAR

2006-02-04T02:13:00.000-05:00

I guess I wanted to try to do an illustration about fear. I ussually don't draw dark images so tell me what do you think about my piece, it took me from begining to end 3 hrs. I think that is good, but i wish I could play wth some text in it like scream or ahhhhhhhh or something like that.

My favourite animal

2006-02-03T12:45:00.000-05:00

Better late than never. I got this as an oppostunity to do a quick portait, with an animal. I like it just expperimenting with painter

Some scetch book deals

2006-01-31T19:51:00.000-05:00

I want to remind to all the cats Society of Illustrators. We should all put some shits in there we should take some heads like its nothing. For Ringling Thursday at 6:30 at CJ 3 in case you missed the HUGE signs all over campus. OH that is a scetch of my proffesor DR. STEILING, I bet he ll love this one............................................

Empty

2006-01-30T12:12:00.000-05:00

This is one of my favourite paintings. I have always wanted to mdo a painting of this subject matter and Ibelieve this painting came out better than I thought.

quick $$$$$$$$ mural

2006-01-25T22:52:00.000-05:00

Last Monday I got a call from a guy who wanted a mural in his bathroom. I don't really like my paintings to be in a bathroom, but I did it anyways. I got to practice how to make receipts and contract with my stationery and make it look professional the mural is pretty big I finished it all in 6 hours last Friday. It is not my favorite painting but it will pay this months bills.

thesis concept 2

2006-01-25T11:00:00.000-05:00

the concept is that the house on the right is my grandmas, and the trik represents my childhood

Senior poster portait

2006-01-25T00:09:00.000-05:00

mixed media.

more shits

2006-01-24T23:49:00.000-05:00

Notorious BIG. Pen and Ink project for Media class. I love that new style I developed

I am too excited with this blogg deal here is my first thesis painting

2006-01-24T23:43:00.000-05:00

Some Greek pictures

2006-01-24T23:30:00.000-05:00

My last trip to Greece was awesome I can't wait to go back. I miss home and I really miss my last summer.

I got my blog.

2006-01-24T22:51:00.000-05:00

I just got it , here is some shits so you can take a whif of my business. the scan quality suck I think it is time for a new scanner.