Kelis portrait

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

digital nightmare.

Mural at my uncle's restaurant

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

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

Graduation Movie

This is the Ringling School of Art graduation 2006! enjoy

THESIS PAINTINGS

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.