Mutation: Cyborg Girl

Just finished this year's photography electives. The project's subject was "Mutation", so the first thing that came to my mind was technology. I thought that as human, we tend to walk more towards technology than going back to our nature. I have seen cyborg designs before, like human-like mechas, and wanted to give it a try myself. I would say I love digital designs and digital art, and an artist I really admire is Giger. His subjects are mostly around human nature and its evolution in technology, robot designs and mecha-creatures.I have also tried to do another photography, a hand: half young and the other half looks aged, like we transform through the ages. I did not like it though, but I might make it as a mecha-hand, so its more related to the final cyborg girl.
I started by photo shooting one of my friends, who is the girl in the final design. God bless her, she has an awesome pose, neck and face shape for what I imagined doing. Also I drew different wires on an A2 paper, scanned them and split them to layers in Photoshop. Then I edited the photo colors and levels and layered it. I started with the face, then the hair, finally the background.
I really wanted the hair and face to blend in well with the wires. I always wanted to try digital painting and this was my first try! You get hooked at it right away, and once you start you can never stop! It is addictive, I love it.. I had over 20 layers, and drew with the mouse which was not comfortable at all! Wish I had a pen pad, it would make my life easier! I am pretty pleased with the result though, although I run out of time while doing it. I think I have done well as my first try in digital photo painting ! I would like to go back to it and add more stuff to it, hopefully.

"Krapp's Last Tape"

My first second year group project using stop-motion technique. The 2 minute piece is based on the theatrical script from Samuel Beckett, "Krapp's Last Tape". We included a piece of the script and added narrative in greek language. The whole project was about taking the script and express it in our way. Basically the story we made out of it, is that the tragic character, Krapp, an old theatre actor, is lonely in his place listening to the tapes he recorded in his youth. He wears a venetian mask that represents his youth, which still haunts him until his early years. He cannot escape his failure in the past, but wants to be young again so he keeps his mask on. Also, he has a problem with eating bananas, and that kills him in the end. The whole story is not this though, but we interpate it like this in our own way. Made by me, Giorgos Charalambous, Katharina Prill, Daniel Wright and Hannah Rose... Cheers guys, great work :)

Sorcerer VS Gargoyla

Good vs evil. Pencil, b&w charcoal and white paint.

The River Flows Frozen

Like frozen leaves
We are falling
On to the soil so barren and cold
The rays of sun
No more warming
Our hearts now so cold
Through this field
Of the withered flowers
We go still one more time
The hidden beauty
Forever gone
The river's frozen once again
So came this time
When moonlight blackened my heart:
I can't stand this pain
The chain is broken
It's tearing open my scars:
I want to feel the flame...again
The shine behind
The frozen stream
Reminds me of your eyes
The spark of hope
Still in my heart
Shall dreams become true under the ice?

Band: Eternal Tears of Sorrow

I made that painting after this song^^

Iona

I drew this some days ago and finished it off last night. I like both the darker and lighter drawing, but sometimes I just prefer the lighter one^^ I named her Iona for some reason :P

Works slideshow

Uhmm, since the slideshow I used to have on this page does not work anymore for some odd reason.. I am posting this instead :P

Drawings: My Warrior

A drawing I did a few days ago using my favorite materials (rough pencil, cacroal, black pen, white chalk and white paint) :) If I ever learn how to digitally paint I will try and fix him ^^