A few months before the 2004 OLYMPIC GAMES in Athens I was approached by a Greek publisher in order to
illustrate a comic book based on the ancient Olympic Games. This was not an easy tusk. Before any single page was
drawn a tremendous amount of work and time was spend researching the subject from a historical and archaeological
angle. I traveled to the ancient Olympia and the local museum. With the help of my wife who is an archaeologist I took
hundreds of pictures and reviewed numerous recreations, stories and notes taken by other artists, writers and
scholars. At the same time I started working on the character designs and the layouts. When those where completed I
used a 3D software to build the most important buildings and used angles from those models in order to trace them for
my compositions. Finally I started on the final panels working together with the writer to adapt the script to my needs of
visual storytelling. During the same time a team of artist at the publisher's studio where doing color tests and exploring
the possible methods of coloring the panels digitally and efficiently. Later they received from me the color models for
the locations and lighting. I managed to finish this 82 pages including my research and 3D modeling in 100 days after I
accepted the assignment and the book was able to reach the various book stands in town just a few days before the
opening ceremony of the 2004 GAMES. The publisher GRAFOAE printed the book not only in Greek but in the English
and the German language and maintains the web site Ancient Greek Olympics comic with additional information
about the book including small video presentations, a synopsis, sample pages and a character profile.
illustrate a comic book based on the ancient Olympic Games. This was not an easy tusk. Before any single page was
drawn a tremendous amount of work and time was spend researching the subject from a historical and archaeological
angle. I traveled to the ancient Olympia and the local museum. With the help of my wife who is an archaeologist I took
hundreds of pictures and reviewed numerous recreations, stories and notes taken by other artists, writers and
scholars. At the same time I started working on the character designs and the layouts. When those where completed I
used a 3D software to build the most important buildings and used angles from those models in order to trace them for
my compositions. Finally I started on the final panels working together with the writer to adapt the script to my needs of
visual storytelling. During the same time a team of artist at the publisher's studio where doing color tests and exploring
the possible methods of coloring the panels digitally and efficiently. Later they received from me the color models for
the locations and lighting. I managed to finish this 82 pages including my research and 3D modeling in 100 days after I
accepted the assignment and the book was able to reach the various book stands in town just a few days before the
opening ceremony of the 2004 GAMES. The publisher GRAFOAE printed the book not only in Greek but in the English
and the German language and maintains the web site Ancient Greek Olympics comic with additional information
about the book including small video presentations, a synopsis, sample pages and a character profile.