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 still maintains a web site with additional information about the book including
a small video presentation, a synopsis and a character profile. If you are interested to have this
comic book please visit one of the following Internet retailers: ELEFTHEROUDAKIS ,
PAPERBOOKLAND and SALTO
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 still maintains a web site with additional information about the book including
a small video presentation, a synopsis and a character profile. If you are interested to have this
comic book please visit one of the following Internet retailers: ELEFTHEROUDAKIS ,
PAPERBOOKLAND and SALTO
