What happens when an artist only has a song duration to finish his art, and even more so, has to depict his emotions based on lyrics and music perception upon hearing the piece for the first time ever, and then explore it further through graphic art? This is what we are going to find out as we are embarking on this experiment together! Please welcome, the first impression drawing based on the first song of the coming album Darkblue by Fiobos Gkoubras!
LOVE CREATES MONSTERS? OR IS IT ONLY A PERCEPTION? – 06.05.2025
A big theme for these Portraits was Control and Access. In the song one exchanges his freedom in order to gain access to the female body. There is a trade happening which is obvious to the two partners, but that’s not always the case. For this Portrait series, I thought an allegory to paint that has a similar function. The allegory was Religion. Kind of obvious, maybe a low hanging fruit, but it was enough to get me started. Religion of course was used as a form of control for the masses. Unifying people who otherwise would probably try to kill each other in conquest, by giving them rules and ethics to follow in a common religion, that was in control of the church. And it worked of course, now all these people turned to kill people of another religion instead(crusades etc), but that’s another story. I chose to paint a series of Nuns, with obscure and monstrous characteristics. I would Imagine them feeding out of the faith of the masses. Feeling more like a cult. I took some inspiration from HR Giger, but hopefully it should not be as obvious. It was a process in which I had not much experience in.
I usually struggle to create a portrait with faithful enough characteristics. But for this I had to toss all that out of the window and trying to find a way to create an inhuman Nun in about 4 minutes time. I was not confident that I could manage creating the right feeling in that amount of time, so I did A LOT of portraits.
– Fiobos on his vision for Full Body Access
FULL BODY ACCESS: FIRST IMPRESSION DRAWING – 23.04.2025
The April update for our project is out and here is Fiobos’ take on the second song from Darkblue musical narration – Full Body Access! I guess the sensual topics of interdependent interaction could be seen from the side of inherent and terrifying beauty – or create monsters. It’s fascinating for me to see the visual artist’s own vision of the poetic imagery, and this one did surprise me, in a sense of how far it traveled away from my own feeling of it… But it’s for you to judge! – Hamlet
