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Dimitri Dzneladze

millionsignals — Fri, 05 Apr 2013 08:17:32 +0000

Dimitri Dzneladze is a UK based Illustrator and Sketch artist. Originally from Georgia, Dimitri has moved to London and is freelancing as an illustrator. Employing delicate lines and shading to his drawings, his unique style works strongest when sketching real people and places. You can find him spending the majority of his free time in Cafes around Central London.

* DIMITRI DZNELADZE * *

I was drawing since my childhood and I always wanted to develop my skills in a big city, and here I am in London, it’s been 8 years since I left Georgia. All this time I kept making sketches on the streets, in the Museums, cafes. I started to visit “Ray’s Jazz”, a café centered in famous bookshop “Foyls” on Charring Cross Road and spend much of my time drinking coffee, listening to jazz music and drawing unknown, interesting people. The most I enjoyed to draw were the students from next building St. Martins Fashion Design School; they have amazingly crazy hairstyles, and are always dressed very fashionable. I settled myself in the backside of the café opposite of the big windows so I could catch silhouettes and shadows. I realized that my eyes captured those people especially whose energetic fields were positive and emotional, because it made them attractive and sharp. I’ve done so many sketches finally that the manager who became my friend in this time decided to make an exhibition, and it was my first solo exhibition. The sketches were hanged across café like a paper wall.  Anyone who was a local client could find him self there, many never returned probably and never got to know that I made their portraits.

With this exhibition I kind of ended up with sketching people there, it was like a mission. :)

My next step was watercolors, acrylic and ink. I started painting with colors.

At the moment I study in London College of Fashion, on Fashion Illustration. I am drawing people’s portraits, body’s, and their movements. I experiment with my self.

I as well love fashion design and I think it is all connected inside me.

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*Portrait by Tinatin Shaburishvili*

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Selected Works / Illustrations

Selected Works / Sketches

Selected Works / Watercolour

Others by Louisa Chalatashvili

millionsignals — Thu, 24 Jan 2013 03:07:53 +0000

Citizenship by Giorgi Makhniashvili [ Mozgovoi ]

millionsignals — Wed, 23 Jan 2013 09:08:36 +0000

15 Involuntary Recurrent Memory by Achi Tabukashvili

millionsignals — Tue, 22 Jan 2013 10:20:24 +0000

When I was a kid, I got a wrist watch as a gift from someone. I liked it so much that, since then, I always wore it, without taking it off. At some point, the button for setting the alarm got broken; I couldn’t turn it off, so it rang every day, on the same time. In the beginning I got annoyed, but I still didn’t take it off my wrist, and then after some time, I used this constant daily reminder as a positive aspect of my life. Every time the alarm rang, I started writing down what I was doing at that exact moment; I was describing the environment around me in an artistic manner, writing everything down in a diary of mine. After a year, the diary was full… The watch was completely broken and finally, I had to throw it off. These daily writings of mine remained and it wonderfully describes that concrete period of my life. A lot of time passed since then, I didn’t even remember that story before something similar happened with my cell phone. The system got messed up and the alarm was ringing at random times. Again, I used this issue for a positive cause, instead of writing in a diary where I was and what I was doing at that exact moment right when the alarm rang; I started to take photos with that phone. I gave myself permission to use couple of meters ahead or behind, couple of extra minutes and the possibility to change the angle of the photo. After 15 times of random alarm bursts, this problem was solved… That’s how I ended up with 15 photo entries, which I called 15 flashbacks or “15 Involuntary Recurrent Memory”.

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