Dimitris Papadopoulos

Diminki (Dimitris Papadopoulos) is an artist born and raised in Chania, Crete, where he maintains a studio in the Old Venetian Harbour. He has been drawing since childhood and graduated in Plastic Arts, specialising in Comics and Illustration, from Institut Saint-Luc in Belgium in 2002.

Working with Indian ink, watercolour and acrylic, his work is shaped by a love of line, texture and storytelling, with deep roots in comics and illustration. A two-time winner of Panhellenic competitions for professional comic artists, he is also the author of Caderno de Capoeira (2008), published in English as Capoeira Illustrated by Turtle Press in 2011. The book reflects his long-standing practice of capoeira, which he has pursued since 2000.

• Plastic Arts (Comic & Illustration), Institut Saint-Luc, Belgium, 2002
• Tattooing: Self-taught. Professional tattoo artist since 2013
• Capoeira: Graduado, Mundo Capoeira, 2009. Teaching Capoeira since 2004