the zodiac - part one

Sekali-dua kali bikin artwork yg zodiac-related, lama-lama kok ketagihan ya? Jadi maunya sih sekalian aja dikumpulin n dilengkapi sampe 12 :) Media dan alat gambar macem2, tergantung mood dan sikon. cara penggambaran pun beda2, tergantung mood, tergantung sikon, dan 100% subyektif hasil pengamatan saya sajah, jadi kalo dianggap ndak tepat ya mohon dimaafkeun, hehehe. Baidewei, semua zodiak digambarkan sebagai perempuan, karena saya maunya gitu.

Scorpio
The almighty-she. The "oresama" type. Keras kepala seperti Aries, tapi dengan cara yang berbeda dan - kalo menurut saya- kind of twisted in her own way. Waspada terhadap siapapun, karena nggak suka diremehkan atau dijadikan lelucon. Selalu ada satu sisi, satu bidang, atau satu sifat yg membuat scorpio bisa dianggap jenius. Charming, kuat, dan sekali dibuat kecewa akan terus mengingat kekecewaan (dan orang yg menimbulkannya) itu sampe kapanpun, walaupun di permukaan semuanya keliatan baik2 saja.

Virgo
Karena virgo itu perempuan, maka saya pikir dua hal yang membuat perempuan istimewa dibanding laki2 adalah hati dan (karena saya dah punya baby) kandungannya. Soal hati n perasaan kayaknya semua org dah tau, soal kandungan ada banyak aspek dan fakta unik dr proses hamil n melahirkan yg hanya bisa ditanggung oleh seorang perempuan. Kenapa phoenix? Selain karena fenghuang itu biasanya lambang untuk permaisuri, saya juga memilih phoenix karena saat seorang perempuan melahirkan, sebagian dari dirinya mati, dan dari situ bangkit dirinya yg baru, dirinya yg seorang ibu 

Sagitarius
Prominent feature nya para sagitarius menurut saya adalah luck dan knowledge. Most of them are constantly seeking for knowledge, karena ada rasa puas yg beda ketika mereka bisa mendapatkan pengetahuan baru. Soal luck, bidang luck-nya emang beda2, tapi somehow it feels like sagitarians always had their luck hidden somewhere XD. Ponytails? Ya karena itu pony-tails....*sembunyi*

 

Gemini 

Seringkali digambarkan dgn anak kembar, tp buat saya kayaknya yg bener tuh bukan anak kembar namun "the other self". Orang yang sama, sisi kepribadian yg berbeda. Dan kalo udah mentok biasanya lebih suka bersembunyi di balik cermin yang dihadapkan ke orang lain, supaya orang tersebut tidak bisa melihat dia yg sebenarnya. Tapi ini menurut saya loh yaa

Taurus
The gentle & kind-hearted beast. Tekun, telaten, kalem. kekuatannya adalah ketekunannya untuk berusaha dengan baik secara konstan dan terus menerus. Seringkali yang ditampakkan diluar adalah sisi tegarnya, padahal somewhere inside selalu ada hal yg dipikirkan/dikhawatirkan. Keras, tapi dalam hal memegang teguh suatu ucapan, sikap atau pemikiran, jadi biasanya paling sebel sama orang yg omongannya berubah-ubah.

SenpasenBoyz X Arikawa Reika, UtaPri fan-art

So....on April 2014 Reika Arikawa was going to be a judge for ClaS:h regional cosplay competition in my hometown Surabaya, and she was going to have a performance with 1000% Boyz (a group that cosplay Utapri in my hometown). The boys decided to give a t-shirt with an original ilustration of Utapri as a souvenir for Reika, and Nongkicchi asked me to do the drawing. Being Reika's fans since I saw her Tiger&Bunny cosplay, of course I said yes! XDD The boys requested me to do a drawing of Utapri with a hint of Indonesian elements to remind Reika of us, so I made the chibi picture of Starish wearing lurik tops and arranged them in a gunungan-shaped decoration (I'll upload the more detailed version later).

aaaand...this is the initial progres, the outline, the digitally-colored picture and the moment when Reika got the T-shirt from the boys
Hope you like it Reika-sama :'D

my initial sketch, outlined, digital, and t-shirt printed illustration

here's the twitter and facebook page of 1000%Boyz. please support them if you like their cosplay and their awesome performance
twitter.com/SenpasenBoyz
www.facebook.com/senpasen.boyz

World is Mine ~ Kaito visual kei version

This was started out as a dare dealing with a friend of mine. I said I'll draw his favorite Kaito if he make a fan-dub of Kaito's version of the "World is Mine" song :D Well, he actually made a fan-dub of the song, and as I listen to it I had an idea of drawing a different "World is Mine" illustration. The artwork which started out as a joke turns out to be an artwork that I must admit being proud of, especially because I've been so blank about making any artwork recently.

The song was originaly sang by Hatsune Miku. But as it turns out that many vocaloid fans paired her with Kaito, another version of the song was made. The song is more or less the same, but the lyrics were made as if it was Kaito singing about Miku being his number one princess in the whole world.

re-studying watercolor

little ribbon

A big glass of hot tea

fox

ram girl

Chang Er

another self portrait

Tribute to The Pledge - Dir en Grey

This song, especially the unplugged version, was introduced to me by a friend in my multiply blog. Surprisingly, the song etched deeply in my heart, and somehow it could always ease my anger or sadness though the song itself seems like filled with both plus despair :D
The drawing was being drew at the time I was too sad and too angry to express it without hurting anyone's feeling....so, back then I grab a paper and a pen and started scribbling like mad.



mitsumeteta awai negai o egaki
naze furueteiru? kodoku o kakae shounen wa seiten no sora ni nanimo nai koto no imi o
naze ni rinen wa haru
haruka tooi yakusoku no koe
mou kikoeyashinai sa

nagare katachi o kaeteyuki kieru
ima mo kokoro ubaware yaketsuku kusari no ato
urabureta koe koko ni hitori

naze ni rinen wa haru
haruka tooi yakusoku no koe
mou kikoeyashinai sa

This is my pledge to you

mada umaku ikirarenai sa
kaerareru no wa tada...

asu ni ikasaretemo
nanimo kawaru hazu no nai hibi
mada owarenai
komi ageru kokoro ga mada
saku no nara kotaetemiro yo

daremo iyase yashinai



I express the fleeting wish I had been gazing at
Why are you shivering? The lonely boy looks up at the sunny sky that holds no meaning


Where is the philosophy of spring?
The long lost promise
It cannot be heard anymore


As time goes by it changes shape and disappears
Even now after my heart was taken and rotted
My miserable voice is alone here


Where is the philosophy of spring?
The long lost promise
It cannot be heard anymore


This is my pledge to you
I cannot live successfully yet
But I think I can change


Even if tomorrow lets me live
The days will not change
It will not end
If my full blown heart blooms again
Then answer me


I can't comfort anybody

Moon

when you looking for the meaning of my real name, you'll find "the moon" among the full meaning of it. My Javanese ancestor might call this moon goddess with many names, but here I'll call her specifically as "Ratri".

I incorporate the traditional cow-skin shadow-puppet style into this doodles, because I made this picture about a week after I got home from my holiday in Jogjakarta. If you ever seen me in person, you'll be agree that my skinny figure looks like a shadow puppet too :D

a Black Cat named "Me"

There was a forest where every animal is colored white. even if they weren't born white, they paint their fur into white. everything was white, genuine and faux. A black cat named Kuro amused and wondering if she could live inside the forest too....
"..then you should paint yourself white, just like us here.." the snake said....

"...but why should I?" another black cat asked.
" That's because you'll ruin us all if you don't paint yourself white!" the hippo answered.
"what if we just want to be ourselves?"
" then you shouldn't befriends with us or staying in this forest!"
another white animal said.....

Noir was really sad..."I thought they could be my friends..."
"They didn't wanna be my friends too....so son't cry...." Kuro said to her.
Kuro and Noir became friend for each other,because the other animal in the forest thought they were bringing bad luck, and refused to be their friends...

They became good friends, but then came the day when they must choose the different path to go.
" You'll always be my friend, Kuro..." Noir said before she go.
"You too..." Kuro whispered.
Alone, Kuro walked through the path she had never know before....
Kuro had Noir as her friend, but from now on she must travel the road on her own....and secretly she feared of the loneliness, the pain, and the unknown road....

To conquer her fear she create an armored stronger version of herself, in which she hid and nursing her sad and broken heart.....she is safe inside the armor that looked tough, but the pain of being lonely and being an outcast are still there inside her.....

...until suddenly, one day, came a stranger that somehow seemed familiar, offering a helping hand.
" I won't hurt you, because I know how it feels like..." he said.
Kuro had never met anyone who treat her like this stranger do.

Kuro decided that she'll try to trust someone once more. She reach out to the hand, and somehow all of her armor and her other self disappeared....
"...now I can see the real you" the stranger smiled at her.
As long as she remembered, she never had a place that she could called "home". But strangely, inside this stranger's arm, she felt safe and happy to be herself.

" I will took care of you from now on...therefore, I'll give you this choker" he said.
"Why would I need a choker?" Kuro asked
The man smiled again at her and said,"...so that you'll remember you will always had a friend to live with now."

From then on, Kuro decide that this man is her master. Now she had a friend to go along on this unknown road ahead. Sometimes she still wearing her strong and cautious self to protect her master from anyhting they might stumble upon in this journey. But when Kuro is with him she could always show herself and being happy to be herself, a black cat that will never paint herself into white.

Srimulat : the story behind the curtain

the book front cover

This is my final project for my college years. We are bound to propose for a project with certain necessities, value, and prospect of marketing at the mid 2009. I propose on Srimulat as my research object, and being approved by the lecturer in charge of Design Research subject. Then we were supposed to do a research on the subject to find the problem that we can solved within the graphic design boundaries. The research should be then organized as the first chapter from the whole paper of our final project, and then being tested by a group of lecturer at the end of the semester.

chapter 1, the history of the group founder, Raden Ayu Srimulat

By the next semester, we were supposed to finish the next chapters of the paper, plus creating a mock up for the output of our final project, held an exhibition of it, and finally being tested for the last time by our lecturers. The whole processes should be done in a year or two semesters....but I got a problem and unable to attend the exhibition, and thus, got to do my exhibition in the middle of the next semester before having the final test.

chapter 2, Srimulat rised to popularity in Surabaya

Srimulat is an almost legendary group of comedians which was started off as a keroncong music group in the 1950's. They are at the top of their popularity in 1970's before the stars getting dimmer and dimmer until now.

They were unique, because their theatrical comedy did not follow the usual and general theatrical processes. For instance, they did not have much time to rehearse the play, which the second play scenario was sometimes even being finished right when the first play was still performing on stage. Each of the comedian was basically an artist and traditional stage-play performer. Each of them being popular solely because of the facts that each of them having their own signature at the stage. Some of them will have a special catchphrase on the stage, or some kind of appearance characteristic that differs them from the rest of the comedian within the group.

chapter 3, Srimulat Solo division

The group was disbanded in 1980's, and had been succeed to survive several time before most of them died of old age, having another profession, or even got popular by themselves in commercials and other comedy show. I was hoping that at least I could preserve the memories of the group with my Illustrated book before they are being forgotten.

chapter 4, Srimulat sudden highlight in Jakarta

Compiling the material have been a great challenge, as there are only two books that ever discuss about the group. It is because of this project too that I was given the chance to meet tha actual person of Mrs Jujuk Juwariyah, the widow of the leader and the senior actress in most of the stageplays, and Mr Herry Gendut Janarto, a popular biography book writer. I also was given the chance to have a talk with Mr. A.C Andre Tanama, an artist and lecturer of ISI Jogja (which works I adore so much) and his friends in Grasindo Book Publishing Mr Adinto Fajar.

chapter 5, some of the comedians and their short biography

This book may not have the best illustration I ever made, but I made it with my whole heart and efforts, and I'm so proud of it. Many many great thanks to everyone involved, help, support and cheering me up during the process of making the book come true. You're the best :)

Self Portrait

woodcut style self-portrait

(supposed to be) pop art style self-portrait

manga style self-portrait with dollfie-like figure

 These are my first college assignment in Illustration Subject : drawing a self picture from our own photograph. Unfortunately I couldn't locate my water-colored one.

Love Greetings from Indonesia

On March 13th, my local community Ko-J-Tsu (Komunitas Jepang Surabaya, a community which member are Surabaya youngsters that love anything related to Japan and its culture) held a fund raising event for Japan Tsunami and Earthquake on one of our mall. I was thinking hard on what could I do to participate in the event, and I came to this.
It's a small, A6 paper which was printed with the chibi (japanese comic style of super-deformed figure) picture of Ultraman and Masked Rider Black. The whole idea was to thank anyone who would love to give their donation with a chibi picture of them in the middle, helding hands together with Masked Rider Black and Ultraman. Of course, the reversed ideas also being applied : people who wants me to draw them in chibi style should first donate to the event, with no minimum limitation for the donation sum.
I don't think that we really raised quite a sum, actually. But no matter how much it was, I do hope that it will be useful to the victims...even if it was just a teensy weensy bit....

Addictive ~ Summer FM suspended album's cover art

this time, it's one of my favorite task ever....designing an album's cover art.

My client is Summer FM, an indie band in my hometown Surabaya. They reaaaaalllly are a nice client. They only tell me what kind of atmosphere do they want to show within the mini-album, and they didn't even give me a deadline! Yaay~!!XDD

They also said that I'm free to be as creative as I wanted to within this album, and when I show them what I've done for the cover, they said they LOVE IT~! wow....

I'm sooo happy with this project.

Unfortunately, due to many circumstances, the mini album which was suppose to be release was postponed until further notice. Anyway, I'm reaaaaaaaaalllly happy that they love the cover art :)

Good Luck guys~:)

L.O.V.E

hmmm.........
Today's post (after a loooooong pause) is the artwork that I've created on the request of a friend from my highschool days, Ruth. The concept is about her and her boyfriend together, because this artwork was intended to be printed on their anniversary invitation.
What? no, they haven't got married yet, but hopefully they will, eventually :)
She asked me to draw 3 picture, but today I guess I'll upload the first finished picture.

happy anniversary Ruth!

Sweet Dreams ~ VAMPS

This is Kei, and Ophelia. Some of my first beloved characters. I drew quite a lot of them. Kei is a vampire that fall in love with a human girl named Ophelia, a young, stubborn, and brave girl. Ophelia is stubborn, but deep down inside she is desperate to find someone who really cares about her. She had come to a point where she think life has no more meaning for her. Her parents lavished her with their wealth but really give her no attention that she seeks...

One day he come to another boring party, went out to the balcony to avoid an annoying young duke, and seeing Kei on his feast of the host's maiden.
Kei swarm over her since and try to intimidate her for witnessing the scene that no one supposed to see, because Kei is also an important figure in this royal circle. But somehow, each of them find the things they seek inside each other, and here is how the story began....

I've never really complete the story though. But these illustrations have been completed^^.