Mr. Skull

What is your favourite site to seek for inspiration? I always visit behance.net whether I need some inspirations or just for killing the boredom. After seeing so many people that passionately doing a creative project, my mood just boosted up to start something new. Behance always makes me enthusiast to draw because so many artist with their personal style put their work there.

Mr. Skull is one of the result after I get some enlightenment from Behance's various artist. Practice will makes you better and sometimes you need something different to draw. I seriously lack of anatomy senses when drawing human, that is why I try to learn from the very basic, human skull. And... this Joe Dassin's song titled Aux Champ Elysées is really sway me to learn French. That is the reason why Mr. Skull speaks French. Duh! He should be named Monsieur Crâne! 

Anyway 'comment allez-vous?' means 'how are you' :)

The earlier sketch

Voila!

ARTE Indonesian Arts Festival 2013

Last weekend, ARTE 2013 held in JCC Plenary Hall from 29-31 March. We went there to see the video mapping and the art market. We didn't expect that there will be a great exhibition by RURU artists! The art pieces were quirky and beautiful. Here are some shots at the exhibition.

A colourful wall by KOMA welcomed the visitor in front of the gate.

Series of Jonathan Kusuma's digital art on canvas.

Skull of Spring by Ykha Amelz

Beautiful embroidery on vintage hankies by my favourite artist, Ika Vantiani.

Pixelated piece by oomleo.

:) by Lala Bohang

Jauh Dekat by Bujangan Urban

Timeless by Ricky "Babay" Janitras

OMG by Isha Hening

The opening hosted by Indra Herlambang.

Continued with dance performance by Fabas ART collaborated with Isha Hening for the visual mapping.

And closed by Kikan with Merah Putih song.

What a great event to spend the weekend! Congratulation for Ayu Vibrasita, I'm expecting for ARTE 2014! :)

Ahoy!

I made this pirate girl between my spare times :) Anne Bonny and Mary Read are two awesome English pirates that inspired this piece. After several looks, the mountain on the right looks like having a face! ... and I'm still not sure what kind of bird that standing on her hand, it supposed to be a parrot, but... yeah, it turns out not even close... Haha... Also, red haired girl is my favourite when I create a character. I always picture them with brave and smart character (just like Merida in Brave) so the character already give me a great mood to work with.

And also I want to say thanks to Monica Olivia for joining my site! :)

Dream Big

Hi, guys!

I just repainted an old canvas from my team project back in university.

It has been raining for a month in here, so I just put bright colours to heal my longing of the sun.

Dream Big, everybody! :D

Sherlock

Watching 'Sherlock' TV series was one of my activity when spending the holiday season last year. My sister introduced it to me but I didn't really interested with it. Until one night she decided to watch over again from season one, so why don't give it a try? ...And Benedict Cumberbatch really stole my attention from beginning to the last episode! How he acted mysterious, cold, and serious all the time is really entertaining (mostly when he left Watson in confused situation).

After watched all six episodes, his figure often popped up in my head. Tickling me to shaped him in illustration. So I made it! And I prefer the sketches than the final image, hahaha... (I'm still poor at colouring techniques...)

Well, actually he looks like this, next to him is Martin Freeman played as Dr. John Watson.

From: http://rumorctrl.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/sherlockbbc.jpg

Wish you guys a great day! Keep practicing! Whatever it is! :)

Trapped in Jakarta

I feel bad for people in Jakarta that trapped in flood for several days until now. Some of my friends can't go anywhere and also in crisis of clean water. Unfortunately, my boyfriend's house is located at the most deep area of flood. I feel really bad because nothing that I can do besides giving moral support. I can only pray that no more heavy rains for several days ahead, at least there's a sign that the water height will go down.

Although many civilians say that Jakarta is really terrible in trash management; cityscape; transportation system; and traffic system, it still have a nice place to see. I'm talking about the cultural area that still exist in the middle of big malls and tons of tall buildings.

We visited Pasar Seni Ancol last year. It's really out from our plan to go there, since we want to visit Taman Mini Indonesia Indah at first. But the traffic was really unbearable, so we go to this place instead. Pasar Seni is used to be crowded and lived, many art activities being held and quite a great market for selling art stuffs. Now it left us some shops that still survived and art installations that quite catchy.

Survived shops.

Pile of shoes in front of shoe shop.

Catchy Ants.

Rattan King Kong.

Out Bond Area

Pinwheel and street lamp.

Seashore.

No sand, no play.

This is a view from Lodan Monastery near Ancol. When I passed the front door after had a visit, I noticed this Buddha statue standing everyday to face the traffic. I wish for a better Jakarta...

Flash Back

It is few minutes after the last day of 2012 here in Indonesia. Happy New Year for every creature in the earth! May us growing together to become better and never lose hope. 2012 was an unforgettable year for me, many new things and many things change. So I want to share some of them here...

First Things

1. I spent my first five months this year to make an illustrated book for the thesis.
2. After four years since my first attempt to ride a car, this year I finally make it real.... So, hello everybody on the street! Also, I can ride a bicycle now! I made it after all these time and my mother is the one that taught me. (I'm an adult that lack of childhood experience)

3. First live rocking session ever! And L'Arc~en~Ciel never failed to make me vibrant!
4. First time I really teach something in front of the class.

Most Epic Birthday Bash

I write about it here :)

Trying to Get Some Money

I manage to live everyday with my own money, it's great. This experience makes you learn how to appreciate money an how hard the real life is. But, if you could pass your first month and still have some left in your pocket, it feels like having a big victory!

Manage Something

My friend and I are decorating! We are learning about design in our past four years and never really know about managing business. But the passion is burning so it worth a try :D

Forgiving, Letting Go, Accepting

Starting something is easy but not when you dealing with it, especially with love. There's no rule about right or wrong and there's no exact time to tell you when to start or to end it up. One thing that I learn this year about love, don't loose yourself. If many people say that love is two become one, it's not. Every people must become the person that they want to be. When in a relationship, those two people must embrace each other to be who they want to be, to reach their dreams, to grow together. When one only give and the other only take, it won't go long. And... never lose hope, because hope is every where around you. You just not really notice it :)

Graduate

It feels really good when finish something that you start and you become a better person. Knowledge will make you rich and wise. But knowledge is not only things that you learn at school, because lesson is always around you, and it's your choice to learn or not from it.

And I'm really happy to start posting again in this page!!! I made it! As least one post in a month! Thank you for everybody that read something in this blog (both for particular reason or not) I wish that you can get something from it... :D

Happy New Year!!!!