Hi!
I know it’s a bit too late, but I’ve uploaded some months of my lettering calendar.
Feel free to download or print for personal use. [They’re in RGB though]
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Category: illustrations
pencil + metallic inks on black pad
This was one of my entries to International English Service’s Art Auction last year. The original artwork would be hanging on someone’s wall (hopefully). Actually posting it is an act of procrastination – instead of getting my paper and pencils and whatnot out of the box, why don’t I just dig up old artworks (which, is, scarce by the way) and show them off.
2015 has been an unproductive one – in terms of art – mainly because I’m…too lazy. The more elaborate explanation will be that I’ve been having difficulties dividing my time between my 9 to 5 job, books (including co-organizing book club), practicing illustration (and getting sidetracked by brush lettering along the way), cooking, housekeeping, finding inspirations for furnishing my apartment (while the actual act of furnishing itself is having a lil hiccup) and daydreaming. And of all I’ve been focusing pretty much on reading books and daydreaming, both – if you notice – are acts of escaping reality. It’s not that reading is bad – in fact I encourage you to take time to read everyday – it’s just that a little discipline will be good here, don’t you think? While multitasking is clearly just a myth, the plan is to introduce consistency into my daily activities. well, hope I am consistent enough to carry it out.
read while you eat
It’s a ‘bad’ habit I have never been able to shake loose. Not that I ever wanted to. Since I was a kid,
I have always had a book in my hand while having my meal. A novel, comic book, manga, magazine.
I don’t really remember how and why I got to so attached to my reading materials that putting them down for half an hour felt like a great sacrifice. I guess it wasn’t so much about the book as much as it was about me feeling more comfortable hiding behind them. No matter how many times my mom scolded me I’ve never grown out of the habit. Funny thing is, my husband got exactly the same habit, if not more intense. One time, we tried to have dinner without our books or cellphones around. Without his manga or news or his twitter feed, he grew so restless that unconsciously he reached a bottle of soy sauce on table and read the label. We succumb to our beloved eating style ever since. It may not be considered a good manner by most people so we try not to bring our eating/reading habit outside our own dinner table. Anyway C.S. Lewis is one of the author I admire and I’m glad we share the same table manner. :p
in some kind of reflective mode
| IES Kelapa Gading Mission Tee / 2 0 1 4
Something from about a year ago.
Designed for Outreach Ministry of International English Service Jakarta
As far as I remember, most of the time their commissions have reached me during my busiest periods. That way – too bad – the works have always felt like one thing too many on my plate;
one more thing that I had to wedge into my crammed tiny brain. Of course I’ve always wanted to work cheerfully and wholeheartedly. That’s the essence of doing ministry. But the fact is, I could never give them the best allocation of time – let alone my whole heart.The works I’ve done so far were like crafted just enough to meet the deadlines; to ease me from my ‘debt’; Left me with a ‘It could have been better crafted’ feeling.
But if they had been such a burden then why did I keep doing it?
Because as far as I remember, they have also been such a blessing.
Those commissions have challenged me to accomplish something otherwise I wouldn’t have.
They insisted I use the little free time I had doing illustrations, letterings or designs instead of
catching up with my favorite TV series. Thus they’ve sharpened me as an illustrator/designer.
And I’m grateful.
love • peace • joy
Love Peace Joy illustration for IES Orphanage Ministry 2014 Tee ^o*
| Images are taken from https://www.facebook.com/iesorphanage
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usually I liked them soft-boiled, but this time I go with colorful!
| these eggs are for IES Orphanage Ministry Easter Celebration. | watercolor
and no coffee either. mind you….
wish me luck, i might have to give up coffee for a while
but i bought it anyway
a gift for Mrs Gift
didn’t get the chance to know the lady personally though :)
did this portrait from a picture given me for this commission
juicy tangerine
don’t ask me why there’s a slice of pizza there, or an elephant – which are neither juicy nor tangeriney :p
botanigal
taking a breather between deadlines and fighting flu. while waiting for another job briefing scheduled at noon, i bought some silly women magazine full of ads, reorganizing my portable drive and found yet another drawing.
got no time nor energy nor inspiration to do sketches lately *woot woot*
doodle on the run
there’s me, melani, ika, deny, shuni, yudi, alfons and hendro in this one page. made (force) them to draw something during our first scenic-train ride from south to north Viet nam like… some 3 years ago
side by side/back to back
two strangers who happened to be standing close to each other for a moment before one of them alighted or moved, and that happened to caught my sleepy eyes during those ride on TransJakarta buses.
those watery summers
comparing the illustrations for summer event 2012 and 2013, kinda obvious which one that i had more time to put more effort to :p (during both events, i managed to keep myself dry! ha ha)
caring and happy
found this last year’s project when rummaging through old hard disk, illustrations for Caring Colours new make up series, Caring Happy. Caring Colours is a local make up brand from Martha Tilaar Group, which targeted young professionals. it was a fun but challenging process, especially because it requires an illustration style that i haven’t really mastered. but i’m really glad that pattie, the creative director who commissioned me to do this project, trusted me to do it ^^
early items
another explorations with pencil
pattie’s layout for the Print Ad (there’s 2 more of this Happy series)
of the island we always miss
another illustration and lettering for Starbucks Indonesia,
done before the 11th anniversary ones actually.
haven’t got a chance to see how they are applied to t-shirt/other merchandises :)
11th anniversary Starbucks Indonesia
it’s so nice to see your artworks on the shelf, right? :)
seriously…planes?
what has been keeping me busy lately.
sink no more
forever
one noon at firenze
unlike a woman, let your yes be a yes.
dinadays 