Better late than never!

Graduation Ticket

This is the invitation ticket of our preschool & kindergarten students’ Graduation Day.

Newsletter

One of the monthly newsletters of the preschool/kindergarten I worked for.

Stickers for washing machine panels

The project when I was working for an electronic company.

Wallet Design

As students with lots of spare time, my friend and I started a do-it-yourself project of accessories making. Some other friends offered us to sell the goods through their distro, and we considered that was a good idea. The next step was finding a brand name. My friend suggested ‘Oja’, a Sanskrit word, means ‘odd’. The philosophy behind? She couldn’t find the word for ‘fabulous’. Then I designed the logo.



This is one of the wallet designs. The images were artfully stolen from my previous project; James and the Giant Peach.

Children’s Book Illustration

I like children’s books more than adult’s books (no; not that kind of ADULT’s). Maybe it’s because first love never dies. Maybe it’s because the stories are always heartwarming. Or maybe it’s just because my ability to comprehend plots is on par with a child’s. Whatever.

Anyway; one of my most memorable childhood books is Matilda by Roald Dahl, and he is also my most favorite author. When it was the time to decide what to do for my (finally) Final Project, I suddenly thought: I want to do illustration for Roald Dahl’s book. So I chose one of his books that hadn’t been translated to Bahasa Indonesia: James and the Giant Peach. But soon it turned out to be a blunder:

1) Quentin Blake is invincible; his drawings are the trademark of Roald Dahl’s books, and anyone else’s will look pale in comparison (note: actually my copy of James and the Giant Peach Peach is the old version and isn’t illustrated by Quentin Blake; so in my opinion it isn’t as great. That’s why I decided to do it in the first place: because I had high hopes that I could make it better. Why would anyone want to do something worse than the predecessor??)

2) If there’s anyone who can do something no less great than Quentin Blake’s work, that person must be Tim Burton. And his stop-motion movie of James and the Giant Peach is great. Far, far too great.

So, please forget that these are illustrations of a Roald Dahl book (which has ever been done by Quentin Blake and made into a movie by Tim Burton). Okay??!



James and his friends




Memory of the beach




Cutting firelogs




Giant peach on the night sky




Painting the rainbow

Illustration 4

Illustration 3

Illustration 2

Illustration 1

Pocketbook of Shoes

It was the last day to submit the proposal for my Final Project. I don’t know what went through my mind at that time, but I wrote ‘Illustrated Pocket Book of Shoes’ as the title. And the proposal was approved. The problem is, I’m not that interested in shoes. I don’t even like wearing shoes. I’m a sandals person. However, researching for the book was fun; and now I know more about shoes than I ever need (which I already learned at the age of four: ‘How to tie your shoelaces’). Sadly, the book was never completed. I dropped the project. However, I managed to finish a few background pics, including these ones.

Monster Pohon

I made these while I was on internship in a publishing company. My main job was designing covers for comic books. One day, they asked me to do some illustration for children’s short story on supplement page of their Sunday newspapers. The story’s title is ‘Monster Pohon’.


It is about a little boy who is afraid of the dark. He couldn’t sleep at nights because the shadow of tree in the front of his window looks like a monster.


To calm him, his mom gives him a lamp to put on the desk beside his bed. The light makes the shadow disappear, and the boy could now sleep peacefully. - The End -

Whoops; spoiler...

Perfume Packaging

The assignment was to develop a new line of cosmetic / body care product. We were allowed to use existing brands (I chose Diesel). I planned a new perfume with cool and refreshing fragrance (pine, mint, citrus). I thought of some names and settled with Frost.



I also planned to make another perfume in the same series; this one had warm, strong scent (ginger, clove, cinnamon... hey, sounds like bandrek) and the name was quite predictable: Flame.

Hotel Toiletries

Another assignment; we were required to design one series of packaging and we had to put local visual elements in the design. I made toiletries for Hotel Sawunggaling in Bandung. The hotel has a Sundanese atmosphere, so I applied Mega Mendung, a batik pattern from Cirebon, on the design.




Here are some other alternatives, using visual elements from all across Indonesia.

Kwaci Packaging

For Illustration Class project, we had to design a packaging for traditional food. After spend some time thinking, I chose kuaci as it possessed a lot of potential USPs (low in calories, no preservatives added, enhancing fine motor skills development... perfect snack for kids; isn’t it??). I bought a huge box of kuaci for the sake of research. *talk about dedication...* Eating kuaci is bothersome; it left a big pile of mess afterward. So I decided to make the packaging as a wide, shallow box (so it would be easier to grab the kuaci) with separated lid (to collect the remaining shells).



Honestly, I think this packaging doesn’t successfully capture the image of kuaci. It looks more like, well, watermelon.

Bali: After the Blast

This was an assignment for Illustration Class. It was just right after the infamous Bali Bombing (the first; not the second one). Bali is a special place for me. And for everyone who’s been there, I guess. By the way, a friend of mine told me that this illustration appeared on a calendar of some local art supplier in Bandung. I have no idea how they got it, since I only gave it to my lecturer. Hmm, at least someone thinks my drawing’s worthy enough to put on print, hehe.

Pottery Exhibition Poster

This one is for Photography Class. The task was simple: ‘Make a poster with some object you take with a camera’. Having no camera of my own, I borrowed it from campus. It was a first-generation digital camera; instead of memory card you have to insert a 3 ½ inch floppy disk. And you have to change diskette every after two shots when you’re taking them in hi-res. After some unsuccessful trials of shooting moving objects, I found this funny looking vase on a neighbor’s veranda, and decided it was pretty attractive. So, it got its pictures taken from different angles just like a criminal suspect. As for the rest of the poster, well, everybody knows that plain black never goes wrong. This is a good way to emphasize the object on the foreground and conceal the fact that you have no time or creativity to put something on the background.

Paprika Stamp

It was the Final Test (UAS) day of our first semester after entering DKV studio. We had to design a stamp with our chosen vegetable from the previous assignment (in my case, capsicum annuum a.k.a. paprika). We had about six hours to finish it on the spot (must be done by hand because we weren’t allowed to use computer until the next semester). After some thumbnail sketching, I started transferring the idea to the canvas (or conqueror paper, to be exact). So far, I was doing okay. With great confidence, I started to color it with poster color. Then it was all downhill from there. I poured too much water and the colors became dull. The soggy brush wrinkled the paper and smudged the pen line. Then I dipped the brush for green paint into the red palette and didn’t realize it until I stroked it onto the paper. I watched in disbelief as my important final test became a bloody fiasco. There was still 2 hours left, and I decided to start all over again. Of course I wasn’t dumb enough to insist on using poster color. So I dashed to the nearest stationery shop (approx. 0,5 km from my campus), bought some color sticker papers, and ran back to my desk. Though I was working as fast as I could, there’s no way I could finish it on time. Thankfully, after seeing (and laughing at) the evidence of my miserable first attempt, the lecturer agreed to give me one more hour. And this was all I could manage.



The lecturer gave me a perfect mark, 100 points, for this. I’m pretty sure it was the accumulation of the actual score (70), the unforgivably embarrassing previous trial (-50), and the effort running like a mad bull in the middle of the day (80).

Onions in Water Color

Why onions?? Actually, as you correctly guess, it’s an assignment when I was a first year DKV student. Maybe it was be the first and the last time I drew with watercolor (and with a sort of vegetables as the object), since I tend to destroy the paper I’m drawing on with my clumsiness. I prefer going digital; it’s more convenient!

Just want to say hello

Hi everyone! In this blog, you can see samples of my works from then until now. Just in case you're interested, hehe. Have a seat, stay a while!