in Bali ! (sketch)

Here's the thing,

if there's anything that i love from my job right now, is the chances that  occurred for several times for me to go all around Indonesia *yiey*
I've been to Kalimantan (Borneo Island) for many times, Sumatra for several, Makasar once, Manado once, Surabaya (in Central Eastern Java -- lame geography knowledge) once, and just last week I was in Nusa Dua, Bali --- and it's all for work ! Despite of it was for work instead of holiday, still, those trips are just so fun to do *not to mention free travel and accommodation*

So, the conference I attended was quite big, held in a pretty big conference hall too. Inside its huge interior, they put this giant statue made from coins (you know, ones that shaped like old coins, with hole in the middle ?), and i tried to make a sketch of it, of course, i failed. aahahahhah i didn't use my glasses, and there were too many people -- i can't stand the noises. This just means i need to do quick sketch more often.

*haven't made any research about her*

that's a picture of one of this gigantic statue. She wasn't supposed to lean on her side like that, it's just me with my fully wrong technique. ahahhahah.

the conference itself was pretty busy, i didn't get the chance to draw often. Lucky we were invited for a dinner in Garuda Wisnu Kencana  .

Pity, it was a dinner. At Night. I can't see clearly. Plus - again , many excuses - there were artificial lights shooting extravagantly confusing here and there for the sake of performances held there.

so here's my night interpretation of Garuda :

*meant to be* Garuda

Although he's pretty cool, imho, but still, this isn't the right him.

and here's Wishnu who was supposed to ride on Garuda's back.

a view of Wishnu from the dinner venue

They were currently separated, due to the postponed project until nobody knows when. *sigh* He looks ugly in here *deep sigh* , go check the wikipedia link I provide before, to know how does he look like.

until next trip ! *or sketch*

Ghost Towns of Montana (sketch)

i've never been to Montana before, but the stories i've read of all the ghost towns there, abandoned after the gold rush era, just keep making me promise to myself, one day, i'll visit one of it. *amen*

I always picture Scrooge McDuck everytime I read something about Gold Rush. And that's including this ghost towns of Montana. I can see McDuck in his younger days, walk around one of these abandoned streets, carrying his tool alone -- ignoring all the people who mocking him for his ambitions.

*sigh*

I drew this from one of the image i found on web. I'm not sure which town, and I can't read my own writing there.

but anyway, here it is :

Montana

Montana have their official travel site, mentioning about ghost town here. and i guess this building here is the same as that one picture on that site.
Was it a school ? should there be children playing on the field beside it and hide and seek on hills behind it ?

i don't know, ahahahah.. but anyhow, have a good day to you !

Aqua - Duck

no relation with the real aqueduct.

my company is about to make a Duck Farming training program in West Java, as part of our CSR progam. And as usual, i'm part of the team (consisting of only two), who's in charge to make themed t shirt.

i'm not in the mood for corel, so i decided - selfishly - that i'll draw the duck, the other guy who'll deal with corel and stuffs. *evil smirk*

so here's the duck !

the duck of the aqua-duck

 

 

saying bye !

Sketches of Yogya

I had a holiday with Nadya. We went to Yogyakarta, Central Java.

well, the trip itself wasn't too fascinating for common tourists, i supposed ... we didn't visit main tourist attraction. What we did was only shopping at Mirota Batik in Malioboro (my favorite place for shopping spree ! ), and walked for 45 minutes on foot - just to go to a goat soup deli.

I lived in Yogya during college. And the trip was my way to get back to the good old memories, more than 4 years ago. I'm sad that the sketches i made during my time there, wasn't survived - i lost them, somehow. And my trip couple days ago, wasn't long enough for me to capture places i want to re sketch. Phew.

nevermind, they say, in every dark clouds, there's always a silver lining (cmiiw).

so here it is :

batik painting lady @ Mirota Batik

first sketch, the lady who's painting batik.
Have you ever tried ? Batik painting (or in this term, pattern making using liquid candle, before goes on to colouring process) is a really relaxing activities. I used to join a short one day class of batik painting in Jakarta. Be it a handkerchief or scarf. I'm not an expert, unlike this Lady here, but surely, that is just so fun to do.
Oh and this is not a live sketch, Nadya took a pic of her, and asked me to make a sketch from it. So, thanks to her !

go on with this one here :

view from hostel room

we stayed at a cheap hostel, near tugu station. The facilities wasn't really ok, but we basically don't really care. they have a swing for two and a pretty nice little park full of trees in the inner court.
after making this sketch, i realized, i was never good at describing plants. haha.

a view at tugu station

Nadya insisted, that we must take trains. I don't mind, i always used trains as college student. so that's the sketch of view from our seat while waiting for our train to go back to Jakarta. It didn't captured the real ambiance, imho. But life must go on *sob* , i'll make better ones next time.

Nadya. on our trains to Jakarta

that's Nadya. sitting on our chair, on the way back to Jakarta. she was wearing a batik headband we bought at Mirota. She told me, she looked like the heroine on Ghibli's movie "Kiki Delivery Service" because of that headband.

So, that's all.

cheerio.