done back in the hey days when notturno was still alive and kicking -not that they aren't now, I just lost track of them.

the idea is to put the trio in a combination of anthropomorphic imagery possessed by each of its members (or is it the other way around?)

I think I did good with both pianist and bass player, but failed flat with the drummer. I did say that I kindda notched up his level of cool in this work, which is anthropomorphic in its own, whatever the exact meaning of the word..

anyways, the first image was done on paper with pen, the second one is done with the always dependable photoshop.

colors are not really my strength, in addition they said they were planning on using the image on T-shirts, which explains the limitation to power colors (as in power trio).

I have one of those things called dissatisfiedbysecondlook kindda thing where I will stop and think how some images I did simply suck and will need to be redone.. this is one of those things.. but heck, I don't have 36 hours in a day like I don't have extra pair of hands..

I did this a while back.. probably four or five years ago. the subject was a family who was a bit messy but has the kindest heart that's almost too naive and child-like. she now works in a bank -not that it has anything to do with anything.

done using pen on paper

the band broke up, and suddenly it become the pianist's solo project.. with uncertainty of when the album is going to come up, as it was recorded when the whole members were still solid, here's a sneak peak of the cover album that I did for the guys



check them out, they're good

bellow are random illustrations with different theme, not all of them good, mind you, but enjoy it anyways.

in random orders, here are illustrations and comics I did in college, some for the faculty magazine and some for fun. I had a ton of illustrations back then, but only less of them are scanned and secured. anyways here they are, comics first.

this one has no words in the brackets, but basically told about a guy who wanted to rent some DVDs, of different genres, in a comic shop.

this one is kindda cool, I like it, as you can read, it's about wish-granting old lamp of some sorts.. batman's left hand is incorrectly drawn.. heck

buat Sunday kapan, karena terlalu memaksa diri mengeluarkan sebuah karya yang bagus, jadi nya malah jelek hihi, yo wis lah

using a background picture from Paolo Pellegrin, a very talented photographer whose works I admired so, I managed to come up with something for the paper's upcoming short story..

the story, well that's another story, but a bit too pretentious for my taste and used up too many illustrative explanations. this is nonsense, but I always had an antipathy for too much of those stuff, a bit annoying and good writers should be well informed on which portion is too much and which is just, then again the difference between medicine and poison is in the dose.

anyways here are the image... I wish there is a kind of way to make all images suited to the width, it's just stupid that these images are stored so big yet previewed so small..

the first one, notice how the side images are not equally vertical to each other


th second image, the depth is adjusted, and so as the blur level and the vertical point.

(cover album yang ga kepake, padahal keren yak.. keren kalo nama band lo 'NOT' hehe)

disela-sela digrotokin bang jo suruh minum bir setidaknya 2 x delapan kali tiap sempet sampai tanggal 27 ini, gue luangkan juga waktu buat ngebikin cover dan konsep klobot EP pertama notturno.. dan betapa menyenangkannya projek tersebut

berkisar dari ide akoustika adventure, yang yaaa gue artikan aja sebagai pengalaman bunyi, gue ambil poto jalan tol di malaysia pas ujan. dengan warna ijo umbel meler plus tetes ujan di kaca ala sprite, tuh album akhirnya jadi juga sesuai yang gue arepin.

dalem dan belakang album lumayan boleh lah, diambil dari photo2 yang berbeda. referensi dari cd lain juga penting buat ngepastiin bener ga si bikin klobot cd tuh mesti begitu.

hal terakhir yang gue lakuin adalah ngebikin logo Not J422 Production yang sebenernya emang indie dan didanai oleh patungannya cak hend ma masmo. (logo yang dipake ditambah tulisan 'production' di bawahnye, persis dibawah not sampai mentok kakinya si 4.

photo muke personel yang dibikin gelap sok misterius juga udah di pasang (padahal joshua paling ga bisa berhenti ketawa pas di poto, tapi jadi juga deh poto sok misterius). seperti terlihat di bawah, poto yang di albumnya si di item-putihin trus di crop, tapi beginilah aselinya. penuh warna banget ga si booo

cover kayanya udah oke, ga ada yang bilang kurang apa, ini ato itu, bagian dalem kurang poto musisi tambahan kaya si penyanyi endut yang naudzubile bohay, pasangan suami istri ngeflute, dan si yudha sax. lo liat aja di fesbuk gue yak, dari pada susah susah.

si masmo sempet bilang mending di kasi beberapa potongan poto2 ga penting, jempol si jo, leher dia pa kaki cak hend pa apa, tapi kayanya bakal penuh dan jadi aneh kalo beneran di kasi, jadi yaa weit and see laa, kalo mereka pingin di kasi macem2 mari kita kasi huehehehe tetep

masi kurang design buat piringannya dan kayanya paling assoy kalo disinilah kita tumpuk2in poto2 yang ga penting tersebut.. meski pada akhirnya bakal narsis banget tuh cd huahaha tapi yo ben, ini kan dana mereka juga.

dibawah adalah dua logo Not J422 yang gue buat tapi ga kepake karena jelek (puh, jujur amat yak gue.. dan aneh sebenernya

yang ini gue gambar pake spidol ijo (ga penting banget) trus gue desaturate.

yang ini di buat setelah berasa neh logo aneh bin nggilani, hayah, yo wis gue bikin lagi tapi kok yo tetep berasa aneh..

[gambar]

(hayah keapus, males upload lagi)

yo wis, kalo ada tambahan gue kasi tau lagi kelanjutannya kapan2

amiiin

nb. sebenernya ada kekhawatiran kalo design yang gue bikin kekecilan dan akhirnya musti di bikin ulang dengan design yang lebih gede, dan kalo dibikin di photoshop itu ga oke, tapi itu pikirin entar aja lah.

nnb. gue btw udah ngebikin kesalahan dengan ga nyimpen design cover yang di pake dalam bentuk psd, yang ada bentuk jpeg doang.. payah ga si boo..

nnnb. ini meski bukan ilustrasi gue masukin juga ke ilustrasi aneh, karena ada gambar yang gue bikin sendiri (hayah shallow banget yak definisinya)

an image of botak I did for sunday.. read the short story, it sucks hahaha

Whatta heck

sometimes there's that feeling like you want to make people suffer even a bit..
this one makes me want to say..
"trace this!"
and laugh out loud

But anyways, try mix a picture of an elephant, something like this..


with a picture of kids facing the back, something like this..


the result will be somewhat like this..


and if you feel like to give some shit at the background..



or in my case just wanted to mess around hehe..
now I don't even bother telling you the use of this one, don't matter.

and this is what I found after searching the internet looking for pictures of elephant, pretty nice eh?

the first attempt to become so-called a political cartoonist ha ha
but failed miserably, fall straight down like a tin boot

the only thing that worked is the autograph, so I guessed

jadiiiiiii ni yeeeee

ide awalnya adalah ngebikin sebuah tangan anak-anak yang lagi mo nge-reach out tangan orang dewasa, bokapnya lah.

tapi alih2 ngedapetin tangan bokap yang mo ngebantu dia, tuh anak dapet duit segepok, dan tangan bokap yang udah keriput jahat dan di borgol tenggelam dalam kubangan uang gitu hihihi

glamor ga si boook..

embeeerr..

tapi ni yeee... it was apparent that this day is one of those hand-numb day, that everything I draw just don't seem to come out all right.. (i got that sometimes, when the hand is just not in the mood for drawing)

gini deh hasilnya

another one for sunday.

i like this one, they looked like nice people even after sometimes of staring at their picture facing each other haha!

even if they seemed like about to kiss, that's fine haha

it's pretty annoying the cancellation letter was, mostly because doing an illustration is not my job, it's not like i'm getting paid to do it, but after reading the replacement short story, i felt somewhat honored to do this one.

the father and the son, with the son being supposedly an exact copy of the father, but turned out the way he is, in the opposite color of black and white

hope you like this one

so what the fuck is wrong with this image?

I'll tell you what.. when people runs out of ideas, they're drawing things they never intended to draw, that's what happen with this image, or at least that's how I remembered it..

ps. the hand was obviously influenced by the great mignola, if not directly copying.. shamelessly..

the idea behind this one is to present some guys who got literally tormented by drug usages, with a woman feeling trapped between them without nothing she can do..

the skull at the back kindda refers to the drug's name, which is 'merdeka' or freedom after the war, it wore an Indonesian flag as a symbol..

Bang Jo came up to me two days ago and said the punk really looked like the guy on 'the cry,' I kindda have the vision of the painting while drawing, as Mtv addict -or at least once when i was just a kid- it's hard not to have that painting image when you spell the term 'excellent composition of colors and lights,'

so there..




a colleague asked me why I keep doing this job for Sunday without getting paid, I said; at least I could update my blog with something..

a. k. a. the house with a girl covering her face ala 'the cry' with water running down lookin exactly like spiderman's web

the blurred version of the image will be used as an illustration for next week's short story on Sunday, in which as Ibu Linda put it, i got literally sucked in by the team..
but whatta heck, i'm enjoying it.


enjoy

this is a fast illustration i did for a short story called "what everything is"
It's a bit off and the shading is instant from the PC, I hope you all like it

I like the idea, but awful execution. more than everything is how I like the short story :)

an illustration you'll see next sunday. the story for me is quite weird, but hell, i've always been a fan of drawing, or sketching, or just geeking for days on an image.

the signatured autograph on the left corner


hopefully none will be edited for the real publishing