The Nusakambangan Project

So there's a small island south of Cilacap, Indonesia. The name's Nusakambangan. Despite its famous title as "the Indonesian Alcatraz", it also a tourism object that you might want to see. But well, it only has beach and ancient ruins from the Portuguese's conqueror era, it's quite worth to see. In addition, I don't really like beach. Because you know, I don't like to be wet, and I don't like to swim. It's a thing that only the lazy-bones could understand. lol.

Btw these are some photos we took from the island.

A view from the boat: there's a Pertamina ship! Woo hoo.

And Here Comes Alice (Again)

I told you in my previous post how much I love the kids' illustrated book. In fact, the reason why I put so many illustration in my blog is that I'm in the middle of practicing the children illustration thing. Not every illustration here is for children, though.

And I really love Alice In Wonderland. That whimsical feeling is a great influence in my artworks. By the way, I made this piece by accident. I didn't mean to draw Alice, though. But it just turned like this.

Another Alice In Wonderland?

The Gray Area

I am an over thinker. Yeah, that's for sure. Ini topik yang kontroversial dan saya katakan di awal bahwa saya belum menentukan sikap dalam hal ini.

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This activity is killing me.

Jadi beberapa hari ini tiba-tiba aku terngiang lagi dengan wacana yang sering sekali kudengar sejak aku masih SD. Ya. Bahwa menggambar makhluk bernyawa itu haram untuk orang muslim. Dalilnya? Banyak sih. Terutama di hadits. Aku yang gak tau banyak tentang kualitas hadits, tetap saja gak menemukan banyak cara untuk berkilah atau bahkan mencari pembenaran. Sempat pas SD sampai dengan SMP itu aku berhenti menggambar makhluk bernyawa (mostly, human. because human is the most perfect creature, yet the most amazing object to draw).

Crooked

Not sure if I make this right, but it happened that I drew this illustration while my mind was wondering (or you can say, crooked) and the IF's topic this week is "crooked" so I think it may be fit.

Wondering Mind
Color Pencil on B5 plain paper, Photosoph-ed.

Bizarre, no?