Ferocious

It's quite hard to me to decide what I should draw this week because the topic is "ferocious". Honestly I couldn't think any until I suddenly remembered about my final project - the paper I should write to complete my senior year in campus. Yes, it's about the bird flu, one of the most ferocious diseases caused by H5N1 virus and has been haunted mostly in Asia for years. Enough said. So I drew this, when the H5N1 virus infect a cock and this cock spread the disease to the boy. Poor boy.

Media: A4 HVS 180 gsm, Tools: Pencil color, Photoshop.

Another Alice's in Progress

Lately I've been thinking to finish my never-ending-yet Alice's picture. Yeah, I made it using my pen like months ago and scanned it so I can finish it with my Photoshop. But I stuck for a while, you know, artistic block thing. I hope I could finish this picture before my job training (yes, I'm not an unemployed anymore!lol) is began.

an unfinished Alice's picture.

No wonder I've got no time to make something artsy because I spend my time mostly by playing some PC  games and of course, blog-walking.

Anyway, I found about this indie-pop band, not really a new band, but it's the first time I heard their songs and totally in love. Here's The Perishers, from Sweden. Sway and Pills are my favorite. I repeat it over and over again and still in love.

Depression turns into doodles

This is kind of funny story (like the title of the movie itself), because when a 16 years old boy admitted that he was depressed and asked to get into a kinda mental hospital, he finally knew what his big potential was, doodling. So the story, in short, is about that boy, who's so depressed so he tried to commit suicide. The problem is, that boy didn't really understand what exactly his problem. He didn't know what really bothered him so he was depressed. He said it was about her girl crush, who was stolen by his own bestfriend. But in the other chance, he said it was about his confusion to get or not to a summer school (sorta) which was said will decide how his future is gonna be. FYI, this movie is based on a novel by Ned Vizzini with the same title.

This image borrowed from the IMDB website.

I won't talk too much about the story but it gave a kinda nostalgic feeling. Back then, I was only 16 and also a little depressed, because I didn't know how to decide which college did I had to enter. You know I love drawing. I love arts, very much. But there are not many parents approve their kids who want to enter that kind of college. Neither is mine. They said, being an artist won't make you rich. I gave up that time. So here I am, suddenly realized that I am graduated from chemistry department (I don't remember exactly who told me to choose this department?) and a little regret about how things happened.

What I learn from this irreversible moment is, you have choices, but when you feel like you make a wrong decision, it'll be up to you whether to give up with many regrets, or survive and try to chase your it-should-be-chosen-back-then dream from the very beginning. It'll never be too late to start anything over - you still own your life after all.

Here are some artworks - doodles - the boy from the film has made. They are very adorable.

He used water color and pencil. Finally I learn how to color your doodles by using water color lol. I made an update for this post, you know I was very curious about this man behind the gorgeous artwork, and so I found this blog, thanks to her I finally found that Brian Ducker is the masterpiece! So adorable pieces.

Mesmerized

Snow White: Magic mirror on the wall, uhm.. who is the fairest one of all?
Magic Mirror : Famed is thy beauty, Majesty. But hold, a lovely maid I see. Rags cannot hide her gentle grace. Alas, she is more fair than thee.
Snow White : Good for her! Reveal her name.
Magic Mirror : Lips red as the rose. Hair black as ebony. Skin white as snow.
Snow White : Snow White! I mean, ..me? ...

Magic Miror said she was the fairest one of all.

And she's totally mesmerized - by her own reflection.

Media: A3 HVS 150 gsm

Tools: HB pencil, water-color pencil, water color, Adobe Photoshop CS2 (lighting and texture adjustment)