A designer who rarely drawing

I rarely drawing.
I made a lot of sketches but rarely finish it as a drawing, sometimes it stays as a rough sketches and the rest ended up as an animation. I rarely just drawing.
I just bought some pencils and suddenly in mood to draw, and I am suprised because I almost not recognize my own drawing, like.. I draw this?
it's not a masterpiece and a lot of people could draw better than me, but I think it's really different than what I usually made.
okay, I have to draw a lot more.

Valentine Bear

I have just released my new crocheted toys, the valentine bears.

so I made various illustration of the character using various style.

the original Valentine Bear (crocheted toys)

Valentine Bear in animated pixel art

Valentine Bear in photoshop illustration.

(yes, you've read it right, I finally learn to draw in photoshop for the first time!)

Vector Valentine Bear, made using flash

Happy Halloween!

it's kinda unprofessional, instead of doing my to do list, I was working on this illustration because it's Halloween.
the trees textures are crappy cause I was in hurry to finish it  and working in GIMP using mouse is hell.
I made a big mistake when starting this drawing, I forgot that it's not vector, and I forgot to change the default resolution. So after finished the color base, I redo the drawing from the beginning.  Totally wasting time.
anyway... Happy Halloween!!!!

if only it's not Halloween but it's Christmas, I would ask for a new graphic tablet for me :)

Pixeling

while gathering a lot of GIMP tutorials, I found that it could also be used to make pixel art (here's the tutorial)
so I give it a try. I spent my morning doing these:

the object are the same, Anying & Teyong and cupcakes.

I tried to make pixel art a long time ago but never had a time to improve it again until today.
(and also because I'm a photoshop dummy)
now that I learn GIMP maybe I will try to pixeling again

Yay I'm rastering

I've been using graphic softwares for 8 years, and I rarely use raster graphic software
so, honestly I never draw anything using raster graphic software until I finally tried GIMP 2 days ago.
I wanted to learn Photoshop, but I ended up installing GIMP

 

this is the Day 1 result, shading using burn tool

 

and this is the 2nd Day result, I'm quite happy with this result

this is also 2nd Day result, with a little bit smudging

can't say I master it, cause I don't know if I'm using the tools and layers correctly.
and really I wanted to give up, since making lineart in raster is very frustrating, especially when you don't have pen tablet and scanner

and I know I still have to learn photoshop too.. but for now I think I will try GIMP some more.
any advice and comment are greatly appreciated :)

Once on a Sunday Morning

I took MM (Multimedia) as a major back in college,

but instead making Multimedia like video, interface design, web design,

I enjoyed trying MM for Mix Media.

not because I'm good at mixing media, actually I really suck at making embroidery and painting.

this is my first attempt, how do you think?

again, it's based on my animation , see the crochet version here, and the animation here

Unused artwork

as someone who refer herself as a designer, I try to keep making some artworks in my spare time.
so I have something to show on my deviantart or this blog.
But it rarely work, I prefer sitting in front of my TV, knitting or crochetting than doing some artwork at my desk.
And even if I could force myself to work at my desk, it's not always work as I wanted.
for example, here's some artwork I made for my android giveaway last year:

I used paper cut for the illustration. it was almost finish, I just have to make some small android robots, but suddenly I got lazy, because I hate the colors, and there's no ctrl+z and color editor on making paper cut illustration.
so I decided to make digital illustration instead. the quick one. this one.

well this illustration is not the only unused artwork I have hidden at my desk, there's a lot of unfinished artwork there too :(

From the last year's archive

How could I forgot this project?
But yes, I did :(

I made this project last year for my picture book.
the picture book was never been published because it was for a competition, and I didn't win :(

I saved all the illustrations in my flash disk, and the flash disk was borrowed by my Dad for almost 6 months.
Yup, I did forgot about the flash disk too.
few days ago I just suddenly remember about Budi, the boy in the story.
My bad.. really my bad :(