Silent Homage : IF

watercolor + soft pastel + digital

Aku Bukan Batman (tapi)

Inspiration always comes at night...especially when I'm about to sleep.

I challenge anybody who can come up with the most beautifully translated version of this poem in english.

Marilah try...untuk suka-suka.

Helooo...freebies, anyone?

Well, we are still waiting for the lucky 9th commentor, so all comments can be published. Not easy for an unfamous blog, huh. Hehe, but it's okay. No rush. Nothing to lose for waiting. I don't want to promote this offer, just waiting for any lucky visitor to fill the place.

I am preparing myself to produce Monday Artday ATC sized (2.5 x 3.5) artwork at the moment. ATC stands for Artist Trading Card, there are generally handmade and used for trading with fellow artist through the mail. This is fun, no need to spend much time for a drawing. Like this one, I made it last night, while watching TV. But not ready for trading yet. I experiment with different scanner setting few times but still difficult to get the original quality image. Without tweaking, I think the original still looks better. Below is the comparison between image produced with scanner and camera. Give me your opinion, or advice, please. But I always prefer to use camera than scanner. Glad to have apron in my drawing at last! I loooove aprons. If I can have many of them, I would be happy changing aprons everyday! I love sewing aprons and the chef hat...still learning how to sew that one. I even dream of selling mangosteenskin-branded aprons one day!

p/s: She does look a bit fat (maybe 5-10% fatter) in the camera photo, right? Or is it just my eyes?

Bollywood

Hari ini aku kembali ke kedai yang tutup masa Good Friday itu hari. Kedai itu kosong. Dan berkunci. Aku dan Lily terpaksa tawaf tiga kali. Kali ketiga, ada seorang amoi sedang duduk di meja bertentangan pintu. Rancak bercakap di talipon. "Chong cheng chong cheng...cancer...hai you...", dan seterusnya. Kami masuk. Hampir 15minit layan diri. Aku pura2 ambil satu set glossy paper dan masuk dalam beg. Amoi itu masih x perasan.

Aku sudah nekad. Biarlah amoi itu bercakap puas2. Berapa lama pun aku sanggup tunggu. Aku cuma mahu tanya sedikit hal. Aku tidak mahu pulang dan berfikir2 hal itu lagi.

"Sekalang tiada stok, kalau mau cuba cari di Bollywood lah, Kalamunsing sana".

"Bollywood?".

"Iyaa..cali saja kedai komputer Bollywood. Kami cuma diaolang punya dealer. Diaolang kami punya supplier". Amoi pakai eyeshadow coklat kelabu.

***karamunsing**

"Li, tiadapun kedai nama Bollywood. Mari kita tanya orang".

"Cari dulu. Kalau masih x jumpa baru kita tanya orang".

"Ko rasa tadi tu dia maksudkan Bollywood ka, Boulevard?".

"Yakan, kedai komputer Boulevard memang ada!", gigi Lily yang besar2 itu sudah mula kenampakan. Kebetulan, kedai Boulervard itu betul2 di depan mata. Hahahaha. Nasib baik kami x sempat tanya orang,

di mana Bollywood?.

***Announcement***

The 2nd, 7th, 8th and 9th person to comment this entry will get mangosteenskin's initial freebies!! So kamon men, komen!!

I will not publish all unmoderated comments until I get the lucky 9th commentor.

Fresh prints of "Heavy", Rescued Sistahs & Lotus Leap

TQ Speech(less)

I know I'm a bit slow at responding to tags and awards. I feel so honored to receive such awards, and tags from you guys. I start to feel my existence in the bloggy world. Thank you so much to abgjas, who had always been supportive since the first day this blog was created (even before). And to emila and rizal, I feel so glad that I found you both. Because of both of you I manage to revive and refresh my passion in drawing. Frankly, if I never take part in illustration friday, i would've never realized what I can do. You're right emila, it is fun. And ezooone, you are the first person who tagged me. Thank you to all of you who have been so supportive all these days...my hubby, my old and new friends.

Hahahahahahahahahaha. Macam berucap atas pentas sambil pegang award lah pulak. Hihihihi.

Thank you emila from Emila's Illustrated Blog for the "award fiesta!". There are 13 awards all together, but too heavy to carry. So I just leave'em there for emila to take care.

Rizal from Rest n Rileks awarded me with this beautiful Inspire Me Award. Thank you rizal!

Bluecrystaldude from Hot Shit Form Here awarded me with this awesome Peoples Choice Award during his 11th Hot Shit Awards Ceremony on March 15, 2008. Thanks dude!

I am speechless!