My Birthday Comic Strip

This time, I must say "WOW!" and rolling over my room to see this blog is back to life. Well actually, there are many many things I want to say, but I'll keep 'em for later posts. For now, I just wanted to give a birthday wish to myself, which fell on January 17th. And as a bonus, I am giving you a bonus comic which is inspired by my personal experience. *I bet y'all experience the same thing, eh?

Aight, without further ado, enjoy!

Today's Inspiration

"If you're feeling low, don't despair. The sun has a sinking spell every night, but it comes back up every morning. The way I see it, if you want the rainbow, you gotta put up with the rain."

Kick a Ball - A Short Animation

Hello there, I am back with a new blog post. Today I am posting a short animation I created using flipaclip application for Android device. This is a nice app for those who love animation and drawing like I do.

Best part for me ;)

The animation is only about 7 secs, but it takes more than 60 frames to create such animation; and it takes about a day for me to finish the whole animation (*well, this include eating, picking up my girl and working at the office, ups!). Please enjoy it while I am making another animation. Hope it will be much better than this one. A bigger project is coming. Stay tuned, guys! ;)

Caricature: Fail

I've been very productive lately, which is good for driving traffic and dragging visitors to my blog. Anyway, yesterday I drew a caricature of my favorite female singer, and posted it on Facebook. I asked my friends to guess who she is, otherwise I received comments that really made me laugh.

This is done with my Samsung G-Note

These are their comments...

Sorry if the comments are in my language. But I have marked their guesses with rectangular lines; Will Smith, City, Trina, Sule, Ledi Gaga, Syahrini, Jessie J, and Ariel?

Okay, I have seen enough of their comments, and I can be 100% sure that the caricature I drew is a total failure. The singer I mentioned above is this one:

Taylor Swift

Missing You

This #quicksketch is done with my G-Note.

'Come back soon, I am waiting for you.'

Keepin' In Touch

I've been separated with her for more than two weeks. I know this ain't gonna be easy, since neither of us have been in such situation before. But I believe there are  plenty ways to maintain our communication so that we can keep up to date to each other. Well, this is how we keep in touch... ;)

"Distance is not for the fearful, it is for the bold. It's for those who are willing to spend a lot of time alone in exchange for a little time with the one they love. It's for those knowing a good thing when they see it, even if they don't see it nearly enough..."

"No matter how far apart we are, we will always be together. I carry you in my heart every second of every day."

I'm Sorry

I just wanna say, "I am sorry..."

The Best Thing About Me

Pencil on used paper. Edited with Pixlr-O-Matic and Picsay Pro for Android.
original artwork by radenfelix © 2012.

"When people ask me the best thing about you, I say nothing. I don't want them to fall in love with you, too."

"The best think about me is...YOU."

Light Up Your Ideas

"You will never know where the ideas come from..so get yourself ready to light 'em up!"

Created with Sketchbook Mobile for Android

Today's Doodle

me and my little pumpkin ;)

This is just a very rough sketch of my upcoming artwork. Done with only using sketchbook mobile for Android.

Twit..Twit..Twitter

"...we came across the word 'twitter', and it was just perfect. The definition was 'a short burst of inconsequential information,' and 'chirps from birds'. And that's exactly what the product was."

– Jack Dorsey

Created with Sketchbook Mobile for Android

Shriveled Plants

The day is pretty hot, so dry that the plants are starting to shrivel, yet no one cares of it.

Created with Sketchbook Mobile for Android

PreWedding Caricature

As I promised the other month (*if you are curious, check out this Wedding Caricature: Work in Progress post ;p) that I would post the result of my 'prewedding caricature' project. There it is...

Here is the grayscale version of the painting ;)

If you are too lazy to open the link above, you can see the snippet below:

But, you will be redirected to the full post if you click the link ;)

Klara Beach: Work in Progress

Perfect! Couldn't believe she just managed to keep my eyes widely open til this late. Pheeeww...I have no idea what has happened. All I know is that she was off to bed right after having a phone call (she didn't even read my bbm) :(

Anyway, it would be better (hopefully) for me posting a blog rather than dwelling on it. As many of my friends are curious on how I made the drawing (some of them even don't believe I did it on my Android), this time Imma show you the work in progress. Just for your information, I used stylus instead of finger to draw it ;) Okay..here we go, enjoy!

I start it with (of course) sketching ;)

Then I continue coloring the orange sky.

Here is the screenshot...

Next...

Klara Beach - Sketchbook Mobile for Android

Morning readers...big apologies for my recent lack of post. I just bought a new gadget from ebay and spend most of the time tinkering with it ;D The device is pretty cool..Equipped with Android operating system, this smartphone becomes very powerful yet beautiful. It is sooo me! One of my favorite applications installed on the device is 'Autodesk Sketchbook Mobile' for Android, and below is the 'masterpiece' I managed to create. Hehehee...

Sunset in Klara Beach, Bandar Lampung

Later perhaps I will post more drawings and paintings using this application when I'm on mobile. Just stick around. You can subscribe to this blog if you'd like to receive updates.

Thanks ;)

HORTA Grass Doll

This doll was quite famous a couple of years ago. The name is "HORTA" grass doll (Ind: boneka rumput horta). It is practically a plant media packed in the form of a doll grown by grass. This doll is very suitable as an exercise for children on how to grow plants so they will care more to their environment.

Horta doll is made of wood powder formed in various kinds of shape and grass seed is put on top of that so it will grow hair (in the form of grass). It's really easy to grow the hair. First of all, place the doll in the water container with the position of the head facing downward for approximately an hour. Then place the doll on a dry case. Don't forget to water its head every day. After a week, you can see the grass will start growing. You can do some experiments to make the doll more stylish.

I'm wondering if I have a thousand of Horta dolls...

Bonus rough sketch of comic strip.

Wedding Caricature: Work in Progress

Last week I was asked by an old friend to make her caricatures of her elder sister and her spouse for wedding invitation. The progress is still 75%, and now I am supposed to continue working on the commission. But apparently my sister forgot to include the pen tablet when packing my laptop. Gotta back home for the stylus. Imma put it on my blog soon after getting approval from the client. In the mean time, I will just give you some rough sketches I made with the help from my little pumpkin. These all are her ideas. I am just the executor... ;) Enjoy!

The first sketch seems okay, but she is afraid the buffalo will appear more dominant than the brides themselves. Then she came up with the second sketch ;)

Okay...then I transferred 'em into my laptop so I can draw in digital...

My Colleague: Work in Progress

I am writing this post during my translation project at the 'office'. This is a commission from my former Ex*am*p colleague, mas Jule. He asked me to make him a sketch from the photo he gave several months ago. Hehehee,,The result is better (*I guess). Here I am posting the work in progress from beginning till the end. Tools of the trade: Adobe Photoshop CS 4 with Wacom pen tablet. Enjoy!

Little Pumpkin: Work in Progress

Last week I posted a screenshot of my 2,000th tweet as a dedication for my little pumpkin. You guys might wanna see the work in progress from sketching to coloring, eh? How can I jabber on for so long and not really show anything? So, ther ya go! *You can click on the image to see it larger (its original size). Click here to see the result!

I start it with the sketch...very rough ;)

And then I continue it with the base color and add some lighting.

Blend and add more details to the artwork.

Other Doodles

Just my fad over the chatting session... (*done with only the touch-pad on my laptop). If you wanna see my other doodle, click here.