BlackentheCrestfallen: A Celebration

the newest, 18 illustrations for poetry/story book

A Tale of Crestfallen by FloLady Ochie

old illustrations

really don't know what to do with them

Finally

all of the illustrations for poetry/story book A Tale of Crestfallen are finished!

am moving to the layout and final art now.

am writing this post, Emily's style, to celebrate my own works.

Sounds narcisstic but don't care.

It's been a long, flowery journey for me to finally finished these artworks.

they're not the best illustrations in the world

the skill and details are not perfect or super awesome

but love them

made them with lots of love (yes you may puke, but that's the truth)

and my ljubi's poems are so beautiful, so am enjoying every process 

of each illustration.

The project itself started a loong long time ago

2010 to be exactly

I made more than 20 illustrations, with different style and used watercolors instead of pencil colors.

but before I could finished them, was hit by reality, a simple yet destructive one.

The reality that my drawing sucks, lol.

was busy with Rory and new life as a Mom, i didn't realize that now, there are many

new, young, super-talented artists, with super amazing drawing skills.

This simple reality paralysed me.

was petrified and scared of them.

well, the bottom line was, i fell into my own abyss (with magenta monster, yes)

and hibernate for a very long time (am a bear after all).

that was the time when your social links fused you a new persona

(yes i played too much Persona, so you can read it as:

that was the time when your true sisters and friends came to save your ass)

Without my ljubi FloLady Ochie, who kept encouraging me to keep drawing.

without my PIC Odilia Fenny, who kept saying that i have my own style of drawing 

without my daughter Tatiana Romanova who kept putting heart icon in every drawing I posted

without my other daughter Ipit, who even asked one of my drawing to be put in her office 

(really proud of that)

and without my Lady of the Wolf that suddenly is a big fan of Silentia

without them, i don't think i could finished these illustrations

so thank you all!

these are for you!

and let's celebrate!

BlackentheRory: Pinky Grim

So my lil grim suddenly became Pinky Grim

lol

well, she had lotsa fun helping me and Iyan at Suddenly photoshoot

she was MuliOng (the model)'s assistant 

Thx Mumu Kids Shop for the flowery leggings

BlackentheCrestfallen: A Flowery Sneak Peek

"I must warn you before you read this book.

This is neither a poetry book nor a beautiful collection of rhymes."

A flowery sneak peek for my illustration project.

It is so much fun making the illustrations for my twinny ljubi FloLady's poetry book.

This is a postponed project,

it started like, 4 or 5 years ago T___T

hopefully it can be launched this June

can't waiiiit

my twinny's poems are awesome and unique

i love them all and it's such an honour to do the illustrations

BlackentheIllustration: Luninx

Meet

Luninx

she loves to sit on the moon

midnite doodling

pencil colour on canson paper

BlackentheSilentia: Firebird

Silentia decided to do some ballet and became Firebird!

I wanna make some Silentias in Dark Ballerina version, tribute for my ljubi FloLady

but this original artwork will go to my talented daughter Tatiana!

Check out Silentia as Odile

BlackentheExhibition: Back to Basic ReuseArt Polaroid

I was challenged to do Back to Basic ReuseArt Exhibition 

This exhibition was quite difficult because the medium for illustration was not paper or canvas

but polaroid!

I finally made the Lil Grim Reaper Polaroid

The opening was held together with Flea Market Kemang

It was so much fun

I get to meet many talented illustrators and see their awesome works!

Thank you for inviting me, ArtMediumStore and IdealistProject

Hope I can join the next Back to Basic Exhibition

 Atreyu, Mahendra Nazar and me at Artist Talk

Lilyper (Lil Grim Reaper)

 Tatiana and my polaroid

Love Tatiana's work!

Atreyu's

All of these awesome polaroids

will be displayed in That's Life Coffee

April 13 at 12:00am until April 27 at 9:00pm

at Back to Basic Exhibition#2

So please come :)

All of the photos are taken from Suddenly

thank you neng Odilia for the pics

BlackentheArtTrade: Atreyu

Finally

I got the chance to trade Artwork with Atreyu Moniaga
I met him at Back to Basic Exhibition / Flea Market Kemang
Trade this original artwork with my Silentia Odile

It's an honour and I love his artwork very much
Thanks Atreyu!