Illustration Friday - Talisman

Hang Tuah with his “Taming Sari” Keris/kriss practicing silat. It is said that with this keris, Hang Tuah became invulnerable or invincible, and he defeated all opponents with this keris in his hand. This Majapahit originated Keris have long been considered a talisman; used more as a charm than as a weapon.

There are some glowing mantra appeared, written in Jawi. Jawi is a form of Malay language script which adapting Arabic alphabet.

Painted in Photoshop CS. -This is my first 100% digital illustration. Arggh~

+Music : Wings -Nur Nilam Sari

Illustration Friday - Legendary

Raja Bersiong (The Fanged King). A popular Malaysian legendary character taken from Hikayat Merong Mahawangsa. The king was known as Raja Ong Maha Perita Deria who lived during ancient Kedah kingdom. He has a very unique culinary appetite-craved for human blood. One day, his cook accidentally cut his finger while preparing for the king's meal but later, the king found the dish to be very tasty. He used force upon the cook to find out about the secret to the tasty meal. The cook was not left with a choice but to reveal that the secret ingredient was the drip of blood from his finger that fall into the dish. From thereon, the king sacrificed his subjects in order to get the human blood to be added to his meal. But later he was hunted down for his atrocity.

Colored in Photoshop CS.

Illustration Friday - Flawed

A boy trying to fix up his 'flawed' cyborg girl. The cyborg is inspired from a Kate Micucci pic, which she's wearing a wolf on her head. Besides to put the same animal theme, I chose to use bunny instead of wolf as her headgear. Albeit weird, but the idea to put animal on your head is quite inspiring and cool~. Something kind of self character-expression I think.

Forgive me for the sketchy and unfinished look as am too lazy to finish anything lately. The topic is 'flawed' anyway... so I assume it just do the work. Hoho.. how escapist I am. Still, I'm still weak in colouring, thus I'm convincing myself that I'll do many colouring exercises in the future..(sigh, yeah really...).

Technical pencil + A4 paper
Coloured in Photoshop

Illustration Friday - Pale

Children are dying there. Can't we do something?

Illustration Friday - Resolve

This week topic is 'resolve'. The first thing that struck into my mind is kamikaze. In Japanese, kamikaze means divine wind. Nowadays the word of Kamikaze has been generally accepted as to symbolize the act of self-sacrifice, determination and men with the nerve of steel, and yet romanticism. Oops, I'm not trying to glorifying the kamikaze nor Imperial Japanese Army and their atrocities in WW2.



Interesting fact that most of the 'volunteer pilot' is actually youth as young as 16 years old, and none was have done proper flight training. It was ironic that most of them crying loud calling their mother on their one-way mission. "It's all a lie that they left filled with braveness and joy, crying, 'Long live the emperor!' They were sheep at a slaughterhouse. Everybody was looking down and tottering. Some were unable to stand up and were carried and pushed into the plane by maintenance soldiers,"-Wiki.



Here I expressed the word 'resolve' as an illustration of a Kamikaze pilot in the last moment of his mission. Recently I'm mad in experimenting with PS filter action, and the result is wal-lah! Four different vintage moods. He he..



Ignore those grammars.

Illustration Friday - Clandestine

This is my first entry for Illustration Friday. The topic for this week is 'clandestine'. Here I chose to draw a comical situation in local secondary school where there are two school boys trying to playing truant on their class. The two boys seems are not aware that their teacher is just behind them, ready to give some direct salvos of rattan. They're in plain 'caught in the act' situation. So I think I just named it as Caught in the Act.

Actually the illustration is based on my school life experiences. I depict myself there... and yeah, I played truant quiet often back then. I think the best word to refer this kind of act is 'adventurous'. Heh heh...