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

'Jamilah the Nurse'- Character Design

Character design for short animation entitled 'Jamilah-Untuk Jururawat', collabo with enche' Firdaus aka enche' Player.