Larc~en~ciel Concert at Jakarta 2012

So they Finally here! My hero, my inspiration, my muse in drawing and Illustration!
my debuted comic White Feathers using one of their single Tittle, and working page per page of the comic while listening to their song.
LARUKU!
Hyde,Tetchan, Ken,and Yukihiro are finally held a concert in Jakarta Indonesia. after waiting for 10 years long since the first time I listen to their song, they finally here.

I still can't believe this is real!
I mean, since that 10 years time line there always a gossips and hoax that Laruku will come to Indonesia, but it never ever coming true.. until now ^O^
I'm so grateful that I be able to watch their show live, watching all the band member clearly in front of my eyes.
me and my friend are buying the Premium ticket, but we lucky enough to stand in front  the row near the VIP class haha!
the pic above are taken from my friend Sister who standing beside me ^^
(  I dont brought any camera because of the rule.. what and obedient fans am I? )

From Bandung 6 person go to the concert, Me, Lan, Lan sister Yeny, Rama, Ai, and Okky.
we go from Bandung at 11 AM in the morning, and arrive at Senayan (where the concert held ) at 2 PM.
we take our ticket without have to wait that long, and because the concert gate open at 4 we decide to go to the mall first, and  eat some lunch and killing some time.
in the mall we meet up with  Tessa and her  friends who also joining us to watch the concert.
we back at Senayan and the crowds are everywhere. they said the people who attend the concert hit 10.000 people. woow *A* that's amazing!

When we get into the line to enter the concert, some people interrupt or line, its very upsetting..
but its okay because we come there to see Laruku concert, not to fight.
when all the people already on the concert place,the weather are very bad, thunder ,lighting, and sometimes little rain pouring down on us the audience, its almost  look like its gonna be a storm.
and because this is an outdoor concert, the committee said they going to postpone the concert if there gonna be a heavy rain.
I  worried that time.. but I'm glad the rain stop, the sky is clear, and the concert started.

First time I see them in front of my eyes.. O_O they are realll! Hyde are so short and petite LOL
but when he start to singing... gwahhhh I'm jaw dropping. So freaking awesome!
according  to Lan he sing 15 song nonstop until finally a little break for other member solo and rest for drink.
and  while singing, he so energetic, he shaking his hips and jumping around like a flea, so much power in a body that small.
And everything is perfect! I can  see and  hear clearly all the member amazing performance, the music and the voice blend in harmony, its a live performance, but its feel like I listening to their CD.
Never once I hear Hyde loosing his Voice, or Tetchan and Ken do a mistake on their chord, while Yuki nontsop hitting his drum passionately.

This is one of the best thing that happens to my live, one of my dreams are come true..
one dreams than when me and friend chatting while watching their concert 8 years ago, saying that we all wanted to watch their concert, but is seem so impossible back then.
but dreams do come true. its feel like a miracle to me and my friend.

I hope Laruku will coming back soon and do more concert in Indonesia.
we will be waiting.
and we promise to watch them again.
Thank you for coming to our country Laruku, thank you for making my dreams come true.
ARIGATOU GOZAIMASUUUU!

Raw Sketch for April Commission

this is some sketch I made for April Commission. the finish version are already been edited and you can see it on my DA page. enjoy guys ^^

My Potion Against Bad Mood

people use Beer, Wine, or tequila to fight against bad mood, or just simply to have fun and drunk.

and me?
simple.
I brew a hot chocolate or drink a milk tea.

4 ingredients that could make me fly away high up to the sky.
Milk, Chocolate, Tea, Matcha.
to me those drinks are  just heaven on earth.

I stay up late a lot, and Coffee didn't work for me, its makes me stomached and go to the toilet often.
so I have this box contains ingredients to fight bad mood.
this is some of the ingredients inside :D



there's  more actually, but then you will notice that I'm a greedy gluttony cat. XD

ACEO Card step by step

Like I say in earlier Blog. Celeste give me Artist Card for an ACEO,they are 3.5 inches by 2.5 inches - the size of a trading card.
if you dont familiar with what an ACEO is, well to put it simply
ACEO or "Art Cards, Editions and Originals" are cards with original picture, and made to be traded among artist or fans.
and they are a collectible items to, especially if you have card from some popular artist.


So I made some,  I already use four of them now, but only two that not failed in the process XD
here it is.

Its supposed to be Celeste eating Ramen.. *A*
The real person have more personality and charm..
 I'm so sorry  Ces

its my persona and Im quite happy with the result,
the power of narcissism.. =_=a

thank you for Viewing, i hope you guys enjoy the view ^^/

Melak Bentang

After  I've  got all that pretty Stuff From Celeste. and also after I'm having a birthday,
I decide that I will using my watercolor skill more often..
if I can, I will try to do it once a week.
This time because yesterday I'm having a birthday, so I want to draw myself trying to catch a star.

why? because I want someday I could be able to catch my dream.
I wanna go aboard with my comic. :D  so somehow this Picture are my prayers to God.
Im drawing and pray in the same time. *///*
now shall we start!

my tools of trade :D, and that Sketch book is one that Celeste gave me.

first of all of course I made the sketch with my pecil.

the paper are very lovely :) its thick and not wringkles like watercolor I used before, Im so happy!

almost done..

this is the final result.

I move it to my computer and edit the colors and the star. It make the pic prettier :D

Wish me luck Guys, I hope someday my dreams will be coming true, when Its coming true, Im gonna draw myself with a star.. LOL

Treasure Box From a Friend.

Today I just back from Post office to retrieve a packet from a friend. 

My dear Friend Celeste just send me a Packet from Australia to Indonesia. 

Usually if Ces send me a packet its go straight to my house, but today its kinda different, Im surprised and worried. the post office ask me to take it at the Mail processing Office. 

because its the first time, I ask my friend about it, some of them said something that make me worried, so I gotta take it back the Packet before anything bad happens. 

I manage to get the packet save and smooth, and here is the stuff that inside of the packet, its so plenty! I made my lil' sister got jelous with what I got, and some of the things make me roll over on the floor with joy! take a look! 

Here all the stuff inside the Packet, its so heavy! O///O

Its  for ACEO cards, Ces gave me lots of them, I still dunno how to use it tough. =_=a

Hand Cream to protect my artist hand, Lol,  Omu will get this to, and I also give one to my sister because she really-really want one... haha , I just try it and its great, I also like the smell :)!

its Pencil! woooh so much treasure for someone like me, also mY sister get to have one the Bunny technical pen XD

Citronella oil to fight against mosquitoes, and sandalwood oil aromatherapy, also that is a paper puncher to makes shape from paper, so cute, i will using that to make kawaii bento someday!

This Is My Fave part of all. 4 different paper for water color! OMG! im so so so so happy!! Im literally laughing happilly when check them on by one and make my father surprise, but everyone who are close to me know Im a paper fetish lol .

this Is Aroma Therapy set, eucalyptus and jasmine, this is the fist time I have sumthing like this! and I got two of them! so cool!

My Father ask what is Aroma Theraphy set, so I open one packet and show them how to use this.. so pretty isn't it.. >///< hummm  smell good!

Pencil set and watercolor set.. what am I gona do with all this treasure?? wohooow!

testing on of the paper and the pencil. I love it! Im so happy with all this stuff,
Thank you verymuch Ces!

Clearly, this is the best early b;day present ever!, its feel like santa are come to me and gave me this..
 I love all of them, Ces are really understand what I want XD
watch out Ces!, Im gonna repay this! LOL

Final Fantasy Fanart Commission

Zera one of my client, ask me to do commission of her fanfic about final Fantasy, this is supposed to be her Christmas present.
I start this commission in early December.. but I just finish this piece today.

why it take so long to finish?

First because of the content.
I intimidate by the fact I have to paint Final fantasy character, their 3d and 2d works of illustrations are always amazed me, how can I made sumthing resemblance to that with my limited skill?

Second, I'm scare with their fan base. what if fans of Final Fantasy seeing this, will hated me and saying things about the art that make me don't want to hear it.
 owh yes Im so terribly scared.
 the first and the second reason make me took a pretty long time to finish, many times I redraw their face again and again.. thinking nope..nope.. this is bad.. oh this wont work.. and owh lord why I'm so stupid etc..
this piece are very very hard to do.. ;A;

Also this piece is the reason I decide to risen up my commission price..
:D well my skill in painting are increase, so why not the price.
 I'm sure some of my client will be upset, but this will happen soon or later.

The third reason why it taking so long.. are probably because the technical reason.
somehow I got load of projects to do, so this one is have to wait sometimes, not to mention that when Im processing this commission, my pen tablet broke.. oh wow that is devastating.

The incident make me have to stop working on this piece and also make loads of my project piling up.
but I'm glad finally I could take a deep breath and relax for a bit.
did I satisfied with the result?
surely not,
but this piece have to end somewhere dont you think?
I dont want to make the client keep waiting.
she already be patience and supportive for this 3 moth I wont make her wait again.
pheww... well back to my daily routine than.. lotsa projects is waiting :)

Gilroy and Syeira

Finally a commission done.
this is for Deathbright on Deviantart.
the client have to wait long and patiently because I  broken my pen tablet, so there's a little bit hiccup on the process, Im glad its all done and the client love it ^^/

BrokenWinter Ink progress

always be my bad habit, every time I almost done some projects.. My mood its gone and I always hesitated to finish it..
probably because I feel lonely? because i dont want this to end?
yea whatever..
come on Arch, you promise to finish it tomorrow, and you have tons of works in your schedule!!

march trough March!

so.. like always I have lotsa expectation again in this Month..
and like always.. the expectation are crumble slowly..
aww I shouldn't  complaint
the only thing that stand in my way are myself..
stay positive arch.. stay positive..

OKAY!
lets see..
what the positive thing that happen to me recently?

-well the Shinki Comic are done.

You can read the comic here :Shinki Webcomic

-the Comic from local Publisher are 9 script to go ( 1 script are 5-10 pages ).
-right now I open my commission again. and here are my latest commission submission :

 
- I also done some pin up for  heavenly Dragon Comic :

-Im curently working on Broken winter script, the ink part are just 9 page to go, tone and done..


so now lets get to the not very positive things that happend to me..

my pen for working digital art are broken.. =_=a
I try to fix it, the pen hang on for two weeks, and now completely dead.. but for another positive side.. I order a new one, and right now waiting for the pen to arrive.. wish me luck guys >..<

- and the most most most thing that make me very disappointed to myself is..
that Im planing to join some Manga submission, but the deadline is this end of month.. and I think I wont made it.. ;A; I feel so sad.. but that's because of me who choose work rather than snatch an opportunity in front of me..

Guys.. right now I feel like a loser...
I choose money than self achievement.
I dunno what am I supposed to do with my life.. =_=;;

okay now Im complaining again..
March haven't ended yet! lets fight until our heart content! ureyaaaaaaaaaah!

Being Full time Freelance Artist

guys, being Freelance artist is wickedly awesome.
the best thing that happen to my life.
best job that I ever wanted.

but surely, its not a Job for everyone.

yes you can choose anytime, any day to work.
you can choose to whom you going to work.
you can even choose to lazy around all day without worrying being yelled at by your bos.

but also.
you need to careful to choose your priority, you might ended being so poor there's no money in your pocket, or even worse, get a load of money but overwhelmed by jobs you must finish.
being freelance means you need to be discipline yourself, no one can tell you what to do or scold you.
you have to do it on your own.
and when job offer is coming, its hard to reject them.
you have to smart with your schedule, and be a good manager for yourself..
 thing that I failed to do.. LOL

yeah.. to be honest Im screw up my own schedule.
Im tagled in project.
people keep coming and offer me ajob while I can't accept it..

so many things to do, but I cant arrange time to get it all done in time.
hey who said being Freelance are easy??

but still I love this job!
now lets get back to work shall we

early in 2012

its 2012 already!!
start this year with a busy schedule and lame work attitude.. *A*
I have to :
-finish Thigi comic commission
-finish the comic for CAB publisher, the deadline is march.
-Heavenly Dargon comic are accepted by P2 manga, the deadline are also in March
-abroken winter script are almost coming.
-watercolor illust6ation for France art book.
- and 2 commission still on progress..

tell me why I make my self like this?
whyyyyyy

not to mention Im tangled in my own project to.. *A*

I have to sort everything out this year,
FIGHT!

webcomic

so beside making comic project for commission, I also make webcomic now.
its start for my own pleasure... I draw it only using pencil and tone.
but after doing 20 pages Im planing sumthing more serious for this comic.

but of course I need people feed back to make it come true.

the webcomic it self are tittle Hope : Blinded Soul.
right now its still on chapter 0 and ongoing . but I hope there will be more in the future :)

Synopsis :
when desperate human crying for help for their wish to come true..
so bad  they  ready to trade their soul.
thinking God doesn't come  to answer the prayer.
a Demon come instead to make their wish come true..
but of course ...not for free.

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