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I think somehow this blog is starting to be a special blog for my funtastic Gamtuk class. D:

This week we had another funtastic Tuesday in class. Basically still studying about human anatomy; specifically faces. But this week we step on a higher level than just drawing a proportional face. We had to draw a proportional face with expressions! LEVEL UP!

Again, I drew my friend Icha, because she has this interesting face to draw. I dunno, I just love her petite face.

Her face...

Her eyes...

Her lips...

One of the lecturer's assistant (from now on let's call them Asdos which is the abbreviation of Asisten Dosen) said that the portrait looked like a shocked Palestinian women saying something like, "OH MY CHILD!". I know it sounds weird, but if you heard it yourself from him, it'll make a lotta sense. 

Little sketch

At first I wanted to do this sinister expression!

The drawing actually got a nomination to be one of the best drawing in my class that the Asdoses made. They even had a prize for the winner, which is a dinner at the Aston Braga Hotel. Damn, that's just too luxurious. But sadly, I didn't win it. Well, life's tough. None the less, I LOVE MY DRAWING! I somehow love the expression and the fact that it came from Icha's face makes it more favorable.

Well okay, so now Imma introduce you to my friend Icha! My muse! My model. teehee

Hello!

PS: I have a new hamster! I'll name her... Onigiri! Because she looks like a lump of rice. And Imma call her Oni from time to time. [Oni in Japanese (鬼) means Demon :D]

Love ?

"It's never ribet (complicated) when it comes to true love and not a lover but a friend" - Dini, my sister.

Yes, she said that after I said "I don't wanna know anything about having relationships (love), so complicated". Why say that? Maybe it has something to do with the fact I've never actually felt 'love' towards the opposite sex. Well, I've had crushes and by some, my heart has already been crushed.  I guess it takes a long time to mend that heart and that results the numbing feeling towards the word 'love'. 

Hmmm. February. Valentine's just around the corner. Let's talk about love? No? 

Well, I personally have no experience in one. All I can say that through out my childhood up to this day, boys only see me as a guy friend who appears to be a girl. Well, I don't expect them to treat me like they usually treat girls and all, I just don't want them to forget, that I am a girl inside too.

When they smile widely with others, I try to smile with them. When they're sad because of something, I cried with them. But when they're heartbroken, I just kept silent. I feel like whatever I say in that subject is nothing. 

Maybe someday I'll find this 'love' people seem to crave. For now, I'm just gonna keep things to myself, and just keep being silent.

Cheers for being a loner and happy about it! 

Another Funtastic Class!

A drawing of my friend, Icha.
I actually made her look older than she is TT3TT

So in this week's Gambar Bentuk (Drawing Class) we had to work in pairs and draw an A3 size portrait of our friends. My partner was supposed to be Icha, but since Raymond didn't have a partner, we became three. So it was like a triangle, I drew Icha, Icha drew Raymond, and Raymond drew me. A bit hard to do because each of us were busy with drawing each other. But it was still fun to do. I had fun drawing Icha, since she actually wears a veil (jilbab), and I had to imagine her hair for it. I'm glad that it turned out nice. The lecturer's assistants were okay with it too. But they pointed out the same comment about this; the hair. Yes, they said the hair is somewhat unrealistic. And on the first year we need to dwell on realism first before exploring others. But one of them got my style right, I mean I'm into semi-realism, so he said that my drawing is good enough. 

Still a sketch

Close up on her sexy lips!

So yeah, but I'm still happy with the outcome. And I can't wait till next week's GamTuk!

A Weeks Worth of Shenanigans

Good Morning, Good Day and Good Evening to all!

How's your week so far? Great? I hope so. My week was amazing! Starting off on Sunday with a new dining experience at Blind Restaurant. Yes, as you can concur, the restaurant is UNDENIABLY DARK! You can't see anything in it. And eating the foods was like scraping of foods from the ground like a chicken. It's like fishing, you feel like you got something, but turns out it was a false alarm. lol

But none the less that experience was priceless. I'd love to do it again. But this time with less screaming and panicking. ^^;

This week I had been given the opportunity to go out and spend some quality time with my dorm friends; Chintya, Evan, and Jingga. And it brought us for a lot closer over the time. But so far all we've done were random things. First, the search for grilled corn in the middle of the night and met a street performer who made Jingga super interested now in performing arts (lol). After that, the cat incident. After we got home from corn night, we found Jingga's cat left "chocolates" for Jingga on his bed. We had to accompany him scrubbing it all away at 2 in the morning. 

Our next event together was dinner at a seafood restaurant. Like the crazy kids we are, we had lots of fun just from eating seafood. Jingga had to battle the clams just to eat it (he couldn't open it). When we got home, we just hung out in my room and talk, tell jokes, and consulting with my "decision maker" (yes, I have one). Jingga even made a new friend with Albert, my stuffed raccoon. 

And our third outing was on the eve of Chinese New Year's. We planed on having dinner in Lembang. Which is an hour drive. But ended up finding nothing. So we went back to Bandung to eat in Rumah Kopi (Coffee House). Yeah we spent an hour to drive up hills in the rain and then went back with nothing. I call that drive the Cemetery Drive. 

After our dinner, we decided to watch a movie in Chintya's room. Pretty much our eyes were already heavy through out the movies. 

Well, I hope to have more shenanigans again with them! I love spending time with friends.

Oh, yesterday I spent the whole day playing SIMS 3 in Chintya's room instead of doing my assignment. Now I don't have anything to give. I know, I'm just that lazy. 

New Perspective

Salutations internetties! 

Just woke up from a very nice nap and feeling quite refreshed compared to what I felt before. Today was a tiresome day because I had nothing but bread with strawberry jam for breakfast and I had to endure lectures from 8 till 1 o'clock without break. I WAS HUNGRY! And dizzy too. But that doesn't matter because after that my friends, Rossy and Fadel, bought me McDondald's and I got to take a long nap. Oh and also because the lectures gave me a new and interesting insight! I don't regret that I came to campus on a Saturday just for that. I DON'T REGRET ANYTHING! (crazy person)

So today we had this seminar for introducing the studies that my faculty has. There were Interior Design, Fine Arts, Industrial Design, Visual Communication Design (Graphic Design), and Kriya (I don't know what do they call this in English. FAIL!). Each representative from those majors gave lectures about what they do and how studying in arts correlate with their lives. From all of the representative, what caught my eyes were Mr. Albert Yonathan from Fine Arts and Ms. Agnes Tandia from Textile Design (Kriya).  Although I appreciate each and every one of the lectures, I do have to admit I have bigger interest in Visual Arts rather than the other ones. Though, thanks to Mr. Rudy who made me laugh out loud with his lecture while struggling to keep myself from being awake and hungry through out the seminar.

Okay, first thing's first; Mr. Albert Yonathan. He studied ceramic art in ITB and graduated in 2007. Today wasn't the first time I saw him. I think I saw him before in my class being one of our lecturer's assistant. Anyway, when he first came into the room, I was ready to listen. He talked about his visions in his works and his final year assignment; amazing concept. His fondness towards human spirituality is amazing, and it shows in his artworks. 

"Tranquility"
Stoneware glazed, decal, various dimension, 2009

"Dwelling Places"
Glazed middle fire ceramics, decal, wood, 110x19x36.5cm, 2010

I feel so refreshed by the simplicity of the form he took. The way he represents the form of a human being in his work just tickles my sense so much I'm itching to see more what he had made and for his future artworks also.

He also described on how hard it is studying in Fine Arts because aside from practicing your work in dimensional forms, you also have to study theories and histories. Well, I personally am BAD at theories and histories. I didn't even get good marks in highschool for those kinda things. But this is what I want, this is what I like, and I'm gonna fight for it. I just wanna make people smile with what I do. I wanna see those curves in their lips every time they look at what I've made. I've always been and always will, with all that I have and will, want to put a smile on their faces.

His lecture was a slap to my face. Definitely. I had to think, what have I actually done so far to get here? What have I achieved? Have I reached the ultimate pleasure that I've dreamed of now that I'm in a place that thrives with the concept of beauty; the concept of beauty that I'm currently searching for? And still I don't have an answer to that. I'm just going to look around like a blind bat. But also like a blind bat, I'm learning to sense with more than just my eyes.

Oh, besides making ceramic arts, he also make amazing drawings! Again, showing simplicity that represents a whole lot of things.

"Doppelganger-Double Walker"
Gouace and pencil on paper, 57x43cm, 2010

"The Moon"
Pencil and color pencil, 42x29.7cm, 2008

From his lecture I learned that I still have a really long way to go in realizing my full potential in artwork. I'm still a long way to a point where I can say "This is me and no one else can be me!".

Hoping to meet him again in another time and learn more from him. You can also check him out in his blog; white circle. And at the end of the lecture, he gave us one of his favorite quotes:

"Beauty is an ecstasy; it is as simple as hunger. There is really nothing to be said about it. It is like the perfume of a rose: you can smell it and that is all" - W. Somerset Maugham (1874-1965)

Okay now on to the second inspiration of the day; Ms. Agnes Tandia, the founder of Kulkith Shoes. She is an alumni of Textile Design in ITB also and graduated last July 2010. What I've found interesting is that she already establish a shoe brand of her own when she was about my age. Now her shoe brand is being sold all over Indonesia and even around the world. In the early days she made her lovely shoes because of one purpose, so that she could stand on her own two feet and continue studying what she likes. Though at first she claimed that she actually wanted to study in Visual Communication Design but she was sent to Kriya instead. Even though Kriya was her last choice in study, with time she came to like  it and enjoy it.

Kulkith Flat Boots - Black

Kulkith Wedges

They made various kinds of shoes I with batik designs on it. I really love the way she uses the material. Again, it's simple but interesting!

She made me realize my urges in art business. lol. 

She was the last lecturer of the day and she put up with our sleepy faces. I salute her for not going all crazy at us. haha. Of course, I salute her also for the struggle in her life.

You can check her works in their online shop, Kulkith Shoes. They can also ship to whenever your country is (I think. teehee)

Or if you somehow happen to be in Jakarta, Indonesia, just visit Geulis @ Level One, Grand Indonesia. 

Well, that's all for now. Imma have my dinner first.

Oh, and shout out to mui amigos, Rossy Apostrophe! The one who bought me today's lunch. You saved my life!

I'm Amused By An Incredible Child's Toy

A little box. It has a screen on it! What could it be?

Now there's a lens on it!

Ooo! I bet you have to insert this in the box to have fun!

Don't go to the light Luke!

LOOK! It's like an old TV, but upside down! 

Another day at campus and another random thing we did. 

Today started off with an English course at campus. I got the writing class and I just found out today that we're gonna write essays all semester. Fu, I'm not into writing academic text. I'm just not that argumentative. Oh well, I'm just gonna have to manage making up something through out the semester.

After having to write my first essay in months, we ushered ourselves to our next class. Thursday's class  always makes me stressed all to my bones. I just don't get the class. 

When we finished today's assignment, we were told to take a break while they give the grades for the assignments. My friends and I were just hanging out outside class reading old comics. And then one of my friend got this really interesting thing on his hand. It's a box! Yes, that magic box on the pictures above. That tiny box is a really old toy kids like us usually get from snacks when we were in our elementary school years. Back then, we can get fun just from that tiny box. Kids today all got their thingamajig, but this is old school. Just like Cartoon Network.

And it costed Rp2000,-! Or, in today's dollar, around 20 cents. But I don't know how much is Rp2000,- in the 90s. But still, Rp2000,- is expensive back then. You can just eat something fulfilling with that amount of money.

I wanna get back to the old days! And find more toys like this again.

Oh! I ended up getting a 55 on today's assignment. Oh well. Instead of the assignment, I focused on this instead.

An altar for my lost sanity.

Funtastic Class!

My notes. An attempt to be a good student.

Today's the first day of 'Gambar Bentuk' in semester 2 (I don't know what do we call this in English... let's just say it's drawing class). And finally, after 6 long months, I finally get to draw human anatomy! My favorite subject to draw.

An attempt to make Fun Ghoul and Poison Party

After drawing sceneries on last semester, I'm quite happy that this semester I get to draw what I like. And our first lesson was drawing faces; front view, side view, and 3/4 view. We learned a technique on how to keep a face's proportion right. It actually helped me make a better lookin' face and it made making faces easier than it used to be.

By the way, thanks to my doppelganger, Poppy, I got a new notebook! (yes, the one above) On the cover it says "NERDS DIG NOTES" and I do dig notebooks enough to have a couple lying around. Yessir!

じゃ、それだけ。