Tuesday, July 22, 2014

22nd July


This is what my high school’s uniform is like in general. The school is SMAK Penabur. Though, I modified the design a little to my taste. Instead of vest, I decided to draw sweater. The reason was because it looked much ‘relaxing’. Vest is a sign of semi-official. I like vest, but I like this kind of sweater too. The sweater probably ought to be thin. It’s so the students won’t sweat too much due to heat. With a rightly chosen material, it should be comfortable to wear inside or outside classroom. Even so, I still doubt this fact for my experience of wearing vest, so yah.

The motif of sweater took a really lot of time to draw and shade, but I think they’re worth it. Though, its motif sometimes fooled my eyes because of different location regarding folds and lines, creating a kind of small illusion which made it difficult to determine which actual location is. But my training will be much better this way to train my eyes anyway.

About the length of skirt, in real life, its length actually reaches the knees. But I drew it to be around thighs instead. In other words, it’s slightly shorter than the actual length, but I found it nice somehow after adding the long socks. So I’ll just let this be lol.

As for the shoes, it’s very loose and is not suitable for running. When I was attending physical exam, my shoes accidentally let off my foot. Yeah, it was kind of funny and I had to re-do the exam after reasoning with the P.E teacher. Though, I think the outrageous event wouldn’t happen if I tied the shoes really tight. And it’ll become much more comfortable once I had successfully tied it tightly (somehow).

Another problem is the durability, the shoes won’t really hold that much for one year or more. They’d have become looking worn out completely from inside and outside by the time students had realized it. So thus, I honestly think its quality isn’t good as a pair of shoes, and needs a bit re-modification on the used material.

Please have my apologize if this is too long, but now to the little introduction of hers.

“I don’t forbid you to talk with me. I just need time to clear my mind beforehand.”

She is just a normal student who aims to become a computer engineer. One thing about her is that she always speaks in a roundabout way, which often confused the listener. Not only that, she is also easy to get upset for trivial matters.



The see-through fixed glasses make the general appearance look much better somehow. And I happened to like this character personally. I drew short hair on whim, and didn’t expect it turned out to be quite good. 

“Literature is my utopia”

She quoted from Hellen Keller.

She is a librarian and is responsible for watching over the library. And also holds another responsibility as a leader for the update and distribution school’s newspaper. Though, the real problem was that there were barely any issues around the school to scoop. So the newspaper was full of information which was gotten from outside (mostly internet). It was better this way to keep the newspaper running than to let it down, so lol.

Later, she dreams to become a writer, a journalist, or a translator so she takes a literature path, of course.



She inspires to be a doctor. Her reason was simple and pure, she was saved by a doctor when she was little. Her illness was very bad due to virus, but thankfully, it was curable so she was saved barely.

Thinking about how much debt she had for the medical and role of doctor, thus she decided to become a doctor by taking biology as a path. Though, it was very hard for her to follow because of the complicated explanation about human’s body, nature, and all. Yet, she somehow survived through hard lessons with average score. Well, she barely survived all compulsory classes such as math, chemistry, and physics.

Even though she didn’t know what her talent was, but her inspiration had never become vanished off her mind. So, she didn’t want to give up. Never will, she said.



Please hear me first before commenting, I don’t want any misunderstanding happening. Well, just don’t think anything immoral or perverted, because…. This is art in both literature and anatomy. I mean no twist here, really.

“What am I? Who am I? Why was I made in shape of human? What should I do with these memories? I’d like to meet my creator and ask them.” –Robot

She is a hyper highly advanced mannequin robot in shape of human, whose face was made realistically by scientists. The reason to that decision about face and gender remained unknown because humanity had already perished off earth. Everything regarding precious matters such as countless history of each country, languages, cultures, religions, datas about all existence of animal and plant, records of DNA which was taken by about 10% all races without discrimination, and forth on had amazingly been stored into the main computer in her brain (or it can be said as the retention in technical term). The capacity was counted to be very extremely big enough to store all books from all national libraries of world, and probably as the biggest memory box (yes, not in from of card) created in adequate size throughout all history of technology ever.

Due to the expensive cost of production whose money was gathered from across the globe, there was one and only one robot like her. Before reaching the point of time where extinction happened, when she was finally perfected in time, she was then put into the depth of somewhere like bunker or something. The hope of those memories would last forever till the time was a remarkable moment from those who had almost lost faith in humanity for mad and cruel calamities before own’s eyes.

Few thousands years later, as time didn’t speak anymore and as there was no signs of human anymore, none would ever come to find and rescue the buried robot. Surprisingly, what came after her burial was life being whose identification was very familiar, mouse.

How these creatures survived was and would always be mystery. By accident, they turned the robot on and ran away the moment gears within her body sounded aloud. Some creatures were found in sight of none but her, who had been awaked for first time after having been buried for only God knows how long. It was glad to find some types of creatures that had miraculously survived, however, the view were unpleasant and eyesore. It could no longer be called as nature anymore, and there were no signs of human. No matter how many times she roamed and scanned to check, there was never one. And those animals and plants would have to adapt to the dramatic atmosphere to the best of their adaption ability, otherwise, they’d extinct in no time. As a note, her body had been modified in advance to be able to resist against any extreme situation.

She was left alone completely, holding onto all precious memories. And she had been programmed to protect all memories until the ‘time’ whose specification was never told in detail, making her to somehow have an urge to meet her creator. Ironically, whereabouts the creator was impossible to figure as the earth had been in full destruction.

Having knowledge stored in the memory made a direct effect to her process of logical thinking. She began to wonder even, which was supposed to be impossible for robots. Then she slowly reached the climax by questioning who she was.



An energetic cheerleader. They usually cheer the sport team who is trying hard to win the match, don’t they? Although there are audiences supporting, they are actually simply just watching. So, it was thought that would be much better if the team got to hear energetic shouting done by a special supportive team, thus, cheerleader was born that way. These all are just my opinion, so lol.


A scientist who focuses on chemistry wholely. She's one who is so very occupied by chemistry that she hardly notices what is happening around her. Surely, everyone calls her a genius, but one honestly should think that she is actually hard working. She just worked so really hard that she had reached the level which was hard for everyone to achieve.

Though, she can be clumsy and lazy at times because she was unaware of heavy fatigue her body had been feeling. She even went to sleep during serious discussion, which often gave her lots of troubles later.


An amateur police officer with a dog.

It was quite hard to draw and shade animal. So, I still need more practice, of course…..

I remember one event, and it was at Melbourne, Australia. When I arrived upon inspection done by airport’s security, I met a female police officer bringing a dog. And then she ordered her dog to sniff me, which was cute in its own action. I’d like to visit there again just to meet these adorable dogs, because they were doing their best, so yeah :3


A fanart of Jill Valentine, who is a character from Resident Evil series. I drew her simply because…. I like her in both personality and appearance.

Friday, July 4, 2014

4th July

The little girl wanted to stay longer in a comfortable bed, but because she couldn’t hold her urge to go to toilet so she woke up slightly. Despite being drowsy, she was still aware of the situation by walking carefully so serenity remained still.

On her way to the toilet, there was light glowing emitted from the mechanical room. Curious, then she went there to find an engineer working hardly. As she observed, the girl was working joyfully over something mechanical and the expression she showed was none of the faces the little girl had ever seen, which made her to be interested in whatever the engineer was doing.

Later, the girl noticed her presence by shadows coming from outside. She stopped working and glanced to see who she was. It was none other than the cute kid.

“Little, you’re still awake? It’s almost 5 am and we are departing at 8 am, so you should rest.”

“Ah, sorry, I was going to toilet. But… how about you though….” Asked the little girl worriedly about health.

“Aha, since we found this old robot few days ago, I can’t really just let it be. I felt I had to repair it.” The engineer girl replied with weak voices as if she had no choices.

“…. Can he be repaired?”

“This is an old model, IR-451, and I have little knowledge about this model. But I tried my best by researching through hidden networks. After getting references enough, I started repairing t. Though, I’m still unsure whether he will function or not. Its dissection was very difficult and complicated. Not to mention the specifications, the parts are so old that I had to go to the black market and dump secretly….. No, not even the black market would have the part. Of course, this requires a lot of money so…. Please don’t tell the captain about this ‘kay?” She smirked.

“Why would you go that far just for old robot.?”

Heh.” She turned to be silent for a moment and then replied after thinking of an answer. “To me, this is more than a mere old robot. This IR-415 is more than fifty years old. He might have some untold past that we never hear at present. Maybe he just happened to live happily in golden time before everything fell to become like what we see now…..”

“Ah, sorry. I shouldn’t tell you something difficult like that.” She snapped back to reality before continuing.

The little girl didn’t follow the engineer quite well, but she continued asking anyway. “So how’s he now?”

“Aah, well, as you can see, the appearance is still dirty and full of dirt and scratches. Some outer parts are broken, but inner parts are much worse. And I have yet to find the suitable left hand to replace this broken one. But, I believe I have at least repaired its main processor. I can try to turn him on, wait a minute.”

She reached her mini laptop whose cable was connected directly to the robot, opening some programs full of codes the little girl could not comprehend.

A few minutes after inputting simple codes into the programs, the robot showed a sudden movement that surprised the little girl.

“It moved!”

“Only a little though, it still needs more works.”

“How long will it take?” The little girl asked cheerfully as though she would have an interesting friend to play with.

“Eer… Alone can’t make it fast, so…. According to my own skill, I suppose around two or three months? That’s if no incidents happen in the midst of this reconstruction.”

“Aaw, that long huh….” Her shoulder dropped.

“Don’t worry, I will make sure it lasts shorten than the estimated time. I promise you will get a new friend soon.” The engineer girl smiled after knowing what her wish was.

“You really love robots, don’t you?”

“Aha…. Yeah, I love them. I treated him like he’s my own child. I already made tons of little robots, but they have never been big like this one. This is like my only chance, so I’m going to put all skills I have in use.”

She said as if she had no tomorrows to spend.

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The story stops here.

Drawing this took a lot of time, and I used leisure wisely during the schedule of University. My back hurts a little, but I think they're worth it anyway. Though, I think the shading is still not enough in my opinion. I still need more practice.

Well... It's not like there's another way, because the only way to get better is to keep practicing. And it doesn't really matter where you go to ask every lecturers or seniors for instructions or you search for plenty of references, the answer would still be same regardless of the difference within experience and that answer is practice.

So... Once again.... I must practice more.... MORE!!!!

I want to get better in shading and anything.