Curvy!

So after a long battle with the post office, i finally got my package. remember that submission i did for that aussie magazine? yes it has flown several seas (or air borders) to get to me, and although it has reached my hands in a slightly tattered state (the package was already ripped open, prolly searching for the oh-so-outdated anthrax), the book looks a lot better than i expected.






i'm on page 123. i like the number yes i do.


got no idea where it's distributed since honestly dont think ive seen any previous editions of curvy around before.
then again i doubt romania gets many artbooks, so. meh.

i'm still sad that i didn't get to go to the gallery opening and launch though. the pictures they had on the YEN site look like they had a blast. ;_;

uh. oh and in the list there's another malaysian other than me! awesome =D

Background:
Your favourite annual ALL-GIRL art book, CURVY - created by the team behind YEN MAGAZINE - has been kicking up a creative storm since 2004 and with the sixth edition about to launch, CURVY remains an international favourite amongst lovers of art and supporters of female artists. Each year the book features 100 of the most exciting female graphic designers and illustrators from over 35 countries around the world. This year we've gone further with 120 artists featured.

CURVY is a must for anyone passionate about graphic design and illustration that wants to be inspired by a new generation of outstanding female creative talent. Produced by YEN magazine - CURVY kicks off again in April & consists of a cool limited edition book and a national event tour.

Featuring:
Alana Corra - Aus / Alana Skyring - Aus / Alex Tebb - Aus / Alice Jean Mckellar - Aus / Alicia Thomas - Us / Alison Richards - Aus / Amanda Mendiant - Sweden / Ameesha Earnshaw - Canada / Amy Alexander - Aus / Angela Bassichetti - Brazil / Ann Do - Aus / Anna Manolatos - Spain - Aus / Anna Pogossova - Aus / Ant Marie - Aus / Aramas Ridge - Aus / Bec Winnel - Aus / Bei Badgirl - Aus / Bel Johnstone - Aus / Caitlin Rigby - Aus / Candybird - France / Carla Zamora - Philippines / Caroline Mudge - Aus / Catherine Campbell - Aus / Catia Chien - Usa / Chelsey Freyta - Canada / Clarissa Monteiro - Brazil / Claire Cimbora - Aus / Courtney Brims - Aus / Cruz - Spain / D.U.R.A. - Malaysia / Dashenka Prochazka- Cz - Aus / Davina Purnama - Aus / Dianita - Mexico / Dominique Merven - Aus / Dora-Diamant Doury - France / Ellen Stapleton - Aus / Ellen Weinstein - Usa / Erika Coello - Ecuador / Evi O - Aus / Fanney Antonsdóttir - Norway / Fee Harding (Burntfeather) - Aus / Fernanda Guedes - Brazil / Flossy-P - Aus / Fumi Mini Nakamura - Usa / Gina Kiel - New Zealand / Giulia Balladore - Italy / Hendrika Stekhoven-Smith - Aus / Irene Feleo - Aus / Jennifer Thompson - Aus / Jenna Tink - Aus / Julia Gfrörer - Usa / Kaitlin Beckett - New Zealand / Kareena Zerefos - Aus / Karlee Mackie - Aus / Kassi Isaac - Aus / Kate Aimee Conrick - Aus / Kate Lightfoot - Aus / Katelyn James - Aus / Kelly Mckernan - Usa / Kelly Thompson - New Zealand / Kirbee Lawler - Aus / Kirsten Ewens - Aus / Kristin Fialko - Usa / Lara Allport - Aus / Lara Schubert - Aus / Laura Etheredge - Usa / Lauren Hernandez - Aus / Lila Theodoros - Aus / Lilly Piri - Germany / Lisa Falzon - Malta / Lisa Li - Nz / Lucy Wood - Aus / Maja Veselinovic - Serbia / Maria Eugenia Plate - Argentina / Maria Rapoport - Israel / Maria Vittoria Benatti - Italy / Maureen Gubia - Ecuador / Megan Yeo - Aus / Mel Baxter - Aus / Melani Olivia - Indonesia / Melissa Haslam - Aus / Melissa Murillo - France / Melyssa Anishnabie - Canada / Meredith Earls - Aus / Miao Long - Aus / Nancy Duong - Usa / The Angry Hedonist - Singapore / Natasha Serci - Aus / Nicole Tattersall - Aus / Nina Maskiell - Aus / Noferin - Aus / Patience Hodgson - Aus / Peemonster - Usa / Phresha Le Vandale - Aus / Pomme Chan - Uk / Pyhai - Netherlands / Rebecca Chalmers - Aus / Reem Khurshid - Pakistan / Roxanna Vizcarra - Usa / Ruth Wang - Canada / Sara Blake - Usa / Sarah Larnach - New Zealand / Sear - Aus / Shannon Graham - Aus / Shira Sela - Israel / Sofia Varano - Aus / Stephanie Laberis - Usa / Susan Burghart - Uk / Susannah Garden (Strafe)- Russia / Tanja Szekessy - Germany / Tiffany Muñoz - Canada / Tiffany Toland - Usa / Tuan Nini - Malaysia / Viet-My Bui - Aus / Yulia Yakushova - Russia / Yuki Nakano - Aus / Yvonne Zago - Aus / Zena Santos - Aus / Zoe Keogh - Aus / Zou Qing - China.

hey joe

hey joe,
i said where are you goin with that gun in your hand.
i'm goin down to shoot my old lady,
you know i caught her messin' round with another man.
that ain't too cool.

billy roberts-hey joe.

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couldn't sleep so..messin' round with texture overload.
purposely left the hard edges of texture squares.

WIP: spineless

all these fancy words for flaws,
and they label you fancy, freak.

with love

hey you,
i still look for the back of your head in the crowds.
perhaps you can hear me now.

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runumbrella

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i hate time.
it does things to you.
and within time, things happen.

fan

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ouch

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this time last year.

repeat story

may everything blur out.

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WIP: ouch

hide in pink

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WIP: hide & repeat story

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just to bump last post.
...i seem to be liking pink.

hate list

i began listing down the things i hate and i began to hate even more, quality and quantity. and i hate the fact that i know for a fact there are so many people that would be offended and deem me politically incorrect, or just incorrect in a general way. well suck it up because opinions can never be incorrect and i can say this - my opinion is that you're an asshole. i would love to go into detail to what kind of asshole you may be, but everyone of you is so special in their own assholic way that it's really unfair to describe A asshole as B asshole when A asshole might actually be a Z asshole. wait what? vicious cycle of assholes, you guys always get me.
as this post climbs down i'll probably actually update my list. so leave me be and let me hate the things i hate.

what about that? have a nice ******** day!
this city makes me sick.

let's play

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another t-shirt design for ismail. oh i forgot to mention previously that i'm doing the girls' t shirts. ^_^

box

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this and ''look up look down'' belong together, because my girls shouldnt be separated. =)

Update: Print sold to Christophe.

WIP: box away

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i felt bad drawing only one of the 2 girls so i wanted to make another one for the paperbag girl, like a mini series.

look up look down

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WIP: look up

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morning drawing

ronoroa zoro gets a kinky girlfriend

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just a funny lil sketch for a forum battle thingiemabob, first time participating. =D

dandenail

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ayanami rei

now who could ever forget her.
i had the urge to draw her smoking a cigarette.

i found a new way of colouring: it's called ''don't care''. feels good, really.

WIP: dandenail

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random commentary: here i thought that i could store my winter clothes away for good, and the evil evil dark clouds of cold are reigning again. >..<

amplified love

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a t-shirt design for Ismail.

bucharest project

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a little something i did for Dani sometime ago.

face

another one of those i don't know whom i was drawing.
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conversation

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oh spring is finally here.

someone

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oh i got in to the list of top100 in the australian YEN magazine thingamabob. the submission that managed the entry was afraid to jump . hurray!

if i were in malaysia i could probably catch the exhibition and launching and sydney, but alas, i am faaaar away.

pillowhead

good night.

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goodnight tv

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this was a real headache to finish, because there was a power trip in the middle of doing the work, and after losing a lot of work done to it, to get the mood and feel back to finish this was pretty much impossible. but i really liked this previously so i pushed to get something out of this.

on a side note, am feeling a lot better these days. took a 4 day trip to some snowy mountains and got some nice winter boots (too bad it's supposed to be getting warmer soon) as i couldn't take hiking on the snow with my stupid yet nice canvas shoes. also got a traditional film camera, the ones that bring back old nostalgic non digital times of life, and can't wait to see results of pictures taken the analogue way! (not being able to check if you looked like a stoner drunk in a picture that was taken until it's developed, GASP)

it was freaking cold, but the non-bucharest air was worth it.

pop it

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got distracted from the previous drawing so this is what came out from a lazy, distracted sketch. i quite like though. yum.

WIP: good night tv

terubozu

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i would say it's a bit different than the usual, but then again, i'm not sure. not too happy with this one but it was fun doing it nonetheless. it looks simple but i kept having minor changes to composition. hmm.

WIP: terubozu

cereal love

i guess this is the closest i can get to a valentine's work. not that i ever draw things for occasions.
yum.

limbo

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if you're not brilliant, you don't earn the right to be insane.

Happy Birthday, Love.

i want this tshirt

i want this tshirt please. with a 1000 mangoes.
mango my violent cat that will scratch your eyeballs out when you come near.
i want i want, kthnxbye.

open mind

coming back with a bang!
first personal work in freaking ages, all this bottled up in my mind and finally i can let something out. i feel really good today.

the return of the tablet

today i will get my wacom tablet.

can't wait can't wait can't wait! now i can finally channel all this lame insanity to make something. it's about time.

a complaint letter

that stillness in the air
heavy draperies of black thick tar
it's all too familiar
when everything and anything stops and considers
what attitude to adopt, what to make out of it
death comes, and death never goes.

awkwardness to sadness
they say you get used to things
but it gets to me, each time.
it bites, and it eats chunks away from me
soon enough there'll be nothing of me.

what kind of world do we live in
to cherish the gone and forget the now
where loving is child's play and yet
it is selfish to say, ''i love you''
where it is inconsiderate to show you care.

is love something you created only for you?
do you take them away because the only one who deserves it is you?
i am running out of it, so please do not be expecting
it is true i have no ownership, for i do not find it myself
i stumble upon it and take a peek, a mere insect fascinated by fire.

i did not need to have been taught the lesson
i never took for granted the love that comes
i refuse to believe that i am undeserving
for i love, and that is the only thing i have and can do
so please, please stop taking them away from me.

let me love because i am worthless without it.

aaAAaa smelly sock.

aaaaaAAAAaaaaaaaAAAaaa.

I LEFT MY WACOM TABLET BACK HOME. as in malaysia.

....

AAAaaaAAAAAaaaaAAAAAA.


i have a smelly sock for a brain, i really do.
ps/ i am back in bucharest. like duh.


i think i am starting to sound like an angsty teenager. it's the fault of the book i'm reading.

holiday post

No works for a while because I'm having the time of my life back home in Malaysia.
Did you know that Malaysia is, like, so cool? I didn't know. It's awesome.

I am absorbing the Malaysian-ness back into me, indulging myself with all that home has got to offer. And home's got to offer A LOT. I basically feel like I'm spoiling myself by just being Malaysian. It's THAT awesome.

Gonna hit East Coast in the first week of January. As in, the seaside. Yes. the sun is up, the sand is warm, the waters alive. <3 Sorry suckers, Malaysia's warm all year round. (Not sure whom I'm addressing but let me gloat for just a bit) Gosh I am starting to talk like my sister.

I'm in the mood to catch up with people and meet new peeps and do things(whatever that means), so if anyone's up to something and is/are somewhere around KL at the moment, drop me a line.

Happy holidays and a Happy New Year!

ps/2009 better be a better year or I'll have a boot up the ass of the responsible figure. And I will, without a doubt, FIND YOU.

portrait with bear

there is something harsh about this but i could not help it anymore.

Lone

birthday present for Lone, 11th december.
acryclics on canvas. can't remember the dimensions, but it was pretty small.



oh and since i was in the hardworking mood of taking pictures, this is how the corner of my new apartment where i paint and stuff. @_@ i got the hang of working on the floor.

help me help you

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go on and put the blindfold back on honey.

WIP: help me help you

compensating for lazy days.

pull it off

oh i forgot this one. damn it the absence of internet fucks up my chronological order of things.

extinguish

to break the dry spell, here's a little sketchy thing.

i have been M.I.A. due to the fact that i was living internet-less for 2 weeks, since i moved to a new, happier place. and by living internet-less i mean it in the pure sense. i wasn't going to friends' houses to use a minute of internet. well except for once, to purely check my email, and even then i didnt even read them. now i feel like a junkie that just broke out of rehab and bathing in goodies all over again. which i keep repeating this phrase to people.

it has been eventful lately, but it is now time to calm down. and back to the drawing board.

as a person, i feel that i am deteriorating. in many, many ways.
i don't know what i am doing, and the second i think i've got a grip on things, i fumble again.
i am quite afraid of what i'm growing into. i am indulging in the vengeance against nature, in a pointless, unproductive manner. perhaps destructive, even.
my name is a big burden to carry.

needless to say, consciously i am trying to work against deterioration. but the subconscious gets the best of me. if only it didn't affect the people around me, the people i really care about, i would have been glad.

flood in forest

not.. so sure where i got this from.
been watching a lot of supernatural and dexter lately. maybe the white nurse look is from House M.D.. beats me.

at least it's a change of colors. never painted in so much green before, i think.

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WIP: forest flood

i know i was supposed to do more variation on the last one, which i did start working on actually. but i have this image that i just have to draw first. there'll be cute things added to this.