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10 Dec 2020 1 minute read 5 comments DoctorPlatypus
This evening I spent a few hours in a Zoom with one old friend and a few brand new ones, all of us making art independently. Two were doing self-portraits where you don't look at the page or lift the pencil, which strikes me as terrifying, but is dou...
7 Dec 2020 1 minute read 10 comments abisai
KELINDAN MANIKAM Derived from the Indonesian word, 'kelindan' which means newly twisted thread and 'manikam' which means gemstone or diamond. The title 'Kelindan Manikam' hints at the meaning of the illustration I made. A woman emerging from a pac...
6 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
Sometimes I just see a photo and want to try it out, especially if it has some of the elements I am trying to practice. This one had hands and face and shading and weird posture and leaves me wondering what the poor model is thinking - What happened...
4 Dec 2020 2 minute read 2 comments DoctorPlatypus
In accordance with the plan, today I spent a few hours trying to draw the face of Maybe James Roday Rodriquez so that you could tell it was supposed to be a copy of that picture. I wasn't necessarily aiming to trick the viewer into believing that it...
4 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
This time I was working on figure drawing from a photo, I am pretty sure, of a super-buff James Roday (who is now also using his original surname, Rodriguez), who played one of the lead roles on the TV show "Psych." My first try, the head seemed WAY...
1 Dec 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
A number of things were bugging me about the picture I drew of the man on a rope swing, most prominent among them that the background was Not Up To Speed. I spent a few minutes making the trees and greenery in the background look a bit more deliberat...
30 Nov 2020 1 minute read 3 comments abisai
TABIR Is an Indonesan word that have the same meaning as "Curtain" in English. I choose that word for this illustration's title as a representation of things that I try to tell with this illustration. This illustration has the meaning of things th...
30 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments DoctorPlatypus
I took the figure drawing workshop "Re-drawing Masculinities" again today. It's once a month - very welcoming, creative, fun, and great practice! Here are a couple of my 15-minute sketches: You can find the workshop on Facebook and Instagram. I am s...
24 Nov 2020 1 minute read 2 comments abisai
GODA Is Indonesian terms for seduce. I made this illustration out of my confusion, and overwhelming wonder of how people nowadays easily send their nudes to literally anyone, even to someones they didn't know that well, or even didn't know a...
23 Nov 2020 1 minute read 0 comments Conscious Fitness
Yes, it's true. My father hasn't made any new art since he was a teenager, and now that he's gone through a major life transition and is in his 70s, I've helped inspire him to regain his passion and will be posting his work here on my HIVE account f...
