IF- Village

It's a book about a boy who play with his paperboat, the author request is to make character of a boy with Philippines background, although Philippines it's still in the Southeast Asia, I still have to search the local content of Philippines house and style, along with their traditional dress and style. 

click the link to view the drawing process :)

Coba Lagi.. Coba lagi... (Book- The Boy Who Can Not Tie His Shoes)

Grraaah!  I like my new shoes but why it's so hard to tie it!

It's a book about process,
a determination and a story about
a young boy who have a new shoes but don't have any idea how to tie one.

First time I read the script, it gives me a wide smile,

I can picture  every single expression this little dude will be; happy, determined, stress, tired, relieved.











And I do wish that everyone who read this to their young, will express it while they read it, every single expression, and watch how the listener will also change their own expression, that will be fun!

Make this book as a fun one, make them learn about patience, process, and result, at last :).

Don't you agree?


Just contact the publisher to get the book : aksaberama@gmail.com

I love you mom , I love you dad book

Mom, Dad, I Love You. Yes I love the quality of this book, the color and the layout, after all the revision and editing, at last, it's worth it! 

A Collaboration books with colleague illustrator,  click here for the review of this book from the author

From Rock to Rock - Children book illustration

The final result for my post about The frog who lost his home  .
Story by Ary Nilandari.

In this project I try to put the effort on the details, about the frog family expression, the mountain of stones that been taken away by the human, and the beauty of the ecosystem in this story. As this story are real life situation , about the rocks mining in Java, a little bit of Javanese culture is put inside the details, like the the "blangkon' that the frog put on their head, the batik for dancing, and gamelan for the music instruments. Enjoy.. :)







Sketches and sketches...

:: Give our rock back!

:: Maybe we can do something...

:: From rock to rock we jump and play, from rock to rock we dance and sing!

Being a Shortlist Illustrator in Singtel Asian Picture Book Award 2013

Thanks to God.. :) 
In May I've got this delighting email from Singapore Book Council, saying that my illustration for 'Cap Go Meh' has been nominated for the Singtel Award, the shortlist was picked from 158 entries sent in from 19 countries. Not win yet but honored yes.. :). 

My friend, Sophie Dewayani the author also shortlisted for the author award. And this is the synopsis from the book, this book has not been published yet, wish us luck that we'll find the perfect publication company.

Cap Go Meh *just click to view more about the inside illustration
Nisa, a Muslim girl, and Lili, a Chinese-Indonesian, debate over where cap go meh rice cake 
is the genuine icon of Eid Al-Fitr tradition or Chinese New Year celebration. After sharing 
the excitement of experiencing each celebration, both end up discovering what is more 
essential; that a dish is able to bridge diversity.

Book: Cap Go Meh

Finally done! Been doing this 15 spread books illustration in 2 weeks, errgg I'm so tired and so overwhelmed at the same time! I really love the story line because it really take a lot of courage to lift the topic of different religion and race in Indonesia, I hope this book could give a positive mind set for those who read it, that all religion is good, it is us, as human being, who have to learn a lot more about humanity and tolerance, no matter what race are we, what religion are we...

So.. enjoy.. :)







Cap Go Meh

By Sofie Dewayani and Eugenia Gina

Nisa, a Muslim girl, and Lili, a Chinese-Indonesian, debate over whether lontong Cap Go Meh is the genuine icon of Eid Al-Fitr tradition or Chinese New Year celebration. After sharing the excitement of experiencing each celebration, both end up discovering what is more essential; that a dish is able to bridge diversity. 

Lontong Cap Go Meh represents the Indonesian melting pot. Consisting of rice cake, chicken curry, along with several other side dishes, it characterizes the interwoven of Chinese, Malay, and the local Javanese cultural tapestry.

Bundled Edition of Dongeng 7 Menit

And the second package come after.., another bundled edition from the Dongeng 7 Menit edition, there are 6 books inside the bundled, a collaboration work between 4 illustrators and 1 writers,  you can see it in my recent works here and here :)

The cover

Ketahuan (Gotcha)

Book- 101 creativity book for kids

Got this books with my illustration on Saturday morning! yaay..
it really brighten up my day, the color print is very bright and colorful. Luv it..
It has more than 70 stickers and a cut and stick pages inside

Activity Pages

L: about national dress R: the cut and stick pages

Saya punya satu copy buku 101 cara jitu meningkatkan ketelitian anak dari BIP buat dibagikan gratis, caranya leave comment aja dibawah ya, nanti diundi, Goodluck ! Sementara buat yang berdomisili di Indonesia dulu ya.. :)


oh iya, pengumumannya minggu depan ya, Senin tgl 30 April jam 09.00 pagi 

IF- Toys

And she danced, and danced the whole night long with all her toys!

from my illustrated book- Ketahuan ( Gotcha!)
publisher: Gramedia Pustaka Utama

Books- Fairy stickers book

My Fairies stickers book arrived last month, it's quite a big book, I just loved it..:), this is the sketch and process from my recent post..

: Of course Mika is the first one who participate on the first place.. 







:: Until umm... she gets bored and all the sticker become a functional plaything on her face.. *_*

Fairies

Poor blog, I'm verrry veryyy lazy to do some update,  so much things to do, but wake up! wake up! You've got to start to writing again..! Wish me luck on this..

This is my recent sticker book like I've told you in this post, almost published  now it's still on the printing process.

I know girls like fairies, I like them too, but recently all the myth that I have about fairies is contaminated, yes, contaminated if I might said, with all the barbie like fairies stuff, and all the disney typical of fairies it's all so industrial and at the same time it's so commercial, so I really want to make this fairies not- look- a like all the girlie things that I've already said above.

It's still girlie, still have all the dazzling gown and stuff. But I might assure you that the  fairy that I have in my mind since I was a little girl, they're  in this book.  So, enjoy .. :))

 :: And this is a doodle, err... is she a fairy, or elves.., just inspired by Disney- Tangled.
Don't get me wrong, I love Disney works, but not the industry :D

New Books- Ketahuan! Gotcha!

One of my favorite books that I've made so far.

The story is about a little girl who always hear 'something' at night, and she's sure that it was her toys that making that strange noises.












It's a rather classical story for me,
who never dreaming about an alive toys, dolls, or stuffed animals? And as we grow older the imagination 'Puff!'- gone!
 anyway, I love this kind of story, always.. :)

Books!

Look what I've got lately, books books books.. !
This is why- I've told you- I love mailman :)

:: Early Christmas books from  Dian, a fellow writer, I was planning to save this for Christmas, but anyway.. why not having a little touch of Christmas now!
Thanks Dian!



















:: And a swap picture books from Cecil, with a tiny cute Nekobus and a Ghibli CD songs!
I'm gonna play the CD while working and I'm sure I will get a lots of ideas by hearing some songs from Ghibli.. Thanks Cil!

:: Cool...!

Ongoing project- fairies sticker book

:: On the sketches















:: Part of the final images

IF- Brave

What do you expect in this kind of situation?

A story about a doll who was taken away by a bird

Second hand treasure :)

I found these lovely- lovely book in our local market, after several visits, look what we've found, I don't know who is more excited in finding these books, me or my daughter.. err,, we compete in this thing! :D

::  Calvin and hobbes, little prince, little golden book, Hairy Mc Larry* I love the illustration and rhyme, and Martine, in Indonesia the name becomes 'Susi'

 :: dream inside a dream! Scarry! *_*

:: On our second visit these is what we've found, another Hairy Mc Larry book and Martine becomes a ballerina















:: Martine, I love Marcel Marlier talent and details, I found the fans group on flickr here

Books- Crocodile Tears "Air mata buaya"

I fell with this one, when I first read the story.
It's about a sensitive little crocodile who really, really, easily cry whenever something bad happened, but this time he really give a real tear from the bottom of his heart, not a crocodile tears as in the idioms, and this story so fun to illustrate that make me want to make it as comical and 'silly' but also cute for the children.

And it was about 6 months ago, when I was called by one f my favorite children book author in Indonesia, Clara Ng.




Quite a surprise, and I was more surprised when I found out that I was going to work with my illustrator friends in these book series, the series are called a 7 minutes story, there are 7 books each illustrated beautifully by 4 different illustrators. We shared process and encouraged each other during the making of these books, I'm really happy that I could experienced this. Girls you're all great!
So again, enjoyed!

:: The sketches when the monkey unintentionally splat a green paint into the yummy porridge. Ugh! *_*

'What's your dream?' Sticker Book

Got a surprised today,
My sticker book print has already released, the title is 'What's your dream?'
from Erlangga Publisher

The story is to help children learn about many kind of occupation
I love the print color, it's just as I expected :)

It has 16 pages of full colored scene from different kind of profession, and 8 color stickers pages.
So.. enjoy!

I love sketches!

I love sketches, I learn from them, old sketches , new sketches, I see so many in them, patience, desperation, hope, eagerness, process, happiness, and my self inside them.
























This is a little bit of the sketches that I'd made for a children books project, aligned with the IF- clumsy rabbit that I've already post, I'll show you the project as soon as the books comes
out. It's a promise :)

IF- clumsy

'Bejo'* the rabbit is so clumsy that he make everyone didn't get their milk today

*'Bejo' is an Indonesian name means 'lucky' :)

part of my recent work, thought this might fit the IF topic this week :)