Fundamentals of Graphic Design from Coursera

Graphic Design is something that I really want to know about. As a children's book illustrator, surely this subject will enrich me in such a way. Thankfully Coursera offers this free online course this month and I join it undoubtedly.

And this is one of my assignment for week 3, about "Repeating Pattern":

It tells about a harvest time in Southeast Asian countries, where the farmers are busy processing the rice and their chicken get scattered rice abundantly on the ground.

Below were my design for week 1 about "Making Images, Making Meaning".

Here I choose bottle as my daily household object, and I gave them connotative meaning. 

If I put a tag "Drink Me" on the bottle  and the blue gown with white apron on it  was there, you'll get the message that it was Alice's bottle from Alice in Wonderland.

If I put a wine glass under a pouring bottle with something red flowing down, you'll see that it was a celebration.

And when you saw a paper inside a bottle floating on the sea, you will see that it was a drifted message from faraway place.

Indonesian Folktales 2015

To celebrate Indonesia being chosen as the honourable guest at the Frankfurt Book fair 2015, Forum Penulis Bacaan Anak/FPBA (Children Literature Writer Forum) proudly launches INDONESIAN FOLKTALES website. All of the stories and beautiful arts in this website is a collaborative work among its members.

And this is my illustration for one of the folktales, "The Dazzling Enau":

You can read the story here.

Decision

These were new design for my story stones (and would be the last):

Though it's not easy, I have to make this decision: stopping story stones production during my limited time as a homemaker, a Homeschooler Mum and author & illustrator for children's book. I have to choose. And sadly it's the story stones. It's the most time consuming compare to others. For each small pebbles (about 1 cm in diameter) I have to wash it, dry it up, draw the pencil sketch, paint it with acrylic paints, ink the lines, and varnish it. And it takes 2-3 more days to completely dry (except on rainy days, it will take longer time). Drawing, painting and inking small pebbles that has irregular shape and porous surface is not easy because of the very small free area to grab during the process.
Hopefully, after this I have a more manageable timetable.

The Storm

I created "The Storm" for my Coursera's 3rd assignment "Elements of Structure". Here I share it with you (a bit edited from the original one).
Note: Please forgive me for my poor English.

Free e-book on August 2015: "Teman Baru"

I'm joining Coursera's online course "Writing for Young Readers" right now. My submission of "Genre, Form and Audience" (2nd week) is shared here. The title is "Teman Baru", originated from "A New Fiend". Feel free to read and download. It's a wordless picture book.

The Dragonfly and The Damselfly

Here are some sketches and the final art that I made for my book, The Dragonfly and The Damselfly.

WIP : Illustrating My Book

This time I'm illustrating my own book, a story about a dragonfly and a damselfly, in water colour.