IF - soar

anyone can interpret this as freely as they want..

cards..

a few cards i made. some had already sent.

IF - backward

sorry, just a doodle this week..

dwarfs caroling

sufi dance finished

:)

sufi dance

well, in a cute way, though... :)

i'm still in the mood for cards, and this one is not finished yet.

prrrrrrrrrrtttttttttttt

an image from one of the cards i made.

salju/snow

i made cards...a lot... and looks like i'm addicted to it!

IF - little things

well...they ARE little, aren't they...?

this is taken from one of the cards i made...

painted envelopes

a couple of envelopes i painted on... i love them all! all sent, though.

IF - excess

excess of...birds...?

cards

drawing people

these are my contributions for 'Please Draw Me!' site.
from top to bottom: kim, the founder (his hair a bit cropped.. :P); sarah; hanzz.

hopefully i could make some time to draw others.

five more things

i was tagged by the talented Alicia Padron to list five random things (embarrassing things?) about myself. well...here goes.
1. sometimes i like to use my watercolor brush to hold my hair.
2. i'm pretty squeamish.
3. i once wrote a fan mail to a football player and got replied (he sent his picture with his signature on it....! :-p)
4. i'm more a tea drinker than a coffee drinker.
5. my future kids will be named after football players' .... no, i'm joking. :)

IF - zoo

a humble little illo for this week..

IF - superstition

where i lived, there's some kind of a belief that when a certain birds called "sit-uncuing" (in my mother language, that is) making noise for days/weeks around some people's place, it's believed that someone is going to die. i'm not a superstitious person, but this thing was happened when my late father passed away two years ago. for like two months the air was heavy by the birds' singing. after my father died, the noise was gone.

IF - scale

i've been wanting to make Tarot card theme for IF's topics since last month, and have been waiting for the right topic all along. finally, this week's challenge seems really fit for that. so here it is, a major arcana, 'Justice'. only i didn't want to make it spooky-full-of -symbols tarot kind of way, i chose the silly kind of card. :D

and here's another sausages for those of you who had left comments on my last post: you have really made my week! (pssh, they are sleeping now.) ^_^

IF - hats

here i played a little with my paint and brushes. boy, its really took some courage to do this, as i always worked kind of tidy with my previous works. but it is something that i have to do. to learn new styles.

from a movie scene

a doodle inspired by a scene in an Iranian children movie. its about a little boy who lives with his grandma and his pet bird. a very sweet movie.

in case you're wondering, the writing's said: "but grandma, i want to feed the bird!"

IF - trick or treat?

Trick!

this is acrylic on envelope. that's why you see a blank space in the middle, it was saved for the address... (if i ever going to send it, though.)

with a little help of tea

the other version of my IF's entry for 'grow', with a little help of...tea! i really like the color scheme here. this is wet-in-wet.

update: i fix the color with photoshop to match the original piece (the scan result didn't represent its real color).

IF - grow

she thinks watering her baby sister would make her grow faster.

IF - extremes

extremely equal yet extremely different.

tsk tsk....

can you believe it, i was linked by 3ster... obviously i gotta linked her back. she does such an amazing illustrations. and yet so young. ..!

anyway. this drawing is just my recent doodle. thought i'd like to share it with you..

IF - open

this is what likely to happen if you opened a window. it happens to me a lot.
this was done in acrylic.

the eight facts

ok gina i'm going to do the tag here and not on my multiply.... and here the eight facts.
1. i'm an extrasensitive person. i can sense other people's emotion, what's or what's not going on in the air, what's implied from someone's sentences, just from the smallest gesture. or so i think...
2. i don't keep many memories. i tend to forgot things. or maybe i just being careless.. :p
3. you can say i'm a bit cheap but i don't like giving away money to street 'musicians' who don't deserves it. well, the word 'musicians' here is somewhat overrated, because, here, those people are just street people who trade their voices for money, which most of the times, are not melodious.
4. i like to observe things visually.
5. i'm analytical.
6. i pay too much attention on details. feels like i always have to get full explanation for everything.
7. i like chocolates and meat dumplings. and fried rice.
8. i like to read in the bathroom too... :D
i'm not going to tag anyone, though, gina... yeah, i'm a bad player...hehehee

IF - the blues

feeling blue. deeply.

Second ATC

hooraay, my second ATC! this one is from Monica Carnesi. i'm so excited waiting for her cards (plural, because she'll send me the second card!) since i love her sweet and refreshing artworks. thanks Monica, i love it!


and this is what i sent for her. i made it larger than the usual ATC cards size because i want it to be more like a greeting card.

The Grandeur

Surely We revealed it on the grand night.
And what will make you comprehend what the grand night?
The grand night is better than a thousand months.
The angels and Gabriel descend in it by the permission of their Lord for every affair.
Peace! it is till the break of the morning.

IF - juggle

"well, who am i kidding... i can't juggle."

IF - wedding

when the flower girl gets a little bored...

IF - momentum

hmmm. momentum. right. pretty tough topic for me. what's that word mean, actually? maybe it has something to do with movement... well, a dancing stork probably fit quite well...
pencil with watercolor.

more rats!!!

cold-pressed paper, 2,5 x 3,5 inches.

Swap Cards

Eugenia gina and I swap each other cards, inspired by other artists with their ATCs (Artist Trading Cards).

Below is what i got from her, with cute characters of Linny lizard and Cc the cat greeting each other. :)


and below is what i sent for her.

this is just as fun as the portrait exchange! :)

the portrait exchange

i just did a portrait exchange with the talented Ammon Perry. Reasons are, one, i want to challenge myself to do portraits again and two, because i like his unique arts. We traded photos a couple weeks ago and then draw each other.

this is his interpretation of my portrait. how funny! look at my face...! that nose is surely a fact. :D

and this is my interpretation of him. me, being too serious. glad he liked it though.
all in all, this is quite fun! :)

IF - alphabets

can you see the 'h'? or probably, the 'b'? ;)

IF - visitor

"can you give me a shelter for tonight, please?"

more rats this week..

IF - captain

pretty clear, i guess? :)

IF - emergency

okay, after blank for two days thinking what to draw this week, this is what i came up with....
a quickie, because i'm so sleepy now. *yawn*

IF - missing

her ribbon is missing....

below is my desk while i was doing my 'missing'. :)