Sketching on the Move

Didn't seat behind the driving wheel, and had Pak Gito to take me back from a duty out town, I manage this opportunity to sketch him, as I 've done to him before. He was wearing a Batik shirt and ... driving me back safely :)

Bus Passengers

BRT

Bringing my small notebook while commute from home to my working place and capturing some of the passengers.

Cengkareng

Cengkareng Jakarta

Soekarno Hatta Airport

A6 Sketchbook

Ono ing Bus

Iki sketsa sing tak gawe ono ing bus soko Bekasi marang Cengkareng.

Buku Sket ukuran A6, cilik lan praktis digowo lungo.

Watercolor tak imbuhke sawise tekan omah.

Video ne iso dideleng ing kene.

BRT Bus Rapit Transit

Two students

A man with a softball cap

A woman in moslem dress.

A passenger with a waist bag

An other softball cap I saw there.

Some sketches I did in the bus. I did them while commute to the working place which takes around 1 hour 15 mnts. Using A6 book and drawing pen I added the water colour at home.

Street Trumpet Vendors

Canson A6, Sketchbook

Artline 0.2, Drawingpen.

Memory, Chinese Brushpen

Chinese Windsor Newton, Watercolor.

Looking forward to 2011 New Year's Eve Party, seasonal street business, group of paper trumpet vendors are lining up at the streets close to Simpang5, a public open space, where, beside in the restos and hotels, most of the Semarangese people will celebrate it.

Here are my sketches of the street trumpet vendors at A. Yani Street, just hundreds metres from the 'epicentrum', the Simpang5.

My Small Water Color Set.

Small pastilles metal box and plastic caps.

Double tape is used to attach the caps onto the internal bottom of the metal box.

Then choose the color we want.

The small box of six colors watercolor and A6 sketchbook ... perfect combination.

Try it out on my last year sketch.

This is the small set of six colors, that will be very easy to bring it on the go. I make it from a small metal tin of pastilles can, sized at 65 x 43 mm.

First the small metal box attracted me at near the cashier in the supermarket. I bought it another day then, and thinking of how I can put a watercolors there. One day at home I found that there's a small plastic cap (Dia. 18 mm) in the bottle of my Chinese ink which I was sure that it can be used to hold the water color. I work it out , the small metal box of the pastilles can accommodate six plastic caps, this means that I can have six colors in this small set. I have already had two bottles of Chines Ink so I need to buy four more.

I use double tape to glue the plastic caps onto the internal bottom of the metal box. The pan looks great … I really love this.

I then choose six colors of tubed watercolor and squeeze them into the place. It looks great and perfect to combined it with a small sketchbook.

Lazy site sketching … it's time to fill your small sketchbook now, go out and enjoy ……..

Iki wadah 'cat banyu' (watercolor) ku sing paling imut lan paling enak digowo lungo. Aku nggawe dewe soko wadah Pagoda Pastilles, ukuran e 65 x 43 mm.

Asal e aku kesengsem karo wadah pastilles iki ing supermarket, iku di pajang cedak karo kasir e. Aku mbayangke yen wadah cilik iku iso diisi karo watercolor … mestik leep tenan, tapi aku isih durung ngerti piye supoyo iso yo. Sawijining dino ing omah aku nyadari yen tutup plastik sing ono ing tinta bak botolan mbok menowo iso dienggo. Sa wis e tak cobo cobo aku yakin tenan yen iso … dadi kotak Pastilles kuwi iso di isi enem tutup plastik. Tutup plastik kuwi njur tak templek no nggo double tape marang dasaran e kotak pastilles kuwi. Wah … jan kethok keren banget. Sa wis e kuwi njur tak isi karo watercolor sing tak jupuk ke tko sing tube.

Yen di enggo karo buku gambar cilik jan pas banget. Enteng e nggambar di njobo yen ngene ki … ayo kono gek ndang di gambari bukune ...

Here I add some images of this small water colour set when used on location ...

  

  

and ... see the video here

Passengers

BRT (Bus Rapid Transport) is a commuter system in Semarang. As I live in the eastern and work in the western of the city I usually use this bus to get my office. This daytrip takes about 1 hour 20 mnt and I sometime do the sketching while the bus moves.

A bus crew doing the calculation.

A BRT passenger. A6 Canson sketchbook with drawing pen. I do the coloring after geting home.

Here are two small pieces of paper that are a ticket to ride the bus, I use them to capture some passengers.

Using a ballpoint and I have to deal with the bus shake as it moves, accelerate and brake thru an overcrowded traffic.

Mei Mei

Mei Mei di Bandungan, ini anak e Cik Lena.

CS printworld

kernet truck

BRT

Trans Semarang.
The commuter system in Semarang . . . using a Hotel Memo Book. I am totally able to appreciate it's size in this situation., however we have to deal with shaking bus.

Using Staedtler Triplus Roller on a Hotel memo book.

Old Women

Two old Javanese Women. I just began to draw the third woman ... but I had no more time as I needed to leave . . . Wearing a kerudung, a moslem cloth for woman to cover the head & torso and a 'jarik' a batik fabric to cover the belly to the leg.

Using Faber Castell Ecco Pigment 0.7

wewe gombel

I hear people talk about Wewe Gombel . . . then I try to sketch it. Wewe gombel is ghost of a woman in Javanese folklore. I myself never believe with such a thing.

Car

a CRV in the front of the office

Hotel Memo with Faber Castell Ecco Pigment.

Carving Man

Yummy ...

A friend enjoying a chicken noodle, served hot . . . in a bowl.

At the Office

Using a Faber Castell Ecco Pigment and also Staedtler Triplus Roller I made some sketches on a Hotel Memo book 10x10cm. The logo of the hotel is printed soft in the mid of the page and on the bottom there is a hotel address and other contact info. It was nice to work on it . . . something that I didn't think before.

10x10cm Hotel Memo

10x10cm Hotel Memo or 20x10cm double page unfolded.
This memo is from Gumaya Hotel Semarang (http://www.gumayatowerhotel.com/)
Have some sketches from this small book today . . .