PSYCHEDELIC BUTTERFLY MELLY GOESLAW

This is an illustration of one talented Indonesian composer and singer Melly goeslaw in colorful psychedelic butterfly mode. 

 It is available in high resolution design digital file and available for sale.

Contact me through email for price or any other drawing work: meenoestigma@gmail.com

INSPIRING TEACHER: BIRI GYARU /FLYING COLORS (JAPAN), TEACHER’S DIARY (THAILAND), DANGAL (INDIA)

There’s always something you can learn from teachers and their lives. I’ve watched these 3movies a couple of weeks ago and I love them. Each movie offers you different story with worth moral value to take.

Biri Gyaru or flying colors is about a tutor who successfully encouraged and taught one student, a girl from low level school to enter the most prestigious private university in Japan. It was based on the real life story, meaning it truly happened and not only a mere fiction. As you watch the movie along the way you’ll learn many things including family and friendship values for someone to change their entire life up side down. It was 9/10 and highly recommended to watch.

Teacher’s diary however, stores teacher’s perspectives about their profession and how far they would go for it. They were forced to teach in a semi-permanent school boat in a remote area above the lake with limited facilities and only few students. I admire the story and also additional ‘unintended romance’ through a diary between the main characters. It was a really nice movie too, for 8.9/10 score.  It is also highly recommended to add up to your collection to watch in your free time.

The last but not least, Dangal, is another interpretation of real life story from India. A journey of a legendary wrestler family; a father who was a former national wrestling champion, successfully taught his daughters to achieve more by becoming a champion in international level. Aamir khan is really good in playing out his character in this one as in his previous movies such as P.K, 3 idiots and tara zameen par. You can learn from this movie about affection, dedication and other form of fatherly love towards his children. I would give 9/10 for a score of one great movie which worth to watch.

Moral value: teacher, a good and noble profession for those who really put into heart in what they’re doing because it can change someone’s life and future or even an impact to one whole generation.  

A Random Illustration of Pennywise clown from IT movie.

I randomly made this illustrations or drawings digitally and manually last year when the hype of It movie was tremendous. 

I was interested in drawing the Pennywise clown character only but not watching the movie itself. I don't want to be haunted with those scary images in my mind for long time if I ever try to watch it.

It is always fun to see imagination come to life and express myself while drawing something.

 

 

BULLYING: PEACH GIRL, DEVIL COVERED IN SCARS, KOE NO KATACHI (JAPANESE MOVIES)

Lately, I’ve been watching several movies in a row with this holiday mood to refresh my brain before continuing to work again. So here we go, I will start with 3 Japanese movies with one common theme: bullying.

Bullying is not something new, it happened everywhere and sometimes drove the victims to their unfortunate decisions to end their lives out of suffering too much from it. It is not always done physically by assaulting the body but also with verbal abuse. What made it worst was, this verbal abuse aside from being done directly, is done (in written form) more often online through social medias and phone messages. Those who did bullying actually are a bunch of people with troublesome issues such as insecurities, unhappiness, twisted personalities, jealousy/envy, lack of confidence and cowardice or just bored with their uninteresting life. They blamed others for their misfortune and look for a way to satiate and justify their anger.

These 3 movies mentioned in the title are some of the prime examples. Firstly, Peach girl is a story of a girl named Momo Adachi who was born different than any other bright skinned Japanese girl with her dark skin and yellowish hair color. She was often misunderstood by people for her appearance as a bad girl although the truth was the opposite. Her closest and best friend who seemed to be kind is actually jealous of her and secretly play a dirty hand to take everything from her. In the end, all of her best friend’s tricks were exposed and made her learned the lessons without Momo actually done something to stop it. It was quite plain and simple storyline with a little bit of eye twitching and hard thinking.

However, it was totally different for the other 2 movies; Devil covered in scars and anime - Koe no katachi (a silent voice). Aside from background similarities with high school and the students, these 2 movies carried heavier and deeper stories. Bullying is only the basis of everything that happened to the main characters as their karma and what that matters was how they do something to make up for it. I’ve got carried away emotionally and even shed a tear for its beautifully written scenarios. I’m not going to spill more about it but these are truly recommended with 9/10 score.

Moral value: A good lesson about karma, and to be confidence or brave enough to stand up on your own feet no matter what.

Fashion sense trivia: a good color combination of Japanese high school uniform and the meaning of formality behind it. In Japan, they were taught to treat school seriously as if they were working in a company with actual achievement. That is why their uniform is more formal with blazer and ties.

In devil covered in scars, one of the girl who bully the main characters reminded me of Kim So Hyun from Korea. :)