It's been almost a month since I last updated. The urge to write memang ada tapi persoalannya topik yang sesuai takde. Then sekarang dah jadi bertimpa-timpa so terpaksa cover sebelum datang kisah birthday lagi satu tambah pulak dengan dinner batch Part 2 next week.
I shall start by saying that my three-paper-exams dah start. Tapi gap kitorang panjang-panjang walaupun hanya tiga paper. Biasalah budak AD.
Had our exam the other day dekat Dewan Taming Sari memandangkan code subject diambil oleh majoriti Part 2 satu UiTM. Pishang nak menjawab, study pun ntah ke mana dengan busy gila pasal final project Illustration bagai. Lepas exam terus keluar lepas tu takde sekor pun cakap pasal paper CTU tu, instead sume balik siapkan storybook la, pergi printing la.
Duit jalan macam air. Dekat bulan ni je aku rasa dah RM150 mama bagi aku, semata-mata sebab final project.
Nak dijadikan cerita, kitorang macam stuck sangat dekat Lendu ni. Nak balik tak berbaloi-baloi sebab nanti nak kena datang balik. So berlakulah unplanned incident such as late night badminton sesh.
Mula-mula tu Mira yang ajak the girls main badminton waktu petang. Kebetulan Rayyan dengan Qayyim datang nak hantar kerja storybook dekat aku then diorang pun join sekali.
Malam esoknya tak puas hati main ajaklah semua datang. Walaupun maghrib tu hujan tapi diorang datang jugak walaupun lewat. Main sampai berpeluh bagai lepas tu duduk lepak sampai midnight membebel pasal hape tah.
Serabut. Gila serabut. Dekat dua bulan aku mengadap kerja ni. Dekat dua bulan aku non-stop pergi studio waktu malam. Dekat dua bulan aku mengadap muka Qayyim tiap-tiap hari dan malam. Marker render sampai kering, watercolor paper sampai tak cukup-cukup. In the end, this all paid off, at least it did to me.
Printing final and mock up dah cecah RM100. Tu pun cover pakai duit Qayyim. Belajar grafik ni ada padah hebatnya. Tapi pengalaman yang kitorang dapat rasanya nak tukar ganti dengan wang ringgit tak termampu nak bayarnya.
Bersyukur dapat partner yang satu kepala walaupun dia suka ngelat. Geram sebenarnya ngan Qayyim sebab I'd have to admit aku banyak buat kerja jugak dari dia. Haha. But aku dah cakap pun awal-awal yang aku suka conquer kerja so dia pun setuju je. Tapi untung dapat partner kuat melawak macam dia. Kalau aku rasa nak marah pun terus tak jadi sebab ada je benda kelakar yang akan dia buat hari-hari.
Aku takde masalah kalau next time aku kena partner up dengan dia lagi. I'd be glad lagipun. He doesn't create much trouble.
Everyone is so committed to this project. Seronok sangat lepak studio tiap-tiap hari dan malam lepas tu in the end tengok hasil kerja masing-masing yang hebat belaka. Walaupun penat tak terkata dan cost untuk semua kerja ni mampu buat air mata meleleh, tapi aku puas hati. Sangat puas hati.
Lagi-lagi kalau jenis-jenis project macam ni menyebabkan kitorang jadi rapat dengan lecturer. Sebab jumpa all the time. Madam Nik baik gila. Serious, she's so cool. Siap ajak kitorang makan sekali bagai. Let's not forget a big thanks to Xtreme Line printing shop dekat Intekma. Awesome. Gila awesome. Diorang provide a good space to edit our works, tempat rehat and printing yang sangat-sangat berkualiti. Thanks to Abang Fendi and his wife yang sanggup bukak kedai sampai satu dua pagi melayankan kerenah budak AD dari semua part.
Two months of hard work and this happened. We put this under Qeedy (Qayyim+Needy) Productions due to the fact that it's a children's storybook and it sound like 'kiddy'. Illustration mostly done by me, coloring by the both of us, digital editing by Qayyim and assembled by me with a little help from him.
This was a success I can't deny. I love this book too much. But I love the original illustration more, I can't deny. Unfortunately and fortunately, I can't keep my artwork due to the fact that my lecturer will be putting it up in an Innnovation Competition yang kitorang sendiri tak berapa nak tau pasal benda ni tapi kitorang just biarkan lecturer yang handle. Lagipun dah nak habis sem.
The assessment wasn't that bad, assessed by Sir Radin tapi kitorang sendiri quite lost with words which mainly jarang berlaku to me. Entahlah, maybe sebab group work, so masing-masing tak berapa nak go into deep pasal artwork sendiri. But it was good. Biasalah, dah dua-dua ekor jenis penyegan tang formal speeches. But Alhamdulillah, we went pass this.
Well, this is by far the most successful pop-up dalam storybook kitorang yang buat Madam Nik terpikat dengan buku ni. Tak habis-habis dia suruh post gambar, nak suruh tunjuk kat orang hahahaha. Pop-ups were mainly thought of by me tapi direalisasikan by Qayyim because he has the brain to understand the mechanisms.
What I love the most about this stroybook that I made is that the little girl in the middle is actually me. Or better yet, my alter ego. I always see myself as a little toddler mainly because aku anak bongsu and to be able to give her life just makes me really happy.
Trying hard to be united. These are the faces of our whole graphic students for my batch with our beloved lectures.
Trying hard to be united. These are the faces of our whole graphic students for my batch with our beloved lectures.
So, that's it. The very last assessment of the second and meaningful semester. Although the picture above is of the tagging used during Photographic assessment, we used this same tagging design for every assessment of this semester. So, it's kinda really special to collect these and see the last of it.
A complete set of the Eminerds. Oh, by the way, we've created a YouTube account under the name Eminent Art to promote our businesses (well, this part hasn't started yet) but I've put up a few videos that we made in the past, documenting our unusual daily life. Do watch it if you'd like. You'd understand better why my blog posts are mostly about them and why I'm loving my life at this moment.