Hello! My name is Retno Nindya. I’m an Indonesian living in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia since 2014-ish.
I’m a Happiness Engineer for WordPress.com in Automattic. You can find me in the APAC timezone (UTC+0800) I sometimes draw too.
I usually write about my personal life, daily stuff, and some drawing practices.
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I’m learning how to draw upside-down, and it’s actually pretty tempting to rotate the canvas (😅) I tried to stick with the original canvas orientation and learned how to draw human figure when they are looking up. It’s definitely a difficult task. Also, water reflection and texture (to show it’s, well, “water” as in water […]
A couple of days ago, I saw a Tiktok video by Yoshi Yoshitani, one of the artists I respect so very much. In the video, Yoshi discussed about values in color, and I got intrigued. So, yeah, here it is 😄 I started with the outline. Then, I added the layers with B/W/grayscale color to […]
While June – August usually means sunny hot weather for Indonesia and Malaysia, recently we have been having rainy days here in KL.
Proof that my jetlag is jetlag-ing. I typed “Spain, Madrid” on the title. Rest assured, it has been fixed. I just came back, still freshly exhausted from a team meetup in Langkawi when the leads group went, “LET’S GO FOR TEAM LEADS MEETUP!” I love traveling and meeting my friends. I really do. However, the […]
I made a 2-minutes video when my team had a team meetup in Langkawi a couple of weeks ago (“Leviosa” is the name of my team. Yes, that Leviosa.) This blog is the first one to see it 😎 Some of the pics and the videos didn’t sync as good as I want at the […]
Back in December, we decided to have a week-long trip to Indonesia, specifically to Jakarta and Purwokerto (my, hm, I want to say it as ‘hometown’, but it’s not exactly my hometown. I was born and raised in Cilacap, Central Java — and my parents moved to Purwokerto back in 2005 when my dad retired.) […]
I used to have an Apple Watch, until I gave it to my son along with my old iPhone. I found myself not suitable for wearing Apple Watch — note the wording and the sentence there. In fact, I don’t think I can wear wristwatch 😶 My skin will get itchy really fast, and it […]
I’m learning how to draw upside-down, and it’s actually pretty tempting to rotate the canvas (😅) I tried to stick with the original canvas orientation and learned how to draw human figure when they are looking up. It’s definitely a difficult task. Also, water reflection and texture (to show it’s, well, “water” as in water […]
One of the funniest ironies I ever endured was (or is?) whenever foreign friends (not residing in Indonesia or Malaysia) asked me/told me, “hey! I went to this so-and-so place in your country!” while me, an Indonesian and an Indonesian-in-Malaysia-since-2014, is actually never been to that place. “Hey, Retno! I’m in Indonesia right now! I’m […]
🪴 coriander in pho 