• Drawing Practice: Curiosity

    Iโ€™m experimenting with dark background and rust. You might know the robot from Peachtoberโ€™s โ€œRobotโ€. I found myself liking this fella.

    Anyway! I want to share the timelapse video, but I want to be mindful of my site storage too. For the time being โ€” until I found an alternative โ€” you can find the timelapse video in my Instagram โ€œnindya_drawsโ€.

  • While I love the idea, the colors came off too strong, and I just realized I went overboard with Overlay layer after Iโ€™m done. It also feels half-done, and I know I can do better.

    Be better next time then.

  • Colorful history

    I was lurking on my colleagues’ blog when I noticed Brezo’s post: The Met: Chroma (I highly recommend you to read it!) when she visited The MET’s Chroma exhibition.

    Ancient Greek and Roman sculpture was once colorful, vibrantly painted and richly adorned with detailed ornamentation.ย Chroma: Ancient Sculpture in Colorย reveals the colorful backstory of polychromyโ€”meaning โ€œmany colors,โ€ in Greekโ€”and presents new discoveries of surviving ancient color on artworks in The Metโ€™s world-class collection.ย 

    The exhibition’s topic reminds me of a once-popular discussion of how the ancient Greek statues that we all know and see are not actually white.

    What this means is that the sculpture and architecture of the ancient world was, in fact, brightly and elaborately painted. The only reason it appears white is that centuries of weathering have worn off most of the paint.

    And it makes my dear little heart pretty happy to know that the opening ceremony of Athens 2004 is not far from the truth.

    (Pictures taken from the Youtube video)

  • Peachtober 2022

    The best part of a blog? You can display more than 10 pictures in one post.

    While Iโ€™m happy with the results, I need to improve in finding my style and consistency. Hereโ€™s for more learning!

  • Peachtober Day 31: Sleepy

    And itโ€™s a wrap! There were some ups and downs, and Peachtober have some of the most challenging prompts. Iโ€™m going to make a habit out of drawing, so you will still see more of me in November.

  • I have been stepping away from social media (Threads) little by little recently, starting with registering on Mastodon, and I genuinely enjoy their non-algorithm timeline. You will only see stuff from folks that you follow. That’s it.

    I am still around on Threads, though, but I limit myself to 10 minutes only.

    Earlier, I tried checking Threads. Trying to see what’s up.

    My goodness.

Nindya. Kapkap. she/her. Indonesian in Malaysia. Millennial. Lo-fi. Animal Crossing: New Horizons. Murder mystery genre.

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