Illustrations for Rep Agency
Illustrations I did for my portfolio with Yusof Gajah & Lingard Agency, Malaysia’s very first representatives for children’s book writers and illustrators. The agency is a partnership between Malaysia’s internationally renown illustrator, Yusof Gajah and Linda Tan Lingard, a local book publisher (Oyezbooks). I am among one of the first 10 chosen illustrators and all of us were given a task to illustrate a story during a workshop organised by the agency last Sunday. The stories and illustrations will be compiled as our portfolio. I Illustrated two stories actually but I don’t have the picture of the other one (How Frog Lost His Tail) as I have to submit it there and then. Didn’t bring my camera also. Took the second task (The Tale of Sedna) a day after the workshop so I was free to work on the illustrations at my own pace. Will submit these this weekend.
Will let you know how to contact the agency as they has start representing me as of Monday, 8 June 2009 for a year.
Here’s the story summary of The Tale of Sedna:
A long time ago, there were no seals or walruses for Eskimos to hunt. This is a story of how seals and walruses came to be. Sedna was a beautiful Eskimo girl. One day she married a handsome young hunter but he turned out to be a bird spirit. By lifting up his hands, they turned into wings and he could fly. He took Sedna to his island. Sedna’s father came to rescue her in his kayak. But the bird spirit caused a huge wave. Sedna’s father panicked and threw Sedna into sea. Sedna grabbed hold of the edge of the kayak but her frightened father stabbed her fingers with a knife. Blood flowed from her fingers and they turned into seals, walruses, whales. Today, the Eskimos pray to Sedna to release a seal or a walrus so that they could eat.
If you google, you can find various versions of the tale.
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Spiffy
Comments (202)
Yay!
wah so fast la you!! within the speed of light!
Well, thanks to my super duper spaceship, I’m able to ‘chop’ real fast … hehehe …
Actually now I darn free in the office la … LOL!
lol! no wonder!
sabar je la spiff
cptnyer!…:) mmm..grrrrr…
Jia, dia refresh banyak kali hehehe
Ya, I’m on auto refresh … hahaha!
hahaha@Jia … grrrr pulak!
Aisemen… Spiff konker FC dis month la… tahniah la…
No la Nessa, still long way to go and with the way some people are komploting against me, susah la … hehehe …
What? I’m FC? I can’t believe it! LOL!
yes you’re da man!
Bem and Anny are so gonna hate me for this … LOL!
naw.. we love u.. u know we doooooooooo love u… *STARESSSSSSssssssssssssssss*
eh no lahh where gottt I am happy for youuuuu grrrr
Anny, Bem … yeah, I believe you guys … LOL!
Nice illo’s
Is that a whale I see there too?
yes, whale walrus, seal, fish
and the tale of sedna sounds cool. I must go google it for the other versions too …
you must!
emi..so detailed la the parka bulu..bravo..
kalau aku mesti dah koyak dah page tu sebab tak sabar..hehe
this illustration is so.. detailed.. BRAVO on the great work
.. so so detailed.. i wud have given up halfway.. hahhahahaa
woow manyak cantik lah ni lukisan
oh cantiknya kak emila! u draw the seal, walrus and whale by memory only! Oh my! you are soooo talented!
OMG! These illustrations are beyond words. Tengok bulu pelepah itu, baju bulu Eskimo… so like real!
Sedih pulak citer Sedna ni :’(
I can’t wait to see your work on How Frog Lost His Tail!
Maybe I should have my own Bikin Panas blog.
Anywayyyy, I love the illustrations k. Emila! Best betul texture baju dia.
*staressss at Spiff*
ROTFL@Bem … yo should buddy, you really should!
*staressssssssss at Spiffy too* hhehehehe
Stares at sot Anny… huahuahua
seems like our spaceman is getting all the FC…LOL
congrats…
Ya Ken but everyone is out for me now … die la like this!
all for the love of cupcakeos… come to me cupcakeossssssssssssssssssssssssss
Very creative. Even my imagination didn’t have that.
kebiruan.
Yohooooo Emila, I’m back! Best best! Hugs!
Hi Emi!
Sori for not ans ur comment. Adala… Anyway, I am looking for illustrations and pop art photography work for SN UA’s new book. Call me when you’re free, okay. Take care!
I’m back here with my jig of coffee for my camp out
go!~
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