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
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Spiff, The Spaceman
Yay!
Spiff, The Spaceman
What? I’m FC? I can’t believe it! LOL!
emila
wah so fast la you!! within the speed of light!
emila
yes you’re da man!
Spiff, The Spaceman
Nice illo’s 😀 Is that a whale I see there too?
Spiff, The Spaceman
Well, thanks to my super duper spaceship, I’m able to ‘chop’ real fast … hehehe …
emila
yes, whale walrus, seal, fish
Spiff, The Spaceman
Actually now I darn free in the office la … LOL!
emila
lol! no wonder!
Spiff, The Spaceman
and the tale of sedna sounds cool. I must go google it for the other versions too …
emila
you must!
Spiff, The Spaceman
Bem and Anny are so gonna hate me for this … LOL!
jia
cptnyer!…:) mmm..grrrrr…
emila
Jia, dia refresh banyak kali hehehe
Spiff, The Spaceman
hahaha@Jia … grrrr pulak!
Spiff, The Spaceman
Ya, I’m on auto refresh … hahaha!
Khemy
sabar je la spiff
Khemy
emi..so detailed la the parka bulu..bravo..
Khemy
kalau aku mesti dah koyak dah page tu sebab tak sabar..hehe
anny
naw.. we love u.. u know we doooooooooo love u… *STARESSSSSSssssssssssssssss*
anny
this illustration is so.. detailed.. BRAVO on the great work :D.. so so detailed.. i wud have given up halfway.. hahhahahaa
denaihati
woow manyak cantik lah ni lukisan
mangosteenskin
oh cantiknya kak emila! u draw the seal, walrus and whale by memory only! Oh my! you are soooo talented!
Nessa
OMG! These illustrations are beyond words. Tengok bulu pelepah itu, baju bulu Eskimo… so like real!
Sedih pulak citer Sedna ni :'(
Nessa
I can’t wait to see your work on How Frog Lost His Tail! 😀
Nessa
Aisemen… Spiff konker FC dis month la… tahniah la… 😛
bem69
Maybe I should have my own Bikin Panas blog.
Anywayyyy, I love the illustrations k. Emila! Best betul texture baju dia.
*staressss at Spiff*
bem69
eh no lahh where gottt I am happy for youuuuu grrrr
Spiff, The Spaceman
No la Nessa, still long way to go and with the way some people are komploting against me, susah la … hehehe …
Spiff, The Spaceman
Anny, Bem … yeah, I believe you guys … LOL!
Spiff, The Spaceman
ROTFL@Bem … yo should buddy, you really should!
anny
*staressssssssss at Spiffy too* hhehehehe
Nessa
Stares at sot Anny… huahuahua
ken
seems like our spaceman is getting all the FC…LOL
congrats…
blinkky
Very creative. Even my imagination didn’t have that.
Spiff, The Spaceman
Ya Ken but everyone is out for me now … die la like this!
anny
all for the love of cupcakeos… come to me cupcakeossssssssssssssssssssssssss
iYdaJuhar
kebiruan. 🙂
Mariuca
Yohooooo Emila, I’m back! Best best! Hugs! 🙂
Lyna UA
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!
Spiff, The Spaceman
I’m back here with my jig of coffee for my camp out 😀
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