Toro Elmar | Armed With a Mind

The Exclamation Mark

Elmar — Mon, 13 May 2013 05:02:30 +0000

a collage series featured on cut and rescue

digital and traditional collage

Perpetual Melancholy

Elmar — Sun, 14 Apr 2013 10:26:02 +0000

Finally my 7th comic books is out! published by Rally The Troops. This comic is including mixtape CD, and prepared for Cergambore 2013 (France-Indonesia comic festival) exhibition in Surabaya.

This comic story is actually about my love life journey (again), specifically focus on the meaning of Love, Crush, and Life itself. Took about 3 weeks to finished this with chinese ink.

Produced only 20 copies (because i’m too lazy, :p).

Price: Rp. 35.000,-

Order this comic by SMS/Whatsapp to: 0812 1400 1575

more detail about this book

*Exhibition photo courtesy of +plussixtwo

her

Elmar — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:57:23 +0000

practicing digital illustration again in the spare time at the office

The Unnatural and The Strange

Elmar — Wed, 10 Apr 2013 15:25:22 +0000

“Flowers are they in a vase
Of no human workmanship,
The unnatural that dismays
And The Strange strong as a whip”

The Unnatural and The Strange, by Fernando Pessoa

behind this project:

after adoring her works for this past 5 years, finally i got a chance to do collaboration with her. Her name is Karin Josephine, a good friend of mine, met her from Deviantart, like in 2008 or 2009 (can’t remember exactly). Eventhough i rarely do collage on my works, but for this project, i tried all i can do!.

This project actually started from November 2012, but because we both busy, this project got delayed until now. When doing this project, we never meet each other, this was done by mail-to-mail, (well met one time actually on pre-exhibition meeting :p), so when Karin done her part, she sent to me, so did i.

The title of this collaboration came from one of my favorite poets of all time, Fernando Pessoa.

Check out her works here: http://karin-josephine.tumblr.com/

Daily photo project

Elmar — Thu, 07 Mar 2013 07:29:22 +0000

So i just started a daily photo project last month, after i got a new camera, Fuji Film X100 (i should tell you that camera is totally worth it). Click picture to check out the site.

the title of the blog came from Jerome’s Dream’s songtitle. Yeah, i won’t stop wondering.

Sketchbook 2012

Elmar — Fri, 08 Feb 2013 05:27:00 +0000

This is my sketchbook during last year, the size is only A6 (14.8 x 10.5 cm), as you can see i used many style of drawing, because yes, it’s sketchbook, it’s where i’m still learning to draw. some of them are already uploaded to my instagram account. hope you enjoy it.

2012 – January 2013

Elmar — Thu, 31 Jan 2013 05:11:35 +0000

Selected photography from 2012 to January, 2013, by various film and camera. More in flickr

History of Future

Elmar — Sun, 27 Jan 2013 14:00:46 +0000

RAR Magazine invited me to make their third edition cover. The Theme is History of Future. So i made 4 series of illustration, because history cannot be explain by only one picture, (i think cannot be explain by only 4 pictures too, but 4 better than one, rite?;P).

Here’s the detail of each illustrations

they also have three pages of my interview

Escape #3

Elmar — Sun, 20 Jan 2013 09:29:50 +0000

the poster i did for We. Hum Collective‘s acoustic gig “Escape #3″. it’s my third project for design poster with we. hum, which is the project i started with friends in Amukredam.

and it’s the teaser poster

New Year Postcard #2

Elmar — Thu, 17 Jan 2013 08:13:07 +0000

So i made this project again, sent 22 postcards to random address with my original art. Check out the New Year Postcard #1 here

welcome to 2013!