Secret Place To Escape

Illustration Title : Himitsu no Basho wo Sagasou! (Eng: Let's Find a Secret Place)
Illustrator : Destiana (Me)
Date of Drawing : 27th February 2018
Drawing Media : Photoshop

This is the first time ever I post my digital drawing in my blog. Well, I usually enjoy drawing manually with watercolor but when I have to stay at home and getting bored in front of computer I will drawing digitally. As far I know, Photoshop is often used by artists and Illustrator is preferred by graphic designers. Photoshop is the most enjoyable app for drawing so far (in my point of view). You know why? That's because it has complete tools for both drawing and photo editing. I love how the blurry effects that Photoshop made from its pixels gives a lively feeling into the drawing. The color blending is awesome, the effects are great, the tool is artist support. But if you're a graphic designer who often makes logo or enlargeable illustration, then Illustrator is better. Illustrator is more like a slight combination between Photoshop and Corel Draw which its graphic is vector based. I'll post the differences visually later. 

OK we move into next topic. Most of people probably have a secret place to release their stress (bed room counted lol). I consider that this issue is important enough to be discussed. I assume that one's secret place is also one's favorite place. It's about engagement between a person and a space because a place can be a best friend sometimes especially when you want to be alone. The atmosphere of the place, silent one way communication and memories are somehow conspire to be a unique feature to settle down the negative mind inside. Well, possibility it's God who make it happen. One's favorite place may be is often a great place that able to remind one to God existence. When you're alone actually you're not.

How about people living in the big city? What kind of secret place is their great escape? As we may know, people in the big city often living under pressure so that the number of stress is quite high. As a person who ever lived in a big city like Jakarta, my room was the only secret place because I'm not a type of person who hang out often. I watched movies all day on my day off to decrease my stress. May be there are some people who prefer shopping, playing game or eating nice food. All of them are whether consumptive, less engagement with nature, or technology oriented activities. Those often lead to dissatisfaction of life since people really get nothing from them but anxiety. I highly recommend that every big city must have a public space with high engagement with nature for people benefit. Such as artificial lake or great garden is quite reasonable.

Destiana