#traditional indonesia

[canisalbus]

WOAH can we see the skull if thats ok?? that sounds so cool (also only 20€????)

Also since it's hollow you can stick led lights in there for this sort of effect (pardon the mushy quality):

[rawnarawnaculus]

Jumping on the international miku trend late, but heres jawa miku in traditional clothes, i had to pull up my own dress for reference

[folkfashion]

Lampung women, Indonesia, by ASEAN Heritage & History

[ddeltacrane]

Hehe. Its beskap (similar to like javanese tribe ones, back then it was used by royals) and batik too.

Also add white tiger because my tribe believe white tiger spirit guards our nature and people.

(I am from Sunda tribe, West Java btw)

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[araiz-zaria]

Here it is — Sundanese Miku and Teto having outdoor tea time!

[loge2718]

Kanan and Hera Wedding

The twist is they are wearing one of the traditional Indonesian wedding attire (Jawa Solo) 🙌

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[fleeting-sanity]

Saxan in Coral Island.

Happy New Year to you. My lazy son as NPC and LI. I think this took about a month to make. 70% of that time is taken by the wedding outfit alone. Commentary on each outfits and his personality backstory under Read More if you're interested :)

Your local veterinarian. He was a bratty and wild child, something his parents tried to coach him out of. Instead, he developed into a lazy and apathetic young man, and eventually his parents learned to accept the person he is. However, he sensed that he's the black sheep or "failure" compared to his successful big twin sisters, irregardless of how baseless it is. Cares for animals, not so much for humans. His character arc can go two ways depending on what you chose during the dialogues. His birthday is on 28th Spring.

He's my Star Wars OC actually. He's a Zakuulan Prince, so I incorporated that aspect into his merfolk form. If you don't see him around town, he might be underwater!

His spring outfit is based on the doodle I have of him from an ask lol. I kinda like the color cyan on him!

I forgot that Scott has a similar hibiscus shirt so I figured it was too late to modify it... Oh well.

Not much to say other than I kinda have a hard time deciding what he should wear for autumn.

He looks super snug. I really gotta learn how to draw coats to make them convicingly thick idk. He lowkey dislikes winter.

I kinda debated on if I should put body hair on him but I decided not to seeing almost every male NPC has them. I think. Yes, it's the ace flag colors.

If you marry him he'll appear in Aesan Gede, the South Sumatran (Palembang) traditional wedding attire. I can't really have his hair free because it'll get stuck on all the golden bits but I kinda am not feeling the bun either so back ponytail it is. Debated whether I should draw the Sundanese one (am half-Sundanese) because it's easier but South Sumatra has been under-represented in Indonesian media so my Srivijayan pride kicked in. Also tumblr keeps killing the transparency for some reason >;[

Does he look Prince-ly enough here? He's based on the barracuda fish. Considered making him a naga like the rest of the in-game merfolk royal family but I've actually drawn him as a merman before so I want to keep him as a... fish. blublubblub.

I'm currently playing his twin sisters and I'm having a hard time choosing the LIs for them helpppp

And no, sadly I'm not a backer on Kickstarter (source: golongan miskin) this is just art.

[hanahaki-cure]

ASEAN gang (my favourite!) for @hws-anthology, celebrating a decade of Hetalia.

[kelanapermana]

[putumandalika]

got bored, and drew the larks in traditional attire🙏

[postcard-from-the-past]

Traditional house from the Padang Highslands, Sumatra, Indonesia

Dutch vintage postcard

[southeastasianists]

On the eve of March 11, the streets of the traditional village of Mengwi, Bali, flooded with monsters. The giant figures loomed over villagers’ heads, with grotesque smiles, protruding fangs, and extra arms and eyes. They danced in the night, each one brought to life by dozens of locals who moved as one, lifting, spinning, and shaking the monstrous creations.

The spectacle, known as the Ngrupuk parade, is one of several rituals meant to banish evil ahead of Nyepi and the Balinese New Year. While Nyepi is a day of mandatory rest and meditation for Balinese Hindus, the night before is quite the opposite.

The monstrous figures known as ogoh-ogoh—meaning to shake—represent Bhuta-Kala, evil spirits that need banishing, according to Balinese Hindu tradition. The figures, some as tall as a two-story building, are carried boisterously through town on bamboo platforms before their fiery demise.

Ngrupuk is a rather new Nyepi ceremony; ogoh-ogohs first appeared in Bali’s capital city Denpasar in the early 1980s. Since then, the annual parade has spread to surrounding villages. Local youth organizations build and carry the demonic effigies, and most crafters are teenagers and young men. Young children sometimes give creating a monster their best shot, while older master craftsmen are typically responsible for the most ornate ogoh-ogoh.

The monsters are traditionally burned at the end of the ceremony as an act of purification, but local painter and ogoh-ogoh collector I Ketut Nuada adds a few monsters each year to his growing collection-turned-museum.

Nuada once made ogoh-ogoh, but now leaves it to younger crafters and focuses instead on rounding up a few of his favorites after each parade. He collects whatever he can afford from among the effigies that survive a night of violent shaking. Over the last 12 years, Nuada has filled every inch of a warehouse in Mengwi with rescued and retired demons, some 31 in total.

“Every year there are more… and more technology,” says Nuada, speaking through a translator. The figures are traditionally made from paper, bamboo, and found materials, and brought to life through vigorous shaking. But in recent years, crafters have been experimenting with using electronics to light the monsters’ eyes, turn their heads, or raise their wings.

Anywhere from one to 10 people craft a single ogoh-ogoh between January and March. It takes dozens more to bring the demons to life. Before the event, disciples from the village temple will bless the ogoh-ogoh in a ritual where ceremonial offerings, called banten, are also presented.

Then the heavy lifting begins. Each figure is carried—along with lights and generators—by up to 40 locals on a raft-like bamboo platform. Dozens more walk ahead of the ogoh-ogoh carrying torches, or stand on the route performing traditional music. Everyone else gathers to take in the spectacle.

While many ogoh-ogoh will end their night in flames, some are stored away to be refurbished and sold for the following year, or—if they’re lucky—end up in Nuada’s collection. Photographer Matjaž Tančič captured the passionate creators, performers, and collectors who came together for Mengwi’s 2024 Ngrupuk event.

[aryaarkanantaresort]

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[folkfashion]

Bugis groom, Indonesia, by Atelma Botting

[susangarcia338]

Here's a somewhat old charcoal drawing I made for school. It took me a very long time. The ribbon were gyesoed then paint and after that I wrote words on them with brush markers.

[rachaelmayo]

This is one of my most ambitious Stone Dragons, Opal Paradigm, from 2014. There are detail shots below the text block.

The drawing underlying this piece was originally designed as a window etching. It was never used for that purpose, alas; I now had a detailed drawing that I needed to put to some other use. I decided that I would make the most complicated Stone Dragon I'd ever attempted (after all, capturing opalescent effects takes some effort!).

While I haven't managed to capture a real "opal" effect yet, I did manage to get a nice iridescence that I really liked. Add to that the bold yellows and violets of dorsal ridge and belly scales, which were deliberately simple so as to let the body scales be in the spotlight.

I also wanted to try some mixed media techniques I hadn't used before. The gold outlining got the experimental treatment - I outlined wings, belly scales, tail, and some other bits in gold acrylic goop that I squeezed out of a nozzle-tipped bottle. The effect is somewhat like the lead outlines in stained glass. It was a long process, and I really haven't used it since (more's the pity; I really should). The only problem was that there were tiny bubbles in the paint that I didn't deal with before the paint dried. OOPS. I put tiny rhinestones over those bubbles, so the wings, particularly, sparkle.

The dragon and its background were colored with Prismacolor pencils. I added a boatload of acrylic shinies, acrylic pearls, and the afore-mentioned acrylic paint. On its head is a small Ethiopian opal. There are amazonite stones on its arms. There are rhodonite stones all along its belly. There are red jaspers on its tail fins. The black background has swirly black shinies worked throughout.

Here are the detail shots to showcase some of my favorite bits!