Finally, I have come to my last and final sketch (for now, i might be adding things here and there in the future, as my ideas are sometimes hard to control). It is a design of a batik hot pants/simple shorts. This design is actually very simple, but the thought of how rare I see them around in Indonesia ( Until now, I only see batik in the form of either dress, or blouse, or blazer, things I see everyday at the mall which I personally think is tiresome to see). I came up with the idea to combine the batik with a different type of material, something stiff and in a matching color, on the band around the waist area of the shorts.
I decided to draw the sketch a little bit differently from how I usually draw it before. I only draw the bottom half part of the person wearing the shorts.It automatically highlights the shorts with all its batik patterns, with the drawing of a beautiful long legs to make the sketch a lot more interesting. I am planning to go to the material market soon to get more materials for the designs.
I personally chose 2 designs to be made with batik material because I would love to appreciate and expose the culture further ahead, and it had been quite a trend in here in Indonesia. Batik had been made and worn for a long time, in the early days people even used batik for everyday clothing, such as for saroengs and everyday-kebayas.
Here is a picture of the making of Batik, made with a simple tool called 'canting' and hot colored wax.
image taken from http://thebeautifulsideofindonesia.files.wordpress.com/2007/11/batik3.jpg
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