David Ardinaryas Lojaya

**David Ardinaryas Lojaya** (born February 6, 1991) is an Indonesian visual development and concept artist and illustrator. He studied at Limkokwing University of Creative Technology, obtaining a Bachelor of Arts in Animation. He began as a lighting artist then switched to character design, explaining, "I was trying my luck as a freelance concept artist, or we usually say it 'visual development,' in the animation industry. I got my first character design job from a freelance website. And from that I learnt more and started to build my portfolio to get even bigger clients." He worked on the album artworks for Jon Bellion since November 2015. His favorite track from *The Human Condition* is "All Time Low".

## Background

In promotion of *The Human Condition*, a booklet was released, which contained all illustrations and explanations behind each. According to a source, Bellion gave $50,000 to commission Lojaya. Bellion's dream was for Pixar to see the artwork and score one of their films some day. Bellion explained to *Forbes*, "I worked with an artist named David Lojaya, from Indonesia. For about eight months, because of the time difference, I'd be up from about 2 A.M. to 7 A.M. six days a week, telling him what I'd like him to draw, and we worked on this campaign together. There's a movie poster for each song on the album, as if they're scenes from a movie you're never going to see called *The Human Condition*. Why did I do that? One, to give the fans an amazing experience when they open up the album, so they can go back to that old age of CDs when people really enjoyed the product. But also, it's my dream to score a Pixar film. So we're doing a commemorative book with all the pictures, and we're going to sell it as merchandise on tour. On the inside of the booklet, there's a long note I wrote to Pixar, where I'm presenting them my debut album as my business plan."

In an interview, Lojaya stated, "Jon is very talented and a very humble human being. Yeah it was an amazing project with Jon, and we've never had anything like that before. So it's kinda a trial and error, but we did great, it was such a great time to work with Jon!" For the acoustic singles cover artwork, Lojaya shared over Instagram that his favorite acoustic song was "Blu". He added, "We decided to use a simpler image for these cover arts to make it look like a comic book, and as for me the simplistic of the covers really works for the easy listening and chilling the songs are."

## Gallery

*The Human Condition*"He Is the Same""80's Films""All Time Low""New York Soul (Part II)""Fashion""Maybe IDK""Woke the F\*ck Up""Overwhelming""Weight of the World""The Good in Me""Morning in America""iRobot""Guillotine""Hand of God (Outro)""Growth""Growth" (2)Concept artwork*Glory Sound Prep*Concept artwork"Stupid Deep (Acoustic)""Conversations with My Wife (Acoustic)""Blu (Acoustic)""Heart Is Full"**@ardinaryas**: "Had this amazing opportunity to design the new single cover of @jonbellion and I love the song, so catchy, it’s called ‘Crop Circles’, listen on itunes, spotify, apple music 🔥
And typography by amazing artist @nickychulo (I don’t have the hires file with the typefont, so I reposted from you) 😄"I Feel It"**@ardinaryas**: "Study of Jon Bellion 😄 Check out his music 👌🏼"**@ardinaryas**: "Congrats to @jonbellion for entering top 15 on pop radio in USA 🙌🏼🎉 this dude is amazing! Seriously.
Also, It's been a year since we started the illustration on THC. Wow ✨"**@ardinaryas**: "Happiest birthday to the one and only @jonbellion .**@ardinaryas**: "Super proud to announced that I was part of the concept of Jon Bellion new album “Glory Sound Prep” It was such an awesome and fun project! 💙"**@ardinaryas**: "Illustration of @jonbellion for press image of Glory Sound Prep album!! Available now!🔥🔥
It’s been an honor for me that Jon decided to use my illustration for the promotional photo of GSP. And now you can see this on big screen at Time Square 😭🙌🏼 I’m glad that I put extra effort to paint all the details lol"**@ardinaryas**: "Another promo image for @jonbellion Glory Sound Prep! available now. Also, book your 2019 Jon Bellion tour on jonbelliontour.com!"**@ardinaryas**: "A different kind of selfie with @jonbellion 😂 \*secretly drew myself taller than Jon\*"**@ardinaryas**: "Some character expressions of @jonbellion for my guide that I made last time. These helped me figuring out the cartoon expressions in the illustration 😄"**@ardinaryas**: "First anniversary of @jonbellion 's The Human Condition album! 🎉🎉 it's still one of the best experience ever to work with Jon 😄 say something nice to Jon and the album in the comment. I'm sure he's gonna read it 😂"**@ardinaryas**: "#sixfanarts 3 is Jon Bellion 👨🏻 @jonbellion"**@ardinaryas**: "It’s always been an honor for me to be able to work again with musical genius @jonbellion and the team @harryremler @lawrencelammm @nickychulo to create a cover illustration for Jon’s new single ‘I feel it’ with @burnaboygram . Their music are fantastic and genius!! Listen now on all music platform 🤩 Also I’m so amazed that the painting is on NY time square, it feels surreal!!"
## References

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3. ↑ Dybec, Greg (June 21, 2016). "Jon Bellion's Emotional, Inspiring Journey To The Top Of The Music Industry". *Elite Daily*.
4. ↑ Setaro, Shawn (June 22, 2016). "Jon Bellion: From Pop Songs to Pixar". *Forbes*.
5. ↑ "David Ardinaryas Lojaya". *Instagram*. June 7, 2019.
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8. ↑ "David Ardinaryas Lojaya". *Facebook*. March 25, 2019.
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13. ↑ "David Ardinaryas Lojaya". *Instagram*. June 10, 2017.
14. ↑ "David Ardinarys Lojaya". *Instagram*. April 10, 2020.