Charis Loke 💜🤍🖤さんのイラストまとめ

Just putting it out there that I'd love to do interior illustrations for fantasy titles. This is an ink + pastel painting inspired by Isabel Yap's gorgeous short story "How to Swallow the Moon", which draws upon the bakunawa from Philippine mythology + the binukot practice.

Tis me hawking my wares once more, since it is free worldwide shipping today on that most excellent of sites, INPRNT: https://t.co/P6EZL9wHFc

One challenge: keeping the map readable while working in a dangerously decadent/ indulgent amount of detail. It's all about setting up a visual hierarchy. Big shapes and thick lines for the major elements, variations within these shapes and thinner lines for patterns and motifs.

This works whether you assume Scout is the child, Pyro is the child, the baboon is the child, or Miss Pauling is parenting all nine mercs (canon). https://t.co/R01LECZ3HC

Recently picked up an Aesop's Fables edition from 1975 with gorgeous illustrations by Joan Kiddell-Monroe, at my fav pasar secondhand bookstore. That sent me down a rabbit hole online looking for her other work. Great shapes, clear lines, clever use of limited colours.

Did some of the best work of my life this year, but it's all under wraps or was the editing I did for other artists' visual stories. Till 2023, then!

Meanwhile I always love seeing other artists' #artvsartist #artvsartist2022

The Kickstarter for the @Wraithmarked stunning edition of @M_L_Wang's The Sword of Kaigen has already met its base goal despite launching ten minutes ago—and this map will be on the endpapers! Another map to be unlocked at $10k.

Rough sketches for the mother-of-pearl-style borders (I do love an ornate border); Judy's map sketch which she accompanied with extensive notes on each province; early sketches to figure out the layout of the map. Thanks again for having me illustrate this @judyilin!

But the biggest honour has been working with contributors and artists on so many amazing comics and illustrations, and knowing that members and readers believed in what we were doing.

Thank you all. Let's keep doing the work we do—there are many paths ahead. 6/6

@sookjinong @jeeyonshim Thanks for the tag, Sook Jin! And hi Jeeyon - I make maps which reflect and are part of the cultures in the stories they accompany, from the typography to the visual style and symbolism. Some examples for fantasy novels: