Charis Loke 💜🤍🖤さんのイラストまとめ

Hi, I'm Charis, a Malaysian illustrator with a focus on book (SFF, YA) and editorial work. I do maps, covers, characters, visual stories--particularly ones rooted in Southeast Asia. #PortfolioDay

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✉️ charis@charisloke.com
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Curious to hear from Malaysian illustrators on how they depict unity/diversity for personal or client work.

I've partly done the 'trad clothing' approach with Kaki Lima, but it's a game and based on real people at Pasar Chowrasta. Two other examples in a more speculative vein: https://t.co/OMojt5sCjE

Quick look at how we go from words in a script to art, for today's @NewNaratif explainer comic. It's never a straightforward "just illustrate the text" process. To visualise these first four sentences, here are some of the decisions the artist, @Maxsterism, makes: (1/)

Drop your B&W art, any medium.

Traditional inks from 2020, 2019, 2016 (gosh I love ink): https://t.co/kalBChk34i

Medical staff are exhausted. Yesterday's announcement barely met any of the demands, so the contract doctors' strike @HKontrak will proceed as planned, 10am 26 July.

Art by @volapardus from @NewNaratif's piece on the hartal: https://t.co/4GFAOY55zC

Are you living in an authoritarian state? You might have some free speech, or be able to debate policies—so long as the leaders' authority isn't challenged. If you do...

New explainer comic @NewNaratif, with art by me. Read and share: https://t.co/22Y6SswOEb

@kawliflower And from SEA: @/wisesa! (I have two of the following on my wall to look at, as a reminder of how to handle detail on fabric)

QRT w ur range, style is just a tool for voice 🗺️👾⚔️🖤

(throwback to that 2016 @yesitshanna cover!) https://t.co/cNW7DhMp1H

Forgot to include sunglasses nasi lemak. Stay cool, aces. 😎 https://t.co/6GNElLn2lx

People who don't want sambal are still people, after all.

And though they may be different, they are every bit as human as people who have sambal.

First published on @QueerLapis; writing and art by me. Feel free to share this thread or https://t.co/QBuYlu50WW if it was helpful!