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Charis Loke
Website and Projects
Website: www.charisloke.com
Patreon: www.patreon.com/charisloke
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/charisloke/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/charisloke
Patreon: www.patreon.com/charisloke
Prints: www.inprnt.com/gallery/charisloke/
Instagram: www.instagram.com/charisloke
Selected Artwork
artist Bio
Charis Loke is an illustrator based in Malaysia on the sunny and stormy equator. She makes richly-layered covers and maps that convey stories and cultures both real and imagined.
After discovering Shaun Tan’s The Arrival in a school library as a teen, Charis fell in love with visual storytelling. Drawing on her background in biochemistry, community arts, and sociology, she enjoys illustrating a wide range of subjects. She has worked on books by Fonda Lee, Sue Lynn Tan, Hannah Whitten, Kacen Callender, Andrea Stewart, Judy I. Lin, M. L. Wang, and Hanna Alkaf.
Charis values thoughtful worldbuilding and queer characters in projects, being ace herself. She would love to work on stories with interwoven maps and text, Southeast Asian fantasy, music, or science as elements.
Clients include: Netflix, Orbit Books, Macmillan, The Broken Binding, Harper Voyager, Subterranean Press, Strange Horizons, khōréō.
Selected group shows at Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis; ArtScience Museum, Singapore; Hikayat and the Hin Bus Depot Gallery, Penang; Patan Museum, Kathmandu; Atrium Gallery, Bristol.
Available for: fantasy and YA book illustration (maps, interiors, covers); editorial illustration
After discovering Shaun Tan’s The Arrival in a school library as a teen, Charis fell in love with visual storytelling. Drawing on her background in biochemistry, community arts, and sociology, she enjoys illustrating a wide range of subjects. She has worked on books by Fonda Lee, Sue Lynn Tan, Hannah Whitten, Kacen Callender, Andrea Stewart, Judy I. Lin, M. L. Wang, and Hanna Alkaf.
Charis values thoughtful worldbuilding and queer characters in projects, being ace herself. She would love to work on stories with interwoven maps and text, Southeast Asian fantasy, music, or science as elements.
Clients include: Netflix, Orbit Books, Macmillan, The Broken Binding, Harper Voyager, Subterranean Press, Strange Horizons, khōréō.
Selected group shows at Light Grey Art Lab, Minneapolis; ArtScience Museum, Singapore; Hikayat and the Hin Bus Depot Gallery, Penang; Patan Museum, Kathmandu; Atrium Gallery, Bristol.
Available for: fantasy and YA book illustration (maps, interiors, covers); editorial illustration
AFFILIATION
IMC: 2018
SmArt School: Marc Scheff
SmArt School: Marc Scheff