Home is Where the Mind is

Happy 2012, everyone! I'm going to start the new year with a drawing that was done for the Drawing Dreams Foundation's upcoming charity auction.

It'll be will be held at the Society of Illustrators, NYC on January 19th. Proceeds from the auction will go towards purchasing wholesale art supplies to hospitalized children.

I'll post more details about the event soon.

Title: Home is Where the Mind is
Medium: Pencil on Arches Paper
Size: 20 x 25 cm (including the frame)


and here's some of the early sketches photo



I'll share some of my personal 2011 highlights on my next post :) For now, I hope you enjoy the drawing :)

Happy Holidays

Whoops! I thought I've posted this here.. I must be dreaming.


Hope 2011 has been a wonderful year to you :) I'll see you back here in 2012! :D

Mr. B

Once upon a time,
there was a bear
who loved telling stories
with his songs...



Happy holidays to all of you! Thanks for the visits, all the support and comments this year :) I truly appreciate it :D

NB: For those who missed it, I did an interview at Sombras Blancas' blog :)

Kinokuniya Illustration Series - Part 2

Hi all,
Thank you for the positive responses on the previous post (through emails and comments in this blog) :) I really appreciate it. Here are several clearer images of the characters. You can view the full series in my website: http://www.charlessantoso.com/

Enjoy :)

Kinokuniya Illustration Series - Part 1

Hi all,
Here are some photos that I took last weekend at the Kinokuniya book store (Sydney, Australia). Hope you like them. It's pretty unreal to finally seeing all the illustrations up there. This book store is one of my favourite hangout place.. so I'm really honoured to be able to work with them :)

I'll post the individual illustrations soon, also some unused options for the catalogue cover :)

Kinokuniya Catalogue Cover

Wow.. it's been almost 3 weeks since I posted last time. I have several WIPs happening but haven't got time to finish them due to my work commitment. I hope I can upload more soon though :)

While waiting, let me show you the new series that I've just finished. Kinokuniya bookstore in Sydney (where I had my solo exhibition) asked me to illustrate their x-mas catalogue's cover. After some initial discussions, the idea then grew to something bigger.. they wanted me to provide them with a series of illustrations to create a theme for the exterior and interior of the shop. After I gave them several options.. they were suggesting that they love to revisit the wonderland theme. The first idea was to reuse some of the images from my exhibition.. but I ended up suggesting that I should create a new series for them (I couldn't resist).

So, let's start with the cover for today. I'll upload more images and photos from the shop later.


The catalogue cover is printed on a matte paper and has a nice 'shiny' cello-glaze finish on the rabbit hole part. :)


Hope you enjoy :)

Exile

I think there's a story somewhere here :) Enjoy.

Small Horn & Big Horns

An image to keep up with the spirit of Halloween :)

Let me introduce you to Small Horn & Big Horns.. they're best buddies.

Nomes - evil gnomes

Ben Wood is currently doing a month worth of OZ characters (Oztober). He said to me today "You should do an Oztober pic!!". So, I did a quick search of all the characters in that world and decided to create these 'Nomes' thingy. Apparently they're evil and grey.. so here you go.. :) They can see in the dark pretty well, hence the glowing eyes (like a cat).


On second note, I've uploaded the Tiger sculpt turntable to Vimeo. Some of you might have seen this already, but I thought I should post this up just incase. 3D Sculpt was done by the awesome Paul Braddock. :)

Tiger! from Charles Santoso on Vimeo.

We're planning to do a 3D print and make this guy into a real figurine. :D

75 Peters Show

Hi all,
I was invited to be a part of '75 Peters' group show in Brisbane, Australia. It's an honour to be a part of this charity show along side of some wonderful artists from all around the world. All of us were asked to do a portrait of the iconic British architect, Sir Peter Cook.

Here is my contribution:

medium: digital

All 75 artworks from the show will be auctioned online and all proceeds from art sales will go directly to the charity Architecture for Humanity.

Here's the link to the site to get more details about the show & auction:
http://theadamandeveprojects.com/75peters