Charlie's Blog

UnUsed Book Cover Sketches

These were some sketches I did for a book series that eventually weren't used, so I figure I can at least show them on my blog! ;]  It was for a re-release of a series of novels featuring the adventurers "Fahfrd and the Grey Mouser".  I believe Mike Mignola did some covers for the graphic novel version of these for Dark Horse.  I was told these adventure stories were almost as popular as LOTR by Tolkien at one point.  I'd never heard of them before working on it, so it must not have had the life-span that The Lord of the Rings has had--- I skimmed through some of the books in order to do the sketches, but didn't get hooked on the writing.  Anyone read these books before? 

Concept Art Uploaded!

Here's a slew of Concept art from GOW and GOW2.  Hope you enjoy them.  I've been wanting to put some of these up for the past few years, so it feels really good to finally put some of the pieces from GOW up on line!  There are some other images that I wanted to show the GOW fans, but I can't find them.  I'll put them up if they ever surface. 

I haven't exactly told anyone about this site yet, just a few friends.  Part of me wants to tell everyone I know to come visit, but then, if I do that, it feels like I'm inviting everyone to a party, and as a host, I need to feed everyone and give out free T-shirts or something.  Anyhow, enjoy the new images posted in  "Photo Albums". 

Below are a couple concepts originally done for Clotho (Sister of Fate 3 in GOW2) that weren't used, but you can see some of the direction we were playing with at the time.

Gallery Show at Nucleus!

Hope you all can make it!  This will only last a couple days, so come check out our gallery show while it lasts.  Ben Zhu, the director of Nucleus, was kind enought to squeeze us in between shows at the last minute.  We're showing God of War 2 prints, as well as selling some personal work.  And if none of this interests you, then there's the 10% off coupon and free gift for the first only on that day.  Boy, I'm selling this too much, aren't I? :]  --- anyway, come check it out, it'll be nice to meet you guys!