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?
Thanks for this great work is very useful for all readers, I thank you for allowing me to read this great blog
Posted by: Invertir Dinero | February 05, 2010 at 07:37 AM
Charlie--those ARE reuired reading! ;)
Joe pointed me to you blog, btw--how you been?
Jon (the artist formerly known as "Clem")
Posted by: Jon Silpayamanant | July 10, 2009 at 01:11 PM
Yep, they're classics of the fantasy genre and pretty much required reading.
~rl
Posted by: RL | December 10, 2008 at 06:27 AM
Dude man, I think I want to cry. You work is Awesome. I want to ask what steps did you take to learning how to color in Photoshop. Nice~
Posted by: Michael betties | November 21, 2008 at 03:03 AM
Hi, Torei, First of all, thanks for the compliment!
Probably the first advice I'd give is to study figure drawing as much as possible.
Along with that, have a mirror with you while you're working on facial expressions. While I'm working on faces, I try to always use a mirror to act out the expressions, so I can "get into character". Photo reference can help if you or the director already knows the distinct character type to draw from, but don't rely too much on photo reference, but use them only to capture distinct personalities. Hope this helps!
Posted by: cwen | November 29, 2007 at 12:55 AM
Thanks so much for leaving your comments, guys! Much appreciated:D
Posted by: cwen | November 29, 2007 at 12:27 AM
Hi, I really like the composition and how you draw the expression on the face. I'm just curious issit possible to get advise on how to draw a faces like that? Do you use reference? And how do you find them? so it fit you thoughts and idea?
It's very very nice.~ T_T Love it very much.
Posted by: torei | November 28, 2007 at 08:59 PM
Well, I can certainly see these as nice -finished- pieces!
Cool stuff.
Posted by: Marcos Mateu | July 24, 2007 at 10:51 PM
Cool images, thanks for sharing, can't wait to see more!
Posted by: Jared Shear | May 28, 2007 at 08:29 PM
Hey Charlie,
Awesome stuff man. Always loved your work from waaaay back. See u sometime.
Posted by: Taik Lee | May 15, 2007 at 04:39 PM
how's it going? cool blog man. Hope things are going well for you.
Posted by: Jeremy Liu | May 09, 2007 at 05:27 PM
awesome. Great to see your work up Charlie.
Posted by: Carlo | May 08, 2007 at 11:58 AM
Sweet man, insperational!!
Posted by: fenton | May 04, 2007 at 03:37 PM
I've read many of the Fahfrd and the Gray Mouser books inc. Ill Met in Lanhkmar and Swords of Lankhmar. All were very good books and very entertaining.
Posted by: Kevin McB. | May 04, 2007 at 09:13 AM
Always amazing work, Charlie! Very cool indeed!
Posted by: Maple Lam | April 26, 2007 at 07:43 PM
Sickness Charlie...sickness. Its always good to have people like you around to remind me as to how much I suck =) Thanks. Very inspiring
Posted by: Eric Chiang | April 25, 2007 at 03:16 PM
awesomasss, Charlie! I love the arc the two swords are making.
Posted by: sho katayama | April 22, 2007 at 03:25 PM
Man... awesome stuff, Charlie! It's been so fun looking at your pieces.
Posted by: Andrew Kim | April 20, 2007 at 02:12 PM
What a treat for us your fans to see these unpublished works! Is Dark Horse using your other images then?
Posted by: Art Tisian | April 20, 2007 at 12:52 AM
Insanely awesome. T.T
Bryan Lee
Posted by: Bryan Lee | April 18, 2007 at 10:35 PM
Awesome paintings Charlie! I just read the graphic novel of Fahfrd and the Gray Mouser drawn by Mike Mignola. It was just an okay read for me, but the art by Mignola helped push the story forward whenever I began to lose interest a little. It would be cool to see your take on a graphic novel version.
Posted by: Randy Bantog | April 18, 2007 at 10:24 PM
Charlie F'n Wen, what have I been doing with my life!? such sick work man, I'm really glad you've got some work online now, gives me some inspiration to work alittle(alot) harder!
cheers
stephen schirle
Posted by: stephen | April 18, 2007 at 09:58 AM