Cover Art for "La Biblia de los Caídos, Tomo I del Testamento de Jon"

Final Cover Art

 By the end of 2014 I was commissioned to do the cover art for the new appendix of The Bible of the Fallen (La Biblia de los Caídos). The Bible of the Fallen is a book's saga created by Fernando Trujillo Sanz and this book has been written by Juan G. Mesa.

Juan G. Mesa provided a good briefing with some ideas and references focused in the hooded main character in a field with the choice of having an old building surrounded by flames. From that briefing I did some sketches changing the point of view and the zooming. The chosen one was the first one from the series below but we decided to enlarge the moon like happened in other sketches.

From that sketch I go on painting with colors. The general blue has something to do with the first cover of the saga that I did a couple of years before and we used a red sweatshirt to stand out the character's silhouette.

Thanks to Fernando Trujillo and Cesar García for trusting me again and thanks to Juan González Mesa for his collaboration in the artwork process.
And, thank you all for visiting my Cave

Best,
Charro

Links:
Book at Amazon 
Fernando Trujillo Sanz author's profile at Amazon
Fernando Trujillo's website
Juan González Mesa author's profile at Amazon

Cover Sketches

Painting Process

Final Cover Layout

Cover and Characters Art for Murder a la Carte

Cover Art

Murder à la Carte is a Pathfinder compatible adventure developed by 0one Games and written by Tom Knauss. I found very interesting this mystery approach to the fantasy adventure where you'll have to unmask Marcellus' killer.

For the cover Mario Barbati (owner of 0one Games) wanted the discovering of the dead body by the house workers. We chose a low point of view to have the drowned man in the foreground keeping the action in the down-right corner to fit the Basic Paths' layout.

As characters I had to draw the old rich man, the legendary hero Marcelus and his servant, butlers, cooker and gardener who are called to be our usual suspects like if we were in a classic mystery novel. 

Thanks to Mario Barbati and 0one games for counting on me for this project.

And thank u all for your visit to my Cave

Good luck solving the mystery ;)

Charro.

Cover Art Process

final cover layout

Boris final art

Drake final art

Fazzlemare final art

Mortimer final art

Scarlet final art

Tobias final art

Warren Joe final art

Characters Art Process

promo image from 0one website

Characters and Creatures Art for "PLENILUNIO" by Nosolorol Publishing

Plenilunio promo image from Nosolorol website

PLENILUNIO, developed and published by Nosolorol Ediciones, is a roleplaying game based on the universe of Malefic Time, created by Luis Royo and Rómulo Royo. As you can imagine, I am infinitely pleased to share pages with this couple of art masters and to do my tiny contribution to this meta-project which includes not only three illustrated books published by Norma Editorial, but also a novel written by my friend Jesús B. Vilches, a manga comic book by Kenny Ruiz, a music album by Avalanch and much more still to come.

Characters from Plenilunio are survivors who live in an apocalyptic New York. The most simple goods like food or water are difficult to find, it is a rude world where the rests of our civilization are still present so, our survivors use whatever they can find useful to keep they alive one more day. Behind all this apocalypse, there is a war between two ancient and powerful forces and our characters are called to play a role in that war...

CHARACTERS

110 katanas member

Nomad

Angels Hunter

Orthodox Rabbi

Petty Thief

Scrap Merchant

Urban Shaman

Seeker

Moon Mestizo

Gang Member

CHARACTERS PROCESSES

At last, I did three creatures included in the book, in which I tried to suggest their shapes from a dark textured background, more than doing a detailed pic. Since I was also involved in the layout design, I decided to paint them directly on their double pages.

 

 CREATURES

Ghost

Starving

Ogre

Well, that's all for now, but I hope I'll come back with more Plenilunio art for the upcoming books. Thanks to Luis Royo, Rómulo Royo and Jesús B. Vilches for taking me on board of this awesome project and thanks to Nosolorol for making it possible.

And, of course, thank you all for visiting my Cave

 :)

Plenilunio promo image from Nosolorol website

The Grande Temple of Jing III

Lay of the Dead Lords

And here you have my third post with five more interior illustrations and processes for the upcoming The Grande Temple of Jing, "the Dungeoncrawl that rules them all" developed by Hammerdog Games. As I told you before I did more than 70 pics so, these are only a preview of what yo will find in the book.

Thanks for coming to my Cave ;)

 *You can see more pics for this book in my previous posts: I & II

 Links:
www.hammerdog.com

Lay of the Dead Lords process

Dragon Gate

Dragon Gate process

Gravecaves

Gravecaves process

Harpy Town

Harpy Town process

The Forge

The Forge process