Ideosphere – Black hole transmissions album cover

February 2nd, 2010 by Charlene

Did this for the band Ideosphere for their album Black Hole Transmissions. The image is based on the idea of the ideosphere (look it up on Wikipedia).  The album, which has some fantastic sounding nu-metal progressive rock licks, is currently available for download on Bandcamp.

Death of the Endless

January 29th, 2010 by Charlene

Finally had a little time to do something of my own. So naturally, I render a character that belongs to someone else…

Ah, but Death is timeless, and appropriate for what I intended to do anyway. Pity there is no new Death Gallery book being published.

Best Health – New Year Resolutions

January 12th, 2010 by Charlene

These were done for Best Health magazine for their New Year Resolutions article. From the top: taking up a dance class, getting a bra fitting (yes there is such a thing), and putting on sunscreen.

Orange

January 10th, 2010 by Charlene

Had some free time to paint today so painted this. Sumi ink, drawing ink and white gouache.

Inaugural Livestream

January 9th, 2010 by Charlene

Watch live streaming video from charlenechua at livestream.com

SMT Nocturne / Lucifer’s Call

January 7th, 2010 by Charlene

This was done for an art book collecting various artists’ impressions of their favorite video game. My piece is derived from Atlus’ Shin Megami Tensei Nocturne (or Lucifer’s Call as it was known in the UK). The premise of the game is that the world has ended and the sole survivors, a group of teens, are left to deal with the demons that now walk the Earth.  Your main character, one of the teens who himself has inherited some esoteric power, wades through the confusion of the game, battling and collecting monsters as he goes. It’s a bit like Pokemon as interpreted by Lars von Trier…

Fox & Rabbit

January 4th, 2010 by Charlene

gouache painting of fox and rabbitHappy New Year! I found some time to play with some really old gouache paint over the new year. It was a lot of fun, though I’m not very familiar with the medium. Hoping to get more colors and make more paintings!

Happy Holidays 2009

December 21st, 2009 by Charlene

xmas-card-final

Happy holidays!

Sea creatures

December 16th, 2009 by Charlene

sea-creatures

This started off as a sketch I did some time back when watching an episode of Blue Planet (I love that series, and Planet Earth). I was just doodling the various animals that were featured on the episode – gotta love those marine iguanas. Finally had the time to finish coloring it. Thought the cross in the background added a little more meaning to the piece.

Penthouse, erotic fiction illustration

December 8th, 2009 by Charlene

penthouse dec 2009

penthouse dec 2009

This is probably my favorite piece of work this year. A fullpage and spot for Penthouse, for their erotic fiction section. The piece was about a lady who enjoys diddling herself on planes. She gets found out by her hunky seat-neighbor, who proceeds to literally give her a helping hand. Perhaps not the most intelligent of stories, but certainly one of the more entertaining things for an illustrator to work on!

Improve the web with Nofollow Reciprocity.