Monday, June 6, 2011

Jade Flower, the illustrated series: Tagar in fire.




Javier Charro: work sketch


It's incredible watching him working. It's exciting to discover him finding the faces, the places, the atmosphere that used to dwell just in my mind before. Every pencil trace brings closer two universes destined to meet each other. There is a mistic conexion between my heartbeat and his hand pulse. His wrist translates my words into traces and colours without anything else.



Javier Charro: preliminary pencil 


They are made sharp, they take shape, they are filled up with his particular magic, with his light and no defined trace, compact and strong at time. There is a strength beating in his work that transmits for an odd reason beyond the simple drawing skills. Charro catches souls. My admiration cannot be written in a few blog lines.



Javier Charro: Colour sketch (fragment)


A reptil skin shines to the torches light through the point of colours. It's frozen just before a bloody death. And, in that second stolen to the destiny, the beast that was going to die, will live in the people's eyes forever.

Little by little the number of pieces in the illustrated edition is growing up. We will be able to publish the first block of this new Jade Flower soon. Here you are just a little sample of this creative process. What Javier is doing for the story and for you all is so magical and personal that can be only paid with admiration.

There are too many reasons for anybody to doubt that we go on working.

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