viernes, 11 de diciembre de 2009

MAKING PROGRESS

I worked for the Kerman Publisher CONDOR VERLAG for nearly two years. Why I quit working for them is something I’ll tell in the future. During those two years, the most positive experience was the chance to evolve and improve my art; to understand the inner mechanisms that make a story work and catch the reader’s attention. To grow as an artist or writer while getting paid for it is a chance everyone with merits worthy enough of this media should enjoy but, in the end, very few have.
I’ve managed to find all the covers I made for CONDOR VERLAG. You can see the evolution in my art at first glance. From cover 120 (posted earlier) to cover 150 one can see the art becoming more elastic, free, the construction being still deficient but allowing to move the characters in a more natural way. Usually one would work according to parameters coming from the publisher or the license owner. One can’t always make whatever one would want so the final product, in concept, always comes limited by invisible barriers that try to make the product something “main stream”. This formula, while being very valid, in occasions may represent a real nightmare and even work against the product itself, turning it into something without personality or coherence. There’s some kind of censorship that prevents the artist and script writer from working in a comfortable and creative way and giving the 100% of their talent and, therefore, preventing them from bringing anything new to the product but an endless number of pages to fill soulless magazines. A good evidence of this can be found in the stories published on the DISNEY magazines. Many of the artists working on those magazines are really incredibly gifted artists but the scripts are boring and, consequently, the end result is poor.
Ah, the covers…!




1 comentario:

  1. Very interesting to see your old stuff and compare it to the more cartoony and wild Tom and Jerry art you're known for. Hoping to see more.

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