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LEAF OF FIRE
LEAF OF FIRE
LEAF OF FIRE
Hi, I'm Javier Solar
the artist of Leaf of Fire
Starring by William Perez William
He is some class of space adventurer fighting lost causes.
The character is in fact, the face of a friend of mine
He is the face of Lucas I drew it because he asked me
In that time I travelled to USA, where I met Joseph
Probably he thought I was absolutely crazy
because I didn't have any particular idea or portfolio
He was... not convinced in the beginning
but he gave a scrip to draw anyway
But before start anything, he wanted to see the main character
I understood the character was Latin, and he was looking for an uncommon face
so looking in my sketches and emails I found the drawing I had done
I sent to Lucas an email
When Joseph saw the sketch he said
mmm, that... is the face I was looking for!
LEAF OF FIRE
The Process: Drawing the Character
Every time I start to draw the face of Williams
I form his shape, and immediately after that
I continue with his sunglasses, the nose, his chin and finally his haircut
the sunglasses are fundamental for the face, in any angle
in the blueprint you can't see to much, but I don't need anything extra
I must add that my friend Lucas is a sunglasses fan
he has all class and types
so I transfer that characteristic to William He has different models for every chapter of the book
in this chapter this is the model of sunglasses
now, I am going to use the brush
I am line drawing in traditional ink and brush
The inked line is what's reproduced in the finished comic book.
The inker’s main purpose is to translate the penciler’s graphite pencil lines into reproducible, black ink lines.
In this project, I am the pencil and the inker.
eyebrows are what give us the expression
because you can't see the eyes through these sunglasses
The eyebrows are going to tell us if he is happy or angry or thinking
he has a very particular characteristic feature just like my friend
In few words, William is a stubble
not because he doesn't shave He always has a few days stubble on his face.
and finally, here we are, our hero leader of a Space Strike
from then. I continue with endless pages
Ten years passed, many drawings including
in that time, Lucas, who is representative of the Character, became very sick
We would like to do a tribute to him
I contacted Joseph again, we have been working in many projects before
We decided to back to William Perez William
and We did, with that Comic is in my back
We are very satisfied with the result. There are 72 pages of hard work, imagination and tribute here
We really hope you enjoy it
and please, support this Project
LEAF OF FIRE