Pablo Hernandez El Mago!
A Pablo Hernández portrait — ¡El Mago! — chasing the grace, timing and impossible calm of a player who always seemed half a second ahead of everyone else.
About the Project
Pablo Hernández. Our very own.
This one was less about documenting process and more about reaching the right feeling: restraint, elegance, and the kind of on-the-ball intelligence that made him look half a second ahead of everyone else.
Most of the effort went into the background build-up and the typographic framing rather than any dramatic step-by-step reveal. With a black-and-white pencil portrait, sooner or later you just have to draw the thing.
If you want the broader process setup, the ¡Carajo! walkthrough is the better place to look. The print is available here.
Open any figure to inspect surface, print detail, and framing more closely without losing the overall sequence. Motion plates play inline at full page size.
Restraint and elegance — which is to say pencil, and a lot of it.
With a black-and-white pencil portrait, sooner or later you just have to draw the thing.
Framed, mounted, and in good company.
Sequence note
Every figure here opens full-screen — click any plate to expand it, then arrow or swipe through the sequence without losing your place. The deep zoom plates at the end go all the way to print resolution: close enough to see individual strokes, and you’re encouraged to.
Deep zoom appendix
Print-resolution studies
These appendix plates are wired for the Deep Zoom lightbox flow described in the implementation spec: inspection JPEG first, then tiled print-resolution detail once the viewer is ready.
