Laura Perez, Spanish Hand Behind Selena Gomez in ‘Only Building Murders’

The cartoonist in Valencia is responsible for all the drawings in the Disney + series

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When are you in 2020 Laura Perez You have uploaded to his Instagram profile a deprecated thumbnail of totem, the album he was working on at the time, did not imagine that such a routine post on his social network would give him the opportunity to create an illustrated world for a television series. All the stylized surroundings of New York Only the murders in the building, Disney+ whose second season has just released, created from Valencia by this illustrator, is one of the primary names of the current Spanish comedian.

Saw on Instagram this drawing of a girl looking out the window, Lisa Pollan, creative director of Elastic, the studio behind credit titles for series like Game of thrones, I wrote him a direct message asking him to participate in the Only Murders in the Building project. There is an amazing coincidence to this creative stuff that I have completely trusted since I started this. Suddenly, something you ignore is working with others. I answered him that I would of course like it as long as we do it together, Because he’s never done a job of this sort before, he explains through a video call from his studio, with half of his right hand wrapped in a special glove – I always forget I’m wearing it, and sometimes I go to the street with it – which he uses to draw with more comfort on a device. iPad.

Together, Pollan and Perez designed a proposal based on a certain 1950s aesthetic, inspired by the works of Saul Bass and magazine covers New York City residents, whose distinctive print redefines the titles of the series. Covered in the distinctive orange light that dominates the artist’s color palette, his favorite moment is when there’s little light outside but the interior needs to be turned on. An evocative painting of the loneliness and intimacy of the big city enlivens all the memories a viewer can associate with the refined, bourgeois western side of some of the world’s best films. Woody Allen. And this imbibes from the influence of colleagues such as Manuel Feuer and Richard McGuire.

Accustomed to being solitary and self-sufficient, Laura Breeze became involved overnight in a whirlwind of video calls with New York and Los Angeles. When I happily accepted the assignment, in part because of the challenge, I had no idea what I was doing. At the time I didn’t know anything, what the series was about, or who the actors were, nothing.

During the development of the credits, an additional project quickly appeared: to make the graphics in the novel come from the hand of Mabel, the character he performs Selena Gomez. including Amazing mural He paints on one of the walls of his apartment in an attempt to illustrate the crime that underlies the plot of season one. The challenge then split into two different jobs, one for Elastic and one for the chain’s producer. For the titles, I had to make a large number of building elements as well as many drawings for each of the characters, as well as small details that characterize the title of each chapter which are not always easy to see at a glance. At the same time, I started working with the series team through the product Jess Rosenthal, To paint the drawings that appear in Mabel’s notebooks and finally the apartment mural. It was like being remotely involved in the shoot, as an artistic double for Selena Gomez. An exciting job and, again, a little blind. They ask me items to include in each chapter, and I don’t know why I’m painting one thing or the other, I don’t know why I’m painting them. what is he talking about? I have no idea.

who saw Only the murders in the building It would be hard for you to imagine that Mabel’s majestic mural in her apartment, representing the residents of the fictional Arconia as the plot stretches through their apartment windows, was entirely created by Laura Prez of Valencia on her iPad. They sent me pictures of the set so I could see the dimensions and arrangement of the furniture. It was very interesting to attend the operation from here. I believe that once the mural is printed on the wall, the drawings have been revised by someone, as when a mural painter is given a project to implement. When you’re a cartoonist, you notice the slightest change, and you’ve noticed another artist’s hand there.

Recently included in the repertoire The best Spanish painters Posted by Lunwerg and Spanish illustration queens In the 21st century Norma editorial, this summer in Astbury Laura Breeze publishes her new book, horrorAfter the success of his first solo graphic novel, hidden (2019) and from totem (2021), the project he combined with drawings of murders in the building only. A meditative act, unlike that of the series, which served me as an escape route to get rid of the stress of filming that I wasn’t there but was present in.