Enrico’s blog

Random Wednesday afternoon chinamarker drawing. Not sure where this came out of. Not my usual stuff.

We’ve been able to release more tickets for the TOTORO FOREST ART AUCTION (happening on September 6th at Pixar). Get your ticket here! The event promises to be a night to be remembered!!! We have 206 amazing pieces of art that will be auctioned to raise funds for the preservation of Totoro Forest and many of the artists will be in attendance. As always you can preview all the pieces and find details at the official Totoro Forest Project website. We are also close to launching our remote bidding option! Which means that even if you live on the other side of the globe you might still get a chance to buy one of these pieces! Stay tuned for details on that!

Here’s three more of the pieces I’m making for the “Forest Hero” level tickets to the Totoro Forest Art Auction. There’s some amazing color studies that Ronnie and Dice are also making for this and I can’t wait to see what Jennifer Chang and Bill Cone will do!

Yay, we have a cover! That took a while … updates on Amazon do tend to take a bit all around. I think we should soon also be able to browse inside the book. Incidentally the book is supposed to be go to print today.

Update- browse inside the book now!

Finally the day has come! It’s been more than a year since I’ve heard that Miyazaki San was storyboarding Ponyo with watercolors and since then I’ve sure been looking forward to the e-konte book they always publish! I pretty much could barely wait … and here it is today finally in my mailbox! What a fantastic treat! Thank you Vong!

From the “Art of Ponyo” book. I think this is a Katsuya Kondo drawing. Wonderful studies of Ponyo, I especially love the upper right one of her sleeping. So effortless. Sorry for the crappy photo, but you know … you should just get the book to see for yourself, it’s filled with beautiful work.

I hope your checking the Totoro Forest Project Blog, Dice and I are having a good time posting away about all these amazing artists whose work we worship. Inspiring stuff, don’t miss it! Even some really cool video versions of the pieces. In the meanwhile we are working real hard to make the art auction a great event! It’s shaping up … almost there … in two weeks!

Just picked up Haruki Murakami’s new book: What I talk about when I talk about running. While it’s an unusual departure for Murakami to write a memoir, I’m already thoroughly enjoying this book’s honesty.

Here’s a little drawing of Fio. I’m testing papers to make special Sketchcrawl notebooks! This woodfree (100gsm) cream colored paper is dealing pretty well with watercolors, not much warping, as it’s quite thick and the color went down nicely no bubbly weirdness that some of the moleskine regular paper gives. My pencil goes down really smooth on it too … might be the way to go.

I got a message from the printer last night with the following image. Wow … am I glad they caught it. How did that “a” end up on my face??! Probably an InDesign mistake on my side. Well, thank you for catching that, nice people at Global PSD Printing!