Enrico’s blog

I haven’t been posting much photography lately … here’s some flowers for a tuesday morning.

I really like this trailer. Son of Rambow looks really promising! Can’t wait to see it though with a two month old daugther, as far as movie watching goes, we’re finding out NetFlix is pretty much all we can muster for now. Well, how about you go watch it and tell me how it is?

We are getting into the habit of taking a nice morning walk on weekend mornings, Fio and I. We go out around eight, she falls asleep in the baby carrier on my chest and I get a nice soy latte. We end up sitting at a small park in Cole Valley, I read a book while she snoozes. After a couple of hours we come back home to my thankful wife, who I assure you can sure use such a break to catch up on a little bit of sleep. I’ve never been a morning person but this new life is pretty much turning me into one and I am finding that I really love the quiet peaceful atmosphere of weekend mornings. A lot of parents out there in the early hours … with sleepy eyes and knowing smiles for each other.

Yay Moms! Tanti auguri a tutte le mamme, and here’s a nice comic by Jillian Tamaki to celebrate and remember grandmas too.

Really interesting video mixing modern dance, motion graphics and music. Maybe being married to a talented dancer has something to do with this, but I find this really inspiring, there’s an amazingly interesting junction between video and dance.
link via WarrenEllis

Not a new concept, but beautifully executed … great music. Directed by Guy Ritchie of Snatch fame.

Here’s a piece for the end papers (pages behind the cover) of the Venice Chronicles book. Fun to fill a page like this with silliness. I might play with the image and maybe invert it so to have a white line on a flat color page. The book is inching its way toward completion, working on it in indesign currently. It’s really great to see it slowly come together.

These were partly inspired by Jillian Tamaki. It’s fun to make bold shapes in watercolor with a big brush then try and make a character out of it in pen, fun exercise really.

Most artists are a little obsessive about the tools they use. We love finding and trying new sketchbooks, new papers, new brushes and we absolutely love good pens. Brush pens, ball points, water brushes, fancy mechanical pencils and so on. We can spend hours seeking them out.
There’s one special pen in fact that I found almost ten years ago. I discovered it in NewYork’s Kinokuniya Bookstore. Super thin, super fluid and sharp, it’s a ballpoint but it doesn’t feel like one. It quickly turned into my absolutely favorite pen: the Uniball Signo with a 0.38 point made by mitsubishi (on the left in the picture). Here’s a drawing I did with it to give you an idea. Years later I was happily surprised to find out this same exact pen was also my friend Tadahiro’s favorite!! Ronnie fell in love with it too. I usually buy these pens on trips to Kinokuniya or chinatown, I just discovered another option online now. The nice folks at Jetpens sent me a bunch of neat pens and pencils to try out and of course my favorite pen was among them. I was also impressed by the new Signo Bit, which has a 0.18 point, super sharp (second from left in the picture). Anyway, I was impressed by the selection on their site, really great. Don’t have a Kinokuniya store close by and need some of these neat pens? You have a good option now.

This is what happens when I don’t go to gesture drawing for a few months. Tough day, except a few I kind of like (the large one on the left for example) mostly crappy drawings in there. But hey, gotta get the bad ones out of your hand before you get to the decent ones, and I must admit I really enjoy drawing even when I am shaking off the rust.