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You can see some drawings from last sunday in Kichijouji here in the forums. And here‘s a great galleries of photos by Takahashi Hikaru also an uber talented mangaka. Some of my first drawings from the day … more to come. Yoko Tanji paging through Ronnie’s sketchbook. Lunch in Kichijouji’s Armonica Yokochou. Picturesque tiny streets, [...]

Wow, just landed this morning back in SFO. Having a triple latte in Cole valley, fighting the jetlag. So, what a trip! So much crammed in 5 days, so many highlights for Ronnie and I: meeting artists for Sketchcrawl in kichijoji, the amazing dinners with all our friends, watching one of the new shorts at [...]

Heading to Japan !!!! Hopefully both Ronnie and I will be able to update our blogs and keep you up to date on our visit and on World Wide SketchCrawl #8 !. 

Gedo Senki or “Tales from the Earthsea” is the next upcoming Studio Ghibli movie, directed by Miyazaki San’s son Goro Miyazaki (whose blog you can follow here). I noticed the poster for it for the first time today and it looks pretty darn promising. To find more information regarding this and other Ghibli movies nausicaa.net [...]

Great session today … such a good model. . Bolhem Bouchiba is one of the top animators here at Pixar, here’s a couple of his wonderful gestures:

A grand dinner with friends. There’s few better things in life: delicious food, good wine, great company.

What a great documentary, saw it this past friday here at Pixar followed by an interesting Q&A with the director Rupert Murray. Really compelling, makes you really stop and think about identity, psycology and even philosophy … I recommend it highly. Website here.

Just some sketches off of my head … from tuesday’s session.

Yes it’s true, no I am not kidding. Sunday February 19th Ronnie del Carmen and I will be in Tokyo joining artists in a day of drawing. We’ll be sketching with some of our amazingly talented friends there, Tadahiro Uesugi and Yoko Tanji to name a few … I really can’t wait and hope many [...]

This is great! You know I think I might have to go to Tokyo to see the exhibition in person … First time I see Nobumasa’s work, but I am truly impressed. His website is here.