Archive for February, 2006

SketchCrawl photos and sketches

Wednesday, February 22nd, 2006

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, [...]

I am baaack

Tuesday, February 21st, 2006

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 [...]

We are off !!!

Wednesday, February 15th, 2006

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

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

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 [...]

It’s tuesday again

Tuesday, February 14th, 2006

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:

Monday morning photograph

Monday, February 13th, 2006

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

Unknown white male

Monday, February 13th, 2006

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.

Thursday morning drawing

Thursday, February 9th, 2006

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

Last minute SketchCrawl Tokyo Trip

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

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 [...]

Nobumasa Takahashi

Wednesday, February 8th, 2006

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.