Enrico’s blog

A drawing for your thursday afternoon, done on the cintiq here at work.

I hope you are all joining in this saturday’s global drawing marathon. Wherever you are slow down, take a good look around and put pen to paper. Whatever time you can spare, half hour or the whole day. Be sure to share with the rest of the world your sketches at the SketchCrawl forums. If [...]

What a wonderful and refreshing musical. I can’t recommend this movie
enough. Who needs singing actors? Just get talented musicians that can
half act and there you have it. A gem of a low budget film.

Here’s two uber talented friends, whose blogs you shouldn’t be missing. James and Dani. Wonderful drawings … and they’re the nicest couple to boot too.

The New York Times has posted a nice Audio-Slideshow with commentary by Marjane Satrapi and co-director Vincent Paronnaud.

Another funny and inspiring TedTalk, this one by one of the creators of Lost. The mystery box is about imagination, hope and infinite possibilities.

GhibliWorld.com has translated excerpts from a Miyazaki interview with Yomiuri Shinbun, mostly regarding Ponyo on a Cliff. Very interesting read! Notably Miyazaki decided earlier on not to use any cg in the production of Ponyo; the movie will be fully done in hand drawn animation. I am pretty excited about that, here’s a great quote [...]

The wonderful anthology “Out of Picture” edited by my good friend Dice Tsutsumi is getting a spiffy new edition with their new publisher. The second volume they just finished putting together is also already available for preorder on Amazon and filled with amazing new stories.

Had the first gesture drawing session of 2008 today, really enjoyed it. Here’s the more successful ones. I plan to try and make the tuesdays’ lunch time class as much as possible this year, it’s too liberating and fun to miss.