Enrico’s blog

I’ve been a fan of Dave Eggers since his brilliant “A heartbreaking work of staggering genius“. Between McSweeneys, his books and his work at 826 Valencia tutoring center it’s not hard to see how he got himself a Ted award. Don’t miss his inspiring Ted Talk here and then if you wish, follow up on [...]

Very very sad news, a young co-worker and Pixar fellow story artist, Justin Wright passed away yesterday night. He died of a heart attack, Justin received a heart transplant 14 years ago. He was at his desk doing what he loved to do: draw. You can find a nice article about Justin here and his [...]

World Wide SketchCrawl 18 is around the corner (march 29th), hope you can join in the marathon from whichever locale you are at in the world. In San Francisco we are gonna be drawing around Ghirardelli square and the Marina.
One exciting little bit of Crawlnews: I am in talks with Moleskines about making a [...]

My MacBookPro’s harddrive is shot, useless, needs to be replaced and all its data is lost. I had backed up a certain amount of stuff, my photos luckily, but some data is lost. This is my second harddrive failure on this computer in less than a year, so frustrating. Last time I bit the bullet [...]

Here’s a new cover for the Venice Chronicles I’ve just started watercoloring. I’ll try and post a step by step of the coloring process.

This month’s National Geographics is a fantastic read and the photos of all these animals are stunning. How beautiful those eyes, I couldn’t help but buy it with that cover. I always loved border collies, not only they’re super smart, they have hypnotizing powers too: “buy this magazine now!”.

I mean … wow, that is some precocious talent. Better watch out, Fio means business.
My wife Marit took this crazy cool photo

I received a couple of days ago the “Gake no ue no Ponyo” image album (which is a sort of “pre-soundtrack” usually Studio Ghibli releases for their upcoming movies) and I must say I love the music Hisaishi Joe has started composing for this movie. It’s been a pleasure to listen to it with my [...]

I think I might have to buy a new hard drive or two just for photos of her. Good thing I don’t have a video camera … yet.

… my beautiful baby daughter’s foot. See she’s a little shy, this is all she wants to show for now. Her name is Fio Giulietta Casarosa and she was born this past saturday. My wife and I feel unbelievably lucky and blissful to have her come into our life. This birth thing isn’t easy that’s [...]