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I was rooting for Jillian Tamaki in this year’s Ignatz awards. So I was so happy to see Skim by Jillian and her cousin Mariko Tamaki winning the Outstanding Graphic Novel category. Winners were announced at the Small Press Expo this weekend, full list here. Previously on this blog:Skim and Jillian’s Totoro Forest piece.

Here’s a little drawing of Fio. I’m testing papers to make special Sketchcrawl notebooks! This woodfree (100gsm) cream colored paper is dealing pretty well with watercolors, not much warping, as it’s quite thick and the color went down nicely no bubbly weirdness that some of the moleskine regular paper gives. My pencil goes down really [...]

Ok leaving tonight on the red-eye, bound toward NYC and the Icon5 Illustration conference. We are having a sketchcrawl tomorrow, meeting at noon in the lobby of the Roosevelt Hotel (feel free to spread the word, everyone is welcome). The plan as of now is to draw around the east village (one of my favorite [...]

The 19th World Wide SketchCrawl is happening this saturday!!! Join us in the global drawing marathon. In San Francisco we are gonna be drawing around Crissy Fields and Fort Point, at the base of the Golden Gate Bridge. The meeting is at 11am inside the courtyard of the Fort !!! Hope to see some of [...]

Going to Annecy for the the International Animation Festival? You might want to join the SketchCrawl on June 12th over there. My friend Bannister is organizing, here‘s the flier with details. Wish I could be there to join you all … but I’ll have to settle to experience it from your drawings and photos …

We just chose the date for the next global SketchCrawl marathon, it’ll be held on saturday June 21st! Mark your calendars, spread the word and come by the newly updated forums.

It was an overcast day in SF but no rain, of course. Thanks to all of you for coming out. We had roughly 60 crawlers around the Marina and Fort Mason today. The rest of the world saw around 52 different locations with avid sketchers roaming about! That’s really exciting, no doubt our biggest worldwide [...]

All of us drawing around the world … tomorrow … 50 different places at the moment. Join us for World Wide SketchCrawl 18!

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 [...]

Kuala Lumpur, Florence, San Francisco, Stockholm, Phoenix, Sydney, Mallorca, Napoli, Chicago, Milan, New York, Gent (Belgium), Seattle, Curitiba (Brazil), New York, Chiba (Tokyo) are but a few of the cities and places that already have signed on to be part of 18th World Wide SketchCrawl on March 29th!! Where are you going to join in [...]