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Artist File #23 ——– David Lee Doung

We were talking about Patrick Awa going 2 inches over the size limit in our earlier entry but man, we had one submission that went over 4 feet longer than our size limit! David Lee Doung is this amazing young artist whose work blew me away when I first came across it. Check out his [...]

Artist File #22 ——Scott Morse

Scott Morse is a force of nature. He’s the most prolific artist I know, hands down. In the time I’m trying to put one book out he’s just finished publishing three wonderful books. Really amazing. I can’t wait for one of his upcoming projects, an autobiographical comic I’ve seen him hard at work on in [...]

Make Your Bid Today!

Here we go everyone! We have a week away from the grand event. Now, those who are not attending the event can make their best attempt to claim your favorite Totoro artwork! How it works is very simple. *Go to any gallery page on the official site and click on Make Your Bid Now! *Register [...]

Totoro Auction Menu is Out!

Ok, the tentative menu of the auction night is released! The chef Jennifer Johnston was very excited about this event and came up with such a great menu with our limited budget! Looks soooo tasty…. she did everything she could to keep all local sustainable ingredients to go with our environmental theme! Besides, there will [...]

Journey for Totoro Forest Project Book

So everyone is wondering when we are going to have Art of Totoro Forest Project available. The book should be shipped to Pixar Animation Studios this coming Friday to be ready for our auction event on 9/6. Let me tell you a little bit about this long journey we took to get the book done [...]

Artist File #21 ——Kendal Cronkhite

Kendal Cronkhite is a production designer at PDI Dreamworks and was another big name talent in animation who generously contributed to Totoro Forest Project. She is the one responsible for the distinct design of the blockbuster animated film, Madagascar. I won’t say much because her comment below says it all so nicely. I just love [...]

Artist File #20 —–Katsuya Terada

So many people who found out Katsuya Terada was doing a piece for this project asked me “how in the world did you get him to do a piece!!!????”  Indeed, how can we get lucky to get a superstar illustrator from Japan involved with this project? It was thanks to two other superstar illustrator friends [...]

Some more tickets will be available at Noon PCT today!

So we were able to allocate some tickets available for anyone who would like to support this special cause. It will be available at noon Pacific time today 8/27. Go to our box office!! We don’t have a lot available. Here are a few more 6″ x 8″ watercolors Enrico and I did this weekend. [...]

Artist File #19 ——–Soosa Kim

Soosa Kim is this crazy Japanese artist friend of mine. He works for Namco as a concept/CG artist. He’s a pretty well respected artist in the Bat Area but he’s too modest to admit that. He’s a man with stories. Anyone who knows him would know what I mean. Next time you go out with [...]

Artist File #18 ——Jillian Tamaki

Jillian Tamaki’s blog has been one of my favorites to keep tabs on, it has wonderful daily serving ranging from pencil sketches and watercolor studies to finished illustrations. Her drawings have a great feeling of looseness, she really makes it look easy. If you haven’t read Skim the fantastic graphic novel Jillian illustrated and her [...]