Pixar artist takes busman's holiday

For SketchCrawl, Pixar storyboard artist Enrico Casarosa trades his Wacom Cintiq computerized drawing tablet for...

...the simple pleasures of a sketchbook, a pencil and some watercolors. Then he sets out to...

...sketch! A page from the book Casarosa used on his first-ever SketchCrawl shows a seagull presiding over San Francisco's Bay Bridge and Coit Tower.

And here's a map Casarosa drew for the San Francisco contingent prior to the start of the most recent Crawl. The idea of SketchCrawl, according to one of Casarosa's fliers, is to "draw irrevocably for the whole day, record all details you can, and share...." In other words, "sketch till you crawl." You might say it's a pub crawl with ink instead of drink. (Well, as you can see from the last stop here, a pint or two is not out of the question.)

Since the first, one-man, Crawl, the event has become a group and global affair. During the last World Wide SketchCrawl, Japanese illustrator Marty Ito, aka PaintMonster, contributed several drawings from Sapporo, Japan, including this street scene. Ito's drawings, along with those of other participants, appear online in the SketchCrawl forum.

For more info on SketchCrawl, see our related blog item, "Pixar artists on holiday."