Here are a couple preliminary gouache sketches I did for my piece for the Totoro Forest Project. I didn’t really need to do them, I just had my paints out and wanted to play around before starting.

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Following Tonci’s comment – I did a quick YouTube search and found this video interview with Naoki Urasawa (author of 20th Century Boys and Monster). If the French is a problem, there’s an English translation here. Also on YouTube, a (silent) look at Urasawa’s studio.

Shot in Nara, Japan, this is one of my favourite photos from Vanessa in the past year.