I am very much looking forward to Guillermo del Toro's dark adult fairy tale, Pan's Labyrinth; I also deeply love looking at people's journals and sketchbooks. It's a habit I've never managed to cultivate: as much as I find people's sketchbooks to be the deeply personal stream-of-conscious sprawl of the inner wriggle of their thoughts, I am far too self-conscious to ever work in a medium that can't be constantly revised; I am deeply envious of the people who do.
Guillermo del Toro has been keeping a sketchbook and journal of his research and inspiration for Pan's Labyrinth for years, and on the official site, they had a stroke of genius by posting up some of the pages, along with del Toro's audio explanation of what is happening on each page and how it relates to the film. del Toro is an eccentric director of sporadic brilliance — Cronos and The Devil's Backbone are brilliant, but he managed to mangle Mike Mignola's Hellboy into a travesty — but I am extremely charmed by the haltering Mexican lilt of his describing of his wonderful sketchbook. Go check it out.
Pan's Labyrinth Sketchbook [Official Site]
