Playing w/my food or why it’s okay to make bad art.

I took a break yesterday from work, just to play with my food and do a little art. It’s something that I am making myself do more often. I love design and creating identities, but sometimes the kid in me (the kid that used to make shapes by intersecting lines with a ruler and drawing birds) wants to play sometimes.

I took a photo of my carrots during lunch and then did some crazy illustrating with my bamboo tablet.

{Original carrot photo.}

{Subconsiously my carrots are flying through the air and will land in my bra/pac-man ghost/flying brain.}

Then I started playing with my favorite word of all time “Romantical.” Romance + magical.

{The tongue connects the two in a satirical way. It reads “La lengua de amor.” Ahhhh amor.)

I even began playing with a sketch of the world’s saddest Octopus: OCTODEPRESSY
It’s awful I know…but it makes me laugh. Who knows maybe I can one day turn him into a children’s book.

{So sad is an octopus forced to live in a jar.}

{Possible handwritten treatment.}

Why draw these images? Even if they are bad, they release an endorphin and allow a thinking process that I would normal not think about or document. Artists/illustators like Von Glitchka do daily drawings and illustrations professionally, and what they start out with is never exactly what the end product is like.

It all starts with an rough sketch and then one day it gets molded into something much more refined. As a designer/artist you never know until you take the time to play with an idea. It’s a common misconception that artists play all the time-but it’s part of the work and process of refining an image. For now I’ll file these images away in a folder on my hard drive. One day they may evolve into something else.