- I used to do it a lot when I was a kid.
I do fancy myself an artist,
but I know I'm gonna just (bleep) the bed, on this.
This is not about to be pretty.
(upbeat music)
Hey, I'm JoJo,
and I'm going to try to draw my EP cover
in 60 seconds or less. (laughs)
I kind of look like a fortune cookie, curled up in a ball.
(bleep) My hair is like, like that kind of,
and I'm kind of like this, like that.
I'm kind of like, here's my back, a little spine.
And then it's like, just wait.
So, here's my, yeah, that's my hair.
And then, basically it's just a sheets all around.
So, pretty much curled up in this world of blue sheets.
Bedspread.
Let me see. Okay.
I can give, my hands were kind of like this.
Oh, here's like a hand.
Like, is my ear showing?
I don't know.
Honestly, I think that's pretty lit.
I think that that's as good as the interpretive art
is gonna get for me, especially with the black and white.
That's it. (laughs)
(upbeat music) (marker scribbling)
Tada!
I think no one would have any idea what this is.
This looks like a cashew that's sprouting,
like some type of fungus.
It's very concerning, but this is,
this belongs in a trash can, downtown.
(paper fluttering)
Okay, this next one I'm gonna draw
is a scene from my music video, "Worst (I assume)".
♪ My past and my scars, still make it hard on ya' ♪
Alright, so we got, we're at the liquor mark'.
So, we kind of have liquor.
How do you spell that?
Is that right? Damn.
Liquor and Mart, something like that.
And then here's a car.
Here's a car. (laughs) Oh my God.
Oh my God, where is this orientation?
And then here's me as a person.
My legs are kind of like back like that.
And then my girl, Dominique the dancer
is kind of here kind of like, body arched.
(upbeat music)
I have hair like that.
Hair shorter.
Here's some lights.
(upbeat music)
Ooh.
♪ Always the worst I assume ♪
- [Producer] 10 seconds.
♪ And I always do this ♪
♪ You ain't in the mood for it ♪
kind of looks like a creature
and not at all like a car
but guys, there it is.
Pretty creative.
(feel-good music) (marker scribbling)
Oops.
I've been making my past few videos with my good friend,
Alfredo Flores and we decided to do it in one take,
which was really cool and kind of scary
because I'm a bit of a perfectionist,
as you can clearly tell through my art and
(JoJo laughs)
yeah, so we were like this, when we made the video.
(paper fluttering)
Next, I'm gonna be drawing the visual representation
of Burlinda.
Burlinda is my depressed self.
Depressed, anxious, negative thinking, self.
She's outside of me, but she's a part of me.
I'm gonna draw her as like the demon that she is.
Let's see.
(ominous upbeat music)
I feel like she has like little eyes.
Maybe uni.
And then like.
(marker squeaking)
She doesn't have many teeth,
but the teeth that she does have.
And she has big ears
because she likes to hear people talking (bleep).
She has a mole with hair
because I have a mole with hair as well.
So, she has many of them
because I'm like insecure about that.
So, I tweeze it.
So, she's probably like, I'd say, yeah, she has like,
she can breathe.
And then,
and then I think she's more of just a head
and less of,
does she have hair?
Yeah. She has some hair.
Wow.
It's terrifying.
(marker squeaking)
(JoJo laughing)
So, my therapist said that it might be a good idea to,
instead of being like, "I'm anxious, I'm depressed",
to be like, to have it be this other thing
outside of yourself that you say,
no, Burlinda is trying to come in
and get a hold of you. (monster growling)
Kind of take control of your perspective.
So Burlinda is my depressed, anxious thoughts,
and she just has it out for me.
She just wants to tell me how trash I am
and how I'm unworthy and how I'm not good enough.
And it's really because she's sad.
She's been through things.
She doesn't feel good about herself.
She might actually not look like this.
She might actually,
but this is how she feels.
And then she makes me feel this way, you know?
So, it's deep.
Thanks for watching me get my Bob Ross on.
This has been a really interesting experience.
Check out my EP, "trying not to think about it",
October 1st.
If you don't have a name for your depression or anxiety yet,
I recommend you come up with one.
Burlinda's already taken though.
(marker scribbling)
(feel-good music)