- Hello, it's Mo Willems in my studio.
Today...
(marker squeaking)
is the first of March, 2022.
It's been a while.
Let's see what I can turn this into.
Okay, here we go.
That'll be fun.
(marker squeaking)
It's Piggy's uncle, Piggy.
They all have the same name.
Well, welcome back to a special
Lunch Doodles Variant Edition.
It has been almost two years
since we did the first Lunch Doodle,
since we got together to play.
And today, I wanted to take a little bit of time
to pause and to think about the last two years.
I know for me, two years is a long time.
For some of you, it could be half your life,
or a third of your life,
but even for me, it's a long time.
And if anything has happened over this last two years,
I can say with certainty, I've gotten older.
Matter of fact, I'll show you how much older.
This is a picture of me from before the pandemic.
And this is me now.
Much older.
I also have gotten more appreciative.
Over the last two years,
I've really appreciated medical workers, teachers,
what we now call essential workers,
which means people who are out there every day
making it possible for us to work.
And of course, the reminders.
I'm appreciative of the reminders.
The people over the last couple years
who reminded us that we should be safe,
that we should be just
how to be more aware of who we are,
and how we are in the world.
And it hasn't been easy.
Many of us have gotten sick,
and many of us have gotten very sick.
I think about that.
And all of us have had to improvise.
So I thought today we would play
and think about improvising.
Thinking about what is given to us,
and what we make out of it.
And if you remember in an earlier Lunch Doodles,
we did something called a Squillems,
where there was a weird drawing or just a dot,
and then we made something out of it.
Well, that's what we're gonna do now.
So if you want to pause,
get some paper and two different colored pens and a partner,
you can do this.
Or you can get your official printer-outerer
to go and print out, there's a whole bunch of them,
print out all of the Squillems for this exercise.
And they would be the exact same Squillems
that I am going to be using today.
Okay, so we'll pause (indistinct)
Sign of a P, and then (indistinct),
and then print out ah, ah, that's a lot of paper.
Oh, and ready?
Okay.
Let's play.
So I have a special machine.
This is a machine called
The Fun Art Thingy Emitter.
Now I've made this special machine,
but you can make one at home afterwards if you want to.
I'm gonna show you.
Here it is, my Fun Art Thingy Emitter.
(box sliding)
There it is, you see it
gets a little radio symbol and all of that stuff.
And then if I want, (bell clangs)
thank you, Fun Art Thingy Emitter.
If I want to get a Squillems I use this
and it will make a random line
for me to make a drawing with.
Let's see if it works.
(box beeping)
(bell ringing)
Oh, it worked.
All right.
So the FATE gave me this.
Let's see what I can do with it.
Now, remember when you get a Squillem,
you can turn it all around,
get a pen and see if you can think of a design.
Let's see here.
Actually, I think I have an idea.
Let's see, like that.
(marker squeaking)
It's a frog, see.
It was just a little line, and I'm gonna-
(box beeping)
Oh, looks like looks I have another one.
(bell ringing)
Oh, It's another Squillems.
Take a look at that.
(blowing air)
It's kind of a weird, oh, okay, here we go, little line.
This is a different way to do it.
Let's see.
I am gonna turn that silly line
into a person.
See, there's a person.
(box beeping)
Oh, okay.
(bell rings)
Thank you, Fun Art Thing Emitter.
There are a bunch of, okay, let's take a look.
Here's another one.
Better do it quickly, cause they seem to be coming out.
It could go.
Oh yeah, that could be like tree,
no wait, I got, I got it.
All right, and there we go,
it's a shark.
You see, I made a- (box beeping)
Okay. (bell rings)
All right, what is this gonna be?
Okay, kind of running out of ideas.
So they don't all have to be great.
It's somebody in a sweater.
They're wearing a sweater- (box beeping)
Okay, okay. (bell rings)
All right, lightning round.
Let's see.
That is, oh, that doesn't work.
So let's do it like that.
It is somebody in a baseball cap.
Baseball cap.
All right. (box beeping)
Okay. (bell rings)
And it's somebody happily with their dog,
and they got the hair and there's the dog
and their arm around it, and the dog is happy.
Is that good? (box beeping)
That's a good, okay- (bell rings)
It's gonna be a snail.
Okay, it's a snail.
There we go- (box beeping)
(bell rings) Okay.
It's gonna be a...
It's gonna be somebody wearing sunglasses,
who's a punk rocker, who has a nose and teeth,
and they're having a fun time
at the punk- (box beeping)
(bell rings) All right, it's just
somebody, it's their pants.
Their pants are there and they're leaning over
and they spilled something,
so they feel really bad about that.
Oh no I spilled something. (box beeping)
Okay, well that's easy. (bell rings)
We're just gonna make that an elephant trunk.
It's an elephant trunk.
There we go.
Elephant trunk. (box beeping)
(bell rings)
Okay, let's see, it's a kitty.
It's a kitty cat sleeping,
kitty cat sleeping.
All right. (box beeping)
(bell rings)
So you can do these at home.
It's kind of fun.
Particularly when you have the emitter thing
is constantly giving you,
Okay, it's just gonna be a face,
(box beeping) doing a little thing.
(bell rings) Okay.
And this is gonna be the squiggles
that help me write the end,
because I- (box beeping)
Thank you for watching this Lunch Doodles.
I hope that everyone is safe.
I hope that everyone is healthy,
and I hope that you will continue to make art,
because as we have seen science does get us out of things
but art gets us through things.
So, thank you so much for your help,
Art Emitter Thingy.
And thank you, take care.