Drawings à la Carte

My wife and I go to too many restaurants, of course probably there is a part of enjoying the sofisticaded NYC life, there is always a new place around the corner! But mostly we go because it’s a date for us. It’s a moment for talking with each other, talking about ideas, about life. We are always talking! And is there any better way to talk being in front of each other with sharing some food? Also since we are both Europeans is not uncommon we ended up having lunch or dinner, to a not very American time, so we enjoy the quiteness in the places we go.

The truth we really enjoyed these moments, and consequence of having is not uncommon we usually engage in conversation with waiters. So when we have to pay is not uncommon aside of the tip to write with the pen a THANK YOU!!! in a uppercasese or an now it’s where this story is headded, me as an illustrator adding smiles to zeros. Very recently I started to notice the devices where you can put your signature, digitally. I don’t know why but I’m not very attached to my signature so at some point I started to do whatever, a line, a gesture fast line something with no importance, but from time to time if I’m in the mood or if the waiter is not looking at, I put a smile. It’s something silly because I understand they don’t register that smile, they don’t have the same register like when I do something in paper. But I want to believe I added something in the air. When I introduce myself as an illustrator for the shake of people undertand of what I do, people have in mind New Yorker cartoons. My professional stuff is more a digital collage, but in recent years I do have started making some more drawings drawings in physic. And I don’t know why I have started to draw suns, rainbows and cars. Actually I have started to make a kind of a totem in that order. Me working with the computer I guess at some point I wanted to try something that it’s more tangible so I started to draw for real, after many years but after so many years doing digital collages with photographs in photoshop and 3d softwares if you have to draw, what are you going to draw. And a combination of silly elements have taken shape lately. Suns, cars, rainbows, dogs, etc etc. And little by little I kind of drawing have been repeting again and again. Smily sun and most of the time not even circular, but stretched, a rainbow with two smily clouds on the sides and 3d smily car. And I have started signing with this lately.