English Designer Jon Hicks knows how to make a kid look forward to lunch. Imagine opening your lunch box everyday and discovering a new monster along side the P& J sammie.
Starting last May, Hicks has daily penned whimsical monster cards for this son Daniel's lunch boxes. He then posts his illustrations at danielsmonster.tumblr.com. Take a look.
Hicks notes he's, "Not totally sure why I started this, but (Daniel) enjoyed the first one, and it’s become a ritual. Every morning when making his lunch, I give myself 5 minutes to draw a monster on paper from one of those memo pad things, give it a name and quickly photograph it with the iPhone.
"Sometimes they come out OK, sometimes they’re not so great. The important thing is seeing his reaction at the end of the day."
It's wonderful for kids to see parents being creative, making it a part of the fabric of life. As Hicks notes, sometimes they're good and sometimes not, but that's hardly the point. What's wonderful is the sense of fun communicated visually. It's something shared, daily, between parent and child.
One thing I run up against time and again with young artists is a fear of somehow drawing a bad picture. I think this is something telegraphed to them every time a parent says, "Oh, I can't draw!" instead of simply doing it. At some time in our childhoods most of us love to draw and then, somehow, fell out of the habit. It's a reversible loss.
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