Creative Thinking Exercise (X1)

Creative Thinking Exercise (X1) - "12-inch Pizza"

For my Creative Thinking Exercise I was asked to merge and illustrate two objects. The picture above is titled "12-inch Pizza", and in it I merged a traditional turntable (which is able to play 12" vinyl LP records) with a pizza. I believe the reason that I created the drawing is because of recent hobby of collecting the music I enjoy in a physical medium, rather than solely streaming it on Apple Music, Spotify, etc. During the process of creating the drawing, the title and play on words had come to me first, so I decided to present my ideas in this way. I didn't have a certain step-by-step process when approaching it, because as you can tell, I'm not really that great of an artist when it comes to drawing. My source of inspiration for this drawing would be the turntable that I have in my room, and my constant thoughts of food. I hope you found the amalgamation of these two unrelated objects to be at least presentable, and somewhat interesting.

Thank You

-Max Jimenez

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