When thinking about chocolate, I first thought of a hot cup of chocolate. But this was not enough. I needed something else, I needed somethinto spice things up.. and then I remembered. Chocolate was supposed to be spicy, it was a spicy beverage before the colonization of Mexico. Why shouldn’t I try to make some? Do I know how to cook? No. Have I ever tried chocolate with chili pepper? Also no. Was this a good idea? probably not.
I quickly found a store that sells mexican products,where I found my favorite chocolate and bought some chili peppers.
I decided that this was just the inspiration I needed and not the actual creation. See, making chocolate (even the spicy one) was too obvious, and I had been doing something related to chocolate lately, something different. Chocolate is also a game in Mexico. It is just a hand game children play (or played, I am not sure anymore) when they are in kindergarden or primary school. I recently taught a friend how to play it. Combining these ideas, I decided to draw a guide to do/play chocolate the way Mexicans do it.
Here is a video of the drawing process:
I also ended up making spicy chocolate. I personally liked the flavor, but a friend tried it and (politely) ran to get some water and some milk to get rid of the flavor it left behind. I was not planing on including the hot chocolate as part of the assigment, and I didn’t get a good recording of the process, but here is a video of a friend and I playing chocolate.
https://vimeo.com/829639267?share=copy
Disclaimer: This is not the friend that tried the spicy chocolate