Doodle from the Heart

I have been working on an "eye spy" sort of design for Threadless recently and I am approaching it from a new perspective. Normally I would conceptualize an idea, sketch, and finalize in Illustrator. This time I am "stream of consciousness" doodling in hopes that the final piece will be inherently me. I don't see this as lowering the quality as much as just giving the piece a more raw feel. Although the work is still in progress I thought it would be nice to show some samples.