Category Archives: Cartoon

Music for the Birdos

What’s this birdo listening to?

What would birds listen to if not their neighbor’s own song, or their love’s own song? Even their own song? I don’t know why I drew headphones on him. Just curious about the songs that move people, the songs that even move weirdo Birdos.

What moves you to sing and even dance? I have a whole playlist of 6+ hours of songs that I listen to while in the kitchen, which I made a few years ago and realized it was my music sanctuary. Not just in the kitchen but just dealing with my life back then. Here I am though. Still self discovering.

Here it is! If you care to know what this birdo listens to:

Songs to Dance in the Kitchen to

Bloggin’ Floggin’, Rootin’ and Tootin’

Hi, How Are You, Daniel Johnston

I cannot take credit for this image I drew but click on the link and learn about Daniel Johnston! It’s been widely used by other artists, musicians and for mental health awareness. I drew this and made copies that I wanted to post around work because it is a stressful time of year for retail workers. And just stressful in general. I think we’re all feeling a little down, unlike ourselves. I feel a current, a shift of change coming for everyone. I don’t know what it is, maybe just the seasons. But yesterday morning I felt compelled to draw this simple, yet tender note. And hope you are all doing okay.

How are you?

I guess I’m just going to keep blogging and flogging words and doodles around. Rootin’ and Tootin’ my own voice.

-CM

Mushy Halloween

You can’t go wrong with the traditional at Halloween. The jack o lanterns, the ghosts, the goblins, the Frankensteins. I mean that’s what holidays are for, the traditional. To make us feel that sweet sense of nostalgia. To make us feel like a kid again. So I’m not the least bit ashamed at my dorky drawings. The fact that Frankenstein’s mask looks like a gorilla Frankenstein. But whatever. I’ve always drawn shitty and I still keep doing it anyway. I mean mushy… I always think squashed up shit. I mean for an attractive woman it would be cute ‘n quirky, but for someone like me, it’s like shit ass weirdo. Like dirt bag weird, not cutesy weird that people find cool. Ugh let me tell you the most embarrassing story that should have made me quit art for good.

I was volunteering at the fall fest at our high school, I myself a high school student at the time. And for whatever reason, or that I just wasn’t good at all at painting on faces, I just couldn’t remember how to draw. Or to even spell for that matter. My ghosts look like floating white blobs on a face, the butterflies…I’m pretty sure made a girl cry. But the worst, the WORST was a boy wanted me to write 2 PAC on his face. And I wrote 2 PAK. 2PAK. I realized after that I spelled it wrong and didn’t want to show the boy his face paint. But that kid walked around the fall fest with 2 PAK on his face the whole night. He probably got his face laughed at all night. I remember it to this day. And sometimes at night when I can’t sleep I think about that and crack up but also wonder why the hell I still draw. I’ve done a lot of dumb shit, misslepelled things. I did that one on purpose. But events words I’ve gotten the meaning wrong. So I’m a mushy dumb weirdo. But don’t stop! Don’t quit!

I guess. All you spooky weirdos have a good Halloween!

Pumpkin Doubt is the Mind Killer

Doubtin’ Jack

Even Jack-o’-lanterns battle with self doubt.

“Am I scary enough?”

“Is my carved out wannabe scary face scary enough for these malicious ghosts?”

“Will I be too scary? You know, for the toddlers?”

“My back side is kind of lumpy? Will they laugh instead of scream?”

Once you carve a face into a pumpkin that’s when the doubt creeps in. So watch their floating conversation bubbles tonight and hope they’re kind to themselves. Because all jack o lanterns are spooky, cool and scary but not too scary, etc!

Saturdays

And journal writing.

And getting the oil changes, inspection and tire rotation done (so haven’t been completely lazy. Plus I’m doing laundry continually for the rest of my life so I could never be lazy).

Halloween costumes are set, Jack Skelington and Luigi. They can’t change their minds and the costumes fit so nothing to get bent out of shape over. And then later this evening we’ll make our way to the fair! Doing all the Fall things.

And also I’ve been absent from the wee ol’ blog page, sorry about that. The school year has started and I’ve been busy plus also a slug? If that’s possible. A boot scootin’ slug, man. Going through many changes and lack of description over those details remains a mystery to you all…and to me as well as I still remain committed to NOT changing or evolving ever. But events have forced me to, so I’d rather not say…ugh just Ugh. UUUUGGGGHHHH

And that’s the sound of a boot scootin’ slug!

Boot scootin’slug

Inspirational drawing of the day

I got my sons a 101 cool things to draw book. Mostly they flipped through it and laughed hysterically because it had random things to draw like an iron, a lightbulb and a chair because they didn’t think that qualified as “cool” as the book title suggests. Either way, we decided we’ll make a book with cool things to draw. even though one day we may need to learn how to draw a light bulb! I didn’t think it was half bad!! It does have useful things to draw, but not cool enough for a 7 and 8 year olds I guess!

I guess 2022 is the year of the big creepy heads

2022, the year of the big creepy heads. Because here is another one! and more are likely to follow!! so you’re welcome! if you didn’t know that in your life you needed creepy heads to look at !! and I will not stop using exclamation points!

Nothing scares us anymore these days anyway! we’re living in unprecedented times I say!

Good bye!

-code mush