Cookie butt…turning 35

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It happens. We turn a year older. and so do our butts… because our butts are separate entities… which have revolved and evolved into the shapes of two ginormous cookies. i knew it. i spent all christmas and winter baking cookies for my kids. my husband kept requesting my cookies because it’s cheaper than store bought and so much better. add beer, pizza, easter candy and other junk to the butt batter and wahoop! cookie butt. happy birthday to my cookie butt. i’ll be sure to light a candle to my ass and wish it a merry christmas i mean happy birthday. 35 years of making and creating this great big cookie butt!

Coffee Cup drawings…

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My son and I were writing and drawing in our journals. He has a small tiny book full of blank pages he likes to doodle in. I had no idea he was drawing coffee cups until he showed me. I told you my coffee drinking really has an effect on my children! At least it’s a creative effect!

Will’s coffee cups

The Coffee Cup Space ship

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Both my boys are into space and it’s a fun past time of ours to draw solar systems. So while we doodled together we thought I’d be cool to draw a comic strip. There would be no denying the theme would be SPACE. I came up with Adventures of Astro-boy. There would be Luna the moon dog, Captain Wes and the infamous Astro-boy Will. They would fight the treacherous Space Toads (going all the way back to my high school days of writing the school’s comic strip) and fly in their super cool space ship the Coffee Cup. My son named it so (possibly because I’m never without a coffee cup in my hand). So we haven’t drawn the whole thing yet. I’ve really only drawn the space ship… But I’m just so thrilled that my kids love drawing and art as much as I do. It’s helping me get out of a super long break from anything remotely creative and artsy. I hope that we continue to create together because they’re inspiring me to be myself again…

The Coffee Cup Space Ship from Adventures of Astro-boy

CRAZY FACE

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I know I might have said in previous posts that I love to draw a CRAZY FACE in my journal everyday. Well, I’ve started an electronic sketchpad/journal and now I can do my CRAZY FACE faces digitally! So…more CRAZY FACE to come. How did I come up with it??

Well, one night me and Isaac were watching a B-Movie (I can’t think of the title) but it had a handicapped guy who owns a chimp to help him with picking things up and to just help him all around. Well, the chimp goes crazy violent (I don’t remember what set him off) but while we were watching it there was this paused close up of the main character with this look of horror, so I blurted out “crazy face” and we laughed so hard for like 10 minutes. So now, anytime in a movie where they zoom in on a face like that, I always say “crazy face.” Just one of those funny mush moments.

–CM

IF: Tree

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Digital Hippy Tree

 

For Illustration Friday’s word, Tree. I am working with digital drawing, and I’m still perfecting and learning and just really trying to get the hang of it. Frustrating it is…but I’m hoping that I can get better at it. All I need is practice, just as I need practice drawing too. And hoping I don’t get discouraged in the process and give up. I still feel more comfortable with my pencils and my pens and my colored pencils…ahh, but I need to explore new mediums and get out of my comfort zone!!

I still want to recreate this using my pens and pencils. I probably will. But I want to someday make code mush t-shirts with digital designs. And also make digital images for a website. Then of course, work on making those monthly magazines I used to make in high school, but with a more professional look. I have to get more professional, but also keep my style and of course be happy with my work.

I cannot stress how I get soooo discouraged sometimes!!

 

–CoDE MuSH

IF: Shy

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For Illustration Friday’s word: Shy.

Being shy isn’t a bad trait, as some people would like to say…

I know how it is to be shy and sometimes it hurts to try and speak up, speak out, and express yourself. It doesn’t mean you’re stupid, or that you don’t have the same thoughts and characteristics as outspoken people. It’s just a horrible uncomfortable feeling to be around people sometimes, or to try and talk to complete strangers, or to even co-workers or your peers. When I’m around people I’m comfortable with I can be quite funny and loud and just generally like everyone else. But you wouldn’t know that if you just met me…

And you’d think as you get older the feeling of shyness goes away, but I feel it’s only gotten worse with me. As I take a look at what lies ahead for me, or if I try to start a career in art, it only frightens me and I stop dead in my tracks of progress. Maybe it is just fear and not shyness that makes me this way, but it’s something I must confront and stop it from controlling my life sometimes…

anyway, I know there are a lot of sensitive people in this world who are like me and it helps to have people in your life who understand how it feels to be sensitive. They can push you and give you a positive boost in a negative world…

CODE MUSh