

Going to distribute bats around the store today!


Going to distribute bats around the store today!

There once was a tuba cat, who sat on a tuba…but seeing how it is October. The cat sits on the pumpkin, or Jack o lantern really. So Jack o lantern Kitty cat!

Breaking news: someone lit the pumpkin too much!
That can’t be good. Flaming pumpkin? Flaming Jack O Lantern!


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!

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!
For Illustration Friday’s word, “haunt.”
Beware of the house with the red door… something lurks inside! I see a few pair of eyeballs and that door…that door, the color of BLOOD. The moon shines an ominous glow onto the house, where passer-by’s shutter, feel the hairs rise upon their backs. Beware of the house with the red door!! Something eerie dwells inside!
Happy Halloween everyone!
-Code Mush
I used pen and colored pencils.
so here’s the crazy eyeball pumpkin face I was talking about in the previous post. I completely forgot that we took pictures of it. I am anxious to get my pumpkin carving on! I’m not sure what I’ll do this year (this is Isaac’s pumpkin by the way..mine wasn’t as cool, I did the grim reaper). I think I’ll post another pumpkin tomorrow for the hell of it. Getting excited!!
here’s another one!
-CM
It’s getting close to Halloween and my favorite all time thing to do is carve pumpkins. We do one every year. Last year I got these plastic looking eyeball party favors and got creative and stuck one of the eye balls into one of the pumpkins. It looked pretty freaking cool…and a little spooky too. My recreation of that pumpkin is not as scary. But…I thought he looked kinda …CRRRARAZY!
-CM