These birds were inspired by a movie I recently watched where the bird has a broken wing, but gets mended by the characters and he’s just part of the theme throughout the movie. Anyway, it’s been a while since I’ve doodled a weirdo birdo so here you go. I like the latter two better even if the face looks slightly weird. It’s cutesy.

The movie is called Showing Up if you happened to be interested. I recommend it to you artsy folk, and anyone who has an artist(s) in their life, or have anyone in your life who is dealing with any mental health issues. And since it’s mental health month, it might be something you’d like to show someone you care about. But that’s what showing up is all about. Maybe you don’t know how to show up for someone, or you’re trying to use your voice to advocate for people to show up, or even to get people to show up for you as insignificant as you might feel.

I think I don’t know how to be vulnerable only through art. And that’s really what I believe art is. It’s seeing through to someone’s vulnerable, raw self. There is more truth in it than they could even speak. In fact I don’t know how anyone could understand me if I didn’t make art. I’d just be sort of a block head.