Blogs are Dumb!!!

My shanty- this is where my brain lives most of the time.

I started this blog to give me something to do and get me away and off of Facebook. Being a stay at home mom is boring and not very satisfying, especially for a brain like me. Now I'm addicted to Blogger,  Facebook and Yahoo.

Good thing the kids wont let me anywhere near my computer... they scream the minute I sit down in front of it. I get one hour a day ( or two-three depending on how many naps I can get off the poo-poo party) to write and escape the madness of my day in, day out diapers, tantrums, and baby talk consisting of goo goo ga ga whaaaa.... a boo boo.

So I was trying to figure out how to make money while blogging... I have been told that maybe I could write a book or maybe I could be on a talk show one day. I'm a realist. This will never happen. But I was still a little curious to see what other people were doing.  I went to look at other peoples blogs... and realized that this has already been done... one after the other I clicked to find another stay at home mom talking about her kids...

SO BORING. I was bored. I don't care about your kids or how you went and took them to the ocean... and look at little Jimmy and perfect Jenny playing in the sand... look at how happy you are blah blah.
Lame. And these moms are sooo goody two shoes and nice... and perfect with their hair and nails... Makes me want to hurl poo at them and there stupid smiles.

Nobody gives a shit besides your mom and some relatives.....now go fall in a mud puddle.

I digress.....

The blogs that stood out were the people that MADE stuff. One lady did these dolls that were very Tim Burton- esque. They were beautiful and amazing. Unfortunately, they were so amazing that she copyrighted the photos so I couldn't show you an example. One of the dolls looked exactly like Watts with a very high fever... red around the eyes, crystal blue eyes and pale porcelain like skin, rosy little lips. Vampire like. I loved her work and was impressed.

I think the most boring out of all the blogs were the Chinese poetry blogs. It didn't translate well- all the English translation had to be done wrong, or else these Asians suck at poetry. I'm sure it was lovely in their native tongue.

I liked the simple looking blogs... the ones that looked nuts made me want to run for the hills. A Simple clean page was inviting.

Anyway, it was very discouraging. The only thing I have going for me on this blog are my silly illustrations. This is a problem for me. It's hard if I don't have a vision. I can't just draw something. I have to feel like it, first off. It takes time and I have to have the image already in my head. Usually as I'm creating the character a punch line will come in... a dash of humor.

Nobody is going to read this crap. My blogs are too long. I realized that people just skim to the photos. Or in my case- the drawings.

So here you go. I got you to read this blog because I did a nice drawing of a log cabin that I would like to live in.
Notice how grey it is? I did it on trace- marker color really doesn't do well over pencil. This is my shanty drawing. I wanted to escape to this place after seeing a bunch of other people's blogs just like mine. I hate to be unoriginal. I was feeling dull and lifeless... like this drawing. It was also done at 10:30 last night. My brain is numb by this time.... not much going on in the old thinker.

At Tyler School of Art I would walk down the halls and someone printed up a bunch of fliers that said "ITS ALREADY BEEN DONE!"
Basically. As an artist you are trying to capture people. How are you different? The only thing I have going for me is my angry little brain and my ability to draw anything. You name it... I can do it... but only when I feel like it, and usually it's when I'm depressed. I'm like superman in a wheel chair.

So anyway, if you got this far into reading my crap blog... did my erie drawing of my shanty get your attention? If so then I'm right as usual. I need color cartoons though. I can do whimsical....too. I just need to get my mojo going.
Give me some ideas!.
All you have to type is something like "Giraffe roller skating against some race horses with Elvis riding it down the finish line"
This is good practice for me. I used to sit for hours at the school library while my friends would give me scenarios to draw and wait to be amazed as I made their characters come true... or I would just draw a flying penis and an arrow pointing at them.
If its dumb I won't do it.
Simple is best.
Just saying.
And thanks for actually reading this whole thing. I applaude you.