The Daily Doodles

“The Boy Who Isn’t Really All That Special”

Danny walks down the hallway, into the living room
Everyone is fast asleep, but Danny is filled with doom and gloom
He may not ever realize, but his subconscious already knows
That’s he’s just really not that special, and it obviously shows.

Even though he’s only seven, it’s still abundantly clear
That he ain’t curing any disease, or winning Boy of the Year.
No society changing inventions will come from his average mind,
And his thoughts and/or opinions will never alter the course of humankind.

He doesn’t know that yet, and he’ll always be told a lie
That he’s a unique snowflake, and a special lil’ guy.
He’ll belabour under this myth for a lifetime’s worth of years,
Living an average life filled with average happiness and tears.

But does it really matter if Danny isn’t the special-est guy on Earth?
And the world won’t feel any impact from his death or birth?
Because if EVERYONE is special, then no one really is
Each person has their role to play, and being Un-Special is his.

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“Just One More Wasted Day”

As nighttime turns to day,
and daytime turns to night
You sit alone in your room,
bathed in your laptop’s light

Thinking back to your youth,
remembering all that you have seen,
Your best times were always spent
Staring at your computer screen.

So while life is passing by,
As you spend it clicking and scrolling away
It must be fine for now,
since it’s just one more wasted day.

(Thank you to Chiara Adams of Doublethink Design for .giffing this for me!)

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“Comfiest at Home”

Even though it’s Saturday night, and everyone is out
Janel doesn’t get what all the fuss is about
She hurries back from work, gets her home-clothes on
And prepares to party by herself, from midnight till dawn.

With a strong internet connection and plenty of books on the shelf,
Janel can come home and just be herself.
No need for the hassle of her stupid friend’s egos,
Because she has hours of illegally downloaded movies and shows.

She can listen to music while relaxing in her bed,
Or maybe post pics on her blog of pretty people who are dead.
There’s enough food in her fridge to last her the entire weekend,
So Janel can just stay inside, where she doesn’t have to pretend.

She wishes them well, those who feel the need to join packs and roam
But Janel has always been comfiest, when she can just have fun at home.

(Starring the Awesome Janel Vaughan of spacytigre.tumblr.com!)

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“The Boy Who Isn’t Really All That Special”

Danny walks down the hallway, into the living room
Everyone is fast asleep, but Danny is filled with doom and gloom
He may not ever realize, but his subconscious already knows
That’s he’s just really not that special, and it obviously shows.

Even though he’s only seven, it’s still abundantly clear
That he ain’t curing any disease, or winning Boy of the Year.
No society changing inventions will come from his average mind,
And his thoughts and/or opinions will never alter the course of humankind.

He doesn’t know that yet, and he’ll always be told a lie
That he’s a unique snowflake, and a special lil’ guy.
He’ll belabour under this myth for a lifetime’s worth of years,
Living an average life filled with average happiness and tears.

But does it really matter if Danny isn’t the special-est guy on Earth?
And the world won’t feel any impact from his death or birth?
Because if EVERYONE is special, then no one really is
Each person has their role to play, and being Un-Special is his.

Posted 2/16/2013

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Anonymous asked: hi:3 i really like your blog, i was wondering if all the illutrations were yoursO: because i really love them♥ and i also whant to ask, how do you do them? i mean, do you do draw them or yoy use a type of program etc... kisses♥

Hey there, thank you! :-)

EVERYTHING on my site is done by me, yup!  All of the illustrations and writing and whatnot… the one part I ask friends for help with is with the gifs, because they’re much gooder at computery things and I don’t even own Photoshop.  SO, I tell them what I want, and they do it better than I even hoped because they’re geniuses :-)  Fatma, Kyle, and Chiara are the great artists and bestest friends who’ve helped me with my giffing.

Other than that, everything is done by me. :-)

And in answer to your other question, everything is done by hand!  I use mostly Crayola coloured pencils now, with some bits here and there done with dollar store markers and highlighters (I used to use markers more often, but I really didn’t like how it was looking). 

Here’s my basic process: I pencil my drawing with a regular ol’ mechanical pencil, then I ink it with some Micron pens (I am not that particular with which inking pen I use, though I know some have their favourites… I use whatever I got).  After it’s inked, I colour everything by hand with the coloured pencils and markers, and then sometimes I will re-ink a few touches because the coloured pencil can dull the sharpness of the linework.

I think I am pretty consistent with my method now, though it took a while to learn how to draw (long time readers can remember how bad my first 200 drawings or so were), and especially how to colour.  I’ve messed up on almost every drawing.

After the drawing is all coloured and I am happy with it, I load it up onto my laptop, open up Picmonkey.com and then round the corners of the picture :-)  I know it’s not an essential part of them, but I like it. 

I think I am trying to make it like a childhood photo, or at least my childhood, and I think this old picture of me as a kid kinda influences it—

I liked the warm glow of it, and the rounded corners, and I guess I went for “that look” without even realizing.

After the corners are rounded, I then post the drawing and the story together (usually the story, or at least the idea for the story, comes before the drawing… but not always.  And often, however the drawing turned out influences what the story is).

And then I hope they do well! :’-o  Because I am not cool and I care if something does poorly.

Thank you for the question, and for making it about something that is handy to answer publicly :-)

MY APOLOGIES FOR THE SLOWDOWN OF DAILY DOODLES THIS PAST WEEK, I am working on something for my site’s 2 Year Anniversary, and plan to post it Monday! 

Kisses to you Admiral Anon!  I love you.

And I’ll thank you again on the official “2 Year Anniversary Post” post, but thank you everyone who reads these things and has helped support me creatively over the last 2 years as I tried to make these into something that I can do sumthin’ with.  It really means a lot to me, and creating this site is one of the best things I’ve ever done.

Love,
—David Michael Chandler

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Anonymous asked: what do you look like ?

Hello anon! 

I get asked this every once in a while by anons, and I tend to not answer it since it’d clutter up the site and I figure if someone REALLY wants to see my face they could find it pretty easily, but it couldn’t hurt to do it once— however, you could always just click my FAQ that I got at the bottom of every single post I do, if ya wanna see me.

But since I’m a nice boy, I’ll do the work for ya!  Here is me:

And here is a bonus picture of me and my nephew, Cooper:

I am a standard bald boy, a lil’ over 6’1”, and held together by steel and vengeance. ^__^

I hope I passed the test of what I should look like!

Love,
David Michael Chandler

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“Late Night TV”

Creeping down the hallway,
He turns on the television quietly.
After everyone has gone to bed,
He looks at what they don’t want him to see.

The real education starts after hours,
So at boring stupid school he does awfully…
But he’ll learn everything he ever needs to know,
Thanks to watching Late Night TV.

Orginally Posted 4/26/2012

(Thanks to the amazing Kyle Harter for .giffing this for me!)

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“The Boy Who Dreams of the Best Way to Die”

The young boy gazes off into the distance, lost in a dream
He decides while a good life is important, the end is supreme!
While everybody dies, not all deaths are equal
If a movie ends poorly, you don’t wanna see the sequel.

But Gosh! How can he decide?  There’s so many ways to go!
Maybe rescue some orphans and then melt in an acid flow?
Perhaps bugs nibble him dead slowly, deep in the Amazon,
Or gangsters machine-gunning his face in Azerbaijan?

He could drown at sea happily, but is there a better choice?
If he could jump on a nuke to save a town, he’d certainly rejoice.
Ooh how about leaping in a volcano, to appease primitive angry gods?
Or kidnapped by aliens and gruesomely dissected in their space-pods.

So many great ways to die!  As many choices as the day is long.
And as long as the funeral is a closed casket, then no choice is wrong.

Originally Posted 10/29/2011

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“Scared of Silence”

As she grows older, Allison Reynolds has found
That she will go insane without ever-present sound.
When everything goes quiet, her brain starts to feast
So she constantly pumps in noise, to quiet the beast.

Doesn’t matter if it’s music, a movie, or an old TV show,
It can be DVD commentary or even talk radio.
It occupies her day and soothes her asleep at night,
For sitting still without sound is her greatest fright.

But as long as it’s noise, and it’s pumped into her ears
She’ll never have to suffer the silence she fears.
Twenty-four hour audio aurally pounding her head,
So she’ll never have a quiet moment until she is dead.

Posted 4-18-2012

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“The First Memory”

While the colour of the kite will change, and so will how he recalls the weather (he wants to remember it as sunny and warm but other times it seems like it had to be windy and cold), the feelings of the moment are clear and not subject to the fuzzy mistiness of time.

He can still vividly recall the moment where the string on his kite breaks and the wind carries it away out of reach… he remembers running after it halfheartedly, knowing he couldn’t catch up, and watching it sail out of sight on the rocky Oregon coast, everything from the small perspective of himself as a two year old.

The little details always change (and each time he remembers the event, he knows he is likely remembering it incorrectly and projecting new memories into it to fill in the gaps), but that confusing sensation of sadness is still crystal clear, wondering what he did to cause the string to break.

The next thing he recalls is hugging his mom’s knee as she tells him it’s okay, and then his first memory fades away.

Posted 4/16/2012

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