The Daily Doodles

“To Dream to Never Feel”

Afflicted with the diseases of angst, loss, and pain
Noelle wished to wash them away from her over-thinking brain
So she swallows her pills like manna from heaven
It’s been her automatic solution since the age of eleven.

And each year becomes the same, just a smooth gentle ride
Cured of any problems to dwell upon, there’s no reason to hide
The curse of her emotions had always gotten in the way
Now she can wake up each morning, no longer afraid of the day.

With the chemical miracles keeping her on an even keel,
Noelle can live her life’s dream, and never have to feel :-)

(Starring Noelle Wonder from Ordinarywonder.net!)

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IT IS THE AMAZING FATMA’S BIRTHDAY!  

Here is a drawing and story I made for Fatma last year.  She’s one of my bestest friends and an amazing artist, and if you don’t follow her main site or her BRILLIANT sketchbooking site, you are a FOOL and should be THROWN OFF THE EARTH.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY FATMA!

“To Dream to Be Alone”

Fatma leans over her birthday cake (a chocolate cake with chocolate frosting, chosen because it is Fatma’s mother’s favourite cake instead of Fatma’s preferred carrot cake), as her 7 siblings impatiently squawk for Fatma to blow out the candles so they can wolf down the dessert.

Her mind wanders as she ponders what to wish for, and the loud bustling of her family slowly fades away as an empty calmness creeps in…

What would it be like to be alone
No one bothering me on the phone
I’d make cheese sammiches 3 times a day
Then sit and eat carrots while I draw away
Finally living life being second to none
I wouldn’t have to care about anyone
No more worries, no more stress
No longer having to clean up another’s mess
I wish I could be, with no friends or family
Just exist by myself as I drink cups of tea…

A loud shriek pierces Fatma’s reverie as her younger brothers start slapping each other, snapping Fatma back to reality.

Fatma blows out her candle, and gets back to the birthday party her family wanted.

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phoebeswonderland asked: Do you note down gradual ideas for your daily doodles or is each created spontaneously? :)

Heeeeeeeeeeeey Phoebe!

I have what I call my “idea pads”, and they’re just regular ol’ notepads that I write down every idea in… whether it’s an idea for an image (perhaps with no context, just a visual at that point), a line in a poem, a story idea, a line of dialogue, a single WORD, it doesn’t matter… anything can turn into a finished thingy really!

I even keep an idea pad with me when I sleep, because ideas will randomly pop in my head, and I will absolutely, guaranteedly, definitely forget it if I don’t write it down.  The ideas come and go quickly.

When I sit down to work, I’ll open up my Idea Pad(s) and then see what ideas sound the best to me that day.  I also often meditate, to let my brain float around and see what ideas it trips over (I don’t always do that, but it’s a good solution for if I feel stuck).

Here’s what my collection of Idea Pads looks like—

The pad in the upper right is my first Idea Pad, and it lost it’s green cover long ago.  Most of the ideas in that one are bad, and I tend to not look in it much.

In the lower right is a sketch pad, where I sometimes do a test sketch of a drawing.  You can see some lil’ monsters on the page I’m showing, and I’ll likely make them into a dancing GIF sometime.

The red Idea Pad is my second one, and I still look into it pretty often.  It’s falling apart though, and I got pages held together with paperclips.

On the left, the yellow Idea Pad, is my current one that I am filling up.  I like to have each Idea Pad be a different colour, if I can.  Here is a random page, to show you what an Idea Pad looks like on the inside—

I usually do ‘test sketches’ on the left, and ideas on the right, though I doodle all over every page with silly faces or whatever.  You can see the origin of a few ideas I actually used on this page, such as The Sea of Dead Children and 7 Days a Week.  Most of the ideas I write down I won’t actually use, BUT they often lead to ideas I will use someday, so it’s okay.

The pink Idea Pad on the top is reserved for a not-so-super-duper-secret project: my first illustrated book, “The Last Girl on Earth”!  I’ve been focusing a lot on that lately, and hope to finish within a few months.  If I do a Kickstarter like I plan to do, I’d likely include a reprint of the entire Idea Pad for the book as one of the gifts to give to people who donate.

(“The Last Girl on Earth”, is set in the near post-apocalyptic future, and is about a 9 year old girl who LOVES the post-apocalypse, loves killing mutants and scavenging for air and supplies, and thinks anyone who makes a big deal out of it is a whiny baby.  There’s more to it than that, but that’s the gist of it.  There’ll be more posts about it as I continue on the project!  It’ll basically be a “Daily Doodles”-ish story, stretched out for 20-sumthin’ pages.  Fully illustrated, etc etc… I hope everyone ends up enjoying it!)

SO YEAH!  To answer your question, Phoebe, I jot each idea down and use them for my Daily Doodles, though if I get a spontaneous idea that I like better, I go with whatever I think is best :-)

Have a good weekend everyone!

—David Michael Chandler

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“The Monsters in the Night”

Everyone in the car is asleep, except for Jane and her drivin’ Pa,
And Jane could hardly believe her eyes when she suddenly saw—

Rising up out of the darkness, towering beasts overtook the night
Blacking out the stars, giving poor Jane an awful fright.
She didn’t know what they were, but she knew this ain’t sumthin’ good
And it’s up to her to warn the WORLD, like any brave kid should.

So she woke up her sleeping family, to warn them monsters are very near
But they did what they always did, and dismissed her with a sneer
“Oh Jane you’re just a girl, you don’t know what you’re talking about”
“You probably just had a dream, and you’re too confused to figure it out”

The family laughed and fell asleep, as her dad continued down the road,
And Jane felt so angry that she thought she would explode (>__<)
They never believe anything she says, and they mock her every thought,
And maybe if they listened, humanity could be saved from the onslaught.

So as the monsters took over the world, and ate her family that very night
Jane didn’t really mind, ‘cuz at least she was proven right.

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“The Shadows in the Dark”

As long as Harry can remember, all through his childhood years,
There lived a Shadow in his bedroom, that feasted upon his fears.
Hiding in the darkness, yet darker than the pitch black night
The Shadow was always moving, forever staying just out of sight.

In the corner of his eye, he can see the Shadow creep
It’s prolly because Harry’s been bad, and for his sins he’ll reap.
He can never quite look at it, though he’ll always try,
And he knows that the night he falls asleep, is the night he’ll die.

Savouring in his terror, the Shadow breathes in Harry’s soul
And year after year of staying awake, eventually takes its toll.
Struggling with all his might, Harry finally feels his eyes close,
And the Shadow smothers him from his head down to his toes.

The last thing Harry sees, as his soul is stolen at last
Is the shapeless void of darkness, filled with sins of the past.
And the last thing that he feels, is an endless sense of dread
Echoed by his mother’s screams, as she finds him dead in bed.

(Thank you to the Amazing Samantha of other-side-of-the-universe.com for giffing this for me!)

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“The Boy Who Was Born at Midnight”

Every child born at midnight, can see inter-dimensional creatures
Glowing blobs of paraphysical energy, with no humanlike features.
They live alongside us on Earth, our dimension parallel with theirs’
And they seem less than enthused, at the Boy’s confused stares.

Our simple brains can’t comprehend, their motives or desires.
They enjoy playing with the human race, and watching what transpires.
Existing between time and space, toying with our lives
And they hate being seen, so no child born at midnight survives.

The creatures approach the poor boy’s bed, and start melting his brain
As easy as it is for us to squish a bug, they drive him totally insane.

A Golden Oldie Classique Doodle from 1/1/2012

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“Space Can Be So Lonely”

Everyone on the ship is dead, except for me and you only
And as we’ve come to learn, space can ever be so lonely.

As the last survivors of the virus, we ran into each other’s arms
Feelings grew so quickly, while we were drunk on each other’s charms.
We’d carelessly toss around words, like “always”, “fate”, and “love”
And we’d swear that the other was a gift, sent from Heaven above.

And I’ll admit that it was nice, as everything was new!
We disinfected the ship, and jettisoned the dead crew.
But when everything calmed back down, we entered that malaise,
As we got to really know each other, and left the lavender haze.

It’s just been a few weeks, but you’re already so annoying
You’re judgmental and dense, and creepily cloying.
I’ll happily ignore it for now, since I don’t wanna be alone,
But we’ve run out of things to say, and you dull me to the bone.

I can tell you feel the same, but there’s not much we can do
We’re the only two around, so we both pretend that “I love you”.
I’ll still hold you every night, and whisper sweet things in your ear
But the main reason that I love you, is that no one else is here.

(Thank you to the Amazingly Talented Samantha of Other-side-of-the-universe.com for giffing this for me!)

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“The Many Faces”

Jason Frye wears many faces, one for each role he plays
Some of them he wears for friends, or during his school days
Others he’ll wear for work, perhaps for people he doesn’t know
And some of them are faces he hates, and is a blow to his ego.

In his mind’s eye, he sees himself as his practiced face in front of mirrors
Secretly his private worry is that it’s not how he really appears.
What if everyone can spot his flaws, the ones only he is able to see?
Then they’d know the face is a lie, and the thought makes him want to flee.

But until that day he’ll stay in place and wear the face that suits him best,
Only show what he wants others to see, and no one gets shown the rest.

(Starring Jason Frye from tiptoelightlypastmymind.tumblr.com!)

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“Floating Upon The Pharma Sea”, a Haiku

On a sea of pills
Flowing through her tangled veins
So she stays afloat.

HAPPY MOTHER’S DAY!!!!

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Anonymous asked: Do you allow submission stories, like, sending you a link or a story you might like?

Sure, anyone can send me anything!  A link, a drawing they did, their story, whatever.  Just use my “Submit” link to send me sumthin’ (it’s on the home page of my site, next to the “Ask”).

HOWEVER (and my Submit page goes over this), everything on my site is written and drawn by me only and I only, only, only will be posting my own work.  So if the goal is to get me to post someone else’s work (like, someone else’s words and my drawerin’), I really can’t do that.  

I love checking out people’s sites though!  Especially if they create their own content.  I am an Editor here on Tumblr for the #Illustration, #GIF, and #Artists on Tumblr tags, and every day I always make a point to feature people who I’ve never seen featured before. 

Please feel free to point me in your direction to check out your work, or ask me any questions you may have.  

If ya ain’t sure how the “Editor” program works, and what “features” are, here is the short explanation—

There are dozens of “official” tags on Tumblr, such as #Fashion, #LOL, #Science, #GIF, etc etc.  Each official tag has Editors, and the Editors are chosen by the staff of Tumblr.

Each Editor gets 10 features a day in each tag they edit for.  So, for example, since I edit 3 categories, I get 30 total features.  When an Edtitor “features” a post, it goes to the Explore section of Tumblr, under the corresponding tag it was featured under.

Being featured helps give your work exposure, and possibly a chance at appearing on the Tumblr Radar (that is also chosen by the staff of Tumblr, but I don’t know any specifics).  It’s basically a great way to get your work noticed by people who don’t follow your site, and to gain new loyal followers.

As always, ask me if ya got any questions, and I hope you’re all doing well! :-)

Love,
David Michael Chandler

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