a robot detail

a robot detail from an earlier doodle.

j & i went through a period of drawing/colouring-in this guy. i think maybe that's why i like to draw him.

he has an entire back story, but maybe that's something for another time.

finally, an abstract one

finally, an abstract one.

only 90 minutes, this one - so not too bad.

i had to chuckle, though... one attendee, expressing a desire to step up the pace on a particular issue, said "i'm going to pick up the momento on this one!"

not a slip of the tongue, either; she repeated it a second time, just to prove the point !

dum dum... dum dum... dum dum dum dum dum dum...

dum dum... dum dum... dum dum dum dum dum dum...you know the rest.

another doodle from the 3 hour waste of time last week - but interesting in a way; not big on aquatic doodles, so this one took me by surprise somewhat.

maybe it's my homage to the adulte terrible damien hirst ?

maybe not !

dumpy superheroes

dumpy superheroes, there aren't enough of them are there ?

you might recognise these guys; they kept me company during a three hour snore-fest which improved dramatically during the last hour ... but that may have had something to do with the arrival of the sandwich & crisp platters.

i think that you can tell just by looking at this

i think you can tell just by looking at this one that it was a pretty mind-numbing meeting, this one.

i think that things had proceeded for more than an hour before anything even slightly relevant to me was touched upon.

...so i'm left with a sub-star trek planet scape for my time.

another rocket ship

another rocket ship. with a definite 1950s flash gordon flavour, or maybe tin tin ?

my first ever crab doodle

my first ever crab doodle, i think.

oddly enough i don't remember ever doodling a crab before: whereas, almost subconsciously, i will often find myself doodling away at ol' favourites - rockets, robots, lions, etc - before i'm even aware what i'm doing.

now this may lead one to conclude that this particular meeting was in some way extraordinary... and indeed you'd be correct; it was extraordinarily pointless and dull.

so we've got this easter island play doh set

so we've got this easter island play doh set at home.

you know the sort of thing, stick play doh up the neck, push the feet up into the head, and hey-presto...long fronds of playdoh spurt out of the holes in the top of his scalp.

this doodle is a simple testimony to what i'm actually thinking about when i'm discussing management information requirements with one of our major suppliers.

...thinking about playing play doh on the dinning room table with s & j.

how about a dinosaur

how about a dinosaur, then ?

and even a little bit of colour ?

not really a meeting doodle, this (ok, i've contravened the blog's main premise already), but waiting for a macro to run, and wanting to design a simple dinosaur to paint on my son's bedroom wall.

(unfortunately he decided that he wanted a giganotosaurus instead!).

you can't go wrong with a rocket

you can't go wrong with a rocket, i say; and so here we have one.

variations on this theme abound in across all of my various notepads, throughout my career. of course now i can excuse them, because i'm always trying to produce the perfect form to draw with my son when we doodle together.

so here's a nice one to start with

so here's a nice one to start with. this was, as i think is pretty obvious from the complexity of the doodle, a very dull meeting.

there are three clear doodle 'phases' on display here:
- the 'i'll just do a bit of a chess-board motif, to finally do something with the pen that i have in my hand' bit (top left);
- the 'i'm bored with this meeting, so i'll concentrate a little more on my pad, and a little less on your endless waffle, and maybe draw around various letters, numbers etc.' bit (top right);
- and the 'if you asked me for input now, i'd actually jump, and look up with a startled 'what were we talking about?' look on my face' bit (bottom).