i guess you could say...

i guess you could say that this is the antidote to a truly pointless meeting, scribbling all over the agenda with little arrows...

well, at least you could say that if you were trying to think of a pithy line for your blog.

my naturally sunny disposition

my naturally sunny disposition is shining through on this one (no pun intended, of course).

which is surprising really, because it was one dull meeting that i was roped into attending on someone else's behalf. great thing being that, because i had no interest in the subject whatsoever, and because there were enough people in the room to get lost in, i was able to concentrate fully on the matter in hand.

i'm not so sure about this one...

i'm not so sure about this one...

looks a little ghostly, i guess - but with an odd visceral, corporeal look to it ?

i did notice, when i was doodling away, that some of the shading pen-work is reminiscent of the famous dave gibbons' style. not sure why my hand felt the need to move in this way, something like 20 years after his drawing technique would've been at the forefront of my mind, i have no idea; unless it's the new movie, which i have yet to see?

anyway, there you have it !

a glass-domed hot-rod...

a glass-domed hot-rod, maybe ?
something like that, for sure.

can i get away with pretending that the poor quality blurry photo is an attempt to portray a level of motion, and indeed dynamism, that is inherent within the subject matter explored ?

...no ? okay, apologies for the dodgy photo, my scanner is on the blink. doesn't want to play nice with my new macbook.

little green men ..?

little green men ..?

now i don't think you could imagine that these guys are engaging their warp engines, and enduring various 'G's against their frail, alien forms; just so that they can reach the - doubtless fascinating - schedule of fiscal results hovering menacingly above them.

more likely that some poor office worker has had the overwhelming desire to take whatever piece of paper comes easiest to hand, and scribble away on it, in some vain attempt at creativity or free thought, within the oppressive environs of his 9 to 5 existence.

... but probably, actually, just because i found a nice pen in my bag, and thought i'd amuse myself during a 'phone conversation.

riddle me this...

riddle me this...

yes, once again with the "son of meeting doodler", who says nepotism is dead ?

pah, nepotism, i always though it was a relative term anyway. (oh dear, i think i'm funny!)

this is a superb doodle by little j, clearly of one of the batman's most feared adversaries - the riddler !!!

we're in the debt of the wii's lego batman for this little beauty.

keep doodling, son; keep doodling.

a robot charging station...

a robot charging station, or something similar in this one.

j thinks that this is some sort of response to watching WALL-E recently, but i'm not so sure.

the meeting was a week or so ago, included some forced camaraderie - someone leaving the team - and continued a little too long.

...perfect for one such as i, who follows the ancient art of the doodle.

(must try to post more in 2009)

coming in to land...

coming in to land...

another slightly blurry mobile 'phone image, but it's just easier ok?

this doodle can be found in the margin at the top of one of the 44 CVs that i had to review and score recently... yeeesh!

you might think that this might imply my desire to 'fly away', and escape the task in hand; however the aircraft is coming in to land. go figure!

ET phone home...

ET phone home...

son of meeting doodler strikes again, with a collaboration around the theme of his favourite long-necked alien.

...must be after he returned to the mother ship, though, because he looks rather happy

wel, if it's good enough for matisse...

well, if it's good enough for matisse...

and MY snail looks like a snail, too; not just some pieces of coloured paper stuck on a canvas!

sure he was ill, but i'm almost comatose in some of these meetings !

a simple one

a simple one, a cute little robot.

the 'phone pictures still aint the best, i grant you, but i do like the edge of the ring-bound pad with the wafer of desk beneath it.

you know me, i'm a bit of a one for the ol' robot doodle, and this one is similar to many penned before, however i still kinda like the proportion of eyes to head, and the legs too.

some butterflies...

some butterflies, flapping around a dynamic arrow shape.

if i remember rightly i was discussing a dramatic increase in something with someone, over the 'phone, and found myself with this charming little doodle.

a nice example of the entirely unplanned and almost subconscious type of doodle.

crab-men advancing!

crab-men advancing!

yes, still a little blurry, but i'm getting kinda used to it.

so here we witness the crab-men as they travel the seabed towards their goal - or could just be me having a 'bit of a think' about a particular piece of work, with a pen and a few highlighters close to hand?

someone with an orange for a head ??

someone with an orange for a head ??

you know, to be honest i'm still not convinced by the quality of these images - still look a little fuzzy to me. they look like those faked photo-shopped images that mac-addicts produce just before the keynotes, with a bit of blur effect added for authenticity, and to hide the joins.

i'll try harder, but it may be back to the scanner for me, with the inevitable delays that it'll cause.

long time, no post / mac os logos abound !

long time, no post. i know, i know, how are you ?
hold on a minute... have you been working out or something, because you look great!

it's not only the increased workload that has impacted on my posts of late, although their frequency and intricacy have certainly been diminished as a result; no, it's the fact that it's a faff to hook-up my laptop, fire up the scanner, and get the damn things into electronic format.

so my solution - to which this post bears testimony - is to see if i can get away with taking pictures with my new mobile 'phone, digitisation on-the-fly if you will.

lets see how we all feel about the picture quality, shall we? looks a little fuzzy and dull to me, but maybe i just need to take the 'photo outdoors next time.

ok, lets see then, superman (no surprises there), a few stylised faces which appear to become a customised mac os logo - which i have a feeling that i might be using in the near future... watch this space !