an abstract monkey king...

an abstract monkey king...

you know when you do those geometric doodles, and then notice that you've actually drawn something recognisable without meaning to?

me too.

an abstract doodle...

an abstract doodle...

and we don't seem to get many of them.

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.

a 3D pacman ghost

a 3D pacman ghost, or something.

and some kinda geometric arrow pattern, thrown in for good measure.

Fingers crossed for a productive friday meeting !

some abstract doodles

some abstract doodles.

i will try and do something a little more narrative soon. i've been busy.

...the usual friday meeting has been expanded for tomorrow, i suspect that something is very likely to start hitting the fan; so i might get some time to do something tomorrow

leaves ?

leaves ?

it was a day long training event, a couple of hundred of us in attendance, and only tepid water at the tables to serve as a distraction... really, what am i expected to do ?

not so much a meeting doodle

not so much a meeting doodle, but rather a 'stuck on the 'phone for half an hour to 'customer services' doodle'.

i finally triumphed, i might add, but lord oh lord those call-centre monkeys are hard work.

...i was much more helpful when i was a call-centre monkey, i can promise you that !

bold linear image

bold linear image, that's the best description i can come up with.

i can see a little aztec / sun god riff here, i can also see a little of a german expressionist who's work i've enjoyed; i guess i can even see a little image of a bold red sunset.

a spikey abstract thingy

a spikey abstract thingy

...which i'm really liking, actually.

reminds me, in many ways, of some of the very first pieces of work that i produced at art school

...although i guess that the success of those early pieces is made desperately clear by the fact that i'm stuck in tedious meetings every bloody day with an itchy biro hand.

a floral batsign

a floral batsign; holy fronds batman is poison ivy behind this dastardly doodle ??

well, not poison ivy exactly. just another couple of hours stuck in a badly lit office, trying very hard to make sense of the endless stream of obscure acronyms deliberately tossed around as if there were, in themselves, some evidence of intelligence.

a little squiggle and a rocket

a little squiggle and a rocket.

not much more to say, really.

i like the post-it note background, though. i'll do that again, i think.

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 !