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still not very successful at avoiding the usual themes - true we may have a pairing of giant and mini aliens that we've never seen before; but we also have some rocket-packing spacemen who look very much like the guys we've seen spacewalking in the past
... and, of course, there's still a dirty great space rocket at the bottom of the doodle !i guess the problem is that when i doodle it's a relatively subconscious act for me, so i would normally have no active thought process as i'm doodling.
so if i start to thing 'i don't want to doodle this or that' then i enevitably start thinking about what i should doodle instead; and then it all gets a little contrived.
ah well, i sit through the same presentation again tomorrow; lets see what we get then, eh "?
not very successful at my stated aim of avoiding the old favourites - here we see rocket ships, aliens planets, and even some little tentacles.
maybe my next one will be a little more unique ?
a driller-robot superhero battle was underway during the early stages of yesterday's first meeting.
by this point i gather that people sitting behind me in the lecture theatre were paying a little more attention to my doodles than i had realised.
at the end of this meeting i decided that i'd try to avoid my old staples of robots, tentacles, superheroes and rocket ships.
watch this space to see how successful i was at this goal...
an octopus in specs, would you believe it ?
i suppose that it wouldn't take much imagination to decide that the octopus is me, and that i'm obviously feeling that i have 'a lot on' at the moment.
this, and the next few doodles to appear have all been the results of a series of three two-hour lectures that i was required to attend.
a spaceship departure
presumably this is me wishing for some way, ANY way, to escape this dull meeting.
it was brief though... but still dull.
witness the attack of the giant silhouettes, as they victimize some normal-sized people.
aaaawww, feeling oppressed and overwhelmed on this meeting, where we, mr.doodler ?
don't let go!
it's simply your classic 'person hanging from a cliff face over a flaming pit'-type doodle.
pulled-out all of the stops here, to get back to my past life as a 'proper' artist, i used pencil !
a floating alien platform soars up into the clouds.
he looks happy enough though, triumphant even !
if i remember rightly this one was sketched towards the end of a long long LONG meeting.
floaty eyeball things, being watched-over from a rocky promontory.
not so much a 'meeting doodle', but rather a 'sitting at my desk twiddling my thumbs doodle'. . . or maybe even 'sitting at my desk twiddling my thumbs, reaching for the post-it pad, unzipping my bag to find my highlighters doodle'
whatever, quite like it anyway - i must like it, i was clearly moved to make an appalling joke on this one.
oh yes, the highlighters came out for this one.
what else am i expected to do when excel freezes-up on you, and stops your computer responding to your keystrokes, mouse gestures and threats of violence ?
listen, stop bleating on about my bloody virtual memory running out and run my sodding macro, will you ???
so anyway, due to popular demand we have the return of the 'startled opera singer' (may 2nd's post)
dunno, sorry, can't help you !
if i remember rightly this started as something like the great inventor (mel brooks') character in 'robots'; then it seemed important to have a little ridged neck, finished-off with a pair of little bats wings and some antennae.
hey, i've never maintained that there be any logic to these things !
all in all not so great, although the cross-hatching did keep me amused for a little while.
one of the x-men !
son of meeting doodler strikes with this superb comic book character.
after we'd reviewed my handywork the other evening he swiped my 100 page bound copy of the presentation and started to produce his own stuff.
good lad, daddy's proud of you !
whatever you do, don't look up...
i do like this one, again it's from the 3hour session the other day.
i always reach a point, during one of these long meetings, when i start to wonder 'do they all think i'm furiously busy taking notes from this meeting, or do they realise i'm just doodling away?'
the former lends me the cloak of intelligence, rigour and conscientiousness; the latter reveals me for the scribbling buffoon that i truly am.
i like this one, though. tentacles again, a bit of a recurring theme for me of late.
look out, a giant hamster!
this is the first hamster to appear in my margins; inspired - no doubt - by little j's mini hamster 'scratchy'.
this doodle is one of several produced the other day, during a 3 hour meeting to review, challenge & discuss the hundred or so page document that they're scribbled on.
more will follow...
mountaineers abound !
yes, there are a few things happening here, we appear to have some silhouetted mountaineers scaling the east face of a summary table of benefits, whilst a generic office-worker appears to be confused by something (maybe what he's seen through the wall of his office ?)
and we also have the first appearance of a 'super-flasher' accosting someone as they descend a staircase.
oh yes, it was a meeting that was blissfully free of anything either useful or conclusive for those present.
i enjoyed myself, though; that has to count for something!
