just a little one

just a little one today.

the office move is over now, so hopefully back to normal soon.

annoyingly had a meeting on friday, but were all sat too close together to manage to do anything usable.

robots, robots, robots

robots, robots, robots

we're in the throes of an office move here at work, and what should i find on someone else's desk but an old pad of mine.

so here's an old doodle, a tad rococo i feel, but to be fair i remember the meeting vividly - it was long and rather pointless.

family fun

family fun on the horizon.

we're off for a week away... but don't lose faith in the meeting doodler blog.

check back in ten days, and i should have some more stuff to post.

don't forget, absence makes the heart grow fonder !

a crazy voodoo image

a crazy voodoo image

just enjoying the new pen here, really liking the quality of line - i like the flattened quality that a clean black line can give.

this witch-doctor type mask looked like it would become a robot doodle, but then wavy arms made things take an entirely different path.

the candle was a mistake, though

a superhero battle

a superhero battle raging in the margins of my oh-so-riveting schedule printout.

this is a lovely introduction to the lovely new pen given to me by the lovely lady s; in actual fact it's one of her cast-offs, but it'll do nicely thank you. very nice to write and, more importantly doodle, with.

it's a uniball signo 0.7 for anyone who's interested in that kind of thing.

and, of course, every highlighter colour that i could find in the pathetic metal cabinet that passes for a stationery cupboard in my office.

hmm, note to self, 'must do horizontal doodles, must do horizontal doodles, must do horizontal doodles' .

horizontal doodle = less of my inane verbiage

zombie guy

zombie guy... with and without ipod

not too pleased with the cheap new pad that i've acquired, you can clearly see what's written on the other side of the page !

i suspect we'll see more of the zombie...

some kind of superhero search party

some kind of superhero search party

five minutes, a post-it and some highlighters later and look what a bored office worker can produce.

the 'superheroes in the middle-distance, looking on' theme seems to be developing, along with the old favourites of rocket ships and robots...

abstract + spaceship

abstract + spaceship

don't think i've posted this before

alien attack !!!

alien attack !!!

in my regular friday meeting i'm fast becoming the pain-in-the-arse guy who asks questions that maybe others don't want to, or feel that they shouldn't have to.

in many ways it feels a little like i'm pointing out that the bloke on the throne up there is naked as the day he was born.

so i suppose that explains the lone schmuck in the doodle being set upon by a herd of marauding beak-mouthed aliens...

but today was a good day, today they listened to the schmuck

alien totem pole!

alien totem pole !

now this really did grow from nowhere, this grew from a relatively brief meeting about the department's office move about 1 mile down the road.

i guess the implied narrative is something along the lines of a charlton heston "god damn you all to hell!" moment - remnants of an old culture covered by the sands of time - viewed by a detached onlooker in this case...

it's not so divorced from the meeting in question after all !

a spacewalk

a spacewalk; the first comment from s on this one was something along the lines of "you're colouring them in now ?"

...and she does have a point. to clarify - i don't take packs of highlighters into meetings; doodles like this will tend to be at my desk (phone calls, waiting for something to finish running on the pc, etc.)

i have a headache now from the fumes off the highlighters/whiteboard markers... i suffer for this blog !

some kind of dinosaur head

some kind of dinosaur head, which amused me during a 90 minute friday afternoon meeting (and they expect me to pay attention !!!)

the coffee was rotten, and the biscuits were kept at the other end of the table (too conspicuous to get up and reach over for some during the various updates and discussion points)

still one of my favourite meetings because it's an ongoing exercise in arse-covering; these guys have messed-up good, and are desperately trying to save face by doing some serious last minute maneouvering.

disembodied head

disembodied head licked by flames from above and below.

i like this one, not sure why i like it so much... there was a point where the face was going to transform into one of the key figures from 'les demoiselles d'avignon'.

i'm glad it didn't.

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 couple of rampaging robots

a couple of rampaging robots this time.


we have a robot-as-king kong affair on the left; and above we have an odd looking guy pulling a boat from the treacherous sea.

both from the same meeting last week.