Flip Flop Flyin'

FLIP FLOP FLYIN' / CRAIG ROBINSON

DRAWINGS ON THE INTERNET SINCE 1999

Web: flipflopflyin.com / flipflopflying.com / craigrobinson.com
E-mail: craig [at] flipflopflyin [dot] com
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Updated 23 March 2023
A couple of new things living in the Other drawings section: one of the new-ish Berlin S-Bahn train, the DB-Baureihe 483, and a drawing of a design for a 20th anniversary sleeve patch for my beard (companion to 2013's 10th anniversary sleeve patch design).
Back in 2012, I did 32 digital drawings of the sea off the coast of Hopkins, Belize. I took four eyedropper colour samples of the sky and sea in each of those drawing and used them to make each of the 32 drawings, eight pixels tall, and animated them: 8-pixel Caribbean Sea
And there's 30-odd addtions to the Every Church in the World project.

Updated 15 March 2023
All old stuff today. I finally got it together to convert some old Flash animations to mp4 so they will play in modern browsers. Woo.
First up, Bueller..., a wee animation of Simone's information about why Ferris Bueller isn't in class.
Next, the series of eight episodes of Pete and Bob, the dancing owls. I very much enjoyed making these, (between 2002 and 2006). It's the first time I've watched this series in over a decade, I think, and it was very nice to see it. Made me a bit melancholy, too. Thinking about how there used to be a lot more joy in my work than there is now. But, that mirrors my life, generally, so hopefully it comes back.
And thirdly, One to a hundred. I did the audio editing in 2004 and it sat tere on this Web site as an mp3 for 20 years. Over the weekend I finally gave it some visuals (and did a minor edit to the audio, correcting something that had always bugged me).
There's still a bunch of other stuff from the old days that needs re-formatting, but now that I've started doing it, hopefully I'll get it all done asap.

Updated 9 March 2023
A drawing of the buzzer on the outside of the building in which I live in the Other drawings section, where the one-off, drawing-for-the-sake-of-drawing stuff lives.
Here's a "new" thing called Sevens. I say new, but really these things have been sat on my hard drive for a long time. The plan was to do a bunch of these, but I'm just not as quick at doing them as I imagined I'd be. So let's put up the current three and see how soon I'll add more. It's a series of drawings of 7" singles that I love. The three so far are Sail On, Sailor by the Beach Boys, Two Tribes by Frankie Goes To Hollywood, and Chime by Orbital. I'm working slowly on a fourth one (one of the first records I ever bought!) that hopefully will be finished in the next few weeks.
A bit of housekeeping: over the years I've done a whole bunch of drawings of Kraftwerk. I've gathered them all in one place, The Kraftwerk Collection.

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About

My name is Craig Robinson, as you may have already noted from it being in big red letters at the top of this page
I am an artist and illustrator
Most of the stuff I draw is pixelly stuff done with Photoshop and Pixaki, but there's also stuff done with Procreate, ImageReady, Illustrator, SketchUp, and some things with pencils and paint
I was born in Lincoln, UK. I currently live in Berlin, Germany
Email: craig [at] flipflopflyin [dot] com
Representation: Debut Art

I studied at North Kesteven School in Lincoln, Lincolnshire College of Art and Design, and University of Derby
I worked in the music industry in London for a few years, then moved to Berlin to work for a Web design company. I've been freelance since 2003

Books:
Flip Flop Fly Ball: An Infographic Baseball Adventure, Bloomsbury USA, 2011
Atlas, Schmatlas: A Superior Atlas of the World, Harry N Abrams, 2007
Fun Fun Fun: 30 Ways to Have Fun, PP Book, 2005
Minipops: Famous People Drawn Really Small, Mitchell Beazley, 2004

Stuff in the above listings that aren't hyperlinks are things that I have not yet converted to a more modern format. Mostly it's Flash or Quicktime stuff. I will be working through the reformatting of those over the next months

Christmas stuff, all year round

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Thanks for visiting, hope you had fun. If you wanna say hello, feel free to email me: craig [at] flipflopflyin [dot] com
Other Craig Robinsons are available. And it's entirely possible you arrived at this Web site looking for one of them. Apologies
Have a good day

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