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FLIP FLOP FLYIN' / CRAIG ROBINSON

DRAWINGS ON THE INTERNET SINCE 1999

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E-mail: craig [at] flipflopflyin [dot] com
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Updated 2 December 2021
Hiya. Happy December. Three things today. One new, one slightly reformatted to acknowledge its conclusion, and one rather large project from 2017 that I've neglected to put online until now. That last thing is called Allestodo and it was a thing that, while in retrospect, it's not as good as I felt it was when I was doing it, still feels like a good step towards what I've done since. The name is a clue. Alles. Todo. The German and Spanish words for "everything." I was a bit sick of feeling like drawings I was doing with different software felt like "my" drawing, but kinda looked like different parts of my brain at work. So I set out to do some drawings deliberately combining elements of pixelly stuff, Procreate, SketchUp, photos, and Adobe Illustrator. Anyway, it's a series of 102 drawings done over the course of about six months. Next up, the final Sleep chart. Long time visitors (hi!) might recall that I began keeping a chart of my sleep pattern in 2006. I kept going and going and going. My brain told me to just stop, but I never did. But then, in April 2019, I nearly died. Aside from other concerns, two weeks in a coma really does get in the way of keeping a daily chart. It did, though, feel like a good place to just stop. So I stopped. Finally, actual new stuff. Flag stars. All the stars from national flags combined. First, by continent, and then all together. I've done it at a 2:3 ratio, and endeavoured to find re-sized versions of flags that officially have other ratios. That's it for now.

Updated 17 November 2021
Another vector-y drawing today, I'm quite enjoying practising using Adobe Illustrator, something I've not been entirely comfortable with for most of my digital drawing life, trying to do what I'd ordinarily do with pixels, just with smoother edges. Anyway, the new drawing is in the Other drawings section, and it's a drawing of an Oxxo convenience store in Mexico.

Updated 12 November 2021
A wee bit of housekeeping: some of the vector-y pyramid drawings that were in the Serie 14 II section have been moved off to their own section, Pyramids (2021). A few weeks of distance from drawing them reveals that they're not really part of the same series. Blah de blah. Just one new thing today called Octagon Nr.27, added to to the Other drawings section. It's only semi-related to the Octagonz series from 2019, of which there were 25 drawings. (Nr. 26 was abandoned, somewhere over the Atlantic Ocean, never to be seen again.) Have a nice weekend.

Updated 9 November 2021
Hiya, here's a selection of new-ish things: the fifth in an ongoing series of coma-themed drawings; Birches, which is some tree trunks in space; a drawing of Sergio Perez and Lewis Hamilton; Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe; a wee collection of some of the pixelly lettering I've done over recent years; a small collection of drawings-for-drawing's-sake which for no particular reason I've called Vamos; and finally, a second Haruko loves Coca-Cola drawing. Two drawings feels a bit soon to be called a series, but I do intend to do more, so let's just say it is. A slow series, though, just one every year. The idea is to do a series of drawings with more or less the same parts and composition, but drawn in whatever is the way I'd draw at the time. I'm not making myself clear, am I? Basically, the drawing from December 2020 is something I'd not draw now. Hardly hugely different, but still different. And the new November 2021 one is something I wouldn't have done last year. And the one from this time next year is likely gonna be something different. I suspect this series will only begin to make any sense in 2030 or something, so, y'know, if I'm still alive then, this might all be worth it. I'm gonna try to not think about this through the year, and just come back to it again in November/December next year. Anyway, I quite enjoyed doing the new drawing so that's enough innit.

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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

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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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