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FLIP FLOP FLYIN' / CRAIG ROBINSON

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Updated 30 April 2023
Hiya. This year has been really quite frustrating so far. The writer's block that kicked in before Christmas is still the majority opinion inside my head. There's been a few drawings here or there, but I've never felt overly excited or as if things are picking up. But, one keeps plodding on, drawing through the void, hopefully we'll come out of the darkness soon.
As usually, there's a bunch of new additions to the Every Church in the World project; a couple of Minipops, (Phoebe Bridgers, Rajneesh); a new People with faces drawing, of Mexican emos; and a handful of inconsequential Other drawings.
I've also sorted out a couple of old things. I reformatted the Cheap Zoo animation from 2001, and added the drawing of Rio de Janeiro that used to be at the top of the old blog that ran from 2005-2017.
Thanks for dropping by. Hope you northern hemisphere people are having a good spring, and likewise, a good autumn in the south.

Updated 5 April 2023
Good morning. First up, there's 43 new churches added to the Every Church in the World project. We're up to 318 of them now. My aim is to have at least 365 done by the time the first anniversary of the project's beginning last 22 May.
I did a wee animation called Let's Go, Brain Noise! Purely for the joy of doing an animated GIF, really. I've not done any animated GIFs in Photoshop for donkey's years, so it was an exercise in cleaning out the dusty cobwebs of my brain. But what it did do was remind me that it's fun to do moderately complex stuff. And I should do more.
A new addition to the ongoing Pixel food project. This time is another drawing of a pastor trompo in a taquería.
Finally, a fifth drawing in the series of Suncloudmountain drawings. I reused the trompo de pastor in the above taquería drawing. Flipping it and re-colouring it to make a mountain. This was never intended to be a series, but I've kept coming back to the sun and cloud and mountain arrangement, and it's nice to have a series that is fairy quick and simple to get done every now and then.

Updated 24 March 2023
An animated series of drawings I did over the course of an afternoon in 2016 in a bar in Real del Monte - a lovely little town in Hidalgo, México - of a bottle of Tecate. Of course, because it took a whole afternoon, it was a few Tecates rather than the same bottle.

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.

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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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