FLIP FLOP FLYIN' / CRAIG ROBINSON

DRAWINGS ON THE INTERNET SINCE 1999

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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.

Older updates


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Ongoing projects
Minipops
Avenida Selena Gomez
Coma drawings
Every Church in the World
Haruko loves Coca-Cola
Jesus, etc.
The Kraftwerk Collection
Lollipops
Méxipops
Minibirds
People with faces
Pixel food
Saints
Sevens
Slightlybiggerpops
Suncloudmountain
Vroom vroom

2023 Berlin
8-pixel Caribbean Sea
Pop tart cards
Other drawings

2022 Berlin
64 Octagons
67 pixel people
Backache Brothers
Bad Bunny
The Bangin' Gardens of Babylon
Blanket of Stars
Born amongst the rocks of the lakes
Brain scan
Casa de los Azulejos
Creamy Mountains
Fever Dream 23.9.2022
Food-lovin' food
green eyes
Iglesias de Chimalhuacán
Kraftwerks mexicanos
London clubs
Mandorlas
Mauerpark
Midnights and more...: a look at nighttime times mentioned in Taylor Swift songs
Mini Milk Birds
Puma panther cougar shark
Queso blanco
Queso blanco tamaño familiar
Senna/Prost
Silencio
Squiggly Cloud Series
This Season's Flags (México)
Western Wall
Other drawings

2021 Berlin
32 lines of the Caribbean Sea
The Balcony Lads
Los Beatles
Birches and other trees
Bodybuilders
Cerro del Chiquihuite and the Golden Hypnopompic Hallucination with a Concarril NM-73 and an Yves Klein
Computer love
Dorothy Harris
Feliz viaje
Flag stars
Flamingo and the Cloud in the land beyond the universe, over the rainbow (feat. Cactus and Skydancer)
Hopkins
Línea 9
Mommsenstadion
The New Real Paraguay
Pangea Dream Fantazies
Pyramids (2021)
Seaside
Serie 14 II
Τέιλορ Σουίφτ (Taylor Swift)
Tesoros
Vamos
Other drawings

2020 Berlin
Atomium
Barrio
CD player, separated
Circuitry
CMYK
DF taxis
Eixo Monumental (Via S1)
Hospital Drawing Series
I Like your Shoes
Mexico 90
Peephole
Pixelling
Pixels, 3x3
Self portrait 2020
Serie 14
Sports teams in Mexico City (2020 update)
Structure 9.2
Structures
Telegram Sam
Tienditas
Xochimilco
Other drawings

2019 Berlin
Berlin135px
Caribou Deluxe
Feed the birds, feel better, try to sleep, and do it again tomorrow
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in "Ladies & Gentlemen: The Best of George Michael"
Octagonz
Plattenbau, lettuce, and tomato sandwich
Rapid transit trains
Sleaford Mods and other subcultures of Lincolnshire
Sleep
Tetris landscape
A walk to the Fernsehturm
Other drawings

2018 Ciudad de México/Berlin
2x2 landscapes
12 rainbows
32x32px
Coastlines
Estadio Azul
Party people
Pyramid series
Rave pyramid
Ritual
Unnamed series of drawings
Volcano
Weltraum500
Other drawings

2017 Berlin
Allestodo
Everything everything Nr. 0
Hickatee
Nature thingies
Self portrait as poles
Skull-topped mountains
TeBe thing
Wurst triptych
Other drawings

2016 Ciudad de México/Berlin
Beer and a dog
Berliner Würfel
Big computer
CLWNMNTNJNNJNJN
Flags for dessert
Flosscone
Folded rainbow
My Boys
Raymonde and Lola
Sports teams in Mexico City
Tecate
U-Bahn cubes
Other drawings

2015 Ciudad de México
Adivina Quien?
Axolotl
Bitter Sweet Symphony (infographic)
The boy whose head was a part of the Panama Canal likes vanilla ice cream but doesn't have a mouth
Game Over Memorial
King Tubby's studio
Maneki-neko
MEXI<0
Mountains
Near Pachuca
Neptune Fish Bar Sushi Nite!
PC Brigade
Rave Octagon
Self ketchuping hot dog
Sockets
This Season's Flags
Thrown Stone
Twisty Shapes
Vengabus
Voladores
Wrestlin'
Yardwork
Other drawings

2014 Ciudad de México
Bandstand
Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure (infographic)
Entertainer
Flower
I Wanna Dance With Somebody
London
Milky Bar and Lucía
Motorway blocks
Mr Kelly's
Partakers
Sign "O" The Times (infographic)
Other drawings

2013 Ciudad de México
4'33" (infographic)
Barnacle
Daft Punks
Drawing Pints While I Drink Them
The Fall (infographic)
Football diamonds
Frankie Goes To Hollywood (infographic)
Fuck the rainbow
Goat
It's Grim Up North (infographic)
John, Paul, George, and Ringo (infographic)
Mexico City
Muscles
Oaxaca
Pixies "The Purple Tape" (infographic)
Same as it ever was
Other drawings

2012 Ciudad de México
Beastie dots
Cloud story
Five answers
Goldilocks
¡Holiday!
Hopkins seascapes
The horse tests
JD/NO (infographic)
The old man and the sea
Onashaga
Pepinster
Ringkøbing Zoo
Ulysses
Other drawings

2011 Ciudad de México
All of Reign in Blood
Cabin
Euphoric trumps
The rather tedious tale of the occasional battles in my head
Seagull umpire
Other drawings

2010 Berlin/Toronto/Ciudad de México
A trip to the National Museum of Anthropology
Flopps
I'm not from New York
Lamppost
One Track Mind
Two very short films about Minnesota and Florida
Where do I belong?
Wreck
Other drawings

2009 Bellingham, Wa./Berlin
Ladybird
Love, Actually (infographic)
Nightworkers
Sleeping laptops
Stuck Tic Tacs
Weaknesses
Other drawings

2008 Various
A Year of Streets
O! Porcelain Kittens
Pigeon
Rio de Janeiro
Scared snow
Sparrow
De Wonderboom
Other drawings

2007 Berlin
Alex the Weather Boy
Bueller...
Clouds and under
Disenchanted forest
Helping the wind and helping the rain
Ohne Titel
We Are Tigers '80
Die Wunderbäume
Other drawings

2006 Berlin
12 years of sleep (infographic)
A bench
All of Pet Sounds
Colours of the week
Mini World Cup 2006
Not available in the shops
Pictorial atlas of the world
Robinsonia
Snow breath
Special editions
Other drawings

2005 Berlin
An Arthur in the world
Mapping Bruce
On this day
Valley of the Cnuties
Witham and Woodhall
Other drawings

2004 Berlin
Batman and Robinson
Cheap space documentary
Ghost of Hawdin's Wood
Mini Euro 2004
One to a hundred
What if...
Other drawings

2003 Berlin
Can't sleep
Everybody's dogs
Harold's diary
Normalpops
Prinsengracht
The Technically Perfect Hair of Lincolnshire
Uibbles
Yummy yummy yummy I got love in my tummy
Other drawings

2002 Berlin
Cheap ABC
David with one long arm
Gran's apple crumble
Mike and Jill
Pete and Bob
Other drawings

2001 Berlin
Cheap Zoo
Cnuts
George
Ralf
Other drawings

2000 London/Berlin
Boy meets Pixel
Fun Fun Fun
Ghosts are rubbish at squash
I Love Colette
Mini Euro 2000
Mini Museum of Modern Art
Other drawings

1999 London
27 squares
Flipcam
Polaroids
Pretend you're famous
Other drawings


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
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Have a good day


Links

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Popbitch
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Shoboshobo
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Spreeblick
Standstill Repetition
Strange Harvest
Violetta's World
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We Make Money Not Art
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