Chris Shipton - Cartoons and Illustrations

Ikea Meatballs

Chris Shipton — Tue, 26 Feb 2013 10:30:27 +0000

Back in 2008 I was listening to the Adam & Joe radio show on BBC 6Music when they announced a ‘Songwars Animation Competition’. As a massive A&J fan and owner of a (then) top of the range Mac Book Pro with iMovie on it I thought I would have a go. You can see my effort below. Really it is just an storyboard, the only animated bit was a moving fork, and it didn’t win. Others entries were far better such as Janes Brain.

I am re=posting it as it seems strangely relevant after the announcement of IKEA meatballs showing signs of horse. As a very bad vegetarian I always have IKEA meatballs when I go there. So my smugness during the recent horse drama’s has now been utterly deflated. Anyway here’s the vid:

Anyway I have been working on my animation and there will be more in 2013!

The Dark Judges – Thargs Art Challenge

Chris Shipton — Tue, 12 Feb 2013 21:42:58 +0000

2000ad has been a lifelong source of inspiration for me. They have been running ‘Thargs Art Challenge‘ on Twitter. So, at the very last minute, I have decided to enter. Instead of doing any work today I have drawn four of my favourite 2000ad characters. The Dark Judges. Check it out.

An invitation to a Game of a Game of Thrones

Chris Shipton — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 16:12:28 +0000

Recently I was given the ‘Game of Thrones Boardgame’ as a birthday present. However I have not played it yet. In fact I am in the process of inveigling 6 of my friends to play it. To that end I have created an amazing invite, and better I have stuck a JPG up so you can download it and print it for your own Game of Thrones nights! Game of Thrones Invite 1mb

Peter Weyland’s 2023 TED talk – Visual Notes

Chris Shipton — Fri, 02 Mar 2012 13:03:15 +0000

There is a viral video out for the upcoming Sir Riddles film ‘Prometheus’ which will be an Alien pre-quel. Clearly I have ridiculously high expectations of this film, being a total Alien fanboy. This is a viral video with a difference. It’s a TED talk from Peter Weyland made in 2023. They will still have graphic recording in 2023. It’ll probably be done with a cybernetic implant so you can visualise the stuff onto some huge digital canvas as you hear the words. So I’ve made a graphic recording of the talk. While the technology of 2023 is advanced, there will still be drawing with wobbly black lines!

It’s a pretty dark TED talk from one of the amoral characters that appear to populate the continuity of the Alien films. here it is:

And here are my visual notes:

And if you go to Weylandindustries.com and use the tweet button you’ll find this is a video of 2023 posted in 2073. I imagine in 2073 Graphic Recorders will all be cybernetic individuals who draw with bewildering speed and unerring accuracy!!

Check out my extra large Infographic over on Event Manager Blog

Chris Shipton — Thu, 01 Mar 2012 13:22:52 +0000

I was asked to make an info graphic for my chums over on Event Manager Blog and you can see it here, where I’ve also been doing some event based cartoons.

Also you can have a look at the rough version after the jump.

Sketchnotes from the ‘Business Growth Show’

Chris Shipton — Tue, 28 Feb 2012 13:58:33 +0000

I popped along to ‘The Business Growth Show‘ in Oxford today. It was a nice networking event about…er.. um.. business growth. And it had free coffee and sandwiches. I made some sketchnotes during the two talks we were given at the event:

Steve Clarke (web):

Paul Avins (web):

Both of these chaps provided stirring business advice which could be further augmented by buying their books and joining their clubs. They went a little fast so I developed the ‘speech bubbles around a head’ method.

Misc. Sketchnotes from JQuery UK

Chris Shipton — Sun, 12 Feb 2012 13:57:00 +0000

I went to JQuery UK in Oxford on 10th Feb and it was an excellent conference. It had a really good crowd, it was perfectly organised with cool comp bags (including an awesome coffee code coffe mug) and great freebies (Blackberry doling out Playbooks). The talks were fascinating insights into this cutting edge web technology and afterwards there was a brilliant party! I made sketchnotes of most of the speakers talks. Having come from a web background I managed to cotton on to most of the tech stuff, but sometimes it escaped me. I was amazed that the audience LOVED the live code demo’s on stage. It was a niche crowd. But a crowd that makes up a community of some of the most interesting web developers around. You can see the sketchotes I made via this page and there are few of the random one off ones below. Here are two images from Jörn Zaefferer’s (twitter web) talk: I managed a few one offs from Todd Parker’s (twitter web) talk: Doug Niener (twitter web) had a very interesting talk which I ended up listening to rather than drawing. He used some great turns of phrase and I managed cartoons of two: Ok I admit it, Addy Osami’s (web twitter) talk was over my head. And I couldn’t ask my JQuery expert friend I was there with as he was paying total attention! I did mangage this:

Sketchnotes: Eric Ries at Leancamp

Chris Shipton — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:56:07 +0000

Eric Ries (website, twitter) took part in a Q&A at Leancamp, and these are my sketchnotes from it. He is an engaging speaker and the hall was packed! He is also the guy who came up with ‘Lean Start Up’ so it’s no surprise. Thiswas at the end of the day and my sketchnotes transformed more into ‘Live illustration’ style headlines.

On being a recognised figure:

In response to the question ‘How do you make money?’ :

This was good for me as a Lean noob as I didn’t know why people kept on saying ‘Pivot’ :

This is a great quote and was all over the Twitter feed, it could turn into a nice comic:

And this was a bleak but somewhat true statement on the nature of entrepreneurialism:

Sketchnotes: John Mullins and ‘Getting to Plan B’

Chris Shipton — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 13:55:17 +0000

John Mullins (web) teaches at the London Business School and was talking about his new book ‘Getting to Plan B: Breaking Through to a Better Business Model’. His 30 minute talk at Leacamp was not only very interesting but I enjoyed the fact it was delivered by someone who knows how to capture the attention of a whole, large, room!

There was a lot of info in a 30 minute talk, and a lot of stories and visual metaphors, which helped me! Also I have noticed that in public speaking of this nature it is de rigueur to talk about Steve Jobs as an inspirational figure. It was nice to hear some actual analysis of wat he did for a change. It shows the other side of Jobs, the ruthless business side we forget about after being entranced by a keynote.

Sketchnotes: starting start-up weekends

Chris Shipton — Fri, 20 Jan 2012 13:52:48 +0000

I wandered into a random session in the afternoon at Leancamp. It was about how to organise a start-up weekend delivered by Don Ritzen, Co Founder & CEO of Rockstart Accelerator. So I had no idea what a Start Up weekend was when I entered the room. But after sitting in the session I want to go to one!