ILLUSTRATION OLYMPIAD: DAY FOUR AND FIVE

Playing a bit of catch-up on the illustration a day concept. I enjoy drawing corgis is silly glasses. Watching women's vault now. It's nuts! Ladies sitting down and stepping out left and right. I feel like I'm jinxing them by watching somehow. Getting excited to watch mens 100m dash later! Bolllllt.

P.S. Speaking of adorable silly dressed up corgis, the summer Mini Boden catalogue had some great illustrations.

ILLUSTRATION OLYMPIAD: DAY THREE

Here we go, day three!  My eyes were a little bigger than my plate last night when I decided to draw St. Paul's Cathedral in a frenzy after failing at drawing corgis for a half hour. So here is your belated day three illustration. St. Paul's Cathedral was designed by Sir Christopher Wren and always reminds me of Mary Poppins.

For some reason I didn't go into St. Paul's on our whirlwind tour of London in high school. We went to St. Paul's but while the rest of the group was inside, Anna and I explored the square out front. I remember being fascinated by the simplicity and repetition of these buildings:

ILLUSTRATION OLYMPIAD DAY 2.5

Got a little overly ambitious with today's Illustration Olympiad drawing. It's about half done—can you guess what building it's going to be? Full illustration will be up tomorrow night! Goodnight everyone (or good morning London). 

ILLUSTRATION OLYMPIAD: DAY TWO

Is it sad that I'm impressed with myself for keeping this up for three whole days in a row?

I've visited London once for about six hours when I had a long layover at Heathrow on a trip to Italy in high school. Luckily, they let us out of the airport to do a bit of exploring. We managed to pack quite a bit of sight-seeing into one afternoon. One of the things I remember most is how interesting the pigeons looked, though. They just looked more beautiful than North American pigeons.

ILLUSTRATION OLYMPIAD

After watching hours of Olympics coverage this past weekend, I hatched a plan to create an illustration for every day of the games. Partially as motivation for finishing my London map, partially to justify the exorbitant amounts of time I am spending in front of the tv. I'm calling it the Illustration Olympiad. Here are my illustrations for Saturday and Sunday.

The cauldron lighting was one of my favourite parts of the opening ceremonies on Friday. One of the coolest cauldrons I can remember. (Second favourite—making Lord of the Rings jokes during the forging of the ring).

LET THE GAMES BEGIN!

I don't follow sports one bit but boy do I love the Olympics. Not even a hideous logo and terrifying mascots can dampen my Olympic spirit. For a couple weeks every two years I am glued to my tv from the opening to the closing ceremonies. My London map has been a little slow-going as I am working on continuing my Here & There series in between freelance work but here is a little sneak peek.

I've got a good list going of places to highlight on the map but if you are a Londoner please feel free to leave any suggestions in comments!