And here's the last of 'em! I ran out of steam near the end so I only watched the very last events, though I did draw Dakkan playing hockey on some printer paper for kicks. Otter playing hockey, it almost works. :V
I make it no secret - I LOVE the Olympics. I love watching almost every single event I can, and I love rooting for American (and my other pet favorite countries') athletes as they strive for medals. This is something I can't adequately explain, but I love 'em anyway.
On the list of "why the Olympics are awesome" are the opportunities it presents for gesture sketching. Like in life, you don't have a pause button. Sometimes you have replays and can cheat a little, but you've got all these great dynamic things going on and it's great.
So I'm going to put my Olympic sketchbook pages over the next few posts, uncensored for suckitude. How exciting. :P
"I do not make pictures for children, at least not just for children. I won't play down to them. Too many people grow up. That's the real trouble with the world, too many people grow up. They forget. They don't remember what it's like to be twelve years old. They patronize; they treat children as inferiors. I won't do that. I'll temper a story, yes. But I won't play down, and I won't patronize them."
"I didn't treat my youngsters like frail flowers, and I think no parent should. Children are people, and they should have to reach to learn about things, to understand things, just as adults have to reach if they want to grow in mental stature. Life is composed of lights and shadows, and we would be untruthful, insincere and saccharine if we tried to pretend there were no shadows. Most things are good, and they are the strongest things, but there are evil things, too, and you could do a child no favor by trying to shield it from reality. The important thing is to teach a child that good can always triumph over evil, and that is what our pictures do."