At about 7 p.m. today, I had no idea what I was going to draw for this month’s illustration. I was having some serious creative block when I decided to try to get the juices flowing by thinking about things that made this month special. One of the things that I particularly enjoyed doing this month was working on an illustration of an octopus for the same client who I recently did the logo work for that was featured in this previous post about logo design. I’m actually a little unnaturally obsessed with cephalopods right now as a result of that illustration project, so I briefly considered doing another octopus for this month’s illustration. But then I thought that might be a bit of a cop-out.
Then I remembered that everyone on the planet (or at least on Facebook) has Olympic Fever right now. What better subject for July than the Olympics!