#olympic sloths

Ski-Jumping Sloth - Olympic Sloths

The final Sloth of the Olympic Sloths Series! (At least for now…) I had a heckuva time deciding what sport to go for here - I knew it had to be a winter olympic sport, but I’d already done all the ones with unique costumes/uniforms. I was left with Bobsleigh, Luge, Skeleton, Speed Skating, and the Various Skiings (Alpine, Slalom, Cross Country and Jump). Most of those all wear variations on the same outfit - Skintight lycra - and most of them also have a head- and face-obscuring helmet and visor/goggles.

I sketched and sketched and sketched and could never quite get the iconic poses for most of them down. Ski Jump was one of the first I tried and rejected. I narrowed it down to Alpine Skiing, Crosscountry Skiing and Speed Skating. I asked around and showed some folks the sketches. Crosscountry skiing was in the lead, until my sister went “what about ski jump?” So, to humour her, I gave Ski Jump another go.

I should honestly know by now that my sister is always right.

Football Sloth - Olympic Sloths

Allow me a moment to be immensely proud of that freakin’ football. I have never drawn a football better, and I suspect I never shall again. Bask in the glory.

Meanwhile, if there’s a football team who’s jersey you’d like to see this sloth wearing let me know, and I’ll see about doing alternate versions.

Ice Dance Sloth - Olympic Sloths

This could also be just called ‘Figure Skating Sloth’, but I was specifically looking at Ice Dance costumes when I was getting my references.

I also discovered that the representative from Slothdonia is probably at a helluva disadvantage in the judging, because, uh, most of the moves that require legs in the air and so forth just, um, just don’t work when you’re shaped like a potato with very short legs…

Volleyball Sloth - Olympic Sloths

I’ll be honest, one of the reasons I love working on this series is the fact that I get to draw Sloths in really ridiculous outfits. And the OFFICIAL OLYMPIC rules on the uniforms for beach volleyball are so stupid that this is what most of them wear. How ridiculous is that?? It’s like an invitation to get sand in uncomfortable places!!

Anyway, here’s Volleyball Sloth.

Hockey Sloth - Olympic Sloths

Cue the (original) Hockey Night In Canada theme! Hockey Sloth is here to shoot, to score!!

I had so much fun designing this, possibly the ugliest hockey uniform imaginable.

It occurred to me, once I had this Sloth finished that I could easily re-colour the lineart to do versions in existing hockey uniforms. If that’s something you’d be interested in, please comment/reblog/whatever with the team you’d like to see represented!

Wrestling Sloth - Olympic Sloths

I was thinking about what Summer Olympic Sloths to do, and my mum reminded me about the wonderfully goofy little uniforms that Olympic wrestlers wear..