Day 149.
You will shortly understand why I am leading with the source image today.
The Canadian coat of arms is, like all coats-of-arm, kind of imperialist and kind of dorky and kind of Society for Creative Anachronism cool. If you asked a ten-year-old to name design components for a coat of arms, they'd probably say it has to have a unicorn, and also a lion, and you would very reluctantly draw the line at a dinosaur. And yep, there is the (English) lion and the (Scottish) unicorn right there on either side.
The coat of arms is full of all sorts of symbolism that is either howlingly obvious or possibly made up by Wikipedia vandals. For example, the shield in the middle (the escutcheon) has symbols of the four countries that mattered to the kind of people who designed the coat of arms: England, Scotland, Wales and Ireland. The maple leaves in the bottom of it symbolize multiculturalism insofar as [citation needed]. It's all stuff like this.
All of which is to say that I decided to make today a five minute challenge, partly because I haven't done one for a while, but mostly because I thought it would be really funny to try to draw this in five minutes and go down in glorious, hilarious flames.
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