London illustrator Vic Lee has documented his experience of the coronavirus pandemic in a graphic diary, which ended up selling thousands of copies after he shared it online.
Lee's self-published Corona Diary illustrates his lockdown experience, and documents global and national events during the first six months of the coronavirus pandemic.
While the illustrator's recent works have been large-scale, hand-drawn murals, he created the smaller-scale book as a way of handling life during lockdown.
"The diary was initially a personal project," Lee told Dezeen. "I read a lot of dystopian novels, so the old imagination just started flying into end-of-times scenarios."

"It completely threw me, but as I had no work, and the government gave me nothing as most creatives got, it felt like I needed to focus my energies and keep my mind busy," he added. The project is an extension of Lee's normal process of creating illustrated diaries when travelling, in order to record the experience. Corona Diary is completed in the same style and is "heavily illustrated, full of stories to lose yourself in," Lee explained.

"My normal artist life is doing vast hand-penned murals, very Victoriana meets modern charm and wit," he said. "I think the book is a much more raw version, from the heart."
"Nothing in the book has been adapted or cleaned. There's typos in there, pencil marks. I wanted it to be as genuine as the original," he...