http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Doctor Who fan art. Sometimes humorous, sometimes serious. Note: Contains potential spoilers for series four http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008a8x1.xml My thoughts on the new Cybermen design (drawn the week it was first revealed). Text reads "No, you can tell me -- do my hips look big in this? ...It's supposed to show! It's fashion!" http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00001ws2.xml df837de75268dc71d8fd5710e55480c3 image/png 358 428 117830 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00001ws2 Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Cybermen http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Joke http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000ezb2.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000ezb2 Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82 TV Offal's Gay Daleks meet the new series. Text is: Gold Dalek: SWEE-TEE WHITE IS -SO- LAST SEA-SON! Imperial Dalek: OH-- YOU BITCH! http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00003ws2.xml f471377dd327a1033ba8d2a7e65d3cc6 image/png 395 296 183849 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00003ws2 Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Daleks http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Joke http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000ezb2.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000ezb2 Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82 The new series monster drawings, without backgrounds or dialogue. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00004yw4.xml a81162bf60e61d2925092e5429e0ee3a image/png 527 415 195492 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00004yw4 Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Cybermen http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8 Daleks http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82 It's terrible to have allergies... Somehow this tablet sketch looks like it was drawn with coloured pencils, but oh well, it was only for a joke! I'm not sure why it's drawn with cricket kneepads on, although this is intended to be a pisstake of the late 1980's design. Note, this Cyberman was drawn without sketching in a different colour first (unlike CyberThong). Text is: "OooH CyberCakes ...oh 'May ConTain Gold TraCes'... BuGger." http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00005he5.xml 0d16b7ecc581c461f858812fb6ef237a image/png 321 278 63264 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00005he5 Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Cybermen http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Joke http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000ezb2.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000ezb2 Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82 I discovered that openCanvas lets you draw with the graphics tablet and have it look like a pencil sketch. Also, thanks to Eddie Campbell, I was inspired to try to draw people again, to see if I can get to the point where I can do my own comics. So, obviously, I decided to draw The Doctor and Rose. Let me just stress, drawing people is /hard/. I mean, people are OK, but actual specific people? Hard! The Doctor was super easy. Then I foolishly decided to try to do Rose from the side. I really can't do people from the side! After several failed attempts, including one where I drew Zoe Ball by accident. I had a huge bitch about how much I hated Billie Piper's face, then I calmed down and tried doing Rose from the front. This was a passable picture of Rose, so I counted my blessings and stopped. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0001bqea.xml 179bd1caf0ac9a1414a07c402c0109ca image/png 366 346 48002 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0001bqea Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82 After yesterday's Billie Piper fiasco, I decided to draw someone with a much more straight forward and ordinary face ...then forgot about that and drew Tom Baker instead. Oh well. I did this sketch really quickly, had it looking convincing on my first try and was really happy. Then I went into the other room and came back to see I'd done the world's best sketch of Rose from the Golden Girls. I even saved it for a future occasion when I might need to do Golden Girls fan art for some reason. Cue about 45 minutes of erasing and redrawing the eyes and mouth et voila! A vaguely passable sketch of the Fourth Doctor with K-9 thrown in because boxy robots are easy and Lalla Ward or Louise Jameson isn't. It's a big cheat on my original plan to draw a Doctor and a companion every day but hurrah for technicalities! Fifth Doctor and Chameleon pretending to be a cube next :P http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0001c3bf.xml 61d198c98b68812e1c6c73691e0c2550 image/png 323 320 45233 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0001c3bf Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82 If you were under any mistaken impression that I could draw recognisable people after the last two sketches, here is my absolute best attempt at sketching the Ninth Doctor and Captain Jack. Neither person looked stunningly like anyone else at any point during the sorry affair. This is the first point either of them actually looked like human beings and not someone's cartoon characters. Maybe this was just a bad day... http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0001d4e2.xml b623e33ef94926bc44c87241f847027b image/png 460 366 45905 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0001d4e2 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82 I draw much better in pencils [NB, I draw as well as this on a tablet PC! - June 2008]. This is an attempt to redraw the 30 Minute Alphabet from NaArMaMo but with no time limit. You'll note I lost interest (quit while I was ahead?) at D. Really quite happy with this one even though the first two don't really resemble their source images. Auton | Bok | Cyberman | Dalek http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0001e212.xml 8cf89d0fca1a91eca0525ce001b8a336 image/jpeg 1501 477 114819 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0001e212 Cybermen http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8 Daleks http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Pencil http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000y7bc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000y7bc Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 An attempt to represent the episode Claws of Axos. It's gone a little wrong and the intention to use pencil smudging to represent a shiny gold face just looks like a uneven beard. I think I pushed a little too far past my limits here (or I was having a bad day). http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0001f9r4.xml 285a7d813291f58f42ba20b0bc2fbc07 image/jpeg 1561 760 207957 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0001f9r4 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Pencil http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000y7bc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000y7bc Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 On this day I was completely uninspired and couldn't draw for toffee, so I decided to draw a 30 minute Doctor Who monsters (and villains) alphabet because most classic series monsters look so ropey they don't need good art ;) A is for Auton | B is for Bok! | C is for Cyberman | D is for Dalek | E is for Editor, The | F is for Face of Boe, badly drawn | G is for Gelth | H is for Haemovore | I is for Ice Warrior | J is for Jagaroth | K is for Kandy Man | L is for Lumic, John - 15 minute point - M is for Macra | N is for Nimon | O is for Ood | P is for Polyphase Avatron (the annoying parrot) | Q is for Quark | R is for Reaper, badly drawn | S is for Sea Devil | T is for Tetrap | U is for Underwater Menace (ahem), Fish Person from The | V is for Vervoid | W is for Wirrn, very badly drawn | X is for Xmas Invasion (ahem), Pilot Fish Santas from The - 30 minute point! - Y is for Yeti | Z is for Zarbi The whole thing took about 35 minutes (this is why the last four look so terrible) but at least 5 minutes of that was working out what I was drawing or finding an appropriate reference image (I only opened a page with a list of monsters and races, another with a list of robots and another with a list of villains before starting). http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00018wc4.xml d99961b2f166b7caf6824eca157eaaa1 image/png 1610 2304 2296535 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00018wc4 30 Minute Alphabet http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00011246.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00011246 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Pencil http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000y7bc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000y7bc Quickie http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001kwpc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001kwpc Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 This was a very quick pencil sketch of the 7th Doctor, taken from the small circular 'icon' on the bottom left of a standard UK Doctor Who 7th Doctor DVD. The eyes are too small. This is an unusual sketch -- usually I draw the sketch the same size as the source image, here I enlarged it. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0006h4g8.xml bfa4f9e01a70fe189d008a44bdcf7638 image/png 337 432 105222 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0006h4g8 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Pencil http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000y7bc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000y7bc People http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf Quickie http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001kwpc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001kwpc Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Another attempt at line-shaded comics style art. This time drawing a 1980's Cyberman. This was drawn with three layers: a rough sketch with light blue lines (hidden in the final piece), thick variable width line work, and thin fixed width shading lines. I'm quite pleased with how this looks, especially when it's reduced in size. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0006t184.xml f013fc6667a31c53b89c4f39157e06bb image/png 386 447 116239 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0006t184 Cybermen http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Line Shaded http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001rwfk.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001rwfk Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty This is an attempt to 'ink' my previous tenth Doctor sketch and colour it. I think the inking looks good (I used a program called Sketchbook Pro using a solid black pen with thickness varying from 1 to 4px with pressure). The colouring I'm not so happy with, it's a bit pink and the shading doesn't really look right. I think this would have been improved with a reference image to base my colours in. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0006wry0.xml 7dd7c6fe9bba096fefbb8a786fcec230 image/png 506 710 181444 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0006wry0 Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty This sketch is a bit of a failure in that it doesn't look like the 7th Doctor. It's actually much more difficult to draw a stylised person that it is to draw copious amounts of detail (at least in terms of having the result look like the person you were intending to draw). I really should have adjusted my sketch to have the correct proportions before starting -- the eyes are still too small. I also failed to find the original reference image so had to make up the shading. I added the red umbrella handle as a desparate attempt to producea recognisable image. Oh and somehow I think this looks like it was drawn on an early 90's computer with a limited 256 colour palette... http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0006yrep.xml 99457b625e9ec1df8df8333ec5eb0367 image/png 652 836 281127 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0006yrep Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty In an attempt to draw cartoon style art that looks recognisably like a person I tried importing a source image, tracing the face as a sketch layer then hiding the background image. I then attempted to draw a cartoon-style stylised face over the sketch, then hid the sketch and adjusted the cartoon until it looked more like the idea of the tenth Doctor rather the photo I started with. I didn't make things easy for myself though, as I decided to start with an image in which the Doctor is looking incredulous, and then change that image to open the mouth (if I'm going to draw comic strips with talking, the mouths need to open). The face does look a bit more like David Tennant, but it's still not quite right. The shading colours are also too dark compared to the base colour they shade. Still, practice is practice. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00070crp.xml 01f056eb41b9e833d3055f5d8291b9a4 image/png 688 777 233019 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00070crp Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty This is a Tablet PC sketch of an Ood. Sketched 'by eye' then drawn over with a variable width solid black line for the thick outlines and a fixed with black line for the detail, then coloured quickly with a variety of different brushes. This was intended to be in comic book style in that I used a limited palette of colours and drew each layer quickly without trying to make it look exactly like the source image. As always, it looks considerably better when reduced. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00079r75.xml 254fb1db4e4b81079c1d281db2341c22 image/png 608 614 238135 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00079r75 Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty A quick freehand Tablet PC sketch of the Sontaran General Staal from the New Who series 4 episode The Sontaran Stratagem. Drawn on one layer at 100% zoom with very few corrections. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007bcxg.xml f6b4cee5fb5f3e12aca78c22baf9ed21 image/png 488 362 33690 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007bcxg Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Sontarans http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001tt8b.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001tt8b Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty This tablet PC sketch of one of the weeping angels from the new Doctor Who series 3 episode Blink took me hours to complete. It used multiple sketch layers, several different brush types and numerous redrawings (including a number of annoying mistakes due to being out of practice with SketchBook). http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007ctpw.xml 44fbcc2e6c2c7e7ff8b730784303abad image/png 696 538 224987 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007ctpw Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty This picture of Dalek Caan as seen in the series 4 finale was to be used for a get well card (Originally had the text 'Not Feeling Your Usual Self? Get Well Soon!' over the top and bottom), as such I drew it at print resolution. I didn't realise quite how time consuming drawing at print quality size is. The first attempt on Sunday morning took me four and a half hours, but still looked extremely rough. Later that day I then spent more than two hours cleaning it up to produce the card. Monday I spent a further two and a half hours 're-touching' it for upload to the gallery. Not only did I re-touch, but I ended up redrawing a number of major picture elements including all four chains and one ball. So this picture represents over nine hours work total, not including the hour or so collecting references images! This would be the most time I've spent on a single piece of artwork since my GCSE Art exam. I'm very pleased with the final result, especially as I was aiming for a greetings card/comic book style. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007pa3t.xml bca824c52339239ab000eec913f08f30 image/png 1686 1819 1457035 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007pa3t Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Daleks http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty A full colour version of the previous General Staal sketch. Unlike all previous pieces I've created, this is entirely coloured using the airbrush tool and does not include black lines. I actually started by drawing black lines and colouring underneath them, but I found that it actually looked better with the lines layer turned off. This took four hours work to complete, not including the original sketch. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007t8xe.xml 07cc09704b0423b3d2ea1523bcf1f392 image/jpeg 1892 1188 135798 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007t8xe Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t Sontarans http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001tt8b.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001tt8b Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty A portrait of River Song posing with the diary, as featured in the Doctor Who series 4 episode Silence In The Library and played by Alex Kingston. This took almost 15 hours work on the tablet PC, two hours of which was the original sketch and four hours was the airbrush colouring on the face. A version of this image at eleven hours progress was used on spacefall's birthday card with the text "A Date For My Diary ...HAPPY BIRTHDAY!". This is now the most time consuming piece of artwork I've produced. It's also the first drawing of a human I've done that I think is recognisably the person it's supposed to be. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007wz7f.xml ce669d333ff42324a8ecaa070ec3848d image/jpeg 2139 2332 750644 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007wz7f Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t People http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf River Song http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00022rgz.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00022rgz Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty NaArMaMo 2008, Day 1: Adipose Baby A tablet PC airbrushed picture of one of the Adipose babies from the series 4 episode Partners In Crime. This is my first piece for (Inter)National Art Making Month 2008, in which you create a new piece of art every day in August. I'm very happy with how this turned out, although it looks like it's either pointing at something just over the viewer's shoulder (or doing the disco dance from Saturday Night Fever!). I started with a quick sketch then flat coloured and airbrushed under this. Then I removed the sketch layer and tidied it up. The total time required was 2.5 hours with 15 minutes for the sketch. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007zh4s.xml 2130f941fceabcc3f4b26ec2149e5104 image/jpeg 661 589 50641 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0007zh4s Adipose http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0002470p.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0002470p Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty This is my second piece for (Inter)National Art Making Month 2008, in which you create a new piece of art every day in August. This time I drew Brannigan, one of the cat people from the Doctor Who series 3 episode Gridlock. It was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent approximately 4.5 hours, 30 minutes of which was the original sketch. I was so happy with the sketch layer I'd drawn that I decided to draw this as comics-style art with the lines still visible. The black lines are mostly those in the original sketch just with a little tidying up and with most of the face lines removed. I think this has turned out reasonably well. If I could do anything differently it would have been to draw the black whiskers on a different layer so I could turn them off and just draw them in white. Drawing white over black was extremely fiddly and doesn't look all that great. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00080q3k.xml 73db3a1bc4f039d2371d4ef217e7c18c image/jpeg 811 710 142253 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00080q3k Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Cat People http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00025edd.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00025edd Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty NaArMaMo 2008, Day 3: CyberController For day 3 I drew The CyberController from the Doctor Who series 2 episode Age Of Steel. It was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent approximately 4 hours, 30 minutes of which was the original sketch. I actually drew a very rough sketch thinking I was going to airbrush over it, then decided to colour under it. As a result at least 2 hours was spent just cleaning up the sketch lines with relatively little time spent on the colouring. I think that's resulted in something which could probably do with a few hours more work, especially highlights and shadow on the body -- but as it's a NaArMaMo, I had to submit it as it is. Considering how bad the sketch looked originally, I still think it's turned out pretty well. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00081a9g.xml 27d6250958e5f1d4cfbd2f8b2c989706 image/jpeg 871 818 181497 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00081a9g Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Cybermen http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000bwd8 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty On day four I drew Davros as seen in the Doctor Who season four finale, The Stolen Earth/Journey's End. It was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool only. Total time spent, 3 hours. Of which 20 minutes was the completely removed sketch layer. I decided to challenge myself and only use the airbrush this time. Davros' face is all one texture but with lots of wrinkles and veins, so it's a good subject to airbrush. I was planning to also draw the shoulders and metal brace Davros sits in, but ran out of time, instead 'suggesting' these with darker areas in the background. I'm really quite happy with how this has turned out, especially the detail seen at full size. Although I notice that it's become slightly lopsided -- davros is supposed to be leaning slightly to one side, but I think the features have ended up leaning slightly more than the head. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00082eph.xml a4364312dc1af1f25e4440362ec5b71e image/jpeg 774 890 114761 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00082eph Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Daleks http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty Doctor Who fan art featuring the Dalek Emperor as seen in the series 1 finale, Parting of the Ways. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a fixed opacity, variable width brush only. It took 4 hours total to complete. Yes, four hours, just for the lines! Do not under estimate how much time it takes to draw machinery cleanly! There's a reason Dalek Caan took 9 hours to complete! I over-stretched myself with this one. I had a streaming cold, had to work a full day at work including quite a lot of physical activity and ended up spending 3 hours out the house in the evening for a meal with my workmates. This piece should be coloured. The only way it would ever be coloured properly during NaArMaMo was if E had fallen on a weekend, which it didn't. A lot of the detail/depth is missing as it was intended to be included when the piece was airbrushed. I am certain that I'll come back to this one after NaArMaMo is over... http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00083h32.xml f1e641304d20646232c986141daa20c9 image/png 2175 1632 1031772 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00083h32 Daleks http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty On this day I drew The Face of Boe as seen at the end of the Doctor Who series 3 episode Gridlock. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent approximately 4 hours, 50 minutes of which was the original sketch. This was made slightly harder to draw accurately because there was lots of shadow in all the screencaps of this scene so I had to guess at a lot of the detail at the sides and back. I tried to draw this in a slightly simplified/stylized way rather than go for 100% realism. I think this has turned out really quite well given that aim. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00084ppt.xml d8f6e0aa34153115be233f269cbf4aa9 image/jpeg 750 645 106171 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00084ppt Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty On this day I drew The Gelth and Gwyneth (portrayed by Eve Myles) as seen in the Doctor Who series 1 episode, The Unquiet Dead. This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool only. Total time spent, 3.5 hours. Of which 20 minutes was the completely removed sketch layer. This was actually drawn at print resolution rather than screen resolution like most of my NaArt pieces so far (except the Dalek Emperor). I'm not 100% happy with how Gwyneth turned out but I think the Gelth turned out very well. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00085eeb.xml 75fe7a98110f705e89e07125d26ae291 image/jpeg 1458 1648 242659 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00085eeb Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 People http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf Tablet http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00008g82 For this day's art I drew Hath Peck as seen in the Doctor Who series 4 episode The Doctor's Daughter. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent was a little less than 3.5 hours, 90 minutes of which was the line art. I was attempting a slightly stylised comics art style with this piece so I spent more time time on producing clean lines and less time on producing detailed textures, focusing instead on the colour. I'm very pleased with the end result, especially considering I actually changed the angle of the head from the source image so, unlike all my previous NaArt pieces, it wasn't copied directly from any single image. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00086dpp.xml 80dc0d8dca7fe2902172ea975b2ddc96 image/jpeg 618 615 82821 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00086dpp Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty On this day I drew the Isolus, Olympic Torch and Pod as seen in the Doctor Who series 2 episode, Fear Her. This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool only. Total time spent a little over 2 hours. There was no original sketch. I drew and shaded the Isolus in all of 20 minutes so I decided to attempt to combine two scenes. By sheer coincidence, today is the first day of competition at the 2008 Olympics, so I couldn't resist also drawing the Olympic Torch. The torch then forms the boundary between to two scenes, on the left is the Isolus entering through the window, on the right it's the pod about to fly into the flame of the torch. I'm quite happy with how this turned out as it's light and pastel coloured, very different from my previous pieces. I'm also pleased that I drew this in one go without any sketch/lines layer first. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00087rzz.xml eadcd6fa603c2906aac7955fd1457e57 image/jpeg 609 815 57277 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00087rzz Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty On this day I drew the Judoon Leader as seen in the Doctor Who series 3 episode Smith And Jones. This is my tenth piece for this year's (Inter)National Art Making Month, in which you create a new piece of art every day in August. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent was about 7 hours, about 1 hour of which was the line art layer now totally removed. My afternoon plans got cancelled, so I decided to spend a little bit more time than normal on the airbrushing. I think it was worth the extra effort as this is probably the best looking piece of art I've ever produced. I actually due this piece with lines, finished it at 5.5 hours work, then noticed it looked like the same image with the lines turned off. As a result I spent a further 1.5 hours turning this into an airbrush only piece. I am <em>extremely</em> pleased with the end result! http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00089ed3.xml 39a00431b294f1f775e67027147b778f image/jpeg 900 770 112048 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00089ed3 Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty This day I drew the heavily corroded K-9 seen in the Doctor Who series 2 episode School Reunion. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent was about 5.5 hours, about 3 hours of which was the line art layer. I completely under estimated how much work it would be to draw K-9. Straight lines and machinery take time -- 3 hours in this case! Part of the extra time came from the fact that I rotated K-9's head a little compared to the publicity shot this is taken from, meaning I had to work from memory/eye rather than copy a picture exactly. As a result of the time spent on the sketch, I started colouring too late and the whole thing became a crazy rush. Even then I finished at 0:45 (and on a work night)! I still think this looks good but I didn't have time to erase around the edges/lines so there'll be some colour bleed in the full size image. Phew! http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008a8x1.xml 2181baf3faca31a0a65961bf952ebedd image/jpeg 1365 1083 210932 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008a8x1 Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty On this day I drew the monster Professor Lazarus turns into in the Doctor Who series 3 episode The Lazarus Experiment. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent was about 4.5 hours, about 1.5 hours of which was the line art layer. This was another letter's monster that I'd have no chance of drawing well without the letter falling on a weekend, which it didn't. I rushed through every stage of it and still finished at half past midnight. I even made some dreadful mistakes like spending 20 minutes airbrushing on the lines layer meaning I then could never turn the lines off and had to do all the edge deletion using a soft edged eraser. The end result only looks good when viewed at thumbnail size. Oh well, this is the spirit of NaArMaMo -- keeping going even when you're having a bad art day. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008bq31.xml 0fd811655097f7268eab18cba0100a62 image/jpeg 1100 654 173121 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008bq31 Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For this day's art I drew a Macra (60ft crab) as seen in the Doctor Who series 3 episode Gridlock. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent was about 3 hours, about 40 minutes of which was the line art layer. I was out for 3.5 hours this evening watching Mama Mia at the cinema, so I knew today's art had to be quite a quick one. I drew the lines in my lunch break and did half the colouring before I went out. It was actually quite difficult to find good screencaps of the Macra as they're always in group shots, badly lit and surrounded by thick smog! I also couldn't find a full body shot with extended claws so I had to combine the claws from one image with the body from another. I think this has turned out very well given how little time I spent on it. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008cpyp.xml c82ee31d6a369a9007398c84d2f56491 image/jpeg 800 1141 127151 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008cpyp Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For day fourteen's art I drew the Nestene Conciousness as seen in the first ever Doctor Who new series episode, Rose. This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush only. Total time spent was about 2 hours, about 30 minutes of which was the line art layer now totally removed and 1 hour the surroundings. Yes, the Nestene was so quick to draw that I spent twice as long on the background/scenery! I started this really late and I lost 20 minutes accidentally drawing on the wrong layer, but I still managed to finish before 11pm -- 2 hours earlier than my other pieces this week! I actually finished at 1.5 hours but decided to turn off the sketch layer and spend an extra 30 minutes on the airbrush layer because I had so much time to spare! I've also actually intentionally toned down some of the colouring on this because the real CGI actually looks a bit OTT. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008dyy6.xml b361c5b6d9486399fb700c156cdf23df image/jpeg 1398 1142 167276 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008dyy6 Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For this day's art I drew a natural 'uncultivated' Ood as seen in the Doctor Who series 4 episode Planet of the Ood. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent was about 6 hours, about 2.5 hours of which was the line art layer. I was really pleased that this one fell on a Friday, because I knew I was going to have to spend extra time on finishing it. I ended up staying up until 2am to get this done, and it was well worth it! My source image started a third of the way down the head and ended at the hands, so the top of the head, the bottom of the body and the hind brain cord were all drawn without a direct source image. Also tricky was the fact that the source image actually has light sources pointing in from both the left and the right. I decided I wanted to leave the lines in on this one as they've just turned out so well, probably one of the best sketches I'd ever done. I think the colouring on the head has worked out really well. I should perhaps have spent more time on the clothing or the tentacles, but all in all, I think this is good work and much better than the Ood I drew in February (see Doctor Who gallery). I think comparing the two is proof absolute that the digital airbrush is the drawing tool for me, and that practice, time and effort make (closer to) perfect! http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008ecww.xml 6f77b72da803341b8a4527d41df8ad74 image/jpeg 990 932 200641 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008ecww Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Ood http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00027c11.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00027c11 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty On this day I drew a recently doused Pyrovile as seen in the Doctor Who series 4 episode Fires of Pompeii. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent was about 4 hours, about 1.5 hours of which was the line art layer. I was having a really bad drawing day, I threw out my first attempt at the lines and took about an hour to make my finished lines look close to my usual standard (at least creatures made of rock are supposed to have wobbly lines!). I made several really bad mistakes like mistaking one part of the body for another in my first version of the lines (always check multiple source images!) and colouring on the line art layer (always lock layers, check layers and save your line art to a separate file after every change!). Considering all the problems I had making this, I think it's turned out pretty well. I may later come back and recolour this to be extra flamy, but the source image comes from a point where the Pyrovile had just be soaked with water, so that's how I drew it. The resemblance to Megatron comes from the source image, not me BTW. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008fadh.xml 83e2ec8cb045c64db8345eeb00d13810 image/jpeg 1478 1204 318578 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008fadh Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty My NaArt for this day depicts Queen Victoria, portrayed by Pauline Collins, founding the Torchwood Institute, as seen in the series 2 episode Tooth And Claw. This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool only. Total time spent was about 5 hours, about 1 hour of which was the original sketch, now totally removed, and another 45 minutes of which was the background. I really don't like drawing people because it's immediately obvious when you've deviated slightly from the source image (as I do in all my art), so I was not looking forward to today's letter (where I had a choice of Queen Victoria or either of the Queen Elizabeths). I should probably have started earlier as I ran out of time (due to having work the next day), and had to rush the hat and background somewhat (for example, I think the sign is crooked). Given all of that, I'm really quite pleased with how this one turned out, especially as I went outside my comfort zone and didn't do a visible line art layer. I can see things wrong with it, but I still think it looks like the character, so yay :) http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008gb7s.xml e60e126ab751b18cf1ffef52b7924569 image/jpeg 1920 1236 247352 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008gb7s Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 People http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For this day's art I developed temporary insanity and decided to throw out all three of my possible Monsters starting with R and instead draw Rose Tyler, here seen as dressed in the Doctor Who series one episode Boom Town. This was supposed to be a considerably larger piece, but the face took me so long I literally raced through drawing half the hair, and drew in the scarf as a blurry squiggle, then cropped the whole thing tightly to the face. Even with all that, I still finished at 1:45am! This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool only. Total time spent about 6 hours, of which 2 hours was the original sketch, now removed. Billie Piper is extremely hard to draw due to having unusual and distinctive facial features. As such I had to literally brute force my sketch to get it to work. Thanks must go to windiain and spacefall who gave extremely useful feedback at several points during both the sketching and airbrushing phases. Even though I didn't finish this off to the standard I wanted to, I'm still EXTREMELY pleased with how this has turned out, considering my phobia of drawing people and how I did this on a work night! http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008wsb7.xml 9d7906ea5596ba4b2b03deeb1580da76 image/jpeg 788 918 106813 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008wsb7 Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 People http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For this day's NaArt I drew the Dalek/Human hybrid Sec, as seen in the series 3 episodes Daleks In Manhattan and Evolution of the Daleks. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a fixed opacity, variable width brush. Total time spent was about 2.5 hours. Today I did 35 minutes overtime, then spent 40 minutes buying a printer, then went out for a meal with a friend. This meant I didn't get started until 8.30pm. Then an hour later another friend came to visit for more than an hour. Due to all this, the 2.5 hours on the lines for this piece left me already after midnight. I could have stayed up past 2am to finish this, like I did yesterday, but I know I can't go on 6 hours sleep more than one night in a row... I expected to colour this piece, so there's no texture drawn for the brain and tentacles. As with day five's piece, which was also not coloured due to time, I'm planning to colour this on one of the later days of the month so I end August with 26 coloured pieces of Doctor Who fan art and have produced some art on every day of the month (and apparently several pages of a Doctor Who colouring book! ;) http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008x5f8.xml 8cc81ac926979c11510c5f0a4dccc695 image/png 1034 1028 411546 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008x5f8 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For this day I depicted the invasion of the Toclafane as seen in the Doctor Who series 3 finale The Sound Of Drums/Last Of The Time Lords. This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool only. Total time spent about 2.5 hours, of which about 1 hour was the three largest Toclafane and another hour was the sky. There was no original sketch. I worked overtime again today and I was extremely tired this evening. I was having a lot of trouble motivating myself to draw anything as my options were the Time Beetle, the Tenth Doctor (or another Time Lord), the Tardis or the Toclafane. However I suddenly realised that I didn't actually need to draw the open Toclafane ball and face, I didn't even have to draw the blades -- I could just draw a silver ball! This was suddenly not so intimidating! Once I'd drawn one, I got a little carried away and ended up drawing hundreds of them and a very dramatic background as well! I'm quite pleased with how this turned out given how little time I spent. I'm also extremely pleased to finish drawing well before midnight! http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008ygfh.xml b297900b8b3b701bc0be52c9c222e988 image/jpeg 1798 1236 245374 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008ygfh Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For this day's NaArt I drew the Gallifeyian Untempered Schism as seen in the Doctor Who series 3 finale The Sound Of Drums/Last Of The Time Lords. This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool only. Total time spent was about 3 hours. I was having really nasty neck and upper back pain all day, by the end of work this had spread all the way down my (non-drawing) arm and was extremely uncomfortable. As a result, I didn't start drawing until gone 9pm because I was waiting for three different types of painkillers to kick in. As a result of that, I scaled down my plans for this piece. I was going to draw in the view of Gallifrey behind the schism and perhaps the silhouette of the approaching 8-year-old Master. I also rushed through some parts of it using larger brushes than I would have had I started earlier. All that aside, I think this turned out pretty well considering I was in quite a lot of pain for most of it... It was fun to get to draw the time vortex as well :) http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008z2sd.xml 36f86c078033af9a5a80894e5cdf10ba image/jpeg 858 588 72467 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0008z2sd Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For the letter V, I drew a previously occupied spacesuit controlled by the Vashta Nerada, as seen in the Doctor Who series 4 episode Silence In The Library/Forest Of The Dead. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent was about 5 hours, about 1.75 hours of which was the line art layer. As always with art on Fridays (see Hath and Ood), I've stayed up extra late to finish colouring this (Although I have to admit that I also started colouring extra late too). This is actually the second time I've drawn this spacesuit now (see 'Shall We Do Diaries'), but this time I've chosen a scene with interesting lighting -- red tinted on the left and blue tinted on the right. Always a good idea to choose a source image with an interesting pose, lighting or both! http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00090cwz.xml a43bc454c60538a873d7acde2a9cbbec image/jpeg 1426 1236 291080 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00090cwz Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For W's NaArt I drew the Werewolf, as seen in the series 2 episode Tooth And Claw. This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool only. Total time spent was about 5 hours. This was a bit of an odd one, as I tried a different method of drawing this from my normal airbrush pieces, rather than layering in dark parts then adding lighter highlights, I drew in rough areas of colour and gradually added more detail across the entire piece. The end result was that it was recognisably the Werewolf after an hour, but somehow I ended up tweaking and tweaking this until suddenly I realised it was 4.30am and quickly moved onto the moon. I think the end result is at least as good as my other pieces, but the problem with this method is that I don't know when to stop, end result: it was 5:15am when I uploaded this... http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/000916t8.xml c6a10d00801cbfca2d2d53d3b68ae36d image/jpeg 1256 940 114571 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/000916t8 Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For the dreaded X, I drew the Xylok Crystal as seen in the Sarah Jane Adventures story The Lost Boy. The crystal is the mind of the computer Mr Smith, which was seen in the Doctor Who series 4 finale The Stolen Earth/Journey's End. This may seem like a bit of a stretch, but there's not an awful lot of things starting with X in New Who... This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool only. Total time spent was about 3 and a half hours, 1 hour of which was the original sketch layer, now removed. I had planned to do my art today in the early afternoon but my linux server was cracked by an ssh worm and I ended up spending most of the day in a bit of a panic as a result. By the time I'd sorted that out and had dinner, it was time to go out to see a film, already arranged with a friend. I ended up starting this at half past midnight, by which time I was extremely tired. I finished after 4pm, and I fully realise that this isn't up to my usual standard. I was expecting this to be a quick one, but it turns out that it's really bloody difficult to draw coloured crystal. I ended up banging my head against this for considerably longer than I spent on some much better pieces. With hindsight, I wish I'd chosen to work from one of the actual darker and less colourful screencaps, rather than this publicity image. Or I should have taken the easy way out and drawn Mr Smith (even though I think that prop isn't very interesting or photogenic from any angle). Oh well, as always, it's the spirit of NaArMaMo to post everything, even the weaker art. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00092256.xml e76fa3e2eb9786d2cd6dca6b234670c1 image/jpeg 762 772 74803 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00092256 Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For Y I drew Professor Yana as seen in the Doctor Who series 3 episode Utopia and portrayed by Derek Jacobi. This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool only. Total time spent about 5 hours, of which about 1.5 hours was the original sketch, now removed. Yet another airbrush only portrait where I ran out of time and rushed through the finishing, hair and collar. Ideally I would have spent at least an hour or two extra on the face before I even started on the hair and body. Usually I'd spend considerably more time on the eyes, while in this case they were quite a rush job. Obviously I'd have liked to included some shoulders as well... All that said, I don't think this has turned out too badly and I'll probably come back to this piece later to clean this up and finish it off properly. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00095y1b.xml 5e16d878415946238716def0dfbcecec image/jpeg 876 1124 130171 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00095y1b Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 People http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001gbbf Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For the mysterious Z, I drew Doctor Constantine just after transformation into a gas mask Zombie who just wants to know, Are You My Mummy? The Gas Mask Zombies were seen in the Doctor Who series 3 episodes The Empty Child/The Doctor Dances. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent was about 5.5 hours, about 2.25 hours of which was the line art layer. I was planning to also draw a highly contagious New Earth diseased zombie who just want to be touched -- that way I could title this 'Zombies' and definitely start with Z, but the idea of getting to bed before 5am won out in the end. I could have also drawn Toby Zed from The Impossible Planet/The Satan Pit, but the idea of drawing another person on six hours sleep just didn't appeal, especially with all those symbols I'd have to draw in as well... I think this turned out reasonably well, it looks like the colours are wrong, but they match the source image, I assume it was a publicity photo taken with a flash. So there we go, all 26 letters drawn! Two left to re-visit and colour over the next two days and then I'm away at a convention drawing whatever I have time for until the end of the month! http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0009688p.xml 580d908aefdc3a97848b3c51f42da50e image/jpeg 1152 1106 245694 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/0009688p Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty As I've finished all letter of the alphabet now, today I started colouring the two unfinished pieces, starting with the Dalek Emperor drawn on Day 5 (and revised on Day 9). The Dalek Emperor was seen in the Doctor Who series 1 finale Parting Of The Ways. After 6 hours total on the line art (4 hours on day 5 and 2 more hours on day 9), this colour job took me an additional 7 hours work today, and about 4 hours on day 9 (but I'm not counting this, as it was almost entirely rectifying a technical screw up and not actual creation or art). So total drawing time on this piece is AT LEAST 13 hours! Even though I drew this at print resolution, I've had to scale this down to 900px width because I just don't have the time to manually fix all the problems with the lines tonight. Essentially at some point on day 5, I changed the image in The Gimp and then reopened it -- this flattened the whole thing so I was drawing on an opaque white background that I couldn't colour under. As a result of this mistake, I had to spend 4 hours fixing the lines with flood fill and then manually fixing individual pixels and even with all that when I pasted the lines back in at the end, they were full of random light pixels, which is why I've had to scale this so small and even then spent an extra 20 minutes manually drawing over the pixels still visible when scaled (and again, I'm not including that time in my total). The other side effect of the mistake was that I had to colour over the lines so I couldn't see the guidelines any more. This made things more difficult than usual. I also wasn't able to do a more interesting background than flat black. All in all, ARGH! But at least it's a reasonably good end result (even though, having seen more source images, it's quite clear that I screwed up the proportions when I slightly changed perspective when drawing the line art on day 5). I think if I'd drawn the lines today, I'd have been more careful with source images and more picky about getting the proportions right, so that's at least something I've learnt from this experience so far. I imagine I'll spend some more time re-touching this later on, at the very least so there's a full resolution version available. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/000978aq.xml a837868ba7e5d4228dca60134f31a83e image/jpeg 900 656 161697 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/000978aq Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Coloured http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00014ewp Daleks http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00009hq5 Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty Today was my first day away at a 4 day convention and I wanted to spend the time socialising and recovering from the journey here. As such, I decided to do a quickie tonight and draw all 26 Doctor Who new series alphabet pieces drawn previously, but in only one hour. This was drawn on a tablet PC using a fixed opacity, variable width brush. Total time spent was 1 hour (plus the text in the bottom right corner). All sketches were drawn between 11:35pm and 12:35am. I got to the end with 6 minutes to spare so I went back and improved a few of the sketches. Then at the very end I realised I'd completely failed to draw anything for V so very hastily added the double shadow to the left of the Werewolf to make up for this oversight (so all 26 items are included in order). I mostly tried to draw the characters in the same poses they were in my full colour airbrush pieces. The text at the bottom right was added outside of the time limit. I scaled some of the sketches as I went. I also moved around some of the individual sketches to make a more even layout after the time limit had finished. The 1 hour alphabet is not my idea, lots of other people are doing them too, see here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/tags/1houralphabet/ I believe the practice of drawing 26 images in 1 hour was started by Apelad: http://www.flickr.com/photos/apelad/collections/72157594587542617/ I recommend drawing your own -- they're excellent practice for drawing simple sketches/characters/cartoons, they're quick and they're lots of fun! Letters are: Adipose Baby | Brannigan | CyberController | Davros | Emperor of the Daleks | Face of Boe | Gelth | Hath | Isolus | Judoon | K-9 | Lazarus Monster | Macra | Nestene Conciousness | Ood | Pyrovile | Queen Victoria | Rose Tyler | Sec Hybrid | Toclafane | Untempered Schism | Vashta Nerada (double shadow) | Werewolf | Xylok Crystal | Yana | (Gas Mask) Zombie http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00098ret.xml c39c89dc9fb146e8326d09d6d6c081f5 image/png 900 2364 810454 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/00098ret 1 Hour Alphabet http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00028sz6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00028sz6 Airbrush http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00021dqc Doctor Who http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/00001p3t NaArMaMo http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000pcz7 Sketch http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0000g4q6 Tablet PC http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty.xml http://pics.livejournal.com/36/gallery/0001q8ty For this day's NaArMaMo art, I decided to draw the Doctor Who Logo as a header for a gallery of all this month's art. This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool for the logo and lens flare and a fixed opacity brush for the lettering. Total time spent about 2 hours, more than an hour of which was the lettering. Predictably when hand lettering something without even using a grid of straight lines for guidance, the lettering looks terrible. However I thought it would be cheating to use a font (and don't have the right one). I also accidentally drew the logo too tall and didn't realise until I'd finished, so the whole thing has been squished, which is more obvious when looking at the lettering. ...it's times like this I wish I was using a slightly more feature rich drawing program that would allow me to scale individual elements on only one axis, if only so I could make the W narrower... All that said, I'm pretty happy with how the whole thing turned out, especially when I only spent about 40 minutes on the logo and less than 20 on the lens flare. http://pics.livejournal.com/36/pic/000992kt.xml 0ba07f2492200459c6cc9caf0add435b image/jpeg 1976 535 118384 http://pics.livejournal.com/36/p