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Block 3 pattern can be found here trilliumdesign.blogspot.com/2013/06/doctorwhoalong-block-... or on the Craftsy website
Fezs are cool. A link for all the people who don't know much about the newer doctors www.youtube.com/watch?v=obnblNruPiU
The lady in the foreground is Alice Obiefune, library assistant and current comicbook companion to the 11th Doctor. The living shadow at the back is Shayde, Timelord construct and past companion to the 5th.
Magenta Pryce, lady of high breeding and absolutely not a semi-reformed criminal genius. The lunatic with her is just the driver, please try and ignore him.
The one-shot Doctor Who story I illustrated should be out in all good comic stores today in the US. Written by the talented duo Leah Moore & John Reppion, it's really a nice little story. I was scared stiff doing this book, what with all the likeness issues & possible changes needed before approval but I guess since I based as much as I could on photos from the show it basically all went off without a hitch!
Hope you guys dig it. It certainly fulfilled my nerd quota by doing it, what with being a massive fan of Dr Who growing up.
If your retailer didn't get a copy or did but you won't be seeing me at any of the conventions I'm doing this year, a place you can go is the IDW Publishing store itself. Because I'm currently around their offices, all editions sold via the store can be signed and personalized. In fact, all comics of mine sold through the store are just assumed to be personalized if the option is clicked. There's no extra charge or anything, just part of the service.
There were 3 covers to the book. 2 regular and a sketch edition. Also, John just pointed out to me you can get a 5 page preview of the book's insides here.( and buy it too if you want, huzzah! )
the mutant twins were just getting to know their recently re-appeared older sister, when they met up with these aliens who call themselves "timelords" ... so of course everyone went exploring. well, nearly everyone.
Tempered by the fires of war, on and on the battles rage, until he could stand it no longer. "No more..."
Just a quick little MOC-up (eh? get it?) showcasing the Dalek in all glorified killing action (yeah, not really something that should really be glorified, huh). For whatever reason, I could not get the lighting right, but whatever, the shaky camera makes up for the poor lighting.
I'm a big fan of Doctor Who, so I thought I'd start a series of vector drawings of all the various Doctors.
Matt Smith began portraying the Doctor in 2010, and at age 27 is the youngest actor to ever play the role.
My, oh my, the Doctor seems to be getting younger with every regeneration, doesn't he? The First Doctor looked like an old man, and each successive incarnation has appeared younger than the next (more or less). I'm assuming this is because the Doctor is a physically demanding role, what with all that running up and down corridors, and it might be a strain on an older actor (as turned out to be the case with the First Doctor).
When David Tennant, the Tenth Doctor, first announced he was leaving the show, I was honestly depressed for at least a week. Doctor Who is one of the very few shows I still watch on TV, and Tennant was hands down my all time favorite Doctor. I couldn't imagine how anyone could possibly replace him, and his announcement caused me to lose my enthusiasm for the show.
But if you don't like change, then Doctor Who is not the show for you. Every few years it reinvents itself and changes pretty much everything, including the Doctor himself. I can't think of any other TV show that's had eleven different actors play the title role.
I needn't have worried though. By the end of Matt Smith's first episode I'd totally accepted him as the Doctor and barely missed Tennant at all.
The Eleventh Doctor wears a tweed jacket, bowtie and suspenders, and rolled up trousers and boots, appearing somewhat like a hipster college professor. According to an interview with Matt Smith, the original costume concept was a pirate-like monstrosity, similar to something Captain Jack Sparrow would wear in the Pirates of the Caribbean movies. Yikes.
So far Doctor #11 seems a bit more of a comedian than past incarnations, and hasn't plunged into the melancholy funks so often indulged in by the Ninth and Tenth Doctors. I hope that's a trend that lasts.
The Doctor also gained a new companion in Amy Pond. Amy's a fun new companion, and I hope she sticks around for a few more seasons. The Doctor first meets her moments after his regeneration, when Amy is a young girl. He jumps back into his TARDIS for a quick errand, and when he returns, he finds that while only a few minutes have passed for him, years have passed for Amy, who's now an adult.
Amy's fiance, Rory Williams, accompanies her and the Doctor on a couple of adventures and eventually becomes a full-fledged companion. Poor Rory really got put through the ringer in his first season. He's killed by a Silurian warrior and wiped out of existence, he's reborn as an Auton (a robotic lifeform), he accidentally kills Amy and then spends a thousand years guarding her body until she heals inside the Pandorica. Eventually Rory's restored to normal when the Doctor sacrifices himself to reset the timeline, and Amy and Rory are married at last.
I do like that the Doctor and Rory appear to have become pals. Past incarnations of the Doctor have been dismissive or downright hostile to the male friends of his female companions (Mickey Smith, for example), so it's nice to see his "bromance" with Rory.
River Song also makes a return appearance to complicate the Doctor's life. She's sort of a futuristic cat burglar from the Doctor's future. She even throws out a few hints that they were once a couple, something that hasn't yet happened from the Doctor's point of view. River's true nature and agenda remain a mystery. Alex Kingston plays River, and adds a bit of sultriness to the show.
Not only did the Doctor regenerate at the beginning of the season, but so did the TARDIS, inside and out. It changes its outside appearance slightly, and radically reconfigures its control room. Once it's done, the Eleventh Doctor stands before it and says, "What have you got for me this time?" This confirms the notion that the TARDIS is alive and not just a machine and has a measure of sentience, something fans have suspected for years. It also explains why the Doctor seems to always show up at crucial moments in various planet's histories.
In the old series, the Doctor was rarely able to control where the TARDIS was going, traveling randomly through time and space. In the new series, however, the Doctor seemed to have nearly complete control. The Eleventh Doctor's TARDIS-flying skills seems to be slipping a bit, as several times in the series he takes trips that seem like minutes to him, but years to the people he left behind.
As mentioned earlier, the Eleventh Doctor is fond of bowties, telling anyone within earshot that, "Bowties are cool." He also briefly wears large red fez, declaring, "I wear a fez now. Fezzes are cool." Unfortunately the fez doesn't survive long, as Amy and River savagely destroy it.
In addition to a new Doctor, new companions and new TARDIS, there were more changes this season: the Doctor got a newly redesigned sonic screwdriver, there were new Dalek designs and even a new opening theme song (well, same song, different arrangement).
I really liked the TARDIS interior during the Ninth and Tenth Doctors' tenure. It was a large, dome-like alien-Victorian looking cavern. I can't say I'm a fan of this new interior though. It's a neon and sheet metal monstrosity that seems to be a random collection of shapes and angles. No matter how long I stare at photos of the new interior, my eyes just can't make any sense out of it. Maybe it'll grow on me in time.
I also wasn't a fan of the new Dalek design either at first. Then I bought some of the action figures and once I had a chance to hold them and look at the design from all angles, I've come to accept them.
Doctor #11 is a vector drawing, drawn all in InDesign. You can see a special bonus drawing of the Eleventh Doctor over at my blog.
Please forgive the ugly watermark on the illustration. I swore I would never add one to my art, because I know that 99.99% of my readers would never even think of stealing it. But earlier this year I had a run-in with an art thief who was not only stealing my work, but selling it as her own! Hence the watermarks. This is why we can't have nice things.
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The 8th Doctor, Liv Chenka and The Eleven from Big Finish's continuing 8th Doctor adventures. Also Frobisher, from the 6th Doctor comicbooks.
One of the most creative folks I know! Charlie of Doink Design and I go way back to before the Time War.
A small depiction of the Meddling Monk's TARDIS from Doctor Who.
For those who don't know, the Monk is a Time Lord like the Doctor who went out into the universe to have fun - by giving laser cannons to the Anglo Saxons, helping the ancient Britons build Stone Henge with anti-gravity lifts and generally screwing around with history for his own benefit. He's a menace with a time machine and while not actual evil in the way the Master is, he's certainly petty and malicious enough to cause havoc on occasions.
His TARDIS is a more advanced version of the Doctor's (it's a mark IV model, you know) so I tried to keep close to the original console design. I also took inspiration from the Big Finish audio plays, which suggest that he keeps a lot of trophies around the place.
12th doctor / "kill the moon"
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Hey, it's another Doctor Who infographic!
This time instead of showcasing the various Doctors or his enemies I decided to focus on one particular episode: Pyramids of Mars. I'll probably do more episode specific infographics as time permits. There've been over 200 stories so far (consisting of more than 770 episodes), so that ought to keep me busy for a while.
Obviously you'll have to click "View All Sizes: Original" to read the text. Hopefully everyone will figure out how to read it; start at the upper left and follow the arrows.
Pyramids of Mars is one of my all-time favorites. It was the third episode of the 13th season, and Tom Baker's second year of playing the Doctor. It's got everything a classic episode needs: a historical setting, a gothic mansion, an evil enemy and of course, monsters.
The Mummy designs are certainly... unusual, what with their dome-like heads and protruding chest plates. The special effects still hold up reasonably well, especially for a nearly 40 year old show. Some of them are still quite effective, particularly the smoking footsteps of Sutekh's agent, and Professor Scarman's shotgun wound healing.
Tom Baker is absolutely firing on all cylinders here. This is also where we get his famous "I'm a Time Lord. I walk in eternity" speech. Elisabeth Sladen was never more radiant as Sarah Jane Smith than here. Sarah Jane was saddled with some truly regrettable outfits in the 1970s, but thankfully here she's wearing a flattering and subdued period costume. And who knew Sarah Jane could handle a rifle so skillfully!
Bernard Archard is wonderfully creepy as the reanimated Professor Scarman. Michael Sheard is suitably befuddled as Laurence Scarman. George Lucas must have been a fan of Sheard, as he also played Admiral Ozzel in The Empire Strikes Back, as well as the U-Boat Captain in Raiders Of The Lost Ark and Hitler in Indiana Jones And The Last Crusade. Oddly enough Sheard has played Hitler in three other films! Quite a departure from the meek and bewildered Laurence Scarman.
Sadly there just wasn't room to include all the characters. I had to leave out Dr. Warlock, Collins the Butler and Ernie Clements, the poacher. They really didn't figure prominently in the plot anyway. I desperately wanted to include Sutekh's "jackal headed" appearance but couldn't find a way to do so. I tried to include all the major details and plot points, but some items had to go by the wayside for space purposes. Think of this as the Cliff Notes version of Pyramids of Mars.
The exterior shots of the Scarman mansion were filmed at a home owned by none other than Mick Jagger. For the scenes at the end where the mansion is on fire, they filmed a large cardboard cutout of the building behind a wall of flames.
Pyramids of Mars is a pretty violent episode; every single character (save the Doctor and Sarah Jane, of course) dies by the end! It features the world's first (and probably only) "Death by Mummy Chest" scene as Ernie Clements is killed by two Robot Mummies who crush his windpipe between their sharp, protruding chest pieces.
Even classic episodes have a few hiccups though, and this one is no exception. Sutekh the Destroyer is so dangerous that the Osirans seal him inside a pyramid on Earth and hide the key under the mat on Mars. But Professor Scarman opens Sutekh's tomb in about five seconds with little more than a small crowbar. Seems like there should have been some tighter security. Inside the tomb, Sutekh has what appears to be a wide screen high def TV, with which he can observe anything and anyone in the galaxy. He uses it to monitor his possessed slaves and Robotic Mummies, directing their actions to facilitate his escape. Why would his jailers provide him with such a device? And Namin supposedly takes over the Scarman mansion and fills it with sarcophagi full of Robotic Mummies. Where in the hell did he get those? Mummies R Us?
As for the actual drawing and design of the infographic, I changed the layout and rearranged boxes several times until I was satisfied with it. There's no science or formula to this; I just arrange things until I think it looks right. As for the characters, drawing monsters and helmeted beings is always pretty easy because they don't have features–so Sutekh and the Mummies were no problem. I'd drawn the Fourth Doctor before, but I altered his expression here and changed his outfit to the one he wore in the episode. Marcus Scarman proved harder to draw than I thought he would be, probably because he looked slightly different in every reference photo I found. Laurence Scarman and Namin took a little while to get right, but weren't too difficult.
The hardest one of them all to draw was Sarah Jane. I realized this was the first time I'd attempted to draw a female in my cartoony "Doctor Who Style." Obviously I couldn't draw her with a giant nose and long skinny head like all the male characters or she'd have looked ridiculous. I had to pull back the cartooniness quite a bit for her. She proved remarkably difficult to capture. I went through many, many version of Sarah Jane before I got a decent likeness. I'm still not 100% satisfied with her, but she'll have to do.
Very special thanks to my pal across the pond, Ian Ledger, who helped out with editing, text correction and support. Thanks to him I now know what a "ginger moggie" is.
Drawn and laid out entirely in InDesign.
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The 8th Doctor, Liv Chenka and The Eleven from Big Finish's continuing 8th Doctor adventures. Also Frobisher, from the 6th Doctor comicbooks.
And some tin dog.
The Rani is a renegade Time Lord who left the Academy some time before the Doctor graduated due to an incident with a giant genetically engineered mouse and the Lord President's pet cat. She's an amoral scientist who sees the universe as one big petri dish and generally couldn't care less about the Doctor except that he keeps getting in her way and waffling on about scientific ethics.
What I really wanted to capture was her unique round console and while I couldn't replicate the interlocking rings of the time rotor, I think it came out reasonably well. And the baby T-Rex is accurate to the screen!
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My personal preference is for the BBCi webcast version of the lost Doctor Who story, 'Shada'. Featuring the Eighth rather than the Fourth Doctor, it has a fantastic cast and some no-to-be-sniffed at semi-animated art. Professor Chronotis' type 12 TARDIS is permanently disguised as his rooms in a distinguished Cambridge college and the console usually sits hidden in the corner, looking a bit like an old heater!
It doesn’t happen very often that I post a single customized minifig, but this one is rather special. Thanks to the new series 7 CM, I have been able to create a Benjamin Cook minifig.
Benjamin Cook is an English journalist, writer and regular contributor to Radio Times and Doctor Who Magazine (and a very cool guy). His and Russell T Davies’ book “Doctor Who: The Writer’s Tale” was a huge inspiration for me and increased my interest and love for Doctor Who even more.
Every Doctor Who fan out there, who hadn’t read the book yet – and I’m sure it can’t be many – , should give it a try.
Following this advice, here’s another: As always, if you like Doctor Who and LEGO, don’t forget to support us on cuusoo with a simple vote in order to convince The LEGO Group to create official Doctor Who sets.
Mark’s (Lego nabii) sets: lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/6612
My TARDIS and other sets: lego.cuusoo.com/ideas/view/7324
It’s very likely that, after this excursion to the world of superheroes, I’m back for building new Doctor Who MOCs.
she is so a nice person...
Visit this location at Timelord Sandbox - 10 Hour Auto-return in Second Life
I'm a huge fan of the new Doctor Who series and I think David Tennant may be the best Doke-tah ever. Too bad he's leaving the show soon.
Based on a doodle in my sketchbook, this was one of those illustrations that I thought would take no time at all. It ended up taking forever. Sometimes life's just funny that way. I'm still not totally happy with it and may end up tweaking a few things.
Drawn in Photoshop with the graphic tablet.
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In the Seventh Doctor story 'Battlefield', it is strongly hinted that the Merlin of legend is actually a future/alternate version of the Doctor himself. I decided to play with what the TARDIS might look like in his hands.
The things I wanted to get in were a more obviously crystalline time rotor and the impression of a wizard's tower. I think it's turned out quite well!
I'm particularly pleased with the chemistry set.
"Right then" the Doctor said, pulling a lever. "That's the Tardis stabilised. I need to change" He said, brushing dust off his jacket.
Jackie walked around the console to stop him but he was too quick. He was gone, through a sliding door. "What do we do now?" Frank asked.
The door opened again and the Doctor leant in. "Just a few rules before I leave you. Rule 1: Do not, under any circumstances, wander off. The Tardis is like a maze and I don't want to lose either of you" Jackie and Frank exchanged glances. "Is he serious" Jackie mouthed.
"Rule 2" the Doctor continued. "Do. Not. Touch. That means the console, the doors, the monitor, and" he paused for dramatic effect "My jelly babies." He waggled his finger before heading back off to God knows where.
'S'been a while since I've done that' The Doctor thought smiling. Now, on to the matter at hand: Where was the wardrobe? He'd had to do some cleaning and purging of Tardis rooms because, in his words, 'It took too long to get to places'. He strode through the seemingly endless corridors, doubling back on himself a few times. "Ha ha!" he exclaimed as he turned a corner, right into the wardrobe.
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"That's better" he muttered, straightening his tie. "A beard huh?" he said, stroking his newly discovered beard "Haven't had one of those since..." He trailed off, memories flooding his head. War. Endless war. Images of Daleks, Timelords, all dying. Endless death. A voice entered his mind. "You did the best you could" reassured a strangely familiar voice. Of course! His previous self, the eighth self, still clinging on. It'd be gone soon. That old personality of his. Thankfully. He simply couldn't bear to have to live with that sense of regret. Not again.
He shook his head, shaking himself out of it. 'Don't linger on your past' he thought. That was the strongest part of his psyche. The part most ingrained into his head. Don't think of what you could have or should have done. The past is the past. Despite his grievances with the Timelords, there was one of their rules he never, ever, broke. Under any circumstances. No matter how dire.
He took a step back, inspecting his new outfit in the mirror. Very dapper. He smiled, before heading back to the console room.
In the Seventh Doctor story 'Battlefield', it is strongly hinted that the Merlin of legend is actually a future/alternate version of the Doctor himself. I decided to play with what the TARDIS might look like in his hands.
The things I wanted to get in were a more obviously crystalline time rotor and the impression of a wizard's tower. I think it's turned out quite well!
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I'm a big fan of Doctor Who, so I thought I'd start a series of vector drawings of all the various Doctors.
Last month the BBC finally released a photo of the brand new Twelfth Doctor in his official costume, so I thought I'd get a head start and draw him.
Seeing as the show won't be back until Fall 2014, we don't yet know much about this particular incarnation of the Doctor. So far all we know is that he's got new kidneys, he doesn't like their color and he doesn't know how to fly the TARDIS.
I'm also not sure if he'll keep the Eleventh Doctor's extendable sonic screwdriver or opt for a new model. If he does get a new one (and I wouldn't be surprised if he did, since it would give the toy companies another geegaw to sell), I'll come back and add it.
I'm curious to see how the fans will react to actor Peter Capaldi as the Twelfth Doctor. Both David Tennant and Matt Smith, Doctors Ten and Eleven respectively, were very young and were considered "dreamy" and "sexy" by many female fans who oohed and aahed over them.
Capaldi is currently 55 years old. That's the same age that William Hartnell was when he played the First Doctor way back in 1963! Will the fans of the "dreamy" Doctors swoon over one who's old enough to be their father? Time will tell, I suppose.
Doctor #12 looked very stern in every reference photo I found of him. Hopefully he won't be so serious all the time, and will have a lighter side to him.
The Twelfth Doctor is a vector drawing, done all in InDesign. It's been a while since I drew one of these Doctor illustrations in vector and I kind of forgot how I did it. I had to go back and study the previous drawings to see how they looked and match their style.
By the way, what sadistic bastard decided there should be an "F" in "twelfth?" I spell it wrong every time!
Please forgive the ugly watermark on the illustration. I swore I would never add one to my art, because I know that 99.99% of my readers would never even think of stealing it. But earlier this year I had a run-in with an art thief who was not only stealing my work, but selling it as her own! Hence the watermarks. This is why we can't have nice things.
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Doctor Who
1963 - 2013
Quo Tardis?
Who goes there?
Yes, he does.
I've loved this magnificent, silly, engaging, whimsical, charming, terrifying, moving, melodramatic, and basically bloody brilliant television show since I first saw it in the 1960s.
I think Patrick Troughton was my first Doctor. (I remember cobwebs and tunnels and a scary trilling sound accompanying dimly seen lumbering beasties...)
Later I caught up with the first Doctor's adventures, though I'm sure I saw Peter Cushing playing him when they aired one of the two theatrical movies on the telly before I encountered William Hartnell in the role.
Back in the day, Jon Pertwee and Tom Baker were the Doctors I was most familiar with, as their serials were repeated quite frequently and coincided with my early beginnings as a Science Fiction fan.
It got a bit fuzzy when I was watching the 5th and 6th Doctors' stories, as life got very distracting and VHS recording was often hard to arrange.
I kept the passion going though, even if I sometimes saw the episodes out of order.
Things settled in time (and space) for me to watch most of Sylvester McCoy's stories, and during the stasis between old and new series the 'rift' was filled with Paul McGann's one shot telemovie, as well as "Doctor Who By Other Means" including spin-off novels, audio CDs and the like.
I also started broadcasting the Zero-G Science Fiction, Fantasy & Historical radio show and had plenty of opportunity to revisit old episodes as they were released on CD, video or DVD and in some cases experienced stories that I'd never seen before. One of the highlights of Zero-G, for me, was when I reviewed every serial that the ABC repeated here in Australia, when they did their mammoth long running retrospective of Doctor Who.
(Well, righto, getting to interview Paul and Sylvester...that was another highlight, y'know?)
In the 2000s, of course, Doctor Who was regenerated with splendid new adventures and at least three, going on four Doctors. Many of their stories, I think, have been equal to and indeed sometimes greater than the best that have gone before.
Many folks turn to the songs of popular music to mark the calendars of their lives. Genre buffs, well, it's often down to "Who was YOUR Doctor?"
To which I'll always answer, "Yes, yes he is."
'Cos I truly have enjoyed the rise and fall of each and every Doctor. Some more or less than others but always with a sense of watching fictional history in the making.
Here we all are fifty years later!
Quite up for fifty more 'n all.
Run for your lives!
No worries, mate, I'm game for it.
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Sonic Screwdrivers.
The iconic Doctor Who space Swiss Army knife.
I haz 'em.
These are the ones I didn't have to make. There are others that I'll have to roll on my own but as these were enough to fill out the '50' number we'll go with what I've got, for now. I've been assembling a collection to go with my Time Lord Engineer costume for a while. (Based on the character of Drax, the renegade Time Lord technician seen in the 4th Doctor Who era serial, "The Armaegeddon Factor".)
Yes, I know, that's the Master's laser screwdriver. Wanna make something of it? Take it up with HIM. (Good luck with that.)
Why my peacock feather cloak
as background?
Well, y'know, I reckon there are as many answers to that question as there are feathers.
-The colours, texture and pattern make a good contrast to the screwdrivers.
-Peacock feathers just ooze timey whimey symbolism. Immortality. Resurrection, All-Seeing, and so on.
-The Doctor has frequently dressed in a fashion that suggests he's a bit of a peacock. (Doctor 3.0 and 6.0, I'm looking' at you!)
-It was a beaut, sunny day when I set up the photoshoot, and I knew the light outdoors would make it come up a treat.
-It's a peacock feather cloak. Arguments against using it are invalid.
Oh, and for more about the actual cloak, please see here: