Adventures in Time and Space

Quite pleased with the likeness of Tom. But no, I can’t explain the eye. What’s with that? I guess it springs from the forest spirits, the spying devices and the Mr Hyde plots that are woven into this story’s rich tapestry. Note the light & dark around Tom.

All those lovely organic Zygon shapes were a bit of a gift with this story! But on top of that I wanted to subtly suggest the secondary colours of the Scottish Moors that were so wonderfully faked in the original.

I just had this image of these two concentric circles in the blackness of space – one shiny, humbrol gold, the time ring, Voga, the orbit of Saturn, the Celtic inspiration for that symbol, the other a white hot patch, representing the constant threat of being blown to bits throughout the story.

By collaging Davros against the muto background, I think it gives the impression of Davros as detatched, blinkered, in his bunker.

Bleak. Nasty, brutish and short. And bleak.

Moody in deep space

It’s Tom! I’m not sure how successful the likeness is, but the impostant thing here is the sheer joy of painting He Who Grins Like A Loon! There’s something infectious about the personality of Tom’s Doctor, and I hope this comes across in the manic energy of the mark-making. I’ve always loved the trippy Annual illustrations of the era, and hopefully this influence will come out in due course. This, then, is my manifesto for sketching the Fourth Doctor era!

A rusty autumnal day in the English countryside is the starting-point on a journey to a strange alien land, of hideous arachnid creatures, blue sun and huge deserts. The Doctor comes full circle, the Mandala, the re-unification of the self. All beneath the eight legs of the spider…

Goodbye Three.

Sometimes the problem with sprawling political epics is trying to reduce them down to one image. Here, I’ve gone totally abstract, a solid stone block and squiggles of purple & green representing Peladon & The Ice Warriors.

A startling image of the skeletons inside the living city was the starting-point, rendered in charcoal with metalic acrylic paint symbols.