Victoria

The Doctor's Wife Poster

I was only expecting to have another sketchy drawing to show today but instead of come up with this rather dramatic picture.The above image started as my drawing of Idris but then exploded into what you see above. Once I'd finished drawing Idris I started playing around with the glowing aura which started bringing the image to life. Suddenly I found myself adding more elements and experimenting with the background swirls, adding the tardis, darkening areas, and erasing elements until I found I had created something which could easily be used as a final image. A lot of the above was in my concept but I still have ideas to bring in other elements and I do want the Doctor's face included. Really pleased with how this came out.

Doctor Smith

Been wanting to start this piece for a long time, a poster for 'The Doctor's Wife' episode written by Neil Gaiman. It's easily one of the best Doctor Who episodes ever as it explores the Doctor's relationship with the Tardis in a beautiful and very sad way.

Above is my first piece for the poster, showing Matt Smith's Doctor looking rather shocked and upset. Quite a tricky start but starting to get the likeness down now. This episode has a wonderful use of colour and lighting which make for perfect screengrab reference.

Cottage II

Made some adjustments on this. I think it's done now. Really pleased with it. Feeling inspired today to do more art so I shall crack on and hopefully have something else to post later.

A Cottage

A3 pencil.
Started working on this drawing for a friend. Haven't drawn anything like this in a long time so it's been fun working with line to create brick and stone textures. I've started working during my lunch breaks to actually get some art done. Hopefully I can keep this up and actually continue to post some new stuff here over the upcoming months.

Carl

Paid a visit to the Scottish National Portrait Gallery today and was inspired by some amazing portraits by upcoming artists. I decided as it is the beginning of a new year that it would be a great time to attempt a self portrait. Also made a pleasant change from drawing other people.

The above sketch was done on A3 and was definitely a challenge. I worked from a photograph so I would be drawing how others see me rather than drawing my mirror reflection as I have done in the past. It is a flawed drawing despite a lot of time trying to re work areas. In particular the left side of the face gave me problems. This is a great example of a piece of work that follows the "art is never finished, only abandoned" quote.

Life Drawing III

These sketches are from the last life drawing session of the year just before Christmas. I wasn't overly pleased with these sketches when I had finished the session. I can see some good qualities to them when viewing them a few weeks later. I tend to struggle getting the head size correctly in proportion with the rest of the body but the drawings have more consistency than previous sessions.