Jenna Louise Coleman

The new Dr Who companion. She's very pretty in a kind of retro 40's cutie kind of way. So I thought I might try and do a full on 40s style airbrush portrait. Like a George Petty or a Gil Elvgren. This is my basic drawing and I'll try and post the various stages here as I go.

DALEK

As anyone who has tried will tell you, designing a genuinely scary monster is very hard. Designing an iconic one is just downright difficult. So today we are remembering Ray Cusick who designed one of the very scariest and most iconic of all monsters.

William Hartnell - Dr Who

So as some of you may be aware I have drawn a Dr Who comic. The reason I wanted to do it was because it featured the very first of the Doctor's many incarnation , as embodied by William Hartnell. I'm a big fan of Hartnell. The character of Dr Who was not necessarily heroic in those early days and Hartnell brought a deal of sophistication, mischievousness and darkness that I think marked the show out as something interesting and compelling. To some extent no actor who has followed him in the roll has been quite so layered and mysterious. I see that the BBC are making a 90 minute dramatisation of the creation of the Dr Who TV show back in the early 60s. Hartnell will be played by David Bradley, who is probably the best choice possible. I can't wait.

Dr Who - Matt Smith

Copic Markers taken with a digital camera. I really need to buy a scanner.

Elisabeth Claira Heath Sladen (1 February 1946 – 19 April 2011)

I'm a bit slow off the mark with this drawing. Like many a boy in the early 70's I was besotted by Sarah Jane Smith. She was the ideal woman, smart, brave, funny and not afraid to be silly. She will be missed.

Dr. Who!

Crikey!

Like George, I am not super-familiar with Dr. Who. Unlike George, I will make no apologies for it. A bushy-haired weirdo traveling through time in a telephone booth to fight garbage cans? sounds wack as hell, but a lot of people eat this show up so it must have some redeeming qualities. Maybe I'll pick it up when I get through the next 350 episodes of Naruto

Dr. Who- Peter Cushing

Dr. Who fills one of my geek blind-spots-- kind of like Star Trek or Dungeons & Dragons, I somehow never got into this thing that most people who are like me (geeky cartoonists) have as an integral part of their geek loves.

I do know enough about Doctor Who to know that there were a couple of movies based on the series, but, continuity-wise, they are very different. Peter Cushing, he of Hammer Horror film, Sherlock Holmes and Grand Moff Tarkin fame, played the good Doctor, but he's not counted as one of the canonical Doctors-- of which there's been , like, fifty. Here's my take on Cushing's Dr. Who:

I know this version of the Doctor is probably the ugly red-headed stepchild of Dr. Who fanfare, which is partially why I drew it. Also, I wanted to draw Peter Cushing, who, as it turns out, is a lot harder to capture the likeness of than you'd think. All cheekbones, no lips.

Dr Who - Tom Baker

My childhood simply does not make any sense without Dr Who. It was a key part of how I perceived myself and how I wanted the world to be. Tom Baker was MY Doctor, in the same way that my parents are my parents. I cannot change that , no matter how good some of the newer ones have been ( and they have been excellent !)
Dr Who is about a renegade alien in a broken Time/Space ship, travelling the universe , saving the innocent and helping right wrongs. His first and only weapon is his brain and no matter how much of existence he sees, no matter how much horror , venality and cruelty, he loves it and is full of wonder at the beauty of it all. I can live with that.