Adventures in Time and 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.

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What sort of art would a goon like Irongron commission? Probably something like the Bayeaux Tapesry, but really really crap…

Stephens! Stephens, my little super-man!

Alien jungles, invisible Daleks, Pertwee the action Doctor! Classic, nostalgic stuff!

I was really struck by this mug-shot of Pertwee, and to render it…?

More stippling! (I’m a glutten for punishment, really…)

Hopefully I’ve captured the sense of being inside the Miniscope, as well as the crazy, colourful direction of the production.