The Edge of Destruction
This is a really straightforward 2-parter, one set and four actors. So, where to go with a sketch? I decided I’d do a couple of portraits (actually I hate doing this from photographs, but hey it’s the best source I have at my disposal, not actually being in studio in 1964…). Ian and Barbera are the obvious ones… The Doctor and Susan seem too distant in this story. Hopefully I’ve got a bit of tension in the image between the two faces, too.
Having donetwo colourful pastel images, for this one I pared it right back (a bit like the story), using graphite and white pastel on tinted paper. Looking at the two faces looming out of the loom, I added some slashed of white over the top – hopefully it suggests that we’re looking out from the Tardis to them.
Then I came to quickly spray some fixative on the finished image… grabbed this spray can… and covered the damn thing in spray-adhesive. Oops. I really ought not to keep those two cans side-by-side! Thankfully it seems to have dried with no major damage. Actually, it’s probably added to the patina of the image – looking at it part of me thinks I should have smoothed and blended a bit more, but then again, the image is rough, textured, slightly unresolved, the faces are lost. A bit like the Tardis crew then…
