Adventures in Time and Space

I’ll be honest, this is one of the few Dr Who stories I really don’t care all that much for. I just find it really disappointing in the execution. However, it does present us with a handful of really strong images to explore – the idea of a game universe in some abstract sense, the images of playing cards and games, perhaps the first real use of the “Police Box” image in a metatextual way, playing on the iconography it had developed.

So I decided to go off on a tangent a bit, and try something a bit Pop Art. The sketch is a bit of a collage, with playing cards stuck on. The Tardis is an MS-paint drawing, blimey I haven’t used Paint in years, I really wanted the old atari/ceefax-type look, because all these games are kind of nostalgic, and it’s a lovely sense to be taking Dr Who fan art back to basics, to the times when images were simple, and a photo shop was where you took the film to get it developed! I’m pretty sure in everyone’s spare room or attic, there’s a box with an old deck of cards, a beer-mat, a couple of jig-saws, it’s the sort of thing that gets put away when anyone moves house and never unpacked again in years… sort of a little pocket universe in a cardboard box tied together with string…

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