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Continuing in my series of Doctor Who is the third Doctor- Jon Pertwee! Jon was a famous stage actor in England when he took over the part of the Doctor. He played the roll for three years and what was different about Jon's Doctor was that he was stuck on Earth for most of his regeneration! At the end of the second Doctor story "War Games" the Doctor's people,the Time Lords, put the Doctor on trial for interferring in the affairs of other worlds. The Doctor protested and tried to defend himself, but alas the Time Lords forced the Doctor to regenerate as punishment and banished him to Earth with his knowledge of how to operate his time traveling machine the Tardis, taken away from him.
The Time Lords let the Doctor choose what his next regeneration would look like and what he chose can be best described as Austin Powers age seventy! The same red velvet coat and pants. What the brits call a "dandy". He had thick grey hair and since the Doctor couldn't operate his Tardis, he built himself a car and called it "Bessie". The license plate on his car said, "WHO 1" (har-har, get it?)
The 3rd Doctor's run was when we were introduced to his greatest villian and arch-nemesis "The Master" The Master was another renegade Time Lord,but unlike the Doctor who wished to help other races, the Master sought to either rule them or destroy them! The Doctor did get his memory back of how to operate the Tardis in the 10th anniversary episode "The Three Doctors" where the third,second, and first Doctors all teamed up to take on the evil Time Lord Omega.
Ok on to the drawing. I gave this Doctor a background consisting of Gallifrean hieroglyphics. I started with a pencil sketch,then went to detail the pencils and went over that with Micron pens. I scanned the drawing and colored it in Photoshop CS. The whole thing all together took around three hours to complete from start to finish.
Next time I will talk about the most iconic Doctor of them all..... actor Tom Baker aka the fourth Doctor Who!
Cheers
Stephen Whitener
Monster Island Studios
Well here is the second picture of my Doctor Who collection of who else? The second Doctor, Patrick Troughton. I have to confess in that I have only seen a handful of episodes with Patrick Troughton, so I'm kinda hard pressed to have a distinct opinion of the character. The second Doctor was more whimsical and elvish that the first as well as younger. He often played the recorder and would shout,"oh my giddy aunt!" He would whine when the other Doctor wouldn't. His haircut resembled one of the Beatles.
I don't have much more to say about the second Doctor, so I'll talk about my illustration that I did of him. I experimented here and decided to do the pic entirely in black and white with an outer space background I had found online. I kind of wish I would have done what I had previously with Doctor Who #1 and had the character be in black and white and the background in color to make it "pop" a bit more. I feel it showed it in the number of views on my deviantart page, but art is all about experimentation!
Next time will be my drawing of Jon Pertwee aka the third Doctor Who.
Cheers!
Stephen Whitener
Monster Island Studios
I remember first catching Doctor Who late night on a friday when I was about ten years old. It was playing on the local tv station KVOS TV12. The first thing that stood out about it was the rather creepy opening music with actor Tom Baker's face looming in a blue vortex and then seeing the famous "blue box" twirling about. I had no idea what was in store.
The episode opened on a rock quarry and there was this round spaceship and a short stocky alien that resembled mister potato head. I later found out this alien was called a "Sontaran", one of the Doctor's oldest enemies. Another thing that stood out was the good Doctor himself- Tall man with curly brown hair,toothy smile, and an impossibly long multi-colored scarf, who had an affinity for jelly babies (british candy for those not in the know)
The effects were chessy but the stories were great and the show just had that great British charm to it! I discovered years later that the Doctor that I had watched was not the first but actually the fourth. You see the Doctor is an alien and when he is severely injured he "regenerates" into a new body. Sometimes younger and sometimes older. Each time he gets new garbs and a new personality.
I found at the time that there were a total of 7 Doctors. Then the show had ended in England back in '89. Fast forward years later to 1996 and I found out that Fox was going to do a new series with an 8th Doctor. Unfortunetly the pilot movie didn't go over as well as the studio had hoped and the Doctor was out of commission again....at least for eight years. In 2005 the BBC brought the Doctor back and updated the series for the modern age with top notch cgi and Tardis set.
Here we are in 2011 and Doctor Who is still going strong and shows no signs of stopping. Anywho I have drawn many Doctor Who pieces over the past couple years and wanted to share my stories behind them. The first piece I am showing is of the first Doctor- actor William Hartnell. Bill played the part from 1963 to 1966. He played the part as a crotchety grandpa who knew more than everyone else. He did lighten up a bit towards the later part of his time as the character. He also traveled with a family member, his granddaughter Susan.
Bill Hartnell was in fairly poor health during his time as the Doctor and the show writers had to find a quick way to write Bill out of the series so one writer suggested," well since Doctor Who is alien then why can't he just change his appearance and body?" This turned out to be a genius idea and at the end of the episode "The Tenth Planet" The Doctor regenerated for the first time to the suprise and shock of audiences everywhere back in '66!
The drawing I did has the first Doctor in black and white, since that how the series was filmed for years. I put the Doctor in a color background that I had gotten from a Doctor Who Tardis bank. Some photoshop trickery was used and BAM- the first Doctor is complete! This piece I posted on deviantart.com and it has become one of my most popular Dr.Who pieces.
Next time I will post the second Doctor Patrick Troughton
Cheers
Stephen Whitener
