Alex and the (4th) Doctor - Pencils

And I failed in getting the inks done this weekend like I'd have liked! :D
Between not being home and cleaning the apt I did nothing else! Boo. But here are the pencils.
Poor Four. I think he's more upset about the Jelly Babies than anything else. Alex is so careless with things that aren't his.




I mentioned before that Four was surprisingly easy for me to do...but I failed to mention that his stupid hand was not. I didn't have a lot of trouble with it, but I did struggle some. Older man hands are not something I draw often as I usually use my own hand as a model when I need it...but slim girl hands might have been a little out of place on Tom XD

Alex was next hardest, this being the third full version of him, and the first two were both redrawn at least twice. Don't ask me how since I can draw him in my sleep.

Also, scarf. I draw scarves a lot, so the wrappy parts were no issue, but I originally had the thing filling up most of the neg space. As you can now see, it isn't. I might add it back in PS in a separate layer that I can play with, or leave it out and "endless". We'll see. The Who fabric shipped, so I gots to get this thing done.

And the worst? The Tardis. OMG this is why I don't draw anything with straight edges!! I had to break out a ruler, which if you know me, tells a lot. I avoid them like some kind of extra nasty plague. I like natural lines, not straight ones, and even if I have "straight" surfaces in my art I usually just wing it. Damn Tardis almost killed me. PLUS I realized that I was drawing the Matt Smith Tardis and had to find pics of the Tom Baker Tardis so I could draw the right one. WHO KNEW?!?!? It still won't be right, because I plan on making it 11 blue. SUE ME. I like that blue.

On another note, someone was looking at my art of Alex the other day and said it didn't look like me.

...

O.o

Eh?!?

Maybe because Alex is blond, fictional and A GUY?! I am none of those things.
And as Alex is not me nor I him, I am not sure why we should look alike.

Also a friend was surprised at how evil he looks in this drawing. He kinda is, so I didn't get it. Then I realized I didn't go crazy with the eyelashes like I usually do, which softens his normal evils, making it look less so. That was probably it. Yeah. It's not like his fangs aren't hanging out all over the place in half my drawings of him.

What's new?

I haven't posted anything in forever....I got behind in art with the craftshow stuff and haven't done anything in forever.

To get back into it, I am working on something personal-ish lol

I don't do a lot of fanart, because I would rather draw my own characters, but I am making an exception!

Can you guess what this is?



XD Alex is stealin the Tardis! Which is very scary. Very very scary. This is the first draft...the final looks nothing like this, but I thought I'd put up some progress stuff. I actually drew Four first, then Alex and the Tardis on another page, spliced them in PS, added to it and then printed it off to the size I wanted the drawing (which is big for me, it's like 14x9 or something like that. I had to break out the large sketchbook! XD) and started working on it! Four / the Doctor / Tom Baker came out great, I couldn't get Alex to work. I erased the whole thing (just the Alex part) and redrew him a couple times but it just wasn't right....so I went back to the doodle-book, and did this




Much better!! It looks like crap because I was at home and had no scanner, so I took a piccy with my phone XD and emailed it to myself. I replaced it in the above drawing and positioned/sized it how I wanted.

Then I had to size the whole doodle to the size of the actual drawing, copy Alex out into his own file in "actual size" so I could print him off and add him to the drawing. *dies*

I swear there has to be an easier way of doing things. I have yet to find it though. 

I finished the pencils last night and I'm working on inks. I plan on coloring (cause the Tardis gots to be BLUE and the scarf...well the scarf gots to be the scarf. DOOM) and using tone.....so we'll see how it turns out. Hopefully good, it's going on a bag, both for myself and my friend who's making us both bags out of Doctor Who inspired material off spoonflower. YAY WHO!!