Deborah's Drawings of Stuff

[Deborah J]

Ok, last one of these for now, although I will share a few more old who pictures later on, like the collection of old mangled scrappy drawings I found at the bottom of an old schoolbag recently, stuck back together and cleaned up digitally, they're worth a look. And my blue peter one if I can find that. But for now, this gem. I drew this in the weeks leading up to the show's revival, in late winter early spring of 2005. I'd just gotten into the show, after watching a rerun of a documentary about the classic series, I was all stoked and ready for the new episodes, and absorbing everything I could about doctor who, and right in that time I drew this... thing. It's all the doctors, except McGann who wasn't mentioned on the documentary, so I didn't know about him yet, plus a dalek and a cyberman and the tardis. What a mess of a picture, hartnell is in abowtie and a comfy jumper, troughton is dressed as a priest, pertwee's not too bad, but Tom is like the worlds worst tom cosplay, davison is ginger, and I remember honestly thinking that colin and syvester's costumes were like that. I got really confused when I started watching them and there was no yellow jacket colin costume variant, and no stories with mccoy in a blue stripey blazer. Egg is just in a casual outdoor jacket, collared shirt and a jumper, his standard costume.



And before you start thinking "aaaw, that's cute" no, this was drawn by a 12 year old, nearly 13, if a 5 year old drew that it would be cute, someone as old as I was it's just a bad drawing. Don't cut past Deborah any slack, she sucks.

[Danoftardis]

1. I've long held the belief you can tell a lot about an artist from their working drawings/sketches, basically the stuff no one is supposed to ever see. Your one is super decent.

2. I actually really love your 11 Doctors drawing, there's a quirkiness to it. Matt is totally horrified, Pertwee is about to slap someone into space and Troughton is properly peeved.

3. Yep that's a Cbeebies drawing, no doubts about it.

[Avon]

Loving your art Deborah! That 11 Doctor's drawing, you've just perfectly nailed the character for each one and I approve of the Venusian akido, you've got a real talent for giving each one alot of life and I actually quite like Colin. The last one's still.., good! Tom look's like the cider dude from Camberwick Green

[DalekCheese]

Loving your art Deborah! That 11 Doctor's drawing, you've just perfectly nailed the character for each one and I approve of the Venusian akido, you've got a real talent for giving each one alot of life and I actually quite like Colin. The last one's still.., good! Tom look's like the cider dude from Camberwick Green

That’s scarily accurate.

[Deborah J]

Some more very early Deborah Who art, back in early 2006 I did a set of drawings of all of the doctors (possibly excluding 10, who was very new at the time) each on their own scrap of paper. You might notice 9 is a completely different style to the rest, he's traced from the 2006 doctor who annual. There was an illustration in that of a blue energy ghost version of egg, and I wanted to make that into a regular egg, and then I went ahead and drew the rest too. 3, 5 and 6 are all based on quite well known publicity stills, in terms of their poses. I recently found these scraps of drawings in the bottom of an old rucksack when clearing out my bedroom, I patched them up as best I could, scanned them, cleaned them a bit more digitally, and now here they are. Except 1 and 7, they have disappeared entirely. I don't remember what 1 was doing in his, but 7 was based on that knee forward low camera umbrella thrust picture that I really liked at the time. They'll probably never turn up. And if I ever did a 10 in this set he's disappeared also. But here are the other seven pictures. Note om baker's wrong-way-around hands.



I might have some more old art if I can find it, this was a very big improvement on my first doctor who picture, after a relatively short period. Still not great, I haven't worked out how to draw troughton yet, but a big step up from before.

[Danoftardis]

I was gonna say, Tom appears to have been involved in a serious accident, because of which his thumbs have been grafted onto the bottom of his hands. And you gave Pertwee a level of bouffant not even the great man himself could achieve.

But as you say it was a significant improvement over your previous drawing, give 13 year old you a pat on the back.

[Deborah J]

I was gonna say, Tom appears to have been involved in a serious accident, because of which his thumbs have been grafted onto the bottom of his hands. And you gave Pertwee a level of bouffant not even the great man himself could achieve.

But as you say it was a significant improvement over your previous drawing, give 13 year old you a pat on the back.

I'll send her round the tattoo parlour with this photo, see what they can do for her.

[DalekCheese]

Some more very early Deborah Who art, back in early 2006 I did a set of drawings of all of the doctors (possibly excluding 10, who was very new at the time) each on their own scrap of paper. You might notice 9 is a completely different style to the rest, he's traced from the 2006 doctor who annual. There was an illustration in that of a blue energy ghost version of egg, and I wanted to make that into a regular egg, and then I went ahead and drew the rest too. 3, 5 and 6 are all based on quite well known publicity stills, in terms of their poses. I recently found these scraps of drawings in the bottom of an old rucksack when clearing out my bedroom, I patched them up as best I could, scanned them, cleaned them a bit more digitally, and now here they are. Except 1 and 7, they have disappeared entirely. I don't remember what 1 was doing in his, but 7 was based on that knee forward low camera umbrella thrust picture that I really liked at the time. They'll probably never turn up. And if I ever did a 10 in this set he's disappeared also. But here are the other seven pictures. Note om baker's wrong-way-around hands.



I might have some more old art if I can find it, this was a very big improvement on my first doctor who picture, after a relatively short period. Still not great, I haven't worked out how to draw troughton yet, but a big step up from before.

That’s very good. The real problem I have is that I can’t tell whether Tom’s got an open mouth or a pink moustache.

[Deborah J]

That’s very good. The real problem I have is that I can’t tell whether Tom’s got an open mouth or a pink moustache.

it's meant to be the huge sticking plaster he has over the bite he got from paul seeds dog in the promotional photos for s16

[Danoftardis]

I was gonna say, Tom appears to have been involved in a serious accident, because of which his thumbs have been grafted onto the bottom of his hands. And you gave Pertwee a level of bouffant not even the great man himself could achieve.

But as you say it was a significant improvement over your previous drawing, give 13 year old you a pat on the back.

I'll send her round the tattoo parlour with this photo, see what they can do for her.

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Oh, very clever.