All I know about the Third Doctor was he was more of a badass than the prior two (and judging by his outfits, he needed to be), and that the actor’s son looks a lot like him, and is currently playing Thug Butler on the worst show on TV, Gotham.
250. Third Doctor
249. Second Doctor
More from the archives. I’ve never been able to get into the pre-reboot Who stuff. My first Doctor was technically Eight, but it was well into Eleven’s time that I first started watching the 2005 series. I tried to go back and watch some of the classic stuff. I watched the Three Doctors (1,2 & 3), some of Three, some of Four, very minimal of One. Just have a hard time getting into it. The pacing is molasses on those old shows. But man, the early Doctors sure are unique looking men, and a blast to draw.
248. First Doctor
I have a lot of stuff I need to get done by the end of the month. My commission deadlines loom pretty hard this month, and I want to get them done, which means I need to step back from some other stuff. So, the Sketch-a-Day is gonna take a short break, kinda.
I’m gonna cheat on this thing.
I have a ton of art that I’ve never shared. Some of it is stuff I wanted to color and never got around to it, and then there’s some stuff like this.
About two years ago, I started drawing all the Doctors, with the plan of turning them into a print of some sort. I made it through Nine, and never got around to Ten, Eleven or Twelve. I probably will, eventually. At this point it’s fear keep me from doing it. It’s been too long, I draw slightly differently, there’s a lot of detail, etc. etc. But for now, as I play catch-up, enjoy some unreleased tracks from my archives.
First Doctor!
247. Slimer
Inspired by Nick Marino, who mentioned Ecto-Cooler in a comment about a recent sketch, plus remembering that Kurt Dinse and I were once gonna do competing Slimers. Plus, yknow, ghosts, October, Halloween, all that.
246a. Rhino
My friend Bruce and I used to talk about how Rhino would be a perfect one-scene villain in a Spider-Man movie. It’s a James Bond opening, Rhino rampaging through the city. Spider-Man stops him. 1st 5 minutes, credits, then we get the rest of the movie with a main villain. It establishes other villains without needing to dedicate two hours to a character that might not be able to fill that time. AMAZING SPIDER-MAN 2 came close to doing that, but still fucked it up.
246. Deadpool
Hey, it’s Deadpool, again. Also, another commission! They wanted Deadpool as a zombie. It was fun to do. Even painting over the printed parts of the cover was kinda fun and kinda made me want to paint something. That feeling will pass.
The back cover… I decided I wanted to draw regular Deadpool too. This was before the previous Deadpool commission came around, so I decided to draw Original Flavor popping out of the grave and decided I’d write something to go with it. It is The Merc with a Mouth, after all. Once I drew it, I scanned it in, wrote and lettered the piece in Illustrator, printed out the word balloons, cut them out, and used some 17 year old Studio Tac to adhere it to the cover. I also enjoyed the writing process, even if it was just a short piece. I just hope I captured Wade’s voice.
245a. Kingpin
Mostly recognized as a Daredevil villain. Started as a Spider-Man villain, though. HE’S ON MY POSTER!
245. Aquaman
After drawing tiny Aquaman last weekend, I wanted to draw hook-hand 90s Aquaman. I kinda love Aquaman. Never really read too many of his comics, though. The Rick Vietch, Will Pfiefer, and John Arcudi runs. A little bit of the weird Sword and Sandals version. Pretty much it. It seems like DC fights so hard against the Super Friends version of Aquaman so damn much, they have no idea what to really do with him. Kind of a shame.
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The shape of things to come.
