Accidental Doctor: Crappy Old Fanart Edition
By the way, I never thought I'd know the feeling of something only being seven months old but HORRIFICALLY OUT OF DATE OH GOD I DON'T DRAW LIKE THAT ANYMORE MAKE IT GO AWAI. But uh, last year was special, I guess.
I've actually been meaning to do this...pretty much since I posted the comic "When You Dream" to the DW LJ community way back, in which several people asked if I inserted various other Doctors and their companions in the BG. No. No I didn't. In fact, the majority of them were shameless cameos of my own characters. So, inspired by the "Accidental Doctor" posts on Tumblr (basically people finding characters in cartoons who look suspiciously like the Doctor), here's the lowdown.
Oh, and also keep in mind, along with being old, these are close to 100% of a 300DPI scanned hand inked drawing. So everything in the background was drawn very wee and in effect, very badly.
a.) Uhm. I have no idea! If I didn't chose for the ~*artsy*~ colour direction I did with this comic this fat chick certainly wouldn't have had a highly ironic self-mocking brightly-coloured Hawaiian shirts or purple floral print bandanna! (Yeah, it's me.)
b.) Judging by his hair and his facial shape, I think I gave Will a haircut and shaved off his sideburns (not that you see them anymore now that his hair is so long, that Victorian man-tart.) You can tell between now and then he lost a lot of his "bulk." (He was pretty beefy before! Dream on, Will, dream on.)
c.) OKAY. THIS IS WHAT GOT PEOPLE STARTED, AS YOU CAN PROBABLY GUESS. Everybody thought it was Tennant's Doctor. Looking back I can understand why, and for a while, before I looked back at the original without the word balloons I was wondering if I indeed gave him a trenchcoat simply out of my own trenchcoat "fetish," not necessarily because of Ten's. I think that little line implying sideburns is also not helping. (He stole it from Will!)
Honestly, when I drew this doode originally, he reminded me of one of the little really simplified cartoons of this kid from the ANCIENT Nickelodeon bumpers, with the hair and stick-figure-ness. (Man, nobody's gonna know what I'm talking about, I'm talking really early 90's Nick, and I can't find it on YouTube. :< )
d.) Sue Adis. Not very recognisable, but Sue's design wasn't very solidified yet, although I think either by then I had regulater her specs to Brainy Specs (she's farsighted), or I hadn't considered them yet.
C again, because I'm too lazy to correct this) OKAY this one is nobody. I think I was starting to realize I needed more people who were actually TRENDY LOOKING and such in the background. This sadly shows what little I know about trendiness.
e and f) These guys were SUPPOSED to be nobody, and that is TOTALLY a failed bowler hat on the far right doode. Ever since someone said it was Fivey and Turlough I was seriously never able to UNSEE IT. I mean, give the tie to the guy on the left and give the guy on the right celery. THERE YOU GO.
Obviously these were just supposed to be doodes walking to their job, really. Not anymore.
d) Dr. David Macualky of Legacy/ASC fame. His design is still in transition from my art in 2008 to my modern human style which is 100% different but basically it'll mean I can draw him how I've always seen him in my head.
h) Audrey Brown. She only WISHES she had someone sane like Dr. Macualky as her partner. (Not that anything around Dr. Macaulky is sane, hmm, Audrey, pick your poison!) And of course she looks annoyed. SHE'S ALWAYS ANNOYED. (That can be seen as either her labcoat or a trenchcoat, again, trench fetish, I don't remember my original intent.)
Also, as an aside, Audrey is pretty much what my old character Shirley Kent would look like imported into my art now, which I know some people wanted to see. Well, just turn Audrey's brunette hair blonde and you pretty much have her right there.
Yeah I know this was JUST SO INTERESTING but oh well I needed a break from this commission I'm working on.
Also: I got Livestream to work for me, I managed to do a little broadcast of me working on a Take On Me icon, and while I talked the whole way through, apparently I accidentally goofed with the settings sometime between my last test video and that broadcast and you so you can't hear me talking to pretty much myself. But I proved I can do it and SAINT Patrick can handle it fairly well (also, my father told me that I can probably get that third stick of RAM in there so I can get back to 3GB of RAM to go along with this proto- duel processor, so that should probably help. SAINT Edwards had 3GB of RAM but had a significantly slower processor and crashed like crazy when I tried to do any streams.) So...I may do that sometime, if people are interested. Dunno if they are, but it just seems like fun to me.
Okay back to work.
I've actually been meaning to do this...pretty much since I posted the comic "When You Dream" to the DW LJ community way back, in which several people asked if I inserted various other Doctors and their companions in the BG. No. No I didn't. In fact, the majority of them were shameless cameos of my own characters. So, inspired by the "Accidental Doctor" posts on Tumblr (basically people finding characters in cartoons who look suspiciously like the Doctor), here's the lowdown.
Oh, and also keep in mind, along with being old, these are close to 100% of a 300DPI scanned hand inked drawing. So everything in the background was drawn very wee and in effect, very badly.
a.) Uhm. I have no idea! If I didn't chose for the ~*artsy*~ colour direction I did with this comic this fat chick certainly wouldn't have had a highly ironic self-mocking brightly-coloured Hawaiian shirts or purple floral print bandanna! (Yeah, it's me.)
b.) Judging by his hair and his facial shape, I think I gave Will a haircut and shaved off his sideburns (not that you see them anymore now that his hair is so long, that Victorian man-tart.) You can tell between now and then he lost a lot of his "bulk." (He was pretty beefy before! Dream on, Will, dream on.)
c.) OKAY. THIS IS WHAT GOT PEOPLE STARTED, AS YOU CAN PROBABLY GUESS. Everybody thought it was Tennant's Doctor. Looking back I can understand why, and for a while, before I looked back at the original without the word balloons I was wondering if I indeed gave him a trenchcoat simply out of my own trenchcoat "fetish," not necessarily because of Ten's. I think that little line implying sideburns is also not helping. (He stole it from Will!)
Honestly, when I drew this doode originally, he reminded me of one of the little really simplified cartoons of this kid from the ANCIENT Nickelodeon bumpers, with the hair and stick-figure-ness. (Man, nobody's gonna know what I'm talking about, I'm talking really early 90's Nick, and I can't find it on YouTube. :< )
d.) Sue Adis. Not very recognisable, but Sue's design wasn't very solidified yet, although I think either by then I had regulater her specs to Brainy Specs (she's farsighted), or I hadn't considered them yet.
C again, because I'm too lazy to correct this) OKAY this one is nobody. I think I was starting to realize I needed more people who were actually TRENDY LOOKING and such in the background. This sadly shows what little I know about trendiness.
e and f) These guys were SUPPOSED to be nobody, and that is TOTALLY a failed bowler hat on the far right doode. Ever since someone said it was Fivey and Turlough I was seriously never able to UNSEE IT. I mean, give the tie to the guy on the left and give the guy on the right celery. THERE YOU GO.
Obviously these were just supposed to be doodes walking to their job, really. Not anymore.
d) Dr. David Macualky of Legacy/ASC fame. His design is still in transition from my art in 2008 to my modern human style which is 100% different but basically it'll mean I can draw him how I've always seen him in my head.
h) Audrey Brown. She only WISHES she had someone sane like Dr. Macualky as her partner. (Not that anything around Dr. Macaulky is sane, hmm, Audrey, pick your poison!) And of course she looks annoyed. SHE'S ALWAYS ANNOYED. (That can be seen as either her labcoat or a trenchcoat, again, trench fetish, I don't remember my original intent.)
Also, as an aside, Audrey is pretty much what my old character Shirley Kent would look like imported into my art now, which I know some people wanted to see. Well, just turn Audrey's brunette hair blonde and you pretty much have her right there.
Yeah I know this was JUST SO INTERESTING but oh well I needed a break from this commission I'm working on.
Also: I got Livestream to work for me, I managed to do a little broadcast of me working on a Take On Me icon, and while I talked the whole way through, apparently I accidentally goofed with the settings sometime between my last test video and that broadcast and you so you can't hear me talking to pretty much myself. But I proved I can do it and SAINT Patrick can handle it fairly well (also, my father told me that I can probably get that third stick of RAM in there so I can get back to 3GB of RAM to go along with this proto- duel processor, so that should probably help. SAINT Edwards had 3GB of RAM but had a significantly slower processor and crashed like crazy when I tried to do any streams.) So...I may do that sometime, if people are interested. Dunno if they are, but it just seems like fun to me.
Okay back to work.