I present Bridging the Rift, a podcast about the Doctor Who Universe fandom, its discussions and creative pursuits. As part of our remit we discuss Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures fan art, comics, crafts and animation. Please give us a listen! [link]

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Update 2009-10-27: Wow my Werewolf goes over 600 faves and then my pageviews go over 9,000 in the space of a couple of days! I also now have 133 people watching me and 1,900 favourites total! Thanks so much for everyone who's visited my profile, favourited any of my work and especially to those who watch me!

How do pageviews work anyway? My Werewolf alone has 11,284 individual views, how can one item have more views than my overall pageview count?!

You'll be happy to hear that I started working on new art, but I haven't finished any because my trial version of SketchBook Pro 2010 ran out and when I went to buy the full version I noticed that it's ridiculously expensive in the UK and literally half the price in the states! That was so unfair I started evaluating other art packages to see I could get good enough results - So far I've rejected Art Rage 2 as no good and I've established that I can get openCanvas+ to produce the same sort of results but the clunky interface is driving me crazy. Can anyone recommend another cheap drawing package with configurable brushes and a blending airbrush that's optimized for tablet/pen use?

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I Aten't Dead! I've just been very very busy working on a new podcast ...OK so we've actually recorded twelve episodes so far, but as I said, I've been very very very busy. So busy in fact that I've barely looked at dA! Oh look I went past 8,000 pageviews ...about 800 pageviews ago ...thanks!

The podcast's about Doctor Who, Torchwood and Sarah Jane Adventures fandom, what we're talking about and all the amazing creative stuff being produced by fans. We have a different guest host on every episode. We've had episodes about Time Lord Rock music (trock) with Alex Day from Chameleon Circuit, about fan fiction, about funny fan comics along with *Girl-on-the-Moon from The Search for the Truth, about conventions, and the next episode to go out is about costuming and cosplay. Even in episodes that aren't about creativity there's a 15 minute or so section dedicated to looking at creativity related to that week's discussion. We've talked about loads of fan art. Take a listen, you may well like it


Sad fact is though, the podcast's taken up so much of my spare time that, what with arranging guest hosts, doing research, recording and, worst of all, editing, I haven't touched my tablet PC's stylus since the podcast launched! After 12 weeks of this though, my co-host and I have decided to change the release schedule to only release an episode every other week rather than weekly. Because of that I suddenly have lots more free time and I've fired up Sketch Book Pro for the first time in months!

I'm extremely motivated to start working on a new fan art digital painting now, but I'm so out of practice that I'm feeling really overwhelmed too and feel like I don't know where to start... I'd like to do a different fan art for each of the top ten in the recent Doctor Who Magazine Mighty 200 poll, but I'm also thinking I should maybe start with something a bit easier to get to grips with! Any advice?

I also have to admit that I've been put off updating this journal because it felt like I need to work on getting together a load of features before I can update and that was too much work. Well I've decided today that all the work I put into talking about art on Bridging the Rift and putting links into the show notes there counts as features work. But you can still of course keep track of the Doctor Who and general art I like by looking at my collections and favourites: [link] [link]

Anyway, thanks for all the pageviews, favourites (my Werewolf got to 550 favourites on my birthday and is now past 580!) and watches that everyone's been giving me while I've been basically ignoring the site. I'll hopefully be around a lot more now I only have half as much podcast post-production to do, and with any luck I'll even have some new art to show you!

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