NaArMaMo 2008, Day 28: Doctor Who 1 Hour Alphabet

This is my twenty-eigth piece for this year's (Inter)National Art Making Month, in which you create a new piece of art every day in August.

This was drawn on a tablet PC using a fixed opacity, variable width brush. Total time spent was 1 hour (plus the text in the bottom right corner).

Today was my first day away at a 4 day convention and I wanted to spend the time socialising and recovering from the journey here. As such, I decided to do a quickie tonight and draw all 26 Doctor Who new series alphabet pieces drawn previously, but in only one hour.

This was drawn between 11:35pm and 12:35am. I got to the end with 6 minutes to spare so I went back and improved a few of the sketches. Then at the very end I realised I'd completely failed to draw anything for V so very hastily added the double shadow to the left of the Werewolf to make up for this oversight (so all 26 items are included in order). I mostly tried to draw the characters in the same poses they were in my full colour airbrush pieces. The text at the bottom right was added outside of the time limit.

I scaled some of the sketches as I went. I also moved around some of the individual sketches to make a more even layout after the time limit had finished.

The 1 hour alphabet is not my idea, lots of other people are doing them too, see here: [link]

I believe the practice of drawing 26 images in 1 hour was started by Apelad: [link]

I recommend drawing your own -- they're excellent practice for drawing simple sketches/characters/cartoons, they're quick and they're lots of fun!

Letters are: Adipose Baby | Brannigan | CyberController | Davros | Emperor of the Daleks | Face of Boe | Gelth | Hath | Isolus | Judoon | K-9 | Lazarus Monster | Macra | Nestene Conciousness | Ood | Pyrovile | Queen Victoria | Rose Tyler | Sec Hybrid | Toclafane | Untempered Schism | Vashta Nerada (double shadow) | Werewolf | Xylok Crystal | Yana | (Gas Mask) Zombie

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who, the Daleks or any of the characters and creatures shown, this is solely fan art, I do not claim any ownership of the characters or show.