NaArMaMo 2008, Day 18: Rose Tyler

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

For this day's NaArMaMo Doctor Who fan art I developed temporary insanity and decided to throw out all three of my possible Monsters starting with R and instead challenge myself by drawing Rose Tyler, here seen as dressed in the series one episode Boom Town.

This was drawn on a tablet PC using the airbrush tool only. Total time spent about 6 hours, of which about 2 hours was the original sketch, now removed.

This was supposed to be a considerably larger piece [link] but the face took me so long I literally raced through drawing half the hair, and drew in the scarf as a blurry squiggle, then cropped the whole thing tightly to the face. Even with all that, I still finished at 1:45am! (And didn't submit here until the next morning)

The final 16 hour finished version is now available here [link]

Billie Piper is extremely hard to draw due to having unusual and distinctive facial features. As such I had to literally brute force my sketch to get it to work. Thanks must go to my friends windiain and spacefall who gave extremely useful feedback at several points during both the sketching and airbrushing phases.

Even though I didn't finish this off to the standard I wanted to, I'm still EXTREMELY pleased with how this has turned out, considering my phobia of drawing people and how I did this on a work night!

Sketch layer available in scraps: [link]
Finished version available here: [link]

Disclaimer: I do not own Doctor Who or Rose Tyler, this is solely fan art, I do not claim any ownership of the characters or show.