NaArMaMo 2008, Day 15: Ood

Doctor Who fan art featuring a natural 'uncultivated' Ood as seen in the series 4 episode Planet of the Ood.

This is my fifteenth 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 variable width brush for the lines and the airbrush tool for the colouring. Total time spent was about 6 hours, about 2.5 hours of which was the line art layer.

I was really pleased that this one fell on a Friday, because I knew I was going to have to spend extra time on finishing it. I ended up staying up until 2am to get this done, and it was well worth it!

My source image started a third of the way down the head and ended at the hands, so the top of the head, the bottom of the body and the hind brain cord were all drawn without a direct source image. Also tricky was the fact that the source image actually has light sources pointing in from both the left and the right.

I decided I wanted to leave the lines in on this one as they've just turned out so well, probably one of the best sketches I'd ever done.

I think the colouring on the head has worked out really well. I should perhaps have spent more time on the clothing or the tentacles, but all in all, I think this is good work and much better than the Ood I drew in February: [link]

I think comparing the two is proof absolute that the digital airbrush is the drawing tool for me, and that practice, time and effort make (closer to) perfect!

Lines-only version: [link]

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