The Doctor Meets Van Gogh.

Last Christmas, I was talking to my friend about Doctor Who. (She first introduced me to Doctor Who a year earlier— hooked me with “Blink”.) She was watching all of series 5 in one go. I remember her saying that “Vincent and the Doctor” was one of her favorite episodes. So that gave me an idea for a drawing— which eventually became a Christmas present. Knowing how I tend to take extended breaks between projects, I started this in early August.

Materials: large manilla drawing paper, blue ball point pens.

Months, weeks, days, hours and countless lines and swirls later…

As for my reference, I initially used my ENORMOUS Van Gogh book (published by Taschen). It’s a 700+ page complete collection of all of Van Gogh’s paintings plus an account of his life (pictured below, under my preliminary sketch).

It proved too big and too heavy for my modest desk… so, I ended up using a small pocket book on Van Gogh that I picked up at my local library’s book sale for— get this— 25 cents! (I was very excited over the find. It’s a pretty old book too so it may be worth something someday. Plus, I sort of have a thing for old books; let alone old books about art!)

(The reproduction quality isn’t as nice as what you get in Taschen’s book but it worked all the same since I only needed a rudimentary framework.)

The TARDIS under a starry night. Woot.