Category: Doctor Who: The Collection

A Series 13 Thirteenth Doctor fan art piece in the style of Lee Binding’s work for Doctor Who: The Collection.

This piece covers Flux + the 2022 Specials (Eve of the Daleks, Legend of the Sea Devils & The Power of the Doctor). I thought about including Revolution of the Daleks as part of this since I always thought there’d be a DVD box set collecting all 4 specials + Flux; Then it’d be a 5-disc set, but alas it has not come to be. On the Series 12 cover I’m doing (which as of writing is unfinished) I use a picture from Revolution for a hand and it fits better in that season anyway what with Graham and Ryan.

Did you know that the Doctor only wears a blue shirt in Series 13 for one episode? And that there’s no pictures of her facing straight on the camera while wearing that shirt? And that if I want to have her hold the ice cream from The Power of the Doctor, I have to frankenstein a blue shirt because she wears it during that moment? Yeah! It’s true! Fun! I’m having fun!

Special thanks to The Black Archive for their much appreciated work compiling high quality images.

Series 12 is next… and the last… until Series 14.

A Series 11 Thirteenth Doctor fan art piece in the style of Lee Binding’s work for Doctor Who: The Collection.

Before I made this piece, the only 13th Doctor episode I had seen more than once was her first, The Woman Who Fell to Earth. I really had no ideas for what I could put in her hand for this season other than the sonic. When I went through The Black Archive photo gallery, I thought about using the cube thing from Resolution, which would free up the sonic to be used for the S13 cover.

Other people have made their own S13 Collection-style covers and used the fob watch and glowing pyramid thing; I always try to do something different with mine, but if I can’t find anything else, then at least I’ll have the sonic left. Basically, if I can save the sonic until it’s absolutely necessary then I will.

Having now rewatched Resolution, I still have no idea what the cube thing is. I swear it just shows up suddenly with no explanation. Might be a DNA sample?

My friend Simon (Tweetlord) suggested using the custard cream biscuit from The Ghost Monument. She only holds it for two seconds at the end of the episode, but it’s far more interesting than the sonic (and it’s funny). How could I not?

I put consideration into the colour(s) to use for each season. I don’t want use the same colour for two seasons in a row, so if Series 11 is gold and teal (or whatever blue this is), Series 12 has to be something different. I think I might use blue for S12, so I had to change S11.

Special thanks to The Black Archive and Tragical History Tour for their much appreciated work compiling high quality images.

A Series 6 Eleventh Doctor fan art piece in the style of Lee Binding’s work for Doctor Who: The Collection.

I really wanted for this cover to use the green coat outfit from the second half of series 6, but ultimately I couldn’t source the pictures needed to construct a composite in this pose even going through the Blu-rays looking for frames from the episodes.

I was adamant about putting the sonic in his hand for this cover. I gotta make sure the Doc holds their sonic on one of their covers, and since S7 had the glasses and S5 had the mirror, that left S6. I must have seen every picture of Matt Smith holding the sonic while trying to make this composite. The arm for this composite was taken from the DVD insert for Series 6 which I had to digitally scan to get the picture since it wasn’t available online.

The torso and head of this composite comes from a photo shoot for the Children in Need 2011 special episode.

The hexagonal shapes in the background come from the cage holding Idris in The Doctor’s Wife.

Special thanks to The Black Archive and Tragical History Tour for their much appreciated work compiling high quality images.

With this cover, I’ve finally completed covers for the first 10 series of modern Doctor Who!

A Series 5 Eleventh Doctor fan art piece in the style of Lee Binding’s work for Doctor Who: The Collection.

Making the composite for Matt Smith seasons are so difficult cause there are so few pictures of him facing the camera. I have to give credit to Tim Hill who last year used the same torso and face pictures I used for this for his own art piece (which is incredible). I try my best to avoid using the same pictures as others who have made similar art pieces, but at the end of the day the only pictures that can be used are ones that have been taken. I can’t make a composite out of pictures that don’t exist, so this was inevitable. I’m probably more disappointed than I should be.

I do wonder that if Lee Binding ever creates his own versions of these modern series Collection covers, will he end up using the same pictures as I have for a composite? He’s far more experienced and skilled than I am, so perhaps he’ll identify a better, more suitable picture of Matt Smith in the archive.

Special thanks to The Black Archive and Tragical History Tour for their much appreciated work compiling high quality images.

A Series 3 Tenth Doctor fan art piece in the style of Lee Binding’s work for Doctor Who: The Collection.

I started working on this piece way back in January when I found a great picture to use for the torso, but I almost abandoned this one when trying to get something into the Doctor’s hand.

The obvious choice for this season was the fob watch from Human Nature. It was a challenge putting the hand composite together, even now I’m still not sure if I succeeded. There are pictures of the 8th and 13th Doctors holding a fob watch, but a challenge I set myself with these covers is to only use pictures from the respective season, so I had to get creative. I thought about using the timey-wimey detector from Blink if I could find the right pictures for a Blink outfit composite, but that didn’t pan out.

Special thanks to The Black Archive and Tragical History Tour for their much appreciated work compiling high quality images.

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A 60th Anniversary Fourteenth Doctor fan art piece in the style of Lee Binding’s work for Doctor Who: The Collection.

At first I hated the idea of David Tennant playing the Fourteenth Doctor. I thought it was a missed opportunity to normalise new episodes with old Doctors – how amazing would a Paul McGann 8th Doctor special be?! My feelings changed immediately after watching Destination: Skaro. Genuinely my favourite episode in the entire show.

With thanks to @TBAGallery for HQ images.