A Series 1 Ninth Doctor fan art piece in the style of Lee Binding’s work for Doctor Who: The Collection.
I originally attempted a Series 1 cover in January of this year, but for ages, I was never really happy with it. I’m only a beginner with graphics design; Making these can be really tricky. I still don’t know what exactly felt off to about the original version, but I’ve had a go at revising it; completely redoing the background and colours. The Doctor composite remains the same; I started a new attempt on redoing the arms but I just couldn’t get it right.
March 2024 Revised Version:
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Below is the breakdown for the original cover (version 1) from January 2024.
Special thanks to my friend Tweetlord for suggesting the anti-plastic vial from Rose to place in the Doctor’s hand. Since the RTD Sonic Screwdriver is represented on my Series 2 cover, I wanted to choose a different item for this one to ensure each piece is unique.
A Series 2 Tenth Doctor fan art piece in the style of Lee Binding’s work for Doctor Who: The Collection.
Revised cover from March 2024:
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Original cover:
Special thanks to my friend Tweetlord for help with deciding what colours to use and what to put in the Doctor’s hand this season, and some outfit stuff.
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This is the first series I’ve gone back and rewatched before making the cover which I think helped with choosing appropriate colours, attire etc. I chose aqua/teal for the base of this cover to match the coral TARDIS interior from this series.
I almost put the Emperor of the Racnoss from The Runaway Bride on this cover to push my belief that Runaway Bride belongs to Series 2. I mean it picks up literally the second after Doomsday. In most cases I see the annual Christmas special as an epilogue to the series that aired that year. The obvious exception of course is The Christmas Invasion which is represented on this cover as I feel it makes less sense to bundle with Christopher Eccleston’s short-lived era, but then again, The Twin Dilemma. I ended up not putting the Racnoss on here mainly because I couldn’t figure out a placement that looked good.
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Special thanks to The Black Archive for their much appreciated work compiling high quality images.
Special thanks to my friend Tweetlord for helping me decide what colours to use for this season and what the Doctor should hold in his hand this time … this time being nothing, but a regenerating hand.
Though technically it’s inaccurate, since both times he regenerates in this season (The Stolen Earth and The End of Time, and yes I count Series 4 + the Specials as part of the same season) he doesn’t wear a trench coat. The decision to give him this outfit for this cover came down to the struggles finding pics of him raising his hand while wearing a trench coat in Series 2. I want to give him a different outfit on each season cover, so if he can’t wear a trench coat on the Series 2 cover, he’s got to on this one. The plan for Series 3 is the Blink outfit, and the plan for Series 2 is the black/dark grey suit. He wears the blue suit in this one with a trench coat.
Yeah.. I realised that my creativity is not that innovative when I discovered the pose I was doing for the Doctor was nearly identical to the pose on the official Specials steelbook. But I try to pick a pose/item for the Doctor to hold that’s most thematically relevant to the respective season. Except for when I gave Capaldi the memory worm on the Series 8 cover, but that’s cause I couldn’t find good pics of him holding chalk like from Listen. I know I’m being pedantic and stubborn, but I try not to use pics from other seasons or actors outside of the season I’m doing a cover for. It feels like cheating. The one time I broke this rule was when I used pics from the Series 9 sonic screwdriver reveal video for the Series 10 cover. Outside of that, never!
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I was really unsure of the colour scheme to use for this cover… so here’s another version. It was hard to decide; Red and blue works well for the Tennant era overall, but purple fits Series 4… but gold/orange fits the Specials. When I started these covers, I honestly chose colour for each cover based solely on the section of the title sequence I was using for the background. I was happy with this until some person on Reddit said the Series 8 and 9 colours should have been swapped, so I’ve been unsure of my decisions ever since. Lesson learned: Don’t use Reddit.
A Wilderness Years / Eighth Doctor fan art piece in the style of Lee Binding’s work for Doctor Who: The Collection.
Not a fob watch or sonic in his hand cause I felt that’d be too obvious. Hope you get the mosaic explosions reference otherwise it probably just looks a bit weird.
For Scream of the Shalka and Shada, I used a Flash Decompiler to extract svg’s from the archived swf’s to get high quality art of the Shalka and Krarg.
A Series 10 Twelfth Doctor fan art piece in the style of Lee Binding’s work for Doctor Who: The Collection.
The hardest Capaldi piece to construct since photos of this outfit (from Twice Upon a Time) are so limited. His right arm alone is constructed from five different pictures. 🫠
A Series 7 Eleventh Doctor fan art piece in the style of Lee Binding’s work for Doctor Who: The Collection.
There are so few pictures of Matt Smith facing forwards. The face for this piece was taken from the 50th Anniversary cinema intro where the 11th Doctor talks to the audience directly about the episode. I was about to give up searching for a face till I offhandedly clicked on it while going through the Blu-ray special features. It was a challenge finding a frame where he’s not smiling aggressively. 😀
