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Gallifrey: Alchemy pp8-9

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I must leave you on this cliffhanger for a while while I head to Beirut to see my family...

Bonus: I don't know what I was channeling when I did the pencils but man, irate Narvin looks good!

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Gallifrey: Alchemy pp6-7

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Your gallifrey audios comics are amazing. Your art style is very distinctive and your characters are expressive. They are such a joy to look at and read. Plus, adapating an audio media to such a visual one is particuarly impressive. I love the dynamism you manage to give despite the lengthy dialogue material. One of my favourite example of that is the first few pages of your imperiatrix scene. Two people and a tin dog in a room, quite a lot of dialogue to cover, well more tricky even, quite a lot of dialogue which is not fairyly distributed among the characters. And you just make it work really well and give it dynamism. (all of this before, in the last page, it ends of some sort of action-y sequence so...). Just I love your gallifrey comics and I appreciate greatly that we get to see and read them. They are such a joy! (Also I love Alchemy so far, it's so much fun).

That's such a sweet message, thank you! The challenge of reimagining the audio in the visual language of comics, while preserving the original script, is a big part of what makes this so much fun for me. The Imperiatrix scene was the very first one I made and I laughed myself silly drawing the chase scene. I'm really glad you enjoy them, and I think you're really going to enjoy Alchemy! (I know I am!)

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Gallifrey: Alchemy pp4-5

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Gallifrey: Alchemy p3

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Just one page in this update so I can get my pagination sorted*. I bloody love these two.

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*Details for the technically minded: As I'm publishing this 2 pages at a time, any cliffhanger obviously needs to be at the end of the second page. But I always work on the basis this might end up printed, and in a book that right-hand page corresponds to odd-numbered pages. I was so eager to start I totally forgot that the first release needed to be of 3 pages so every subsequent one would correspond to a book spread. This has now been rectified 😅

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Gallifrey: Alchemy pp1-2

So excited about this – I've been writing a completely original, full-length Gallifrey story set in the early days of the series, and finally started drawing! As it's going to be a much longer comic I'll release it feuilleton-style a couple of pages at a time.

This story is set immediately after A Blind Eye, the final episode of Gallifrey season 1. I love how Narvin and Romana can't stand each other at that point in time and yet... but I'll say no more, and hope you enjoy it!

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A Blind Eye

Short scene from Gallifrey season 1 ep4: A Blind Eye, written by Alan Barnes.

Took a bit of research, this one! I took a deep dive into late 1930's fashion and omg Narvin in a fedora.

And here's my progress tracker:

✅ 0 Erasure

1.1 Weapon of Choice

1.2 Square One

1.3 The Inquiry

✅ 1.4 A Blind Eye

✅ 2.1 Lies

✅ 2.2 Spirit

2.3 Pandora

2.4 Insurgency

✅ 2.5 Imperiatrix

3.1 Fractures

3.2 Warfare

✅ 3.3 Appropriation

✅ 3.4 Mindbomb

3.5 Panacea

4.1 Reborn

4.2 Disassembled

4.3 Annihalation

4.4 Forever

5.1 Emancipation

5.2 Evolution

5.3 Arbitration

✅ 6.1 Extermination

6.2 Renaissance

6.3 Ascension

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Gallifrey Zine: Pre-Orders Open

In honor of the 20th anniversary of Big Finish’s Gallifrey audios, we are thrilled to present Pride & Politics: A Gallifrey Fanzine.

The zine features 100+ pages of new fanart and fanfiction, celebrating every series of the show!

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*If you are from Russia and are unable to buy via the main shop, you may purchase the zine through Boosty. (Please note that Boosty prices are slightly higher due to Boosty's higher processing fees.)

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PRE-ORDERS CLOSE MARCH 31.

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About the Comics

Taking a break from the madness that is moving my studio, to think back to the wonderful weekend that was Gallifrey One and all the lovely people I met there. It's really a joy to connect with other Doctor Who fans and especially the Gallifrey fandom. I'm not listing people because I'm bound to forget someone (got into memorable trouble for that already!) and there are so many I met without ever exchanging names.

Anyway, I had a printed copy of the comics I made so far, for the purpose of autographs from involved writers and actors (Gary Russell called me insane which coming from him I take as a stamp of approval) and it was really nice to hear directly from people who enjoy them! Several of you have shown interest in buying them in print as well, so I wanted to share what I have in mind for that. The copy I had was put together hastily for Gally1, but what I really want to do is draw at least one short scene for each episode of "early Gallifrey" (seasons 1-6) – and then print them in a volume that I can consider complete. Ambitious, I know, but I only started in September so looking at the progress below, I think it's doable in time for next year...

✅ 0 Erasure

1.1 Weapon of Choice

1.2 Square One

1.3 The Inquiry

🚧 1.4 A Blind Eye

✅ 2.1 Lies

✅ 2.2 Spirit

2.3 Pandora

2.4 Insurgency

✅ 2.5 Imperiatrix

3.1 Fractures

3.2 Warfare

✅ 3.3 Appropriation

✅ 3.4 Mindbomb

3.5 Panacea

4.1 Reborn

4.2 Disassembled

4.3 Annihalation

4.4 Forever

5.1 Emancipation

5.2 Evolution

5.3 Arbitration

✅ 6.1 Extermination

6.2 Renaissance

6.3 Ascension

My first fan comic could fit in here if there are pages to spare, that would be chronologically correct, but it doesn't have to... (I say first because I've been writing a longer one, God knows how I'm going to find the time though!)

Thoughts welcome!

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Lies

Opening scene of Gallifrey S2 Ep1: Lies, written by Gary Russell (who called me insane in LA last week and meant it as a compliment). A fantastic scene I've been wanting to do for a while (Brax!!), only held back by how daunted I was at the prospect of drawing Miles Richardson. Alsop it presents the extra challenge of a long monologue, and how to keep that visually interesting.

As this is a flashback to way way back, when Braxiatel was a modest tutor, I wanted to underline his youth and lack of cardinal's skullcap. Coming across a picture of him with this hairstyle really helped! He's a dream to draw. Young Mary Tamm was more tricky but it was lovely to have a scene with her.

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Hello from Gallifrey One where a bunch of us Gally fiends (not a typo) are having the time of our lives, and I'm loving meeting everyone in person. There was a Romana cosplay/Gallifrey meetup yesterday, for which @vivvision had the idea of making a keepsake for everyone to take home – for which I made this "group photo" of the original Gallifrey team.

Now it's out in the world, it's up in my Redbubble shop with the rest of my DW/Gallifrey stuff.

One more day to go, come say hello if we haven't met yet!

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War Room I: The First Days of Phaidon animatic!

And it’s finally done! It took me about a month to finish (I think? I started it at some point, then I forgot about it, then remembered again) and for the past couple of weeks this was all I was doing art-wise after work. I’m pretty happy with how it turned out!

@fiotrethewey ‘s The First Days of Phaidon is one of my fave audios featuring Leela and Narvin and planning their acting in this scene was very entertaining. It’s so surreal to watch the final result :3

Also I got to test ToonSquid and Procreate Dreams along the way so maybe I can give you some impressions if you’re interested 🤔

I would also appreciate it so much if you take 1,5 minutes of your time and watch it and if you enjoyed it like/comment/share it. The fandom is really small and algorithms hate videos making it REALLY hard to get responses for a pretty exhausting work that goes along with making a big project. Your support means a lot to me and also gives my demotivated brain a carrot to motivate it to do more stuff like this :3

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As the anniversary approaches, we’re celebrating the history and creativity of the Gallifrey fandom!

Each Friday we’ll post a call for themed recs, which you can share throughout the following week!

Reblog this post to rec Gallifrey fanworks that fall under the theme—from fic to edits, art to cosplay. We’ll reblog your recs from January 12–January 18.

Remember: don’t repost fanworks, link us to the original.

THIS WEEK: Recommend works centered on series 1-3!

(Future Fan Rec Fridays will focus on different eras, any/unspecified era, and AUs, so don’t worry if your favorite works don’t fall under this theme—you can share them another week!)

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New Gallifrey Lore just dropped and it has nothing to do with me.

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Extermination

SPOILER WARNING: If you haven't yet listened to seasons 4-6 of Gallifrey, you might want to save this for later.

Gallifrey season 6 episode 1: Extermination. The magnificent "door scene"! Up till now I've picked mostly comedic scenes but I'm ready to tackle more dramatic/emotional moments like this one. I enjoyed bringing all the comic devices to bear and decompressing the scene to add beats, but as always hats off to Seán Carlsen and Louise Jameson for setting the tone with their breathtaking voice performance.

Note on the beginning: I was puzzling over what Narvin should be wearing, because logically at this point he should be in his stuffy and impractical Chancellor garb. Eventually I decided that the instinctive thing to do would be to shed encumbrances as he ran (and with that the alt Gallifrey), and that made for a nice opening sequence.

Sketch dump:

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timelord on a break

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Happy New Year

Let's end it in style with a bunch of Romanas...