Quatermass Experiment

Victor Caroon  down by the docks ..

Quatermass Experiment quad designs by Steve Reed.

Tom Baker sketches

Can't remember why I did these - maybe just for the hell of it. Anyway , I love drawing Tom and wish I'd been around to draw some strips with him as the Doctor . I did do JUNKYARD DEMON 2 come to think of it ...

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MIDWICH CUCKOOS

My favourite cover for John Wyndham's THE MIDWICH CUCKOOS buy Paul Hogarth ( 1960). A simple design that holds so much frenetic energy in it's lines. You can see more brilliant Penguin Science Fiction cover design at http://www.penguinsciencefiction.org/04.html#1440a

Troughton Two Fer

Patrick Troughton stories were always brilliant  Time Teams to draw - usually we were spoilt for choice and it could be a toss up between illustrating THE ABOMINABLE SNOWMEN or THE TOMB OF THE CYBERMEN in this case. Luckily I got to do my TOMB illo later as a cover for DWM !

The UNDERWATER MENACE was done at a time when I was trying to get a handle on digital colouring and all it's possibilities. Everything and the kitchen sink got thrown at this one and I probably over played my hand. That said it's got a groovy 1960's psychedlic edge I like.

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DAMNED TO DARKNESS

My new blog all about the adventures of Terry Sharp who I co-created with Robert Tinnell is now open . I hope you enjoy...

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http://damned-to-darkness.blogspot.com/

The Rescue hand coloured

To compliment the previous post here's The Rescue . There's not much to add - it's a fairly lowkey crashed spaceship drama  with alienesque Koquillion the visual centre . I've always liked Vicki and this gave me a chance at a decent profile shot. Sandy the sand monster was requested by the editorial team and who could blame them?

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Keys Of Marinus hand coloured art

Here is a rare example of a piece of Time Team art from before I went to digital colouring. After inking the  approved pencils I would make numerous photocopies to try various colour combinations on. Once I settled on the right colour scheme I would then hand colour the original with Dr Martin's Liquid Watercolors. You either got it right first time or wrecked the art ( though there's many a time I fixed mistakes with gouache )  The finished art was then sent to the DWM office where Peri scanned it on for publication. Apparently when I finally succumbed to the darkside and sent in digital files - her life got so much easier.:)

The art you see here is one of only two hand coloured original Time Team's I still have in my possession , having sold off the rest very early in my career.