A little bit sketchy...

My other main hobby, aside from crafting, is... well... pretty much being a full-time geek. :D

 

I have a long history of getting really hooked on tv shows and movies etc and getting involved in fandom. It's lots of fun to chat with like-minded folk who are into the same things you are - and I've been lucky enough to go to quite a few conventions and get to meet some of my fellow fans, and some of my favourite actors and actresses too - and fandom is also an incredibly creative place. Fan art, fan fiction, really quite deep meta discussions... it's awesome.

 

My new fandom addiction is Sleepy Hollow and I really am utterly and completely hooked on this show. If you haven't watched it, do! It's fabulous. Spooky and funny and clever and very well-acted. It's been on hiatus for the past 3 weeks (grrrrr... stupid baseball!!) but it's back on tomorrow and the next episode looks absolutely incredible. I can't wait! And neither can the rest of the fandom... and they've been going a bit stir crazy over the past few weeks and, thankfully, filling the void with some awesome art and fiction.

 

And I've decided to join in. I can't compare with some of the incredible fanart I see on tumblr but I wanted to have a go anyway so I put pencil to paper and did this sketch of Ichabod Crane:

 

 

I've also done some other sketches recently as I signed up for an ATC swap with the theme of BBC characters and, as I've been in the mood for drawing and painting recently, I decided to do hand-drawn cards for my contribution.

 

So I drew Sherlock:

 

 

...and Doctor Who:

 

 

...and Blackadder:

 

 

I found it rather hard to part with these - especially the Sherlock one! :lol:

 

It's interesting how things seem to come full circle... I used to draw all the time when I was at school and I just kind of got out of the habit after leaving school. Then I got into papercrafting and through that began to expand into stamping and inking and mixed media stuff and using paints etc... and then, particularly through doing ATCs, full circle back to drawing (and even a bit of painting) again.

 

I'm really enjoying it. :)

 

 

Sci-Fi Meets Crafting...

I love it when a couple of my different interests coincide/collide... :)

 

I love making ATCs and I occasionally swap a few in private swaps over on ATCsforAll. There's a lot of organised swaps going on over there too but I'd never taken part in them before... however, I've been tempted in recently because there's a Doctor Who-themed swap happening! :)

 

I love Doctor Who. Well, I should say, I loved Doctor Who. I still watch it and enjoy it etc but, as good an actor as Matt Smith is, he just doesn't grab me the way David Tennant did. It's still a great show, but I'm not hooked on it - and fannish about it - the way I was. 10th Doctor will always be my favourite Doctor.

 

So of course, I just had to make my cards for the ATC swap 10th Doctor-themed. I made 5 cards in all (3 for the swap, 1 for the swap host and 1 for myself):

 

 

I had the idea of putting images of the Doctor in front of a "Wrinkle-Free Distress" technique background, as the splodges of colour this technique creates rather puts me in mind of some fabulous exploding supernova or beautiful gas cloud in space. :)

 

I drew the images up into digital line drawings so I could print them the size I wanted and then coloured in the printed images using my Prismacolor pencils. I then cut them out and attached them over the backgrounds.

 

I liked these images so much that I thought I might make a couple of them into digi stamps. One of my OSAAT DT teamies was very taken with the idea as she has someone to make a card for who's a Doctor Who fan so I went ahead and did it and these two digi stamps are now available in the Stitchy Bear Digi Outlet. :)

 

My Whovian BIL has a birthday coming up in just over a month so guess what he might be getting on his birthday card? ;)