Entries tagged with medium: art

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Rec [fic+art]: and they did live by watchfires by picnokinesis

Title (“Title” in bold): and they did live by watchfires
Creator (“Creator” in bold): picnokinesis picnokinesis
Rating (“Rating” in bold): Teen and up Audiences
Word Count/Length/Size (“ Word Count/Length/Size” in bold): 20,345 words
Creator's Summary (“Creator’s summary” in bold): In some timelines, Captain Jark Harkness rescues her from prison. In others, she escapes on her own. In many of them, she makes it back to New Year's Day in Sheffield, 2021.
This is not one of those timelines.
Pairings/Characters (“Pairings/Characters” in bold): Thirteenth Doctor/The Master (Dhawan)
Warnings/Notes (“Warnings/Notes” in bold): Prison, unreality, disorientation, Gaslighting, Medical Torture (of sorts), Hallucinations (or not), Blood, some injury but nothing too excessive, Hurt/Comfort, mostly hurt but there IS (“is” in caps) comfort I promise, Non-Consensual Drug Use
Reasons for reccing (“Reasons for reccing” in bold): I’m submitting this as my fifth entry in the “Claim a Character” challenge. This is my favorite 13/Dhawan fic, and probably my fave Doctor/Master fic overall. It’s suspenseful and exciting and has gorgeous imagery. The Doctor and Master are very realistic and in-character. Quotes from “Darkness” by Lord Byron are in the story, and they’re woven in very well and help enhance it. The author also made two drawings that go along with the fic, and they’re both very nice. All in all, this is a FANTASTIC (“fantastic” in all caps) story.

Link to fic:
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Link to first art piece:
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Link to second art (mild fic spoilers):
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Rec [Art]: Vastra by Ladyyatexel

For the "Fashion" part of the monthly theme.

Title: Vastra
Creator:

Ladyyatexel
Rating: gen
Creator's Summary: I really like the concept of Vastra, with her lace and shawls next to lizard scales.
Characters/Pairings: Vastra
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Amazing portrait of Vastra with her lace veil. I love the colour palette and the design.

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/ladyyatexel/art/vastra-821312887

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Rec [art]: Doctor Who but it is Fantasy!AU by grafedelweiss

Title: untitled (captioned: Doctor Who but it is Fantasy!AU)
Creator:

grafedelweiss
Rating: unrated (G)
Word Count/Length/Size: 1 drawing
Creator's Summary: Timelords are related to phoenixes, that is why they may have feathers and wings, bird species can vary. Seven has owl wings but they are very small and he hides them under clothes. Also he has feathers on his ears!
Characters/Pairings: Seventh Doctor
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: This is my first rec for the TV Tropes Challenge. As soon as I got randomly assigned the trope Owls Ask "Who?" (and had a good laugh at the accidental aptness), I knew I had to rec something by GrafEdelweiss, who loves to picture Seven as a little owl. I could've recommended her amazing fic and artbook The Light of Neustern for this (on a planet where everyone outside the aristocracy wears animal masks, Seven's is naturally an owl), but I just did, so I thought of this adorable little AU portrait in such a lovely warm style. It's worth a look at this and GrafEdelweiss' other work if you love the Seventh Doctor!

Link: https://grafedelweiss.tumblr.com/post/641734940951805952/doctor-who-but-it-is-fantasyau-timelords-are

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Rec [art]: untitled (fourth and sixth doctor portraits)

Title: untitled (Fourth and Sixth Doctor portraits)
Creator:

doccywhomst
Rating: unrated (G)
Word Count/Length/Size: two art pages
Creator's Summary: two adorable yet highly unnerving clowns named ‘baker’ that i will henceforth continue to draw until the sun burns out
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor, Sixth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: As soon as I saw this month's theme, I thought of Doccywhomst's version of Six's blue coat. It's so chaotic and vivid and glowing and fun, and unlike the simplified animation in Real Time, it's just as ridiculous as the TV costume--just in shades of blue. In this portrait piece, he's back-to-back with an equally chaotic and gorgeous portrait of Four. It's a very Doctorish piece of art.

Also, his lapel pin is a cat with a knife.

Link: https://doccywhomst.tumblr.com/post/660053262075101184/two-adorable-yet-highly-unnerving-clowns-named
and for a closeup of the cat-with-a-knife pin: https://doccywhomst.tumblr.com/post/660085086389207040/i-did-the-thing

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Rec [fic and art]: The Light of Neustern by GrafEdelweiss and Serameli (translator)

Title: The Light of Neustern
Creator:

GrafEdelweiss and translated by

Serameli
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: 22,915 words, plus several pages of linked art
Creator's Summary: Neustern is an ideal world made for ideal people. Trees with glass-like leaves, nice houses, young and beautiful faces... and invisible labor of those who are not beautiful enough. Helping the servants and searching the source of strange energy the Doctor and Ace will meet not only narcissistic Neusternians, but also the one who created this 'paradise'.
Characters/Pairings: Seventh Doctor, Ace McShane, original characters
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: This is a truly wonderful story that deserves so much more attention. The Doctor and Ace go undercover as servants on Neustern, a world of arrogant, self-obsessed genetically engineered super-people, but they find (of course) that the planet holds even more secrets than they expected.

I'm someone who's often put off by screenplay format, but the character voices and descriptions in this story are so vivid that it's like reading a script from the show itself, and the artbook is gorgeous. The worldbuilding is detailed and memorable, and two of the original characters in particular--I won't say which, because there's a twist--make me wish this was an official story so they could have their own Big Finish spinoff.

If you read Russian, or have a lot of patience for Google Translate, check out the original fic, В сиянии Новой звезды, as well!

Link: https://archiveofourown.org/works/32262649/chapters/79963654

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Rec [Art]: The Gallifreycrumb Tinies by Kelsey Wailes

Title: The Gallifreycrumb Tinies
Creator: Kelsey Wailes (

EatToast /

savethewailes)
Rating: gen
Word Count/Length/Size: one picture, consisting of 26(/7) tiny ones
Creator's Summary: Parody of Edward Gorey's Gashlycrumb Tinies. I did this series over the past month or two on my webcomic Doctor Kawaii as a mini series. I love Edward Gorey's art so much, and there are so many people and aliens that die in Doctor Who, that I wrote this out at work on slow day. These are done in pen and ink.
Characters/Pairings: 26 different (and mostly minor) characters and creatures, from Adric and Harriet Jones to the Ood and the Zygons
Warnings/Notes: Everyone dies. ;)

Reasons for reccing: An ABC of Doctor Who deaths! Fitting for the monthly theme, this collects 26 people and creatures who died throughout the years, with short rhymes and individual sketches. Great black-and-white style with some morbid humour.

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/eattoast/art/The-Gallifreycrumb-Tinies-344523003

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Rec [art]: An Illustration/Experiment by Mentalrhapsody

One for my seasonal challenge ship claim!

Title: An illustration/experiment (untitled)
Creator:

mentalrhapsody
Rating: All ages
Word Count/Length/Size: N/A
Creator's Summary: Tegan and Fivey and…Feels.
Characters/Pairings: Fifth Doctor/Tegan Jovanka
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: It's rare to find many fanworks for Five & Tegan these days, but this is a lovely one. It's a very sweet piece of art (of Tegan kissing the Doctor's forehead), but unsentimental, and the style works well for the subject, with the contrast of the moon & stars glow illuminating their outlines with the muted evening palette. Surely guaranteed to make you go 'aww' a least a bit, whatever your take on their relationship.

Link: https://mentalrhapsody.tumblr.com/post/96551982906/an-illustrationexperiment-tegan-and-fivey

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Rec [art]: untitled by alda-rana & Sixie, Evelyn and Cocoa by Nocturius

Two art recs, both featuring Six & Evelyn and both (at least a little) seasonal:

Title: Untitled
Creator:

alda-rana
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: N/A
Creator's Summary: I have started to listen to the Sixth Doctor Big Finish audios and of course I love Evelyn, who doesn’t love Evelyn? So here’s a drawing of her I just made while waiting for my watercolour to dry. Cool stuff, watercolour, but you spend two thirds of your time waiting for it to dry.
Characters/Pairings: Evelyn Smythe, Sixth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: None.

Reasons for reccing: It's a wonderfully expressive black & white sketch or illustration of the two of them - Evelyn, busy inside with a book, but the Doctor's waiting outside in the rain. It's excellent (and, with the weather starting to pour, and things about to change, seasonal, too, I think).

Link: https://alda-rana.tumblr.com/post/84624266955/i-have-started-to-listen-to-the-sixth-doctor-big

Title: Sixie, Evelyn and Cocoa
Creator: Nocturius
Rating: G
Word Count/Length/Size: N/A
Creator's Summary: N/A
Characters/Pairings: Sixth Doctor & Evelyn Smythe
Warnings/Notes: Drawn in relation to Arrangements for War & Thicker Than Water (but no spoilers).

Reasons for reccing: This is just lovely - quiet and warm and melancholy with the ache of things ending (& thus seasonal maybe) all at the same time. It's a really satisfying little captured moment between them.

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/nocturius/art/Sixie-Evelyn-and-Cocoa-441530438

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Rec [Art]: Ten and Cat by Beatrice Bovo

Does Inktober count as "seasonal"? Also fits the "Companion" square on by bingo card. ;)

Title: n/a
Creator: Beatrice Bovo (

goingdownmycase)
Rating: gen
Creator's Summary: Inktober #13 - I’m sick and it’s raining. A friend told me to do Ten with my cat Pipistro.
Characters/Pairings: Tenth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Ten and Cats - not just a thing in canon! :D This is lovely and cosy and I adore the colours and the stripy pyjamas and the Gallifreyan book he's reading.

Link: https://goingdownmycase.tumblr.com/post/99922412610/inktober-13-im-sick-and-its-raining-a-friend

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Rec [Art]: Truants by DameEleusys / Koschei and Theta by akane3196

Title: Truants
Creator:

dameeleusys
Rating: gen
Creator's Summary: I imagined the doctor and the master when they was childrens, playing hooky...
Characters/Pairings: The Doctor, The Master
Warnings/Notes: none

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/dameeleusys/art/Doctor-who-truants-328746418

Title: Koschei and Theta
Creator:

akane3196
Rating: gen
Creator's Summary: Running together
Characters/Pairings: The Doctor, The Master
Warnings/Notes: none

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/akane3196/art/Koschei-and-Theta-400689496

Reasons for reccing: Two pieces depicting the Doctor and the Master as kids and friends on Gallifrey, causing trouble together and running together. The vibrant red/orange colours and landscapes are particularly lovely, and I also like the visual point of view in both of these.

(For the "Backstory" square on my bingo card.)

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Rec [Art]: Heaven Sent by Sparrowlucero

(Using this for the Wild Card square on my bingo card, for the prompt "episode-related".)

Title: Heaven Sent
Creator:

sparrowlucero
Rating: gen
Creator's Summary: n/a
Characters/Pairings: Twelfth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Fabulous piece of art for Heaven Sent, with a very unique art style. I love everything about this - the frame, the colour palette, Twelve and the Veil, the lighting, the cogs hidden in the background, the structure... Fantastic work.

Link: https://sparrowlucero.tumblr.com/post/656463314079055872/heaven-sent

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Rec [Art]: Eight, Charley, and C'rizz in the Tardis by JohannesVIII

Title: n/a
Creator:

johannesviii
Rating: gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 10 drawings
Creator's Summary: Some of my drawings featuring Eight, Charley and C’rizz in the TARDIS.
Characters/Pairings: Eighth Doctor, Charley Pollard, C'rizz, Tardis
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Colourful, cosy, inventive, atmospheric, transparent... These gorgeous drawings of Eight, Charley, and C'rizz in the Tardis have it all. You always wanted to see the library on board? Here you can! Did you know there's also a huge greenhouse, with a swing and a beautiful view of the stars? Yep. You also get Eight in star-covered pyjamas, Charley in her private room, C'rizz connecting with a couple of plants - and much more! You can spend a long time looking at these and it's well worth it. Definitely one of my favourite sets of DW art ever.

Link: https://johannesviii.tumblr.com/post/144093624479/some-of-my-drawings-featuring-eight-charley-and

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Rec [Art]: Beauty and the Beast by the-untempered-prism

Title: Beauty and the Beast
Creator:

the-untempered-prism /

the-untempered-prism
Rating: gen
Creator's Summary: n/a
Characters/Pairings: Rose Tyler/Ninth Doctor
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Great likenesses and composition in this, and the colours are wonderful. I love how it captures Nine, in the shadows, backlit, and with this intricate pattern on his coat, and I love that Rose is paging through a book with star charts.

Fits both the monthly AU theme and the seasonal challenge because I have Rose on my list of characters. [Also Adam by the way, who is clearly Gaston in this AU! :D]

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/the-untempered-prism/art/Beauty-and-the-Beast-508786123
https://the-untempered-prism.tumblr.com/post/104665282986/my-present-to-almondina-for-the-dwsecretsanta-gift

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Rec [Art]: Two Jacobi!Master Portraits by Halorvic

Title: n/a
Creator:

halorvic
Rating: gen
Word Count/Length/Size: two portraits
Creator's Summary: n/a / “So, whose side are you really on?” / “Mine.”
Characters/Pairings: Professor Yana|Jacobi!Master
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Two great portraits and I love the difference between them, in style and facial expressions - the first one lose and a bit sad, Professor Yana in the process of opening the fob watch (love the colouring!), the second one sharp and a bit sinister and very clearly the Master.

Links:
https://halorvic.com/post/63685455906/1-hr-20-min-speedpainting-warmup
https://halorvic.com/post/171429544409/so-whose-side-are-you-really-on-mine

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Rec [Art]: Cloud Nine Observatory and Space Age Lovesong by JohannesVIII

Two series ten related art recs for the monthly "journey" theme. (The second one also has Heather, who is one of my characters for the seasonal challenge.)

1. Title: See You at the Cloud Nine Observatory
Creator:

johannesviii /

johannesviii
Rating: gen
Word Count/Length/Size: one picture
Creator's Summary: Bill, Twelve and Nardole taking a group selfie at the Venus Cloud Nine Observatory, as imagined by Nasa for their “Visions of the Future” posters.
Characters/Pairings: Twelfth Doctor, Bill Potts, Nardole
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: I'm always happy to find art for these three together and I love that this was inspired by NASA's wonderful Visions of the Future posters, the Venus one in this case. Imagined travel destinations of the future - of course Bill would want to go there!

Links: https://www.deviantart.com/johannesviii/art/See-you-at-the-Cloud-Nine-Observatory-689045100
https://johannesviii.tumblr.com/post/162322378999/for-therogueofblood-bill-twelve-and-nardole

2. Title: Space Age Lovesong
Creator:

johannesviii /

johannesviii
Rating: gen
Word Count/Length/Size: four panels
Creator's Summary: n/a
Characters/Pairings: Bill Potts/Heather
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: A lovely little set of comic panels. Inspired by a song lyric, it throws a spotlight on the journey of their relationship so far and ends on them leaving the TARDIS together, the first step into their unknown future travels. Really love the contrasting brown/blue colour scheme here, plus the symmetry and the stars and Heather's eye in the first one.

Links: https://www.deviantart.com/johannesviii/art/Space-Age-Lovesong-704948439
https://johannesviii.tumblr.com/post/165122517669/a-flock-of-seagulls-space-age-love-songmore

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Rec [Art]: Four Hugs by Summerartist

Title: untitled
Creator:

summerartist
Rating: gen
Word Count/Length/Size: 4 sketches
Creator's Summary: It has come to my attention that you all need some hugs. Please accept these DW hugs.
Characters/Pairings: Nine and Rose, Ten and Sarah Jane, Eleven and Amy, Twelve and Bill
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Hugs? That's it really. :D Just a lovely little set of sketches.

Link: https://summerartist.tumblr.com/post/635573728823083008/it-has-come-to-my-attention-that-you-all-need-some

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Rec [Art]: Constellations by The-Longfall-of-1979

Title: Constellations
Creator:

the-longfall-of-1979
Rating: gen
Creator's Summary: "For the true recluse, /blissful as a loner, standing by as they watch the world turn /them down, like pulled out stitches /and the skeletons of stars." // Because I love Pond and Doktah. It was inspired by another piece of art with similar poses, unfortunately I can't find the piece again. And of course, the infamous crack in the fabric of time makes another appearance! I wanted it to sort of look like a children's drawing--- like a blocky, liney, pokey, uneven look. Hm.
Characters/Pairings: Eleventh Doctor, Amy Pond
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: I love this Eleven and Amy drawing - the hug, the way we only see their backs, and particularly the style of this piece, almost like a collage, the figures drawn in blocky and bold lines, translucent in places, surrounded by constellations of stars and galaxies, Amy's hair shining like it's a sun or a nebula itself.

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/the-longfall-of-1979/art/Constellations-349642902

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Rec [Art]: It's Not What's In Front by DarkAngelDTB

For both parts of the monthly theme.

Title: It's Not What's In Front
Creator:

darkangeldtb
Rating: gen
Creator's Summary: Its the 4th Doctor with Harry and Sarah in quite a sticky situation. Stuck in a sewer they are confronted with not one but two problems. If they think the Cronk worm in front of them is a problem then if only they looked behind them...
Characters/Pairings: Fourth Doctor, Harry Sullivan, Sarah Jane Smith
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: Action and monsters! The Doctor, Harry, and Sarah are caught between a rock and a hard place here and their faces express their feelings about that very clearly.

Link: https://www.deviantart.com/darkangeldtb/art/Its-not-whats-in-front-70864984

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Rec [Art]: TARDIS Pillow Fort by JohannesVIII

For the monthly Thirteenth Doctor / Space theme.

Title: Untitled
Creator:

johannesviii
Rating: gen
Creator's Summary: I like to think the Doctor and her fam build giant pillow forts in the TARDIS console room sometimes, because these giant crystals look like the perfect structures for that
Characters/Pairings: TARDIS, Thirteenth Doctor, Graham O'Brien, Yasmin Khan, Ryan Sinclair
Warnings/Notes: none

Reasons for reccing: I love everything about this - the composition and the contrast of cold and warm colours, the lighting, the idea of a cosy pillow fort in the TARDIS, and the whole Fam sprawled out reading while the Doctor is busy expanding the fort.

Link: https://johannesviii.tumblr.com/post/622465251765583872/i-like-to-think-the-doctor-and-her-fam-build-giant

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Rec [Art]: Assorted Thirteenth and Twelfth Doctor Era Fanart by Juanmao

Title: n/a
Creator:

juanmao1997 /

juanmaodepp
Rating: gen
Word Count/Length/Size: two tumblr posts with 9-10 pieces of fanart/mini-comics each
Creator's Summary: n/a
Warnings/Notes: none

1. Characters/Pairings: Thirteenth Doctor, Clara Oswald, Amy Pond, Twelfth Doctor, Missy, Simm!Master, Novice Hame (presumably)
Reasons for reccing: Two reunion hugs for the "kissing/hugging" square on my bingo card!
- Thirteen and Clara
- Thirteen and Amy
Love the quiet among-the-stars mood of the first one and the exuberance of the second (and generally how different they are, and not just because of the height differences, hee).
Because the artist posts their stuff on tumblr in batches, there are a couple of other great pieces in this post, among them
- this vault picnic, a lovely missing scene with Twelve and Missy from season ten,
- this regeneration moment, which is beautifully minimalistic, and
- this Thirteen in Timelord robes piece, which is very funny.

Link: https://juanmaodepp.tumblr.com/post/173422933650/lets-hope-they-meet-again
(Thirteen/Clara hug on twitter: https://twitter.com/juanmao1997/status/984157162468327424)
(Thirteen/Amy hug on twitter: https://twitter.com/juanmao1997/status/989897282391691264)

2. Characters/Pairings: Twelfth Doctor, Clara Oswald, Bill Potts, Nardole, Missy, Thirteenth Doctor
Reasons for reccing: Once I was checking out the artists' work, I also found this batch post, with things like Missy and Bill meeting Thirteen and several cat!Twelve drawings. Which I wanted to rec mostly for how fun the scenes with each of the other characters are, Bill and Nardole in particular.

Link: https://juanmaodepp.tumblr.com/post/173101116555/12th-cat
(Twelve as cat drawings on twitter: https://twitter.com/juanmao1997/status/983016835283992576)