The Ood Cast

You know when you watch an episode of Doctor Who and then you just have to set the plot to a Dire Straits song? That.

Laura's beautiful cover of Joni Mitchell's 'River'.

Except it's now about the "The Snowmen".

A fan made video of our Season 5 recap song - Four Chords of Time.

Four Chords, Thirteen Episodes, Thirty-Five Songs about Doctor Who.

Hi. It's me, Chris Sigma, from The Ood Cast. A lot of people don't know this about me (why should you?) but besides being a broadcaster I also rule MS Paint with an iron paint brush. That's just a clever way of saying, I'm amazing at it.

So anyway, one of my fans suggested "Why not do a picture for every episode of Dr Who this season? You could do monsters or big story moments or paint the emotion of the scene or whatever". I looked that fan in the eye and said "I will". And the statement sort of hung there in the air like a gauntlet. 

And then I started painting.

This is my first attempt. I literally drew this without stopping. I didn't use an eraser once. I don't really know where I can go from here in terms of excellence but I will probably pull something out of the bag.

This is my drawing for the first episode "The Impossible Spaceman". I didn't draw the spaceman because that would be TOO EASY. You don't even see his face and that's where the emotion is.

This is a silent. I am drawing him zapping a lady (off screen) with an energy bolt. I have written her name JOY in Times New Roman. The font of evil. It is the little things that make a picture.

(see also the crumbled suit, the skin hanging lifelessly from the neck and the pain in his eyes. Such lonely, eternal pain.)

Some people might point out that I forgot to fill in the background between his fingers on his left hand. But the joke would be on them because I left it unfinished on purpose in order to echo the unfinished painting of the Doctor we see at the beginning of the episode. This is called meta-textual.