Waiting For Amy!

No this is not an announcement for the long awaited Christopher Guest/Kevin Smith collaboration, ( if you get that reference, you win the "no-prze") its actually just an illustration dedicated to the most romantic sacrifice in science fiction. Rory the Roman!! 

If you're a Doctor Who fan you know the story, if not...

Well, watch Doctor Who. (What the hell's the matter with you?)

Ah well,  here's the jist of it: 

Basically Rory was erased from the universe but a piece of him remained in Amy's memory. Later in "wibbly wobbly" space time, a "past" was created from her mind to trap the Doctor. part of that "past was Roman soldiers based on a book she had when she was a kid, but one of the soldiesr came from that memory. Rory was recreated as a Roman android facsilimile. Later she was dying and the only way to save her was to put her in a box called the Pandorica  that would heal her and the Doctor would pull her out of it in about 2000 years. Rory, realised that a lot can happen in 2000 years and insisted on standing guard over the Pandorica until she was released. 

2000 years later, the box is in a museum and there is a legend about the mysterious centurion who guarded and followed the box throughout history. They were reunited and all was well!

He spend 2 millenia waiting for Amy 

(then she asked if he remembered to tivo Jersey Shore and he was all, "I'm sorry baby, I was kind of busy watching over you for 2,000 years", and then she's all, "Well that's just typical!" and then he's all like, "Fuck this shit! I don't need this aggravation" and... well, you probably know this argument.) 

o.k the ( ) part didn't actually happen on the show.

Anyway, I wanted to show you this artwork in progression and let you know its available for auction. It will be auctioned at Comic Fusion's Super Hero Weekend charity drive to benefit SAFE in Hunterdon which is a not-for profit agency serving victims of domestic violence and sexual assault in Hunterdon County, New Jersey. 

Learn more about them at their website! 

These first 6 photos show the work I did with India ink over pencils I did earlier. I use a sable hair #8 brush for the whole job.

Now  I apply a watered down red gouache over the cape .

and its done. G'night all!

If you're a fan of Amy Pond you may also like to go to the Comic Fusion site and bid on this.

 The Amy Pond sketch is an Amy Pond study I did for the Star Trek/Doctor Who series before I started .

These were done so I could practice painting the character but these faces were used in actually used issue 4.
This is actually a piece of Star trek/Doctor Who:Assimilation2 and you can own it if you go here and bid.

Unfortunately the chance to bid on these have come and gone. Congratulations to those who won. And Thank you to everyone who participated in this wortyh cause!