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Published: 2015-12-18 08:46:28 +0000 UTC; Views: 961; Favourites: 36; Downloads: 3
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Trying to illustrate one of my favorite scenes from the EDA Beltempest.

Sunrise came to the new world in a kaleidoscopic iteration of life.

Things that might have been birds or fish flapped or swam through the air. They made a sound that was indescribable. It might have been laughter or machine noise. No one could tell. More life crawled and flapped across the surface. Again, no one could tell if this life was vegetable or animal - motile seeds seeking fertile ground or animals seeking to evade a vegetable predator. The world was a circus mirror of a real world, one in which the reflecting surface was constantly evolving, unbending, flattening with time, before assuming some new, evolutionary kink.

The rain stopped, then started again. The clouds changed colour as volcanic gases emerged to mingle with the sunlight. Yellow blotches of sulphur appeared on the ground. Some of them had legs and fled from the approaching heavy tread of the medics’ starsuits.


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Comments: 6

Clockspur [2015-12-19 05:10:44 +0000 UTC]

It's lovely. I love how the first two are walking out
in those thick, heavy suits and the Doctor is just in his normal clothes.

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JohannesVIII In reply to Clockspur [2015-12-19 08:18:57 +0000 UTC]

Yeah, he was the only person without a spacesuit on that weird new planet, and that really outlined how alien he really is. Just before that scene I tried to draw, they were caught in some kind of storm:

Aellini took a few readings on his suit instruments and collated them. 'Wind at storm velocity. Aerial precipitation almost off the scale. Heat rising. Geothermal activity increasing...' He shook his head inside the helmet. 'This wind could strip the teeth from a buzz-saw!' He had no need to shout, his voice being amplified by the suit speakers.
'Bracing, isn't it?' shouted the Doctor above the boom of thunder. Of them all he was the only one who seemed to feel no need of the protection of a spacesuit. His hair was splashed by the wind, his sodden collar and the end of his frock coat flapping like mad velvet bats around his face and chest. He was grinning.

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Clockspur In reply to JohannesVIII [2015-12-20 22:23:17 +0000 UTC]

I would ask the Doctor how?, but I think I would get the wrong answer. Β 

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JohannesVIII In reply to Clockspur [2015-12-21 06:29:28 +0000 UTC]

The books tend to use the weirdest tidbits of information on Gallifreyan biology a lot more than the tv series - at some point in Seeing I, he falls asleep underwater in the tub and gets annoyed when Sam believes he drowned and tries to reanimate him, because he can breathe underwater under specific conditions and he forgot to tell her.

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Clockspur In reply to JohannesVIII [2015-12-22 04:32:58 +0000 UTC]

Β ...This is why I love this show.

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ErysRose [2015-12-18 13:36:31 +0000 UTC]

This is beautiful! The colours are wonderful.

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