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HELP: The Mara from Doctor Who

PostPosted: Wed Feb 25, 2009 9:01 pm
by Enshohma
I know this seems like a better topic for the Fan Art area, but not many old school Doctor Who fans browse that section and thus please bare with me, as I may have better luck here in this strange request:

I need multiple images of the Mara, a formless evil which assumed giant snake form in the 1980s serials Kinda and Snake Dance. I ask this because I did some fan art on the villain recently, but after seeing some brief footage of the beast in the DVD documentary Celebration (from The Five Doctors re-release set), I'm afraid my version is inaccurate, and needs a redo.

I currently have the image posted at my DeviantArt page, and yes, I looked around online and there isn't any helpful pictures outside the one on Wikipedia, which again could be misleading:

http://enshohma.deviantart.com/art/Doct ... n-80381179

Wikipedia pages on the two stories featuring the snake (sorry, your gonna have to cut and paste the first link):

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kinda_(Doctor_Who)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Snakedance

Thanks in advance to any who can help, and here's some extra eye candy for the aforementioned:

http://enshohma.deviantart.com/art/The- ... -113665051

PostPosted: Thu Feb 26, 2009 3:57 am
by Robert Saint John
Well, to be honest, almost anything you do is going to be a vast improvement over what eneded up on screen (and don't get me wrong... KINDA and SNAKEDANCE are both in my Top 20 all timers!).

Personally, I think your illo looks great. Make the fangs and tongue just silly long, change the color scheme to more red and yellow scales, and you're there. Plus, the Mara in SD had beady black eyes, but I'd ignore that detail. The fake snake the Manussans carry around in the ceremony looks better than what popped off of Tegan's arm, IMO.

The two Wiki pics are completely accurate for its appearance in Kinda (i.e., wretched).

Only one of my books ("The Eighties") seems to have a picture of the Mara (from SD), but it's too small and too near the center to get a good scan.

Hope these help:




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by Enshohma

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by Robert Saint John

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