The Chase
In many ways, any analysis of this story has to look back to The Keys of Marinus – the “quest”/”chase” format is almost unique to Terry Nation. This has given me a chance to look again at the abstract layering I used then. This time, I’ve brought an element of collage into it – when Ian and Barbara return home, their fanfare is in the form of a photo montage. This time, however, I wanted to focus on their decision to leave – the story elements are in blue boxes at the side of the image (they’ve left the blue box, geddit?). This framing also harks back to the beginning of their story, the way I suggested adventures yet to come when doing a sketch for An Unearthly Child.
The textures hopefully reflect the eclectic settings – the organics of the Mire Beast and Mechanus, the linearity of the Empire State and the Mechanoids…
I’ve kept the actual drawn elements of this fairly simple (almost childish). That’s because I see it as being a child-like story, the VHS got almost worn out when I was a kid!
