So, I've been trying to complete a design for the doctor (and co.), and each design just seems to fall a little short of what I am trying to realise on the page.
In order to get the ball rolling I researched the doctor as an existing character, and focused on a few earlier incarnations of the doctor that I could take inspiration from.
One particular article described the doctor as "An andventurer and a scientist." This in itself gives the designer freedom to come up with an original idea.
In terms of costume I started to look at earlier doctors Tom Baker and Patrick Troughton for ideas, I prefer the slightly disheveled look and I think that the Baker's scarf is a pretty iconic doctor who prop.
I had a look at one of my favourite graphic novel characters, Nikolai Dante - from the 2000AD serial of the same name - as a source of inspiration for maybe a slightly more 'hands on' doctor. I want to keep the intellect that makes Dr Who such a unique character, but I feel like developing on the adventurer side of the Doctor, the idea that he travels time and space through a sense of wanderlust as well as the drive to quell any malignant alien activity.
