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Wanted to do something with @plus-dolls 's design contest! Would love the opportunity to work on a doll with this shape. The prize is to get one to customize into your design, so I went with things that I know I like doing and am most likely to actually do. I love decorating dolls themselves with splashes and drips of colors, creepy and colorful eyes, and giving them unnatural hair colors with curl. The base template is wearing a leotard and shoes, but nude I would put this gradient splatter on her skin along with the star tattoos.

Getting around to sewing is always my weakpoint, so her dress is simple with a poofy tulle petticoat and her default heels are used, though my ideal is stompy boots. I think it would be neat to get in her in a really non-human white, though any of her CMYK colors would be fun as a skin tone. I see so few big girls get to be the cool alternative rainbow goth alien looking sort. All the dolls I've been able to this kind of thing with have been Barbie or Monster High, so this would be exciting to make.

I'd been thinking about the @plus-dolls design contest for a while, and I kept going back and forth on what I wanted to do for it. But I think, ultimately, the doll I would most love to make if I had one of their sculpts in hand is this gal.

So, for the lovely folks over at Plus Dolls, here's the story: I wanted to create a design that pulls from some sources that are meaningful to me in the voice acting side of my life. In addition to being a doll customizer and illustrator, I am a voice actor that happens to be plus sized, so I wanted to design a doll that plays into things I associate with that part of my art. One of my favorite games of all time is Bendy and the Ink Machine, I'm in LOVE its 1930s cartoon aesthetic. Lauren Synger, the voice of Alice Angel from that game, is someone who inspires me constantly. I took a lot of inspiration from her and Adriana Caselotti, the original voice of Disney's Snow White, for crafting this look. But there's also a lot of my personal style preferences in here. I love wearing fake pearls, and I have a red dress that's not too far off from this one. The earrings are based on a pair my great grandmother had back in the 30s as well.

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