Link to doll: http://www.dolldivine.com/Disney/Heliotropic-3004866

I used Princess Maker because, between the "gifts to my followers" series and the latest cycle of DDNTM, I've been using it a lot lately, and really learning the ropes of it.

I really like to make dolls of people with fantasy features (unnatural skin colors, wings, etc.), especially dressed in normal modern clothes in a normal everyday setting. I guess I like the idea of finding beauty in the unconventional, and the way they make you wonder just what their story is. This is my second time changing the skin color in Princess Maker (http://www.dolldivine.com/Disney/Heliotropic-2929867). I did a repo, because Princess is my best maker for repos (and almost my only one).

Her outfit heavily uses the sparkly-veil draggie, which I think is my favorite D&D piece in the game. Seriously, almost all of my Princess Maker dolls use it somewhere! The technique I used for the colored sparkles has appeared twice in my previous dolls (http://www.dolldivine.com/Disney/Heliotropic-2995491) (http://www.dolldivine.com/Disney/Heliotropic-3000919), and I'm very proud of it. I doubt I'm the first to come up with it, but I thought of it independantly without looking at any other dolls. Most of my recent Princess Maker dolls wind up with a hairstyle like the one in the doll-especially the braided hair piece. My 2nd favorite D&D piece in the game! ;)

But the main point of the picture, for me, is the concept. When looking through my dolls for this challenge, I realized that my dolls recently tend to be less about designing outfits and backgrounds, and more about trying out original concepts and realizing images in my head. (Though I certainly enjoy designing, too!) Some of my dolls hover in between concrete and abstract, especially the ones that are interpretations of songs. I tend to not make an entire background, with cleanly-outlined objects filling out the scene, but rather single out the most important parts of my mental picture, the ones that tell the viewer what's going on in the scene, and find ways to bring those together using Drag & Drop. Examples:

http://www.dolldivine.com/Anime/Heliotropic-3004746

http://www.dolldivine.com/Disney/Heliotropic-3004562

http://www.dolldivine.com/Cartoon-and-Comic/Heliotropic-3004351

http://www.dolldivine.com/Cartoon-and-Comic/Heliotropic-3001198

http://www.dolldivine.com/Modified-Dolls/Heliotropic-3001370