20% Cooler, Phase 1

>_< I wasn't sure if I wanted to share this project at first, but I'm too excited so to hell with it! A few posts back I hinted in the text and elaborated in the comments that I wanted to make a Raibow Dash (human version) doll. And now it's coming together. I have ordered the first thing I needed: the coolest wig from Spite&Malice.

I tried out different patterns out in Photoshop, taking into account the restrictions of the lenght of the fur. I really would have preferred a wig with a mullet, but alas, can't be done with fur this short. So I went with a longer front instead. Then I wavered between the wig being actually rainbow-coloured and this bluer version. But in the end, the light blue sides do bring more an RD vibe to it. Different to the picture here, Spite&Malice actually has just added emerald green into their colour selection, and I switched that with the older neon green that I picked as the only green option at the time. So now the wig will be even better!

A few weeks and the transformation will begin!

What I still need:
- CrazyKimochi wide neck white shirt with skyblue capri sleeves and the RD cutie mark at the center (will order asap when the shop opens, so if anyone else has any CK items on their wishlist, I can make a group order too)
- a light blue skirt with white slashes and perhaps a rainbow ribbon detail; this I'll make myself, I think I actually have all the fabrics at hand here already)
- magenta eyes (from either ED or Mako, but I need to make sure of the last item first)
- the doll

Now for the doll, I'll start by making this into a 'cosplay' for Yuffie, to see if this is really something I want to keep n my shelf. Yuffie or Fyrd, I dunno (although Fyrd has totally wrong coloured eyebrows). At a later stage I'll be getting a head so that RD can share bodies with Fyrd, who has the best body figure for this doll. And if it all works out and I'm not freaking out about having ten dolls again, I'll get the body from LM.

In the last post I was talking about how Delf Dark Elf Soo fit this character. It still does, but otherwise the head leaves me a bit meh. I like pictures of CP sculpts, but they never really invoke those must-have feelings in me. But LM dolls do that very much. So I'm thinking of making yet another LM sculpt that in promo pictures looks so serene and gentle into something smirking. My current victim of choice is Roselyn :3 I just love that sculpt so much, with the curvy mouth and the large eyes. Roselyn actually takes 18mm eyes, so even if I got magenta eyes for Yuf-Yuf, Roselyn could still wear them. I think I can make it work, but it's so hard to tell when the original character is a cartoon pony and its human version (Equestria Girl) is super-super stylized. Both of those have teeny-tiny mouths with no lips drawn, but if you have paid any attention to my doll collecting, mouths are really important to me!

I'm so thrilled to be putting all of this together. At the same time, I'm so very anxious. I'm way more conscious about this doll than of any other project. RD is a character I don't own, and many recognise. So I worry if others will like what I've done, or if they'll be bashing it... I know it'll still be my doll, and I can do whatever-blaa-blaa-blaa, but I fear for this a lot.