Doll of the Month - Petal the Springtime Doll (March)

It's the end of March, so here's my third Doll of the Month - Petal the Springtime Doll!

This was one of my favourite dolls to work on due to the fact that I could just go wild with the motifs and colours. Petal is a cross between a human girl and a bunny, hence the grey bunny ears (she may even had a bunny tail sticking out through her dress behind her). She's mostly blonde due to it being a sunny colour, but has pink highlights on the ends of her hair, and her hair is decorated with cherry blossom petals with a single complete flower added for good measure.

For the dress, I used a mixture of colours for each segment. With the patterns, I drew inspiration from flowers, due to them being a major aspect of spring. Examples include daffodils, cherry blossoms and tulips (as seen on her pink sleeve). I also added Easter motifs such as chicks on the blue strip of her dress and chocolate eggs on the pink strip of her pink. Additionally, her shoes have small flowers on the end of them and her tights are decorated with daffodils. Overall, I'm pretty proud of how the patterns on the outfit turned out - the only nitpick I'd made is that some of the smaller flowers are harder to see due to not using a pen to outline them, but I'm skipping pen-based work at the moment due to my dyspraxia causes it to go wonky at times (that's why I'm using photoshopping to sharpen the lines currently).

Like with my previous doll picture, I had Petal lying on what is supposed to be a patterned tablecloth, only with different coloured flowers instead of hearts. I did initially think of having it be green grass with flowers instead, but it would have merged with the tights, which would have just looked awkward.

You may be wondering why I chose to use Easter motifs for this doll when Easter takes place in April this year. It's because I already have a plan for the April doll that I cannot wait to show off...even if some people might find it a bit disturbing. ;D