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Today’s Frightful Frock for Bianca Boo is a bat-themed dress in lilac and black. It is probably the darkest of all the dresses I designed for this series. From the very beginning, I knew I wanted to give her a bat hair clip, and the rest of the look grew from there. I don’t usually start with a hair idea, but in this case, that was how my brain worked.
This was actually the first dress I designed, and its over-skirt (meant to resemble bat wings) made it tricky to come up with a unique idea for the Moth Queen gown later on. My early drafts for that one looked way too much like this bat-themed dress! That’s part of why I leaned into the Qi Lolita style for the Moth Queen from yesterday’s post. Of course, I didn’t work in order, because I am not that organized.
There’s a subtle pattern on this dress, though I wish I’d pushed the contrast a bit more. That is something I’m still learning to balance in digital art. One of my “rules” for this was that I was designing things that were inspired by their themes, rather than literal costumes for those things; however, I didn’t 100% follow that, as you shall see later on.
Here’s her poem:
Bianca Boo with lilac hair,
Found a bat swooping through the air,
They spiraled past the haunted trees,
Two happy friends on a ghostly breeze.
For the poetry fans out there: each of these poems is a quatrain, a four-line stanza. This one uses an AA/BB rhyme scheme, meaning lines one and two rhyme, and lines three and four rhyme. This is a very common poetic form. I had planned to write limericks, but limericks are actually a really complicated form to work in.
And can we talk about Julie’s bat corset? It’s an absolute delight. I wish I’d thought of it first! She also has a procreate “bat brush” available for folks over on Paper Doll School. So much fun.
The epic of Halloween’s paper doll dresses continues!