Back in 2014 there was a design contest that I entered. It was for what was to be the new french Vocaloid ALYS. I was really super excited about this design and put alot of thought and planning into it, trying to make her distinctive but still have a similar, sort of underlying, visual vibe to the other Vocaloids. Didn't win, but it was at least interesting to see how everyone else went about it.

As she was meant to be a Vocaloid, I tried to incorporate various musical elements, most obviously the piano dress and microphone, but also little elements like the treble clef minute hand on the clock. Still, most Vocaloids have a "cyber" look to them, but I wanted to see if you could have something more retro, though still looking pretty modern. Her voice was more on the mature side, but still youthful, so that was something I tried to capture by making her cute, but not generically moe or something like that. I thought the colour scheme and pet rabbit would make a nice nod to Alice's Adventure in Wonderland without overdoing it, so I could just let people interpret the reference themselves if they wanted too. The hair was really fun, since alot of Vocaloids do kinda have their own thing going on there, whether it be an ahoge or unnatural hair colours. It also fit with in that it gave her a degree of asymmetry, kind like how Luka was thought out - asymmetry as a nod to bilingual capabilities.

Though I didn't win, I'd still like to hear what people think of her look!

You can find the winning design here: vocaloid-voxwave.com/en-alys/

Materials:
-Mechanical Pencil; Red (0.5)
-Millipen (0.3)
-Paint Tool Sai