November is slowly coming to an end, but first, we of course need this month’s designer appreciation. Over a few rainy Autumn days, I got the opportunity to ask our talented designer Crown some questions about their design process, so I hope you enjoy this little interview! 

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First of all, let's get to know them a little better! Crown is fifteen years old and live in Portugal. They, as many other of our designers, spend a lot of their freetime drawing, but they also like to play dress up games and listen to music. 

- How did you start designing for VP?  

“When I started playing vp, I saw that we could design and have our clothes in game, I found it absolutely amazing. I also wanted to create some specific clothes and improve my art with designing.” After designing for a few months, Crown then got badged on the German server in early April 2019, and since, they have just continued to improve and provided us with lots of beautiful items.

How long each design takes them to make, really depends on their mood and how excited they are about that particular design, they told me. 

LE male: thankyoucr0wnmale

“This one with the pink and purple dress I made in one day with a skin by Pearlnet, while on this one [the darker outfit] I spent around a week on.”

How much time they usually spend designing during the week also depends, they said. As they are still in school, during the weeks they have a lot of schoolwork to do, they usually only get to design on the weekend. 

- Where do you get your inspiration for new designs?

“On Pinterest,” was the quick answer. To create their beautiful designs, they use both the program Paint Tool Sai and Medibang Paint Pro, and their preferred design tool is a drawing tablet. 
LE female: thankyoucr0wnfem

“I like this one a lot because it was my very first design in game,” they said while showing the pink male design holding a plushie. 

Crown have showed amazing progress over the year they have been designing regularly for vp. Below you can see some of that progress for yourself, with one of their very first designs being the pink hoodie and their latest being this incredible collaboration with Gravitation!

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Hope you enjoyed this little weekend read, and if you found the hidden gifts, don't forget to thank Crown!

Note that the codes are LE, so please do not claim on side accounts.