Site Rules
Only adopt/display my dolls on your site if they say "adoptable"
If you adopt a doll, please link back to my site.
If you adopt a doll, do not direct link to it. Save it to your own computer. There is no gurantee all of my doll will be here forever.
Please do not use my dolls for any layouts/banners/graphics/etc. If you really want to, contact me first. The only exception is if the doll was made by me for you.
Do not use any of my dolls to frankendoll (put together pieces of other dolls to make your own).
The above rules also count for all my pixel art.
FAQs
Here is a bit of information for those who don't know much about digital dolling. All information here is taken from the Welcome to Digital Dolls article on Deviantart.com.
What is dolling?
Dolling is where you take a basebody either created by yourself or by someone else and draw hair, clothes and accessories on it. A doll usually has a hard pixel edge and a transparent background so that it may be placed on any colored background website.
Subcategories?
There are many types of shading techniques but they are mostly grouped into three distinct types that form the subcategories of Dolls.
Pixel Shaded
Dolls in this section should be made entirely pixel by pixel, with the exception of the flood fill tool. Backgrounds, if any, should also be created pixel by pixel or should be a flat colour. Gradient, Photo and Texture backgrounds are not created pixel by pixel therefore rendering your doll not entirely pixel art. Pixel is also often created with a limited colour count.
Tool Shaded
Dolls created in programs such as Gimp or Photoshop using automated anti alias techniques such as brushes from Photoshop and the smudge or blur tool. Dodge and Burn tools may also feature. Colour count is not an issue and often these dolls are saved in .png format to preserve all the colours. Tool dolls can often look like miniature CG paintings.
Misc
This is a somewhat hard section to define as it falls somewhere between pixelling and tooling.
This is where dolls/bases with no shading at all or limited cell type shading where no pixel technique have been used should be placed. Also pixel dolls placed on gradient/photo/texture background belong here and dolls with computer generated text as part of the piece itself. Dolls with perhaps pixelled clothing and tooled hair may also belong here as they are neither entirely tooling nor entirely pixelled.
What are bases?
Most dolls are created by drawing clothes and hair over a base.
A base or basebody is something that dollers create that looks sort of like a bald pixel body, featuring inoffensive Barbie doll type nudity. It is the framework for which we create our dolls by drawing clothes and hair onto it.
