FEBRUARY 2023
February 2, 2023
Hello! Just been existing. I got a new monitor for my birthday, and it's almost 10 inches wider (19 vs 27 inches!) I have just enough room to dual monitor :-). I'm not used to big screens so I keep using everything in small windows haha. My old monitor is...old, from 2007 iirc. It's nice to see things in what I assume are their actual colors. I used to have 2 monitors a few years ago, for a few months I used my TV as my main monitor. but it was WAY too big (32 inches) for how shallow my desk is, so it just hurt my eyes.
Anyway, I'm working on a new base. I plan on making it much more customizable with a variety of limb poses, and alternate eyes. I'd love to one day make a more realistic portrait base, with lots of eye/nose/lip/etc. shapes (have to get better at pixel art first, though.) I have dreams also of making a dollmaker, I just need to...actually learn how to make one OTL;;;. I've been debating some sort of page dedicated to dolling. The main ideas in my head are:
- A giant masterlist of bases, old and modern (with a focus on personal websites) The Frugal Gamer has a great list of archived dolling websites, do check it out! The idea of my list was to focus more on an active community but old sites like this are equally important IMO. I also want it to be a good resource, linking others' tutorials, a run down on common terms and ettiquete for total beginners, the current state of dolling/bases, making my own tutorials, etc.
- A "history of dolling" page - but this has been pretty well covered already. Nostalgic's page on pixel dolls. That page + the article linked in it + wikipedia are good reads on the history of dollz.
- I ended up writing a huge ramble on my personal observations on/history with the end of 2000's dolling as it morphed into traced anime bases, and similar style non-pixel art bases.Here's a good video on the era of widespread non-dolling bases. (plus a quick lead up with the history of dollz/kisekae) Which happened basically right after I got out of pixel art and bases as a whole. (for the sake of clarity, I'm not considering the general large anime bases dolling)
I personally have a lot of interest in original doll bases by/for independent artists. I love and have a lot of nostalgia for dollmakers (I have multiple giant files of huge collections of dolls I made/attempted to edit as a kid) but those are already pretty well covered due to their popularity. Basically, I'm struggling to find the balance of "adding my input" and "repeating the same stuff over and over again"
All this talk about dolling. Rapid fire thoughts: I'm glad the OGL situation (DnD) has mostly smoothed out. Hopefully. I've been talking to my DM and others I play with about making a section of this site dedicated to our campaign. It's a world the DM made from scratch and I adore all of the love and detail put into it. I have plans to go full steam on my ~secret project~ (to my friends) soon. I bought myself some kits (including a Tamotu!) as a birthday present to myself, managed to buy one on preorder despite setting out to get them fast, and now I wait. Oops. At least it's scheduled first quarter this year. Comics: ehh?? Video Games: I want to make a shrine to Legend of Mana, my favorite game of all time. I've been playing A LOT of Stardew Valley lately. I have hopes to have married every candidate on different farms, currently switching between playing a pig farm where I'll marry Leah, and and winery where I'll marry Sebastian (FYI Sebastian hates all alcohol, consider not doing this.) Regular Art: Doing little more than sketches, I've had a big painted WIP for like a month now. My brains just set to pixel art, I guess.