How to make pixel doll clothes

In this tutorial I'll show you how I make clothes for my pixel dolls. I'll only be showing basic shirt and jeans.

Dolling is basically a pixel art form of dressing up dolls, but you create your own clothing, hair, accessories, etc. using pixels. To some dolling is art, and to some it's merely a hobby. It just depends on how you feel about everything. A Base is the body that you start off with, and they vary from simple and small to complex poses and sizes. If just starting out I suggest using a single base that is small to medium in size, this way you aren't overwhelmed with so much to work with. Yes, base's are "naked" most don't show any nipples or junk, but some do. If you're parents don't want you looking at it then sorry, this might not be the best thing for you to be doing.

There are some major guidelines for dolling that should be followed by anyone who plans to take part in the dolling world.

1) Frankendolling; a term used in the dolling community that means taking parts of other people's doll creations and pasting them together to form your own. It's basically stealing and is extremely frowned upon.

2) Always always always give credit to whoever base you use. It's just nice to give credit and if someone wants to use the base you used, they'll be able to get to it.

Like I said before, this is how I doll, and I've been doing this for about 6 years. I've found my style, so feel free to try doing this a different way to find what style suits you best. If my style suits you, then go ahead and use it lol.

If this goes over well, I'll post some more showing shoes, hair, accessories.

The base I used for this tutorial is from Swiss Cheese Army

Step 1 Select Your Base.

You start off with your base body, edit what you see fit to make it suit you. I edit bases, but some dollers don't. I edited the face and body on this base.

I chose a small base for this tutorial, and like I said before, when starting out it'll be easier to do single small bases. This is a base I started out on 6 years ago, and I still use it to this day, haha sometimes you just find your favorites!

Comments

[TeghanRawr]

THANKYOU SOOOOO MUCH!! It helped heaps in making my first pixel doll, and now they look Awrsome :DD Thanks. Would you be able to show one on hair for pixel dolls...? Because thats not my strongest area.

[TeghanRawr]

Awesome* Lol

[flatt_outcrazy6]

Good shading on this doll! I always have problems with jeans...this tut has helped a good deal..thanx :

[shooby]

pixel doll, huh. How many pixels is overweight?

[aliceownsj00]

what do you mean?

[shooby]

nevermind

[aliceownsj00]

the point of pixel dolls isn't how many pixels you use, which is why it's not considered pixel art. and don't mention something if you can't explain yourself.

[shooby]

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[aliceownsj00]

There are plenty of dolls that are "overweight" but typical doll makers are skinny. Dolls came from those 'Prep' drag and drop makers from years ago and I guess they just never changed body shape. The more you look into the dolling world you'll see different sized dolls. It's just what we call them, are dolls not reproductions of humans? It's something we dress and decorate. In pixel art they count how many colors they use, you'll see 'used 16 colors' and sometimes a number of pixels used. With dolling we use pixels, but don't ever count the colors and such. If you took a picture of a barbie doll it's be a photograph, a pixel doll is something made in MSPaint or Photoshop (or some other painting program) Does this explain my 'trivial artwork' enough?

[jongscx]

...wow...

[aliceownsj00]

hmm confusion or shock?

[jongscx]

yes. ;-)

[aliceownsj00]

lol well I would expect that from someone who probably hasn't ever seen any of this before.