Doll - Logan Hartby ~dnya

Customization / Digital Dolls / Pixel Art / Original Base

So, our great leader, ^hollinesskiss asked a bunch of people to do a doll on a specific base, to help show off the diversity and skill possible in the dolling community, even with starting from a common origin.

For it, I was originally going to do a pretty lady doll, but I couldn't decide what she should wear and Ody is a damned instigator who prodded me until I decided to do a dude.

This is Logan, who anyone who has ever RPed with me probably is familiar with.

He's a musician, and a giant nerd, and now he's a tiny doll.

Process wise this is more or less how it went:
Step 1: Edit the absolute shit out of the base, making a pretty lady to doll on. I can't help myself when it comes to base edits, I do it to my own bases as well. I'm like 'welp, time to doll, what base should I mutilate today?' u_u And like that.
Step 2: Get stuck on clothing, get talked into making a dude for the project, start over at step 1.
Step 3: Pixel clothing outlines, get distracted screw around on the internet for a while. Watch other people doll.
Step 4: Pixel the hair, with an audience because I know if I don't have one I'll never get things done. Yay for self-inflicted peer pressure!
Step 5: Shade the clothes, avoiding the shoes like the plague because shoes are evil.
Step 6: Edit the shirt palette, because instead of light blue I ended up at "trying for white, but failed at it", and that's not a good look.
Step 7: Finally do the shoes, four times because fuck shoes.
Step 8: Redo the skin palette, because the character isn't nearly as pink as the skin palette I was using, and it was looking washed out against the dark clothing.
Step 9: Add stubble, in the cheating-est way possible: adjustment layers and a 50% opacity brush.
Step 10: Post to interwebs.
Step 11: (Optional) Feel kinda guilty that the doll doesn't have a tie, when ties are sort of the character's thing.

Base by: Mariii

~xena222 Nov 29, 2012 Hobbyist Digital Artist

Looks great!! Logan is my daughter's fave!!

~Banished-Dreams Jun 17, 2012

The shading on this is awesome, and the folds [especially in the shirt] look really good. Great job!

~chuuuuuuuu Jun 10, 2012 Hobbyist General Artist

_{Wow! You edited the crap out of that base, and very well if I do say so myself. :333
I'm still figuring out what I want to pixel. I'm dying here. ; 3;}