Talking about the Steampunk Ellowyne pattern in the previous post reminded me of a beautiful Dress-up game I saw on Deviantart: Clockwork Couture. Already the name is great and the flash doll is absolutely cute but look at the clothes! They are really detailed and sophisticate, I would love to have them for a real doll. Mhhhh….I could try to persuade my sister-in-law to give a go at sewing them

And…not dolls related…but always gaming, I’m downloading Gatheryn, an online game set in a Steampunk world. It is still in Beta version but the screenshots look interesting. The only downside is that most probably my laptop is not up to the task, I remember when I downloaded Forbidden City: I didn’t go much further than that unfortunately we’ll see what happens.

This is addictive! If you are bored or just love playing check the CartoonDollEmporium site. This is my favourite one from the dolls I tried (they have so many), she reminds me of the anime I used to watch in the seventies (Lady Oscar, Georgie, Mila, Candy Candy and many more).

I’ve been sick for the past couple of days, a terrible flu, I can hardly breath, so no much energy than anything else than laying in bed and occasionally surfing

After I got the cute link about the paper dollhouses from the japanese site the other day (see this post) I decided today, between a sneeze and another one, to see what is around on the web about paper dolls, my….I found tons of stuff but most amazing I realized how paper dolls evolved. Not only are they now often created with software applications like Photoshop, Corel Draw and similar but they also have sort of “evolved” into Dollz, basically “pixel dolls”.

I still prefer traditional paper dolls, that can be printed and played with, but even here you can chose your way of creating, either in the old-fashion way, drawing, or with one of the many fancy graphic applications available on the market. You can also use Open Source (most of them are for FREE) software as GiMP or Inskcape.

Here a couple of nice tutorials I found around:How to Draw Paper Dolls by Judy M. Johnson, or How to Create Paper Doll in Adobe Illustrator by Jacquelin Vanderwood.

Always related to creation of paper dolls using software you need to check this out, it is a tutorial on how to use Photoshp layers Rhiannon created: The Paper Doll Creation by Rhiannon, I think the girl is an artist and the site is worth a look just for the amazing graphics. The layers are not for free, they are on sale, but I think they look really good for the price asked for. Layers in GIMP works similar to Photoshop so you should be able to use the Open Source application, here is a guide to working with Layers in GIMP.

I still didn’t find any nice tutorial about creating Dollz, so if you have any suggestion please raise your hand

As usual, when you visit the above mentioned sites please be always careful with terms of use and conditions, these are all generous people who share their wonderful work with us and just because something in published on the internet it doesn’t mean it is free for us to take and do whatever we want to do with it. Most part of these tutorials are free for personal usage but not to resell and when mentioning them please always give credit to the original Site/creator.