How to Make Your Own Glamour Dolls
"Glamour Dolls" are a reference to pixel art doll graphics. They are the computerized equivalent of paper dolls, and their clothing is drawn on pixel-by-pixel. Making them is tedious work but the dolls are usually small in size (around 50 by 150 pixels), so drawing the bases or their clothing is not too hard for someone with patience and a desire to do pixel art. These glamour dolls are often used to decorate MySpace pages or other websites.
Instructions
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Log on to a doll maker's website that provides "doll bases". Read the site's terms of use or rules because you may need to credit the creator of the base if you display the doll on your own web page. Pick the base in the pose that you want and save it to your computer. There are many different kinds of bases, but for "glamour dolls" in particular, you will need to choose the ones that are more realistic to the human form so that they can model the clothes you draw on them.
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Open your Microsoft Paint program and open your doll base within the program. Paint allows you to do the basics of drawing your doll's clothes with the "Pencil" and "Line" tools. Look at a photo of the clothing you wish to draw, or use your imagination and begin drawing the outlines of the clothing. The outline should be a few shades darker than the article of clothing will be. For example, if you are drawing a dark gray dress on your doll, start with a black outline. Proceed slowly and hit "Edit, Undo" if you make a mistake.
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Fill in the inside of the articles of clothing with the main color you desire using the "Fill With Color" tool. Double-click the color you are on and select "Define Custom Colors" on the box that pops up. Slide the arrow down to select a color a few shades darker than your fill color. click "Add to custom colors" and then hit "OK".
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Draw glamorous hair and makeup for your doll. Choose three shades for her hair---the main color, a shading color and a highlight color to make it more defined. Draw the hairstyle that you want her to have.
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Save your glamour doll as a .GIF or .PNG file (.JPG will make the image blurry) and upload it to an image-hosting website that will allow you to direct-link to the image so you can display it on a website like Myspace. Use the HTML tag <img src="yourglamourdoll.gif"> to display the image.
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