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Deviousness `ChewedKandi has certainly gone out of her way to keep the vector community on the right path. Always making sure that her talents are infinitely scalable, Sharon has put her bezier curves to excellent use, and firmly anchored herself as an inspirational leader. We're absolutely delighted to bestow the Deviousness Award for June 2013 to `ChewedKandi. Congratulations, Sharon! Read More
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I thought it was tooled. woah.
This is basically pixel art, meaning I hand placed each pixel, but it's also just a really large "doll" using an original base. Dolling is sort of like a digital variation on paper dolls. People make and share "bases," the nude bodies, which others can then add hair, clothing, etc. and usually they are allowed to customize the base by recoloring, reshading, etc. When you make a doll created on a base made by you, that's called using an "original base" and implies the entire work is of your creation. If you use someone else's base that's using an "adopted base," however there are also "traced bases" out there which are outlines traced from existing works of art. Traced bases are generally viewed negatively in the dolling community, largely because dollers have a strong passion for creativity and originality. This might seem hypocritical since many of us use adopted bases thus making a work not entirely of our own, but instead what we are doing is collaborating as individual artists. This sharing of making is part of what makes dolling so unique and makes the dolling community just that, a community. The greatest crime among dollers is "frankendolling" which is the act of taking a part or all of another's doll and calling it your own work. Usually the culprits are newbies who don't have a firm understanding of what is okay and what is not, and I think that is in part because of the sort of complex system of sharing in the dolling community. Of course, using an original base is the best way of showing off one's own creativity and ability. The Big Head Challenge, of which my Sylph is an example, focused on just that, creating over-sized pixel dolls from scratch. Here are some other examples from the challenge: [link] [link] [link] [link] It becomes a sort of difficult decision when picking which category on DA to place works like this, because they do fit into more than one, both non-isometric pixel art and dolls on original bases. Hope that helps some.