Welcome to Strawberry1!

Corrupted Carousel is a new board that I started going to after Eden-Enchanted closed. I have not really been active though.

CC has a trend of 'corupted' avatars, and I decided to make one. The character is not really anyone, but I like this avatar (Except for the shoes, which don't show in the 150x200px version that I actually use as an avatar).

The base is Destiny, by myself.

This is a seal that I made for Yuan

If your pixels are flat and lifeless, revitalize them... with this tutorial. Are you ready to try a new coloring style for your pixel art? Then say goodbye to drabness, and hello to shiny, sparkly color palettes that make your pixels gleam.

Happy new year, everyone!

I know there have been a lot of errors on the site lately. I'm trying to fix them, but I took on too many projects and fell behind again. I'm starting to really hate looking at my current layout, but I know from reading my Google Analytics stats that you guys visit the website for an average of 2-3 minutes. It might not have worn on you yet, like it has for me. And even if it has, I know that you are all way too polite to say anything

I haven't posted for a while, but I have some more tutorials allmost ready to go. When I was writing tutorials, I made these adoptable pixels. They are all kitties, I hope that you enjoy them.

Click on any one of them to see more info or adopt. You can view or adopt these (or any other pixels marked 'adoptable') from my Pixels section.

Hi, I just finished making and posting a new tutorial, How to make cute pixels.

I posted the pixels that I used as examples and steps along the way in my pixels section in case you want to adopt or look at them.

In the tutorial, I started with an iPod

Added some faces

and then added animation.

At the end of the tutorial, I made some veggies.

I hope you like these pixels, and find the tutorial useful. They can be all be used as doll props with credit.

Do you want to be able to make your own cute, original, adoptable, pixel creations on your computer?
Whether you have never made a pixel drawing before, or you want to become better, this tutorial will show you how to make cute original pixels in your favorite drawing program. I will walk you through the process of making cute pixels from start to finish. Using a pixel iPod as an example, I'll take you through choosing an object to pixel, to adding cuteness, personality and life.

I've got a new pixel phone for you: The Apple iPhone.

It only comes in black, but there is an animated, and non-animated version.

Shiny, shiny.

Please go ahead and adopt, but remember to link me. It would be great if you told me when you use them, but as long as there's credit it's not required.

Wishnick has a request on EE for dolls of her human version of Amaterasu, the wolf from Okami, so I did this .

I'm not much of a gamer, but I saw my boyfriend playing this, and it seemed nice. It would have been cool on the DS, because there were parts where you had to draw things on the screen.

This is my first doll in a while. I just got finished with a busy month where I moved into a new apartment and bought a lot of furniture. Hopefully I won't slack so much again right away It was really relaxing and nice to make this doll, and I hope Wishnick likes it.

Madison was a bad pixel artist by anyone's definition. Her pillow-shaded nightmares in saturated magenta hues were tolerable only in proportion to the speed with which her thread's viewers could hit the back button. The problem was Madison didn't know that she was a bad pixel artist. Everyone on the dolling forums was too polite to tell her directly although they left all sorts of clues. If only Madison knew how to detect them she could have been making beautiful dollz in no time.

Here's my new base: Rinbu. She's small and cute, with a slender build and oversize head. So I guess she's kind of a chibi base, but kind of a realistic base too. In between. I actually think she looks a little too normal and not very original.

I named her Rinbu because it was the first thing that I thought of when I was making the doll of Utena that became this base.

The song that starts the show that Utena is in is called 'Rinbu Revolution'. I thought Rinbu sounded cute and easy to remember. I thought it soundedd a little bit like 'rainbow', and that's why I changed the eye colors to mimic a little rainbow. I hope you like her. I included a sitting pisition this time, along with a few straight standing positions and  a few with the torso to the side.

Anyway. Years ago, after liking the show and thinking it was pretty. I made a KiSS doll about it (KiSS is a dollmaker program. I think you can still learn more about it and get this set here), and when I saw a screenshot (you can view the screenshot behind the cut. Just click the 'download or Adopt link at the bottom of the post.) , I thought I'd try to remake her as a simple doll.

'Rinbu' is the name of the base that I made while I was working on the doll. I'll release it soon, as soon as I make some more poses, so come back next week or keep an eye out on the doll forums.

Are you the kind of person who has a lot of great ideas, but has a hard time finishing your projects?
Do you have a folder on your hard drive full of art that you haven’t finished yet?
Do you have ‘temporarily’ abandoned projects, half-finished layouts, 9/10ths of a short story, or ‘ideas’ for a novel?

There are a lot of reasons why we don’t finish the projects we start.
We might take on too many projects at once, only to get frustrated as we don’t make progress on any of them. Or we might keep raising the bar every time we near completion, making it impossible to finish.

Why did updating my website take me 4 months?  Well, I can tell you that, and I can also tell you why it didn’t take even longer.