Posted Aug 28, 2008 |Leave a comment?

I have a thing for fanlistings, directories and cliques. I don’t know why because in all honesty I find the whole thing a bit childish, but still I like joining them and putting their little buttons on my site. I also like seeing what fanlistings/cliques other people have joined, it’s a bit like “show me your joined listings and I’ll tell you who you are”. Heck, I even like creating fanlistings myself!

These past days I’ve been randomly surfing around looking for some directories to join, and found some nice places too, but I’ve also noticed something that bugs me a little. On more than one site I’ve found a rule saying “no doll sites please”.

Um… what? What’s wrong with doll sites?
Ok, if you’re thinking of those hideous glittery palace dolls people used to make in the 90’s (and are very rarely seen today), and those pointless sites with nothing but huge dollmakers filled with graphics they’ve probably stolen from somewhere else. But that’s just one small part of the dolling world.
There are TONS of beautiful, unique, creative and personal dolling sites out there. Sites that any directory should be proud to have in their scrolls.

Sure, some doll sites have poorly coded/ugly layouts, but that goes for ALL types of sites. And besides, most directories have a rule saying you must have “decent layout and content”. So you’ve already ruled out those places.
Saying “no doll sites” in your rules is like saying “no cat sites” or “no sites about knitting”. Seriously, wtf? Is dolling really such a turn-off among some people? Or do you think that dolls = ugly 90’s glitter dolls?

I’d like to know what you people outside the dolling world think when someone say that they make pixel dolls. What do you think of it? Do you even know what it is to begin with?

// Karin, proud doller

Posted Aug 18, 2008 |1 comment.

I’m going to advertise a brand new swedish doll/pixel forum that just opened
I haven’t had anything to do with it, it’s Malin and Rose who’s behind it—but it’s a good idea so I’m going to spread the word so to speak. So if you know swedish and is interested in pixeling you should go check it out:

It’s named The Blue Room and has a music (mostly rock) theme going on, come join us!

Posted Aug 4, 2008 |1 comment.

Um… yeah. I got a little frustrated with the previous, left-aligned version.

I still haven’t finished everything though. Some links aren’t working yet, like “creative” up there. I have to re-do that whole page. Might be som missing images somewhere too I think.
But I will finish it as soon as possible! I just HAVE to sleep now

But please tell me what you think anyway, is this any better than before?

EDIT
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Ok, it’s all done now Just have to upload some more content, but everything works now.

Posted Jul 25, 2008 |Leave a comment?

I’ve been to my very first vernissage
My former classmate Linda is having an art exhibition in a gallery here in town, and me and Markus went to the opening. Except her drawings she served raspberry juice and cookies *yum*
It was quite fun, and interesting since I’ve never been to a vernissage before. Most of all it got me thinking about my own art and what I should do about it.

Even though I’ve been drawing for most of my life I’m still a total n00b in the art world. I’ve only sat at home just drawing for myself and my family, I’ve never been to any art school or even tried to reach out to the world and sell myself.
It wasn’t until I started my web design education I began to realise that I might actually be able to do something with this. I applied for that education mostly to learn about making websites, but classes in how to do vectors and handle Illustrator and Flash was also included.
And along the way I realised that what I really want to do, more than anything, is illustrate. I just have to get better at marketing myself. I’m way to shy and introverted, and I’m really good at locking myself in, away from the rest of the world. Of course I won’t get any illustrating jobs—nobody even knows I exist! I really have to pull myself together…

TO DO:

1. Make more drawings/designs in different techniques and with different styles and directions. I have to many dogs made with coloured pencils, and not enough humans and vectors.
2. Make a classy portfolio. This site is just a personal playground, somewhere to house my dolls and other random stuff. Way to unprofessional.
3. Find out which companies/persons/etc. might be interested in talking to a illustrator.
4. Send mail/talk to everyone on list generated in point 3 above.

Ok, I’ll start there We’ll see how that goes.

Posted Jul 7, 2008 |1 comment.

Holy cow, I have comments enabled I’ve never had comments available on this site before, and the main reason is this: I don’t think of this as a blog.

I already have a “real” blog, it’s in swedish and that’s where I post toughts, happenings, photos etc. regarding my every day life. And writing the same bullshit in two languages and post it on two separate sites just seem like overdoing it. I’m not that interesting. And this way at least I spare my international visitors
I do have a guestbook and a mail form if/when my visitors wish to contact me. So it’s not like I’m hiding from you or anything.

But I’ve tought of something new now.
This is supposed to be just an art gallery (+ additional personal info just for the fun) so I try to keep my updates on this main page short and to the point. But that’s kinda boring isn’t it? And I actually get a few hits on this site, so why not try to make it a little more fun and personal around here?
I think I want to make this into a blog after all—an art blog Where I can post artsy thought and happenings.

Ok, the truth is that I’m not the best writer. And english isn’t my first language so expect lots of grammatical errors and misspelled words even though I try my best to get it right.
But I think having an art blog would be a little more interesting than just having an update log and it would give the whole site a bit of personal charm, wouldn’t it?