Info - About Me
- Name:
- Veronique
- Screen name:
- Ninique
- Age:
- 21
- Sign:
- Cancer
- Location:
- Montreal, Qc, Canada
- Occupation:
- University Student; Web and Graphic designer
- Hobbies:
- Dolling & Pixel Art, Drawing, Making websites, Learning geeky things
- Operating System:
- Kubuntu Linux
I started dolling in April 2002. I had seen lots of palace-type dollz before then, mainly on a chat program I used to have, called Virtual Places, but for the longest time I never knew they were called dollz. I had always wondered who had drawn them, and never considered that it was many different people. One day, I found out that these pretty pixel girls were called "dollz" by seeing someone who were giving them for adoption on Neopets, so a quick search on Google brought me over to DollzMania. From there, I eventually ended up on Josie's Dollz (Which is closed now. She was a very popular dolling veteran). She had a few tutorials, and so I started dolling by following those.
I opened this site on August 11, 2002. I called it "Ninique's Minidollz" because at that time, I only ever made dollz on "mini" bases. (Back then the base types weren't specific to a particular doller. Most people made bases in two styles: "prep" and "mini".)
The programs I use to make dolls heavily depend on the operating system I'm on. I have my computer currently set to dual-boot Mac OSX and Linux Kubuntu, so I either use Pixen on Mac or Kolourpaint on Linux. If I'm on Windows (on my old computer) I use MSPaint. Earlier in my dolling carreer, I used to use a program called Serif Photoplus to make toolshaded dollz, but since I started pixel-shading, I prefer using a simpler program.