He's currently mounted on cork (another experiment) at my cubicle. Some people don't recognize him as Kirby at first, but I forgive them. The bead-side faces out (the not-ironed-looking-side), and I cut off the clear bead border before mounting him.
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Tuesday, April 26, 2011
Delayed Post: Perler Bead Mic Kirby
Sometime late summer last year I wanted to try another larger sprite, something similar to the White Mage. I went with one of my favorite sprites: rank three Mic Kirby. I took some custom colors to his mohawk to make it look extra awesome.
He's currently mounted on cork (another experiment) at my cubicle. Some people don't recognize him as Kirby at first, but I forgive them. The bead-side faces out (the not-ironed-looking-side), and I cut off the clear bead border before mounting him.
He's currently mounted on cork (another experiment) at my cubicle. Some people don't recognize him as Kirby at first, but I forgive them. The bead-side faces out (the not-ironed-looking-side), and I cut off the clear bead border before mounting him.
Tuesday, August 10, 2010
White Mage (by Abyss Wolf) Perler Bead + Painting
I have since improved my bead ironing skills immensely, but I was too proud of this sprite to redo it. It was my first sprite on 4 boards, after all! The simpler style of painting, compared to my harvest moon one, made the background much faster to do.
As a personal side-note, I love the white mage. I always play a support class, if I can help it, in World of Warcraft or any other team-based game. I get to stay away from the rabid dick-waving competition of the DPS-type characters and get to simply help people. It feels good to help people, even if they're 98% jerks and idiots.
Phew! All I can think of now is that I can work on sprites for my brother and friends. I've been getting a lot of gift ideas, and I think it's time I started sharing the love!
Here are the work-in-progress photos:
Sunday, August 8, 2010
Harvest Moon Perler Bead + Painting
The idea for how to do this was inspired by ShampooTeacher (as I've seen him on spritestitch).
The background is painted with acrylic paint, hand-graphed 1cm by 1cm from a screenshot from inside the coop of the SNES Harvest Moon. The colors are far more realistic than I intended them... kind of looks pretty drab compared to the POP of the perler beads. But oh well!
The chick is a simple chicken sprite from the game, done in 2x2 bead fashion to match the 1cm squares. The chick is simply glued on top of the center of the screenshot.
This was my first experiment with painting on canvas, and it was pretty annoying! It took a good 3 coats for the color to stick, and for the more plentiful squares, if I didn't mix enough of the same color, I was pretty screwed. ShampooTeacher did a much better job with having his Mario on a solid background, not having to worry too much about lining the pegs up with the grid perfectly.
The background is painted with acrylic paint, hand-graphed 1cm by 1cm from a screenshot from inside the coop of the SNES Harvest Moon. The colors are far more realistic than I intended them... kind of looks pretty drab compared to the POP of the perler beads. But oh well!
The chick is a simple chicken sprite from the game, done in 2x2 bead fashion to match the 1cm squares. The chick is simply glued on top of the center of the screenshot.
This was my first experiment with painting on canvas, and it was pretty annoying! It took a good 3 coats for the color to stick, and for the more plentiful squares, if I didn't mix enough of the same color, I was pretty screwed. ShampooTeacher did a much better job with having his Mario on a solid background, not having to worry too much about lining the pegs up with the grid perfectly.
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