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Published: 2009-05-11 01:13:42 +0000 UTC; Views: 20894; Favourites: 205; Downloads: 2547
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A large bead sprite of Wolverine from the from the Marvel comic series X-Men.. Contains 23,188 beads.Related content
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Looks really really cool! I wonder how big this one is and did you use some kind of program to get the picture into bead pixels?
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It's a standard 36x24 poster size, 187x124 - 23,188 beads total. No program, drew Wolverine pixel by pixel using the original artwork as a reference underlay and a set palette based on available bead colors, then did a 10-20 tolerance fill on the background with various shades of red.
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ThatΒ΄s so neat, good work! Thanks for the info, sounds like hard work by doing it pixel by pixel and not using any help-programme. Did you actually print the reference onto paper and had it under the transparent beadplates?
I also wonder if this is the melted side or the unmelted side (cant figure from the photo)? Do you usually use the melted side as the mainside? I also into making bead sprites but I have only done smaller ones so far.. I was looking around here on dA of bead sprites done by people and noticed that people show their finished work by showing the melted side? I have always thought that the unmelted side is the mainside, do you know if IΒ΄m totally wrong or is it just a matter of taste?
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No, I did it on the computer in Photoshop and completed the pattern before I beaded it.
Melted or unmelted is a preference for most. I know a lot of people who bead large sprites backwards so they can focus on getting everything to fuse together without having to worry about consistency, then flipping it to either have the unmelted beads be the displayed side or then fuse the other side more gracefully. I personally prefer to melt both sides but for a piece this big, I leave the back side melted, since it can warp in funny ways during ironing so only doing one side makes it easier to avoid the melting. The consistency can be tricky but with hundreds of bead sprites under my belt (iron?) I developed a few techniques that made it easier, one of which involves ironing one section at a time and removing the plates from previous sections as I move along. This way, as the beads cool and contract, they don't get caught on the pegs. Another trick is to rub your finger over the beads between the fused and unfused sections to loosen the ones that haven't quite fused yet. Otherwise, they could break off during the ironing of the next section and fall sideways and ruin the whole piece.
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Ah okay, thatΒ΄s what I first thought also but then it sounded more like you printed it onto paper (but I guess that would work also, even if it probably would be more work in general).
Thanks a bunch for the information and your personal hints!
I am going to start making my first large bead sprite as soon as I have fully decided which one to make (of my alternatives I have) and gotten all the colors I need for it. On the small bead
sprites I have done so far I have always bead the sprites backwards and had the unmelted side to be the displayed side (as you also mentioned).. I guess I will go with the same thing with the large one also.
I hope it turns out well and I will keep your methods/hints in my mind while making it.
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I know a guy who would flip over this x-men series you've done. I'm flipping enough just thinking about the work on this.
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I have to say that that is absolutely ridiculous...
And I mean that in the good way! lol
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This is...CRAZY AS SHIT omg it must have took forever kudos!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! looks amazing also!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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The thumbnail looked more like a painting. Amazing!
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that is the most badass thing ive seen like ever!
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Jeepers... That's insane! And it only took you two days?
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You are crazy! in a good way though!! 
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What the hell?! Do you own the fucking perler bead company?! How many pegboards do you own?! How the hell do you afford the 100,000+ beads you've used?!
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I could never imagine how much time was put into that
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Holy shit, that is awesome!! I especially love how you did the reflection in the claws. Amazing.
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23,188... you... you didn't count all those, did you? O.o
But this (and all your works) is really impressive, especially how you shade them.
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Haha, no, Photoshop has a pixel-counting feature - I do that for all of my pieces.
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The patience, the dexterous, and that you actually now the exact number of beads that you've used makes this totally insane. As not to talk about your artistic skills, this really looks like Wolverine! I'm stunned, such as any others must be when they look upon your unique work!
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Thank you, but the real credit must go to the original artist. This is not an entirely original pixel piece and, while I did hand-pixel it and choose the colors as per the bead color palette, it was more of a trace. But yeah, I'll take full credit for the beading part, haha.
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Can you find the original artist on DeviantART?
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I believe the original was done by a professional artist who did the art for a Marvel Masterpiece set. I found the image in a Google image search but could not find the original artist mentioned anywhere, so I'm assuming it's official artwork.
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Just found your gallery thru your DD pic of Sakura~
And I have to ask~
How do you put these things together when they're so big??
It's those little "perler" beads that you have to iron to melt/set them together right?? I remember doing those as a kid, but they were about as big as a coaster. I can't imagine how someone can do one that's 24" x 36" o_O
thanks for your time~!
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Yeah, they're Perler (and a few other brands - Hama and PhotoPearls). It definitely becomes very frustrating when you get into the larger pieces, since the beads can warp and contract with the heating and cooling down. It just takes some good planning of which sections to iron first, and placing some weights on the already ironed portions to keep things in place.
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holy crap, that's insane. From the thumbnail, I thought it was a digital painting. that's so awesome.
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Thank you! I love the large scale stuff cause in the right lighting, it looks like a painting!
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you're welcome! and yeah, you're right! haha, it does look like a painting!
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I'm still here. i have moved to a bigger place. And all my beads is there! woho! I need something to bead again.. hmm
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Yeah, I just moved this past weekend and haven't gotten back into beading yet. SO much to do setting up the new place! My brother helped me move and after we finished bringing everything over he located all the boxes with beads in them and started making stuff, haha.
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nice! gratz! i know its much to do when people are moving.. haha.
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If this isn't DD material, I don't know what is.
Great job on this! amazing!
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Well, experience has taught me that reguardless of the actual piece being DD material, if it isn't a professional photograph of the piece, it wont get a DD...you can check my journal if you want that whole story, haha...about 3 entries ago, I belive.
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