Wolverine 2.0!!!!!!1!!!

A while back I took my favourite comic book cover, resized it and reduced the colours to make a large bead sprite. (My first project that wasn’t already pixellated) It took the better part of a year and became an annoyance for my wife. She asked me so many time, “When are you going to finish Wolverine??!!” I would always get sidetracked on other projects. I’m so bad for finishing something 90%, then not touching it for weeks. Anyway, I did finally finish and when I put it in a frame, I realized there were a lot of beads that had melted too much and the top row had one more bead than the bottom row causing the whole thing to be horribly warped and wavy. I tried fixing it after the fact and it stretched and pulled and put beads on an angle. MANY F-bombs were dropped. I got too frustrated and started cutting it up into 29×29 beads squares so I could START OVER. I was laid off from work at the time and didn’t think it would take that long… A few months later, it has been reworked and I cleaned up some of the image as I went. I have a few more colours this time around so I improved the shading in the fiery background and made his hands and claws look a little better. I’m pretty happy with it and plan on never touching it again except to put it up on my wall! Eventually I would like to find a cool image of Deathpool and Spider-Man to put up there with him.

Death Note!

This year is the first that I was able to whore myself out and make art for people. It was nice to make some extra money while I was laid off from my real job, but kind of burnt me out and made me not like this hobby so much. I’m sure after some time off from crafts, I’ll get into it again. I made a Death Note bead sprite of Ryuk a week ago. The pixel art was designed by my friend Logan Davis. I put a Toon Link that I made a long time ago into an art show as well. It sold and had two other people request me to make other ones. So altogether I sold 3. Original pixel art by AbyssWolf on DeviantArt.

Scott Pilgrim

I’m a pretty big fan of Scott Pilgrim anything. I love the books, the movie and even the game. First up, I made Scott playing the bass with Perler Beads. Original pixel art from the game by probertson on LiveJournal. After that, I was so excited to start making my version of Bryan Lee O’Malley’s cover of the first book in beads. Here’s a few shots of that.

Must… control… rage…

I finally managed to get motivated to finish my Wolverine cover that I started beading nearly two years ago. I had in a frame and everything. It looked really good, but there were about 30 beads that melted funny so I thought I would repair it instead of having a few flaws in an otherwise epic piece. Then I discovered I missed half a row which caused a lot of stretching and squishing in the first place. I then commenced some bead surgery and have made a huge mess of things. I’ll try and get it all done today, but here’s some shots of the progress…

B@tM@n!!

Still no pulse… Airway’s clear… Commence CPR… 1,2,3 breathe…
I got a pulse! Glad to have this blog back to life.
Here’s some work I did of Batman sprites. The batman pixel art was originally done by Hiroki8 on DeviantArt, but I made the Joker and Harley from modified Pokemon sprites myself. The Heath Ledger Joker head was originally pixelled by RJdog1000.

Mario vs. Bowser

Had a lot going on, but managed to finish this huge perler bead sprite project. Original pixel art by AbyssWolf on DeviantArt.com. The canvas is 80cm x 100cm.

Mario Kart

Mario Kart 64 is one of my favourite games. I’ve easily spent over a thousand hours playing it. I didn’t enjoy Super Mario Kart or Mario Kart Wii as much, but here’s some art from those games that I made. (I do not speak of the GameCube version) *shudder*

Heisman Mario

Here’s a piece I did up for a friend that I used to go to school with. He wanted something done that captured the pose of Mario when he changes direction. I beaded up the sprite with a 1:4 pixel to bead ratio and painted a background to give it some flavour.

AbyssWolf Card Gallery

Some of the best game-based sprites on the internet are done by Orkimides and AbyssWolf/Ahruon. They have a big project going on called Card Gallery Here’s very large bead art of Link and MegaMan that I made based off of some of their pixel art. They’re each about 2 feet tall!

Cross-Stitch Clothing

Back when I was in high school I was a sucker for buying t-shirts. Mostly of bands and video games. I wish I learned how to cross-stitch earlier because I would have just made my own stuff for a fraction of the cost and get much cooler results.