Bead Portraits

Maybe using the WordPress mobile app will help me update more often. Here’s a Man of Steel and Bane bead portrait.

Back in Action!

Convention season is coming up and I thought I should update this blog since some people might visit it who ask for a business card. Since I last updated, my wife and I had a son who is a lot of work, but he’s the best part of our lives! 🙂 I also took part in FanExpo 2012. The was my first convention and I think it’s a pretty big deal. It cost a lot of money to be part of it and I did make some good money, but it was a LONG weekend and I actually make more money doing smaller local shows. This year I’ll be doing two shows here in Windsor and a show in London. Anyway, here’s a couple of my best bead pictures yet!

True Romance Bead Art!

Almost a year ago I started getting some more tattoos after taking a break for a few years. I came across an artist that I liked and we started talking about the kind of art that I do. That’s who commissioned me to do the Van Gogh that I posted previously. Halfway through the Van Gogh, he also requested to do “a big one”. True Romance is his favourite movie and he wanted this iconic scene from the film. It took way longer than I anticipated, but 86,400 beads and about 130 hours later, it’s done. I will NEVER do something this ambitious ever again. lol I will probably do one half the size for myself one day, but this project was ridiculous. I’ll get some expert tattoos in exchange so I don’t mind the hefty workload to finish it. Now I can focus on preparing for FanExpo 2012 where I’ll be selling my art with my sister at our own booth!

Bead Portraits

Wow, it’s been over a year since I posted! /pukes

Lately I’ve been working on bead portraits. The first is a Christmas present for my sister. It’s Gerard Way from the band My Chemical Romance.

Next, I did a Justin Beaver (not changing it!) for someone at work.

Then for myself I made a Ryan Reynolds. What a hunk! lol

And my most recent one of Vincent Van Gogh for my tattoo artist.

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.

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*