Bead Sprites by SerenaAzureth

by **SerenaAzureth** on Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:07 pm

Wow! It has been one busy Holiday Season and I have finally found enough time to load my own bead sprite portfolio on here as well as check over the new site. :) I can see a lot has happened since the new site's been up (I just got done browsing about :P) and can't wait to return to all the interesting and riveting conversations that go on here. On a side note, I'm glad to read that Ein is ok and how much everyone gave in support for him. :) Just makes me proud to be part of a forum that cares that much. <3 Alright, back to the Spriting grindstone!

Here are some Bead Sprites made by my sister SapphiresBlue:

by **Steph** on Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:10 pm

Wooooot! That joker and the companion cube!! They are so awesome :grin:

I need to make one of those cubes :displeased:

Your sprites look really slick!

by **Doctor Octoroc** on Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:28 pm

Welcome back Serena! We missed you :cry:

Okay, we missed your sprites...but you can stay :razz:

by **scrumsguy** on Sat Jan 17, 2009 5:41 pm

I really love your batman

by **PaperRockScisorz** on Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:13 pm

The colors matching on Kefka is perfect!!!
He and the Joker are my favorites by far.

Welcome back!!

by **pixlberry** on Sat Jan 17, 2009 6:55 pm

heyyy good to have you back! :grin:

I have always loved your awesome sprites!

by **suikerpanda** on Sat Jan 17, 2009 8:53 pm

Heeey welcome back. You always had cool sprites. Your Sumomo (Plum) from Chobits is really cute!

by **cristiaso** on Sat Jan 17, 2009 10:58 pm

way cool sprites! I am in LOVE with the lion-o sprite, I wish to make one for myself...where did you get the image to do him? I am a super-big Thundercats fan and would love to hang him on my wall!! :grinbig:

by **Malice** on Sat Jan 17, 2009 11:37 pm

welcome back, you work is great. have you done anymore of that eggman wars huge project?

by **SerenaAzureth** on Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:37 am

PaperRockScisorz wrote:The colors matching on Kefka is perfect!!!
He and the Joker are my favorites by far.

Welcome back!!

Thank you! He's a mix of Perler, Hama, and Photopearls, and by god the black in Photopearls IS lighter then perler black, noticeably so when melted! :) One of my close friends LOVES Kefka and stole the little one I made into a magnet months ago from my fridge, so I thought it would be a great idea to make him the Mid-sized one for Christmas. Almost all my presents were Bead gifts this year.... :embarrassed:

kinda couldn't afford what I couldn't make and so forth. Oh well, I took lots of pictures of my new stuff and will have it up soon! ^.^ And yes,...........EggShell Wars has awaken from its slumber...

by **SerenaAzureth** on Sun Jan 18, 2009 1:47 am

cristiaso wrote:way cool sprites! I am in LOVE with the lion-o sprite, I wish to make one for myself...where did you get the image to do him? I am a super-big Thundercats fan and would love to hang him on my wall!!

Yah, Thundercats are awesome. :) I got the sprite from pixeljoint.com's "Wee!" section. :) there are many really cool "Wees" there that I'm sure you'll love, here's the link to it:

http://pixeljoint.com/projects/wee/weecategory.asp?id=2213
Have fun! ^.^

by **8-Bit Artist** on Sun Jan 18, 2009 10:50 am

SerenaAzureth wrote:EggShell Wars has awaken from its slumber...

schwing

by **AnimeFur** on Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:52 am

Kefka and Pyramid Head.

'Nuff said :wink:

by **cristiaso** on Mon Jan 19, 2009 12:45 pm

SerenaAzureth wrote:
cristiaso wrote:way cool sprites! I am in LOVE with the lion-o sprite, I wish to make one for myself...where did you get the image to do him? I am a super-big Thundercats fan and would love to hang him on my wall!!

Yah, Thundercats are awesome. :) I got the sprite from pixeljoint.com's "Wee!" section. :) there are many really cool "Wees" there that I'm sure you'll love, here's the link to it:

http://pixeljoint.com/projects/wee/weecategory.asp?id=2213
Have fun! ^.^

Thank you so much!!! I wish for him to hang in my home!! you have given me new reason to bead!!

by **xstatic** on Mon Jan 19, 2009 3:10 pm

I love your work SOOOO much. It's great to see you back. I'm still looking forward to eggshell wars like nobody's business! The suspense! It's maddening! ;)

by **SerenaAzureth** on Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:26 pm

ok, so here is some more Christmas present Bead Art I did. My sister was interested in having one of her own, and since she's not really into video games AND I was amazed by xstatic's bridal bead art, I did a picture version of my sister. :)

I really liked the results as so did my sister. Merry Christmas Megan :)

by **scrumsguy** on Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:27 pm

on a scale of 1 -10 thats pretty awesome

by **Crausse** on Mon Jan 19, 2009 6:41 pm

Great work on that :grinbig:

It looks wonderful ! ! !

by **xstatic** on Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:25 pm

:O Oh shit! Competition!!! XD Looks amazing! I love it!

by **Anphobia** on Mon Jan 19, 2009 9:40 pm

Wow, thats some awesome shit!

by **metroplex2k7** on Mon Jan 19, 2009 10:59 pm

Ok, you gotta tell me how you guys are doing that! I want to do a picture like that. What is the best way to do it. What is the best resolution to use for the picture?

by **PaperRockScisorz** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:18 am

For serious... can we get a tutorial, plz?!

by **Dougrick** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:11 am

I am impressed. I always imagined photo-realistic type perling, but I never had the guts to try it out. Looks excellent.

by **8-Bit Artist** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:51 am

doesnt photo pearls (hence the name) have a program that does it for you?

by **Crausse** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 11:56 am

I think that program is $35 or it comes with their $80 package. If you are good enough, you could just hand pixel it with perler/hama colors :grinbig:

by **Doctor Octoroc** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 12:53 pm

Crausse wrote:I think that program is $35 or it comes with their $80 package. If you are good enough, you could just hand pixel it with perler/hama colors

I've come to the conclusion that Photopearl beads are way better suited for that sort of thing, hand pixeled or not, since their colors are more naturally toned, instead of bright primary, secondary, etc, colors. And in all honestly, you probably wont get those results hand pixeling. I haven't tried specifically to hand pixel in that style, although I'm sure it's possible, but the difference between the color choices and the placement of colors (if you're simply eyeing it) will be drastically different. Still, I prefer hand pixeling, just to put my own style into the piece - but that does look damn good! After most pieces I've pixeled, I've run it through a palette filter (much like the program does) to see the difference, just for the fun of it...I have yet to like the auto-results better than my own :razz:

by **SerenaAzureth** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:05 pm

Yes, there is a Photopearls program, but I'm honestly not that impressed by it. It does help with skin tones, but for all highlights and such, it seems to want to make everything so dark. For my picture I did of my sister, I originally took the image into the Photopearls program, adjusted it to see what it generated for me, then took that image into http://www.edsfamily.com/projects/perlerpal/ adjusted it more there with a custom pallete to see what it generated for me, and THEN took that image back into GIMP and hand selected and replaced colors with even more things I thought were better appealing to the eye. It was a long drawn out process, but I loved the results, especially since I customized it so much rather then simply putting a picture in and having something generated straight back at me. Part of the fun of beading is being able to do things your way, with your own special touch, rather then what some pre-set blueprints tell you. :)

by **PaperRockScisorz** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:39 pm

Well here's the deal...
When I try to bead an actual picture I'll let either you or Xtatic do the color palate/pixelating for me. :)

by **xstatic** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:40 pm

man... I don't go through many hoops as all! I just reduce the colors to 256, reduce the size of the image, and that's pretty much it. ...I eyeball it. Like they said, the results via program just don't do a piece justice when doing photo-realism.

by **SerenaAzureth** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 1:48 pm

Yah, I do way to many steps sometimes, but I know that if I were to have done it just straight by hand, it would have ended up looking very cartoony. (That one happened in "take one" of "The Sister Project." She didn't like it to much.:( ) Damn you animator hands! Why must you make everyone a cartoon! Why! WHHHYYYY!!!

Did however work for the "Liz-Li" project though...

by **rgcainmd** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 3:37 pm

Welcome back!!! I can't wait to see an update on your Eggshell Wars!!! I suspect it will end up being the most epic of the epic pieces to date!!! :smile:

by **SerenaAzureth** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 4:20 pm

Going through my Holiday camera again as I try to get all of those sprites squared away before I bring on more "epic" things ( :grinbig:

) So, Here is the complete Wee! grouping of Thundercats from Pixeljoint.com.

I like this Liono much better then my other one since the sword didn't warp this time. Ahh, the funny things bead do some times...

by **SerenaAzureth** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:19 pm

Another Pyramid Head joins the scene!!! *epic horror music engage* So, had a friend who loved my giant Pyramid Head on my wall but did not like how big it was, he was much more interest in having something magnet sized he could put on his fridge. "Can you make it happen?" he asks, "Sure" I say! It took quite a bit of scouting about the "interwebs," but I found this sprite on some random "host a pet" site. Still not quite as cool as my Biggin', it was good enough and fulfilled all his requirements. :)

Take that Brian. :P

by **rgcainmd** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 5:39 pm

Yaay, Thundercats and PyramidHead (a favorite!) :grinbig:

Keep 'em coming!!! :cool:

by **cristiaso** on Tue Jan 20, 2009 10:17 pm

I love the Thundercats!! I am working on some of my own to hang in my home. I like how yours are outlined in white...it makes them very striking! :grinbig:

by **gamerfaith** on Fri Jan 23, 2009 7:45 pm

http://attackthis.blogspot.com/2009/01/epic-bead-art-why-so-serious.html

More love for my fellow bead spriters. Love your Joker pic, so I posted about it on the geek blog I work on.

by **SpriteCreator73** on Sat Jan 24, 2009 1:17 am

I love the Thundercats collection.
I am a huge Thundercats fan and can't wait for the live action movie that is in the works. :grinbig:

by **Doctor Octoroc** on Sat Jan 24, 2009 12:43 pm

Thunder, thunder, thunder Thundercats...hoooooooooooo!

by **SerenaAzureth** on Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:16 pm

One of my few remaining Christmas/Birthday (Why is there always gift giving holidays at the same time!!!) presents left to finish up, and it's finally done. Thank God. This my interpretation of AbyssWolf's custom Sora that he did. (<3AbyssWolf<3!!!) I made this for my brother for his 17th birthday and he better like it or I'll kill him!!!!! :P I know he'll love it. Kinko's kept jerking me around about the pixeled background asking, "Is it suppose to be like that?" and "Yes, YES IT IS!!!" Second time they've done that to me. :rolleyes:

Blah. Someday I'll make the Roxas one to put up along side it so the off-canter heart in the background will make a bit more sense when it lines up with the other picture. My bro's lucky I love him so much. :P

Just for those who are curious, this piece is 24X36 and right now Hobby Lobby has a great deal on 50% off glass top frames. Saved my butt on this huge thing. :cool:

by **PaperRockScisorz** on Fri Jan 30, 2009 7:20 pm

I wish someone loved me that much!! That's incredible!!