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Anyone who follows me on Flickr! or deviantART will likely have seen these already, but for those that visit my blog for music related news, I want to share these.
Videogames lend themselves well to bead art, as the beads easily represent pixels in the pieces, but ever since I’ve been beading from custom pixelart, I’ve tried to expand into other nerd culture besides videogames, one of the the first of which is comic books.
Just in time for the movie with the most ridiculously profitable opening day, I present Wolverine!
This piece contains 23,188 beads and is currently sitting inside a black frame. It’s the size of a standard movie or music poster, at around 36 x 24 inches, and this is definitely my favorite so far, especially the details on the reflection of the claws. Just for the hell of it, you can hit the jump for pictures of the other two, Magneto and Phoenix.
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Awesome, how did you convert the images into beads? Did you just overlay a grid or what? I’m starting to get into the pixel thing and would love a bit of direction.
Comment by MikeB 05.16.09 @ 8:37 pmIt’s hand-pixeld using the original art as the base, then I bead from the screen where I can zoom in as much as I need to see the pixels.
Comment by Doctor Octoroc 05.18.09 @ 12:32 amWhat program do you use to view the pixels?
Comment by Chuck 06.19.09 @ 3:02 pm@Chuck – I use Photoshop for pretty much all my spriting and beading needs. Occasionally, I’ll just open the image file from a folder and look at it in the default image viewer, but it’s hard to beat the 3200% zoom in PS. I usually stick to 800% or 1600%, since 3200% is a bit too close sometimes. Then I use a 1×1 pixel selection to nudge around an measure distances that aren’t easy to notice just by eyeing them.
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