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kommisar 08-15-2012 03:15 PM

Pearler Art
 
My parents have been doing this for a few months now, and I just recently got into it (using their equipment hehu)

Most of you know I'm huge into 8/16bit art/games/music etc. This drew me in very quickly and is super awesome to do.


My two first ones



My most ambitious project, a little over 2 hours to make. Dynablade inspired template.





Anyone else do this kind of stuff?

Wayward Vagabond 08-15-2012 03:16 PM

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this is sick

wildfireskunk 08-15-2012 03:28 PM

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Hey Kommi! Nice to see someone else is into this too :D The second one is really good, and given a little time you're gonna be making a ton of really cool stuff :p

Got myself a round board the other day as I want to do some round stuff like Pokeballs and better MTG symbols. I've got something fairly large on the burner atm, but here's an example of a few things I've done...



I've actually got all of the LttP item sprites completed, need to back them on something and re-create a complete items screen :)









Excitebike lol


What kinda things do you have planned next? I'm guessing you'll have some RPG sprites on your mind?

kommisar 08-15-2012 03:31 PM

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haha yesssss those are awesome.


RPG sprites are definitely in the forecast. I need to invest in boards to make larger decals. How did you make that huge slime? damn. also A Link to the Past medalions are awesome jfdlkajslkf

I really want a Chrono pearler, as well as a mirror/chef kirby one. Probably pkmn trainer Red later on as well.

wildfireskunk 08-15-2012 03:35 PM

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I don't know what kind of boards you have, but I've got about 20 or so square white ones that have bits to allow them to slot together to create bigger boards. I think the slime was spread over 6 as it wouldn't *quite* make 4. Amazon was the best place I could find to buy them, lots of people do packs of 4 quite cheap!

I can't wait to move out, I want a bit flat area to do them on so that I can work on the BIG pieces I want to do, as my desk can only have maybe a 4x2 board if I'm lucky.

I'll try and get a pic of the other lttp things, I love the rods myself :D

kommisar 08-15-2012 03:39 PM

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The boards we have do expand with each other. We currently have 4 29x29 boards. I guess you can get some transparent ones which would be cool.

The 2nd Kirby one took 2 boards side to side.

wildfireskunk 08-15-2012 03:43 PM

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Everyone else I've seen who uses them seems to have transparent boards, I want some :( But with 4 I think you'll be able to do most things for now.

This is a really relaxing hobby though I find! Most stressful part is finding some of the colours of bead that you need XD I'm missing a blue that I need for some megaman and minecraft stuff.

kommisar 08-15-2012 03:53 PM

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I spent 20 minutes looking for peach colored pearls since they were all in a 9000 pearl bucket lmao. rest were in color specific trays.

I don't see myself needing more than 4 boards though you're right.

samurai7694 08-15-2012 04:01 PM

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awesome stuff, especially that third one :cool:

wildfireskunk 08-15-2012 04:05 PM

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lmao I started with one of those buckets. What a nightmare that was! Ran out of black so quickly and I was trying to finish the border to one of my pieces. Spent about 2 hours separating all of the colours since my local toyshop didn't stock black beads. Since then I've just piled a drawer full of individual packs of colours and got some little plastic things to sort them all individually XD

Have you seen some of the huge screenshots people have made? I'm tempted to do a shot from Link's Awakening, but I'd need a hellish amount of cream and minty green beads for that!

kommisar 08-15-2012 04:08 PM

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toys r us here sells mostly buckets of all colors. the places that sell the individual colors are a little more pricey but a small bag will run you about 4 bucks or 3 euros

wildfireskunk 08-15-2012 04:27 PM

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Generally looking at £1.25-£1.75 per bag of 1000 here, depending where you're buying from. Those boxes are cheap but I cba to sort out all the colours :p

Anyways, a couple more photos.


First is all of the LttP items. I'm gonna make the entire item select screen and have it mounted into either a black wood, or black hard foam backing. Frame it for a ****ing awesome piece of art for my wall! the Hylian Crest is just awesome, and those long stemmed plants are going to go in small vases for friends ^^ The spikey one will probably go in a pot instead.


These are going to be backed and become coasters! Although I may remake them on my round board first, see how that goes.

Charu 08-15-2012 05:15 PM

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Now these are really cool. I would be interested doing something like this the next time I have that artistic crave.

Just need the supplies though.

kommisar 08-15-2012 08:02 PM

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fridge magnets yeye


Patashu 08-15-2012 08:24 PM

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pearler art is inspired by minecraft art is inspired by mspaint is inspired by the NES is inspired by pong imho

kommisar 08-15-2012 08:49 PM

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pearlers were around eons before minecraft

Frank Munoz 08-15-2012 09:02 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kommisar (Post 3748200)
fridge magnets yeye


This is fxcking cute.
I want some.

Patashu 08-15-2012 09:03 PM

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infiniminer then

wildfireskunk 08-15-2012 09:29 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by kommisar (Post 3748200)
fridge magnets yeye


Approval! :D

Kibblre 08-15-2012 10:28 PM

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Are you using templates or are you just printing an image and mapping it out yourself? This looks fun, but I lack creativity to do it without a template.

kommisar 08-15-2012 10:57 PM

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uh a bit of both. I have an app that pearls stuff for me. so it's an image that i turn into a template

wildfireskunk 08-16-2012 06:59 AM

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An app for that? What's it called? Currently I'm mostly looking for the original sprites, and if I can't find them (King Metal Slime...), it's a case of improvising a bit and hoping it works out well based off of any other image I can find XD

wildfireskunk 08-23-2012 08:20 PM

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Resurrecting this as I've spent a few hours making some more things over the last few days! Just managed to ruin my round board making that tiny ultra ball though, UGH.

3DS is there for a size comparison!

kommisar 08-23-2012 08:25 PM

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t-that glaceon


give plzz


oh and the app is bead-it. it's like 5 bucks though.

wildfireskunk 08-23-2012 08:29 PM

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Originally Posted by kommisar (Post 3753769)
t-that glaceon


give plzz


oh and the app is bead-it. it's like 5 bucks though.

Oh pfft, not gonna pay for some app when I mostly make video game sprites.

Glaceon will be having the rest of the eeveelution crew join her in the next few days. I LOVE THEM ALL <3~

You made anything else yet? ^^

kommisar 08-23-2012 08:31 PM

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my city is very lame and doesn't sell boards except the tiny ones with pre-made templates. no 29x29 boards anywhere. I have to wait till the 6th when I visit another town to buy them =/


I do want to know how you did glaceon though

wildfireskunk 08-23-2012 08:40 PM

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Originally Posted by kommisar (Post 3753774)
my city is very lame and doesn't sell boards except the tiny ones with pre-made templates. no 29x29 boards anywhere. I have to wait till the 6th when I visit another town to buy them =/


I do want to know how you did glaceon though

ebay! Or Amazon! I can't find any decent boards anywhere on the island I live on, I've ordered all of mine and most of my beads from the internet.

http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_no...ler+bead+board - Lots of the bigger square ones there :)

Glaceon managed to fit onto a 2x2 grid of the larger square boards, as did growlithe. Glaceon has easy colours which was a good thing! Growlithe on the other hand was an ass. Needed to change most of his beads twice because he uses every shade of red/brown in existence, and I kept putting down the wrong shades on the wrong areas -_-

EDIT Oh yeah, almost forgot my Zelda items! Pretty much all finished now, just got to mount them.

kommisar 08-23-2012 09:01 PM

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would you be able to take a high res pic of glaceon? I want to add it to my to-do list

wildfireskunk 08-23-2012 09:13 PM

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It'd be my pleasure! Fancy the other Eeveelutions when I do those too?


kommisar 08-23-2012 09:16 PM

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thank you <3


gonna need 4 boards for that one haha

Espeon is my fav pokemon since I was a kid, so that one fo sho


4 clear peg boards would be 25$ with shipping. **** amazon

kommisar 08-25-2012 02:17 PM

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obligatory carbuncle in 20 minutes




working on a small scale espeon atm



doing what I can with one board lmao


kommisar 08-28-2012 05:35 PM

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TORIPORU POST

Wing Kirby, Marisa (kill me later) and phantasy star 2 style mio from nichijou

25thhour 08-28-2012 06:12 PM

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These are fuccen awesome! Would you be interested in selling me a few arrows? :P

Frank Munoz 08-28-2012 06:17 PM

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Can someone here make a Suika one? And an arcanine sprite? So i can pee myself in pleasure?

kommisar 08-28-2012 06:32 PM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by 25thhour (Post 3756978)
These are fuccen awesome! Would you be interested in selling me a few arrows? :P

haha ait.



I made a flandre one just now, I can try to see if suika would turn out ok

wildfireskunk 08-28-2012 07:07 PM

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Originally Posted by Frank Munoz (Post 3756984)
And an arcanine sprite? So i can pee myself in pleasure?

Hold your pee a while longer. Arcanine is partly done, but I'm waiting on a delivery of black beads as all my local shops are sold out :(

kommisar 09-2-2012 01:38 PM

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dem mimigas


wildfireskunk 09-8-2012 06:57 PM

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Wahay, girlfriend came to visit and bought 12,000 black hama beads for me XD

Then I went to make umbreon and found out his sprites are mostly varying shades of grey... And I only have 1. And black. So I had to make the best I could out of that! And obviously the big one is the shiny sprite. If you like the pose Kommi, I have a higher res picture :)

VisD 09-9-2012 12:12 AM

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ffffffffff what

I wish I could find a good place locally to buy these beads, haha. They look fun but so far if I dont shop online there's really only one place in the country Ive heard of that sells them...and at cutthroat prices. Meh.

Trogdor!!!! 09-9-2012 01:37 AM

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Originally Posted by VisD (Post 3764759)
ffffffffff what

I wish I could find a good place locally to buy these beads, haha. They look fun but so far if I dont shop online there's really only one place in the country Ive heard of that sells them...and at cutthroat prices. Meh.

I have basically this same problem except I can't even find a place or area anywhere locally that even looks like they would sell any so I have to buy all of my beads online.

wildfireskunk 09-9-2012 05:01 AM

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As a result, I've bought most of my bits online too! Almost all of my boards, all of my black and white hama beads, and some of the more obscure colours have come from ebay or amazon. I recommend buying online if you want to start :)

DarknessXoXLight 09-9-2012 05:21 AM

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Awh! I used to make these when I was little! I miss it. D:

edit: looked through all the pages, these are awesome!!! welp, prob gonna go to the local craft store tomorrow...

kommisar 09-9-2012 09:27 AM

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if you live in canada, rip shipping prices.


if you live in america, **** you


I'm getting my 9 clear boards sometime this week. <3 umbreon

kommisar 09-12-2012 11:00 AM

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so much labor for finding colors ugh. also getting the black outline inside was a nightmare

wildfireskunk 09-13-2012 08:11 AM

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Nice work Kommi! Yeah, getting colours sucks sometimes. Although you can sometimes make the best of a bad situation by cutting some of the different required shades.

Looking forward to seeing that finished :)

kommisar 09-13-2012 11:11 AM

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it melted and ****ed up haha


any tips on fusing large perlers?



top right of her hair completely melted because I was trying to fuse her eye which wouldn't fuse for the love of ****. also hole in the middle of her stomach looool. I can super glue it later though




thinking of covering it up with a flower of some sort, like hair flower or something. any suggestions?

kommisar 10-18-2012 09:17 PM

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bumpin. Rozalin from Disgaea



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