Charizard

Pokemons were big when I was a kid. I haven't been exited about them in a long while but some of them do look pretty cool. Charizard is definitely one of the coolest and it might be the coolest beadsprite I have made so far. Here's a pic of it and some pics from the making process.

Colours used are the following:

Hama: Creme (02), Red (05), Grey (17), Reddish brown (20) and Light grey (71)

Photo Pearls: Black (01), Skin (07), Yellow (14), Clear blue (17) and Light orange (29).

Nabbi: Blue (21).

At this point I run out of pegboards. I thought I had 9 of them but apparently I had only 6. So masking tape for the top, made the bottom half, joined the top and bottom together and ironed the whole thing. I probably should buy more pegboards. Making these big projects would be more simple then. I also was a bit worried that the line between the top and bottom half would be visible (luckily it wasn't).

Still plenty of space on the wall. Charizard is the biggest beadsprite I've made so far. 9 pegboards all together. Sprite is from spriters-resource.com but I don't remember which game this sprite is from.

Dota hero icons: Part 3

The Manila Major is over and OG is the winner with very solid performance. Liquid was my favourite and they had a good run too. Second place is not bad at all. Here are the last hero icons I made during the Major. From top to bottom and left to right: Axe, Lich Juggernaut, Tidehunter and Beastmaster.

Perhaps I'll make some more Dota sprites around The International. After all there is still 106 heroes left.

Dota hero icons: Lich

Lich joins the fray:

Lich turned out pretty great. And it was much nicer to make than Tidehunter. Maybe I'll make one or two Dota characters but after them it definitely is time for something else.

Dota hero icons

Juggernaut and Tidehunter minimap icons. Maybe I should make more. They look lonely.

The Making of: Juggernaut (Dota)

The Manila Major is here and to celebrate that I thought to make some Dota related beadsprites. I decided to keep it simple this time and go with a ready sprite. Hero minimap icons' size was good for what I had in mind and I made Juggernaut. Here is how it turned out:

 Easiest colour i.e. black first.

Next Photo Pearls (PP) Red (19) and Hama Dark grey (71).

PP orange (13) and Hama Pink (06). I hadn't noticed before that there was pink in Juggernaut's mask. Well of course the minimap  icon is so small that you can't really see it.First I tried PP Pink (25) but it was way too bright.

Hama Grey (17) and Light grey (70).

Another surprise was that the mask is not actually white but kind of really really light shade of green. I used PP Light grey (10) because it was the closest almost white I have. There also is some PP Light beiges (12) near the... ears or what ever those are.

Then the browns. These browns (PP 02, 03 and Hama 12) were too dark so I changed them for lighter.

The browns are PP Brown 27, Light brown20 and Cappuccino 06. I also replaced some beads with Hama Grey and Light grey (around the ear area).

Top part finished with Hama Burgundy (30), Reddish brown (20), Light brown (21) and PP Rust (05)

Finished Juggernaut on the wall waiting for company. It turned out pretty great.

Edit: Forgot the original image, but no worries here it is:

Sprite from http://dota2.gamepedia.com/Category:Hero_minimap_icons