Final Fantasy Brave Exvius: Vivi

Long time no bead. See what I did there. See! (Sorry for the bad jokes. I really shouldn't try to write this tired.) But in all seriousness, I haven't done any bead sprites in a long time. Partly the reason is my new job (Now it's holidays. Yay!). In addition I also started a new hobby which takes a surprisingly lot of time. When ever I've had a few minutes free time, I've played Final Fantasy Brave Exvius. A good game with a nice nostalgic touch. And it has awesome sprites from many Final Fantasy games. Below is one of my favourites: Vivi.

Ironing wasn't the greatest success. It never really is with Hama beads. They melt kind of ugly and faster than the other brands and usually won't close. I'm growing kind of annoyed with them and probably would replace them with Artkal beads if Artkal were easier and cheaper to acquire. At least farther off Vivi looks nice. It's definitely my new favourite.

Pokemon magnets from the original games

Pokemon Go being all the rage nowadays, I thought to revisit the original games and make some magnets. Here is Prof. Oak, Pikachu and a pokeball.

Photo Pearls Light grey (10) worked nicely with Hama Grey (17) and black.

Dota hero icons: Razor

Added a new hero icon to the wall. This time I made Razor. It looked like one of the easiest to make while I was choosing the next hero and that turned out to be true. The colours were quite straight forward, just shades of blue and black. Here it is with the others:

Mewtwo

Just a casual Mewtwo:

The colours used are:

Hama: Light grey (70), Dark grey (71), Grey (17) and Pastel purple (45).

Photo Pearls: White, Black, Light grey (10), Purple (11)  and Lavender (24).

Artkal: Purple (S22)

 Sprite is from spriters-resource.com and the game is Fire Red/Leaf Green.

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.