All these different colours!

I began this hobby with just ten differen colour. The ones that come in Ikea's Pyssla box.

Not much to go on, eh?

Soon after I bought all available colours from local arts and crafts store. That was about ten colours more. Their brand was Hama and now I had about twenty different colours. A mix of Pyssla and Hama. Twenty sounds plenty, right? At first I thought so, but after a while I knew that it wasn't nearly enough. I had all the basic colours. I even had two different shades of some colours. But at some departments I was lacking. For example I had only one shade of red. What if some sprite needed red and dark red? Just use red for both? Well, in addition to red I had also pink, but you really can't use that as a substitute for red.

Clearly it was time to do some acquisitions! Quick googling told me that there was two brands of beads that were more popular than the rest: Hama and Perler. Since Perler was mainly American brand and not easily available on Europe I decided to concentrate on Hama. I did some research on what colours would be sensible choices to buy, but in the end I ended up ordering pretty much every colour Hama has except the fluorescent, glitter and translucent. I used Hama's website for my purchase because it seemed most convenient. And cheapest.

Hama's colour palette

I did end up owning some translucent beads because I ordered some of those boxes that has almost every colour. With all the Hama's colours I was contend... for a while. I did some awesome (in my opinion at least =D) Super Mario Bros. sprites...

...and Chrono Trigger sprites.

 

I still wasn't happy with my colour selection. Especially Magus' face was unsuccessful and could have used more variety. Some of it's failure was due to my inexperience, I'm sure. I could have used colours more wisely, but anyhow I wanted more colours. I did some more googling and found Nabbi and Photo Pearls. Photo Pearls were quite easily available and the cost wasn't too bad either. Maybe I went a bit overboard, but I ordered all the colours they had. Except gray, yellow and purple which I judged were so close to the ones I already had that I wouldn't need them.

So here's my colour collection so far. Longing for some Perler colours though...