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

Magic the Gathering coasters part II

For the same friend I made Magic coasters before (http://beadssional.blogspot.fi/2015/12/magic-gathering-coasters.html), I now made one colorless mana coaster. As the Wastes was introduced as a new type of land, my friend asked if I could make a coaster of it too. I took my sweet time making it but here it now is:

Now the set is complete. Wonder what I should make next...

Dark Souls - Chosen Undead

Finally finished the current project. Well actually I finished it a couple of days ago, but because I was busy with moving and some other stuff, I only now got around to make a post about it. Here is the chosen undead from Dark Souls:

Dark Souls is one of my favourite games of all time and I wanted to make something linked to the game. Some parts of the chosen undead turned out great, but others not so much. Especially the left knee just wouldn't work out as I wanted it to (I had about two dozen different versions of it). On the other hand I think that the top half turned out pretty great. I let you be the judge of how well it turned out. Below are the original image, scaled down image and my version beside each other.

Current project

Thought that I should take a pic of my current project before I manage to mess it up. About 5000 beads in it so far. I think that the figure needs some modification but overall I'm quite happy with it. Can you say what it is supposed to be?