For the last year and a bit I've been working with fuse beads to create various pieces of art. I started with just the Perler brand of beads, but half way through my first year I then learned about a newer brand called Artkal. Between the two of them, I have 115 colors to choose from! That makes for a pretty good selection when making sprites, that's for sure.
I have to say though, I've come pretty far along in just a years time. The very first thing I made with the beads was a set of Eeveelutions for my best friend, and I recently remade them with my new sets of beads. When I made them the first time I was limited to Perler's colors alone.
Here's a look at my first set of Eeveelutions (Please forgive me for the lame watermark-type-deal on the photo. It was taken long before I started using my cards for watermarking.)
They look pretty good! But with the new set of colors and my better ironing skills, I knew I could do better. So here are the new versions.
I am very happy with how they've turned out and how far I've really come with the bead stuff. It may not look like much, but I know the consistency of my ironing is much better now. That, and I also place beads almost twice as fast as I used to.
Another example of my beginning work would be the Halo Spartan I made for a woman I worked with. This was my second piece and as the saying goes, "Go big or go home."
Not too shabby for my 2nd ironing job, I think. I've always used the taping method (Which I learned from this video here.), but I adapted it to my own tastes. I actually made my own videos, but they are long and I couldn't get the audio right, so they are kinda annoying cause you have to read everything... I'll redo them some day. Anyway. I did this in 2 pieces and actually spliced them together before ironing. I bet you can hardly tell where they were joined eh? I did the same with Master Chief below, but he was in 3 parts.
I feel like it's worth mentioning here, if you watch that video on the taping method, one of the things I do differently is I don't punch holes in every single bead. I guess I was lazy the first time I did it, and I've never had any issues. I think that is because I don't do a full melt. So if you wanna try it with out the holes, I know some people swear you'll ruin your work, you probably can. But don't blame me if something goes wrong! Just because I've never had an issue doesn't mean your ironing style wont have issues.
I think that is a fairly nice introduction to my new blog. I hope to make regular posts here, and maybe I can get a tutorial together that doesn't suck for my version of the taping method!
Until next time, see you around folks!
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