Toejam Pixel Hobby Art

[Cerity]

So, I was inspiried by the Sephiroth post made a while back using this pixel hobby art thing, and I wanted to make a REALLY BIG project!

But, before I invested that kind of money on it, I wanted to get my feet wet with a small project. Here is that small project!

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Front:

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Back:

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Based off of this sprite:

ToeJamRead.png (739 Bytes) Viewed 3565 times

Completed in roughly a day, although I should have spaced it out more. My fingers were a bit sore afterwards XD. Made of exactly 2000 pixels.

[Darth Knitious]

I like it! It kind of has the same feeling as a beaded cuff. How did you find working with the beads went?

[Cerity]

The beading went surprisingly fast! You line the clear plastic base plate on top of a print-out of the color directions and lay on the pieces.

The beads are easy to organize as they all come in little sheets, no perler bead sorting or bins necessary, and you can take them off one at a time as needed. My hands got sore about half way through pushing them onto the pegs, but that was just my own over-kill wanting to do it all at once. They give you as much as you need, along with a fair bit of extras, so I was able to patch up or change things from the design they gave me because I wasn't as careful when I put the picture into their program (lots of artifacts and anti-aliasing that I hadn't noticed).

My best kind of advice for doing this is having a good pair of tweezers that won't hurt your hands or gouge the beads too much... and making sure your picture fits the base plates. There is only 1 size, 50 x 40 pixels. You can have multiple and rotate them, but if your picture is something like 40x40, there will be morphing. Add in the pixels in another program before you put it into theirs, since you can't fix individual pixels in their program.

[blackmageheart]

I love this! Haven't seen Toejam in years lol...any plans for an Earl??

I was also inspired by the Pixelhobby Sephiroth post and want to try one (I even have an image ready for it) but I was having trouble finding what I needed for a reasonable price here in the UK. Maybe once this month's bills are paid...lol

Anyways, great work Cerity ^^

[loserkid5150]

Good to see Toejam, he's not always represented and it's great to see other original characters.

[howardmoon76]

Thats cool, Have you done any more pixel hobby.