WIP: Portrait
Printed From: Pixel Joint
Category: Pixel Art
Forum Name: WIP (Work In Progress)
Forum Discription: Get crits and comments on your pixel WIPs and other art too!
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Printed Date: 22 February 2026 at 9:54pm
Topic: WIP: Portrait
Posted By: Hapiel
Subject: WIP: Portrait
Date Posted: 23 March 2009 at 10:56am
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Yes I know, I have too many projects at the moment. But don't worry, I can handle it, I might even make a (worthy) weekly challenge entry. Anyway, I do not need your critique on this thing so much. Id prefer your support much more. What I am going to do? Ill keep it a mystery for as long as possible. For your pleasure  The first one who Guesses what I am going to do gets a cookie :) Anyway lets continue to the artwork  Do not bother to discuss the choice of colors. I wont change them anyway :) My restrictions: 38x38 3 colors (these 3) Max 635 pixels of the darkest shade Max 455 pixels of the middle shade Max 368 pixel of the lightest shade. Currently I use 634 dark, 455 mid, 355 light. All your comments are welcome, but please keep in mind that I might not be able to modify everything because of these restrictions. I need your support to finish this. In return ill keep posting updates :) MrLollige |
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Posted By: Damian
Date Posted: 24 March 2009 at 1:19pm
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To be honest your almost finished! there are a few problems that you should take in to mind though. But since you don't want to hear them I'll tell you them anyway.
Contrast...there hardly is any! facial anatomy, the the nose should be round about in line with the bottom of the ear. the mouth should be smack bang in the middle of the nose and the chin. I made an edit and your probably going to hate me for it. But it seems that words won't help when you've made up your mind. So here I took your pixel baby to pieces and due to a few minor edits I got this: 
Not much done and the ear on the left can be fixed. Go finish this now. ------------- |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 25 March 2009 at 9:12am
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Of course I won't hate you for it! Actually, I even really like the raised nose :) For the record: Your piece did contain however 2 light pixels too much ;) To be honest your almost finished! Ha, I have just started ;) Contrast...there hardly is any!
As I said, I can not change my palette :). Yes, the contrast will be a problem later on. Anyway, due to a little material problem my progress is delayed. (yes, materials for pixel art o/O) Most of what I am going to use now is here, with exception of the canvas xD But because I have bought quite a lot of stuff already there is no way back. So I will finish this, no matter how long it takes. Wondering already what I am up to? I might post some pictures tonight, because I am planning to start on cleaning my pixels :) New image:  ------------- |
Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 25 March 2009 at 9:50am
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The ear still seems to be off - it seems too low on the head until I zoom in; I think the shadow on the cheek is blending in too much with it. I really like the palette restriction though, it's really working. ------------- "The Earth starts to rumble, world powers fall. A 'warring for the heavens, a peaceful man stands tall...." - Mustaine. ©1992 Screen Gems/EMI |
Posted By: Damian
Date Posted: 25 March 2009 at 1:58pm
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I agree, small pallets are like a fetish to me...almost like bondage.
But I still don't like the choice of colours. Contrast... Now where's this picture you making with materials. I presume paper block cuttings on a canvas are going to appear some time? Also you say you've only started? so is it going to be like a huge project with loads of pieces with this colour pallet stuck on to a piece of canvas or what's going on? Here, fixed the ear kinda 
You should really know your facial anatomy! ------------- |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 25 March 2009 at 3:01pm
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Yes yes, there is quite a lot of things I should ;). Im going to college next year, I am quite sure things like this will improve quickly there :) Anyway, as I said: The first who guesses gets a cookie. But, if I would be cutting paper blocks, than why would I have the weird restrictions on the amount of pixels in a specific color? :) Paper would not need to get cleaned as well :). I was not able to do as I told I might would tonight, but I will tomorrow for sure, and most likely even more. Picture worthy stuff ------------- |
Posted By: Damian
Date Posted: 25 March 2009 at 11:15pm
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I'm going to college too. But I can't do art there as I didn't do it as a GCSE. Looks like I'll be teaching myself for life XD
Well, Sounds fun. Restrictions and cleaning? Looking forward to see. ------------- |
Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 1:50am
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I think you just found your old box of ministeck and there were so much blocks of each color in it. Am I right? Get cookie? Me wants! But congrats on getting to college next year! (Thought you were a lot older though  )------------- Without me, it's just aweso |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 5:31am
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No, ministeck would not be original enough for me ;). Also, there are more than 3 colors on that right? However, it is true that my number of pixels limit is because I have so many things of that color. well color... Actually, all my pixels have the same color xD I thought you were younger :p Anyway, I tried to clean my dark pixels, but that did not had the amount of effect I wanted. It did deliver me some nice pictures. But posting those would remove all mysteries ;) I am not sure yet if I am going to clean my lighter pixels too. All the stuff I am going to use:  Hehe, hard to see what it is right? I actually started measuring things too. Might start pasting today even. Ill keep you updated!  ------------- |
Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 5:54am
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Are you making a piece of mosaic? That is awesome!
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 6:23am
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Mosaic would not be very original too. Of course, dithering in mosaic is new, but there are a thousand of mosaic artists doing this much better than I ever can do xD Anyway, I really got myself in to something that takes a lot of time. The progress consists of 2 things: Preparing pixels Placing pixels I have just started on preparing pixels.. I can prepare a full row of 38 pixels in about 6 minutes if I do it very quickly. That means I will spend at least 4 hours on preparing pixels. Now I believe that placing pixels will take about 1.5 times as long.. so that makes.. 10 hours of working. Oh that sounds doable. But when I am actually working, it goes soo slow xD 10 hours of working on a 38x38 piece. I will get patient for sure :). But placing pixels is much easier than preparing pixels. So as soon as preparing is ready, I can just place a few pixels whenever I get home or so, and I don't have to sit down for at least 10 minutes. My feet, together with my work  Zoomed in on my work, you can see the pixel preparation :)  Ill give a tiny hint: Whatever happens to this project, the result will be valuable. ------------- |
Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 6:26am
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So you're using double sided tape to stick stuff on it which would be valuable... valuables? Like bronze, silver and gold (hence the three colors)?
------------- Without me, it's just aweso |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 6:37am
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You are getting closer Actually, all my pixels have the same color xD Take in mind that everything I say is a hint ;) The squares you see are photo stickers. Which actually are precut pieces of double sided tape yes :) ------------- |
Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 7:10am
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Are you making a picture using coins or something like that? ------------- "The Earth starts to rumble, world powers fall. A 'warring for the heavens, a peaceful man stands tall...." - Mustaine. ©1992 Screen Gems/EMI |
Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 8:02am
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Well.. I think I can see 3 cups on the first picture you've posted with what looks like 5 euro cents coins.. But I don't get the 3 color effect (or you are using 4 coins for dark areas and 1 coin for light areas) <---- note to self: that's called dithering idiot
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 26 March 2009 at 1:46pm
Ah, club beuker gets the first cookie! The first who solves the 3 color problem gets the second one :). But everything you need to know for it is already been said by me :) ------------- |
Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 27 March 2009 at 1:33am
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Ok so you're using new (shiny) coins and older (not so shiny anymore coins) and something in between?
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Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 27 March 2009 at 2:55am
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If the picture were made up of pixels that were 4 coins then you'd have a 4 coin pixel for light, 2 coins for half-tone, and no coins for dark... that's my best guess. ------------- "The Earth starts to rumble, world powers fall. A 'warring for the heavens, a peaceful man stands tall...." - Mustaine. ©1992 Screen Gems/EMI |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 27 March 2009 at 4:18am
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Both are wrong.
Last night (yes, night....) I tried a different way of cleaning my coins, and it worked extremely well. Within 15 minutes, every single coin was as good as new! Really, they shine and look like pure copper, no dull coins are left.
It really feels great to have your hand go trough all those shiny coins, but I can not get that feeling on pictures...
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Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 27 March 2009 at 4:50am
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No cookie for me... how soon until you can start making the pixels? ------------- "The Earth starts to rumble, world powers fall. A 'warring for the heavens, a peaceful man stands tall...." - Mustaine. ©1992 Screen Gems/EMI |
Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 27 March 2009 at 5:12am
Well well, we have a little Scrooge McDuck here  . But still I can't figure out the different color approach. Or are you tilting the coins in different directions?
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 27 March 2009 at 9:25am
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I just added 3 rows. that is 114 stickies placed. 1254 still to go. About my drawing it self, I am thinking of changing it. It is a nice portrait, but not too original. I was thinking that I maybe should do scrooge mcduck, or any stereotype wealthy guy. NOT THE MONA LISA, everyone does that nowadays >.< Any suggestions? (I hate taking suggestions for projects like this, but they might inspire me to the perfect idea while I than still have the feeling it was my idea :) ) Club beuker, don't think to difficult. The 'The more white the less coin' idea is quite close to what I am doing. ------------- |
Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 27 March 2009 at 9:45am
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How many coins per pixel?
Youe should do the mustache guy (Uncle Moneybags?) from the game Monopoly... that would work well. ------------- "The Earth starts to rumble, world powers fall. A 'warring for the heavens, a peaceful man stands tall...." - Mustaine. ©1992 Screen Gems/EMI |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 27 March 2009 at 1:24pm
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Yeah, thats the steriotype I had in mind. (although I did not think of the mustache, but a high hat and euro signs in his eyes.) 1 coin per pixel. EDIT: 1102 to go ------------- |
Posted By: Souly
Date Posted: 27 March 2009 at 4:54pm
 Your eyes are too high on his head. The top of his head is too small. It looks quite messy to me. You dropped right into detail and volumes without actually getting the lines right. ------------- 
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 2:45am
 I suppose I fixed most here.  A quick test for another design, which reminded me how hard it was to get the color counts right. ------------- |
Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 10:33am
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Your using depth right? 1 coin for darker areas and a 3 coin stack for darker areas.
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 28 March 2009 at 10:52am
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Whoa, that would make me need to put stickies on coins, and again: Why would I be limited in the amount of light pixels? Just think way simpler, the answer is very easy! I have just emptied box 2 of my boxes of stickies, which means I have put down at least 1000 stickies. I have done really a lot of work today! I hope to be finished tonight or tomorrow! ------------- |
Posted By: geminoid
Date Posted: 29 March 2009 at 12:57am
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i would use gum or super glue |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 29 March 2009 at 4:36am
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No second cookies are given out. Geminoid, I thought so in the beginning too, but I did not for 2 reasons: I would not be able to easily move misplaced coins With these stickers, I know exactly where to place my coins. Because I use 1 cent, 2 cent and 5 cent coins I can not place the coins directly next to each other and expect them to be at the right place. I would than have 2 options: Or just go place them and at the bottom nothing would be lined up perfectly anymore, or I could for every coin measure the exact spot. At last, the stickers are very thin, and I can not have drops of glue all around by accident.   ------------- |
Posted By: mappower
Date Posted: 29 March 2009 at 5:40am
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Looks very cool and original!!I'm looking forward to see the end result. ------------- |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 29 March 2009 at 7:54am
I just finished placing stickies, all 1444 are on my board! The artist at work:   I will start placing the coins now :D EDIT: Placing coins goes horrible. It seems I am a bit in bad luck: The coins do not always attach to the stickers. Actually, just a few of 'm do attach. This is because of the edge on the coins, even the print does not matter much. Anyway, my solution now is putting a second sticky on the first sticky. This works, but it really slows down my progress. Also I will have to buy 1000 more stickies. It takes at least 5 times as long to place a coin than a sticky. I calculated the stickies would take around 4 hours, so that means placing coins is going to take me 20 hours! omg. Any suggestions on what I could easily do to make the coins thicker in the middle? I tried glue from a stick, but that did not work. ------------- |
Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 30 March 2009 at 1:46am
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Ha! See you never said you had 1's and 2's too! I thought you only had 5's. And ewww at the nekkid feet . But hell, man that looks like a painful job you're doing there. You might want to go to a Gamma and buy some 24,563 second glue, or buy a glue gun and put a drop of that stuff underneath each coin because I don't think the coins will stay on there if you lift the board. ------------- Without me, it's just aweso |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 30 March 2009 at 3:43am
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oh yes, if they are on, there is no way you can get them of without putting your nails behind them and pulling hard :)
Indeed a painful job, and I never said I had 5's either, you did :)
My feet are nekkid because I dont want my work to get dirty. I wear too short clothes because I had used these for painting too earlier that weekend. And its yellow because.... I am yellow xD ------------- |
Posted By: Slemboll
Date Posted: 30 March 2009 at 10:56am
| this looks reeeealy cool but isnt it hard to do with coins ?? they dont come in wery many colours :P |
Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 31 March 2009 at 12:41am
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Originally posted by Slemboll this looks reeeealy cool but isnt it hard to do with coins ?? they dont come in wery many colours :P Like he said before, it's gonna be like an optical illusion using three different size coins with the same color. ------------- Without me, it's just aweso |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 31 March 2009 at 2:01am
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Indeed I am. It is hard to see the difference now, but on the camera where I had a very small image the effect was visible already! Ill just have to wait until more is finished, and than take a look at it from a distance :) I just finished the third row, for the next row ill use a stopwatch to see how long it takes. (LONG!)   ------------- |
Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 31 March 2009 at 3:22am
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Wow, you're pretty industrious... big undertaking but should be VERY cool when it's finished. Great idea. ------------- "The Earth starts to rumble, world powers fall. A 'warring for the heavens, a peaceful man stands tall...." - Mustaine. ©1992 Screen Gems/EMI |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 31 March 2009 at 7:49am
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The last line took me 24 minutes. 4 rows done now. It means that I have around 14 more hours to go.. :p ------------- |
Posted By: Peach
Date Posted: 31 March 2009 at 11:01am
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whoa lollige... congrats this is very interesting looking forward to see the finished result :) |
Posted By: Metaru
Date Posted: 31 March 2009 at 12:54pm
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you still look like a chick to me dan. D: ------------- I ate leel's babies |
Posted By: Club Beuker
Date Posted: 01 April 2009 at 1:04am
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Btw, who took the picture of you and your nekkid feet?
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 01 April 2009 at 3:55am
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My brother, I complained about not having any pictures of myself working (with nekkid feet). Yesterday someone said ewww your feet too btw. They always are nekkid. (and so they get ewwww). But the person who said that should not complain. Because of what she did with her own feet.
Anway, back on topic:
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ill make some more rows -_-
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Posted By: hsn2555
Date Posted: 01 April 2009 at 4:30am
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can't wait to see the finished result keep going |
Posted By: TMH
Date Posted: 13 April 2009 at 4:10pm
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are you still working on this?
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 13 April 2009 at 11:15pm
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Well, I wanted to work the whole weekend on this, sunday and monday mostly, but I got stuck saterday evening when I ran out of stickies. 5.5 rows done, ill be buying stickies today, but it will go slow again until over 2 weeks the weekend. Every second weekend I have time! Ill post pictures soon :) ------------- |
Posted By: Delfos
Date Posted: 14 April 2009 at 6:19am
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I've always wanted to do some pixel-kind experiment like this! Good luck man, it will look awesome! ------------- And my deviant is.. http://delfos1.deviantart.com |
Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 6:10am
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Any progress? I'm curious to see how far you've gotten. ------------- "The Earth starts to rumble, world powers fall. A 'warring for the heavens, a peaceful man stands tall...." - Mustaine. ©1992 Screen Gems/EMI |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:00am
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as I said, next weekend ill work on it again, a lot most likely, and I have 2 weeks of vacation mostly unfilled after that, so I expect it to be at least half done afterwards. Be patient :D
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Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 21 April 2009 at 7:25am
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Okay, I'll try to be patient... but it won't be easy. :) ------------- "The Earth starts to rumble, world powers fall. A 'warring for the heavens, a peaceful man stands tall...." - Mustaine. ©1992 Screen Gems/EMI |
Posted By: ellie-is
Date Posted: 22 April 2009 at 9:50am
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Originally posted by Lollige Both are wrong. Last night (yes, night....) I tried a different way of cleaning my coins, and it worked extremely well. Within 15 minutes, every single coin was as good as new! Really, they shine and look like pure copper, no dull coins are left.
It really feels great to have your hand go trough all those shiny coins, but I can not get that feeling on pictures...
I was wondering, how did you clean those coins? :P |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 22 April 2009 at 12:01pm
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vinegar + salt + water. It works magically! Really! However, the shinyness is gone within 2 days, but at least all my coins are just as bright now (and still much better than they were). But it really really works magically! ------------- |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 2:37am
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6 rows added tomorrow. That is a lot of work, quite an achievement and I can start to see the actual image! About 3 hours, but worth it. My WIP image:  ------------- |
Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 11:49am
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TTTrrriiippplllee post D: But a worthful one! At least to me :) 6 more hours were spend on this, and then my board got too heavy. The chairs I placed it on diagonally were falling down... So I can only from now on work on it if I put it on the ground. Again. :( But at least, there is a reason for it: I added a lot of coins, which made it heavier! And a LOT of coins it was! I placed 12,7 rows today. Total: 17  ------------- |
Posted By: ellie-is
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 12:27pm
| Man, thats pretty damn awesome. |
Posted By: skeddles
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 2:12pm
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Funny, I just watched http://www.collegehumor.com/video:1735163 - this a couple days ago. Keep going!
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Posted By: skooba-dude
Date Posted: 25 April 2009 at 7:02pm
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You have toooo much spare time.
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Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 25 August 2009 at 7:00am
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I've been away from PJ for a while... any updates on this? It's too cool of an idea to not finish.
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Posted By: Hapiel
Date Posted: 25 August 2009 at 7:07am
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There are still about 10 rows left, I am waiting for a rainy weekend for ages but they just don't come. Yes it will be finished, fall is coming :)
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Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 25 August 2009 at 7:15am
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Yay! I knew you'd still be at it. I guess I'll be patient and wait...
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Posted By: PixelSnader
Date Posted: 02 September 2009 at 1:41pm
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this looks funky. i'm a big fan of crossing pixel art aesthetics to other media. keep at it =) ------------- ▄▄█ ▄▄█ ▄█▄ ▄█▄ |
Posted By: lieuwe
Date Posted: 29 September 2009 at 10:33am
| still working on this? waaay tooo awesome :) you know what'd be easier tho(but not nearly as awesume) is using those beads you put on a board and then iron to fuse them together, gonna do that myself soon :p |
Posted By: vampireslug
Date Posted: 21 December 2010 at 9:35am
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...I've been away a while, any updates? ------------- "The Earth starts to rumble, world powers fall. A 'warring for the heavens, a peaceful man stands tall...." - Mustaine. ©1992 Screen Gems/EMI |