ah, so i'll need me to buy one of these transparent perler boards, so i can copycat them much easier. hehe.
Yeah.... not exactly.
Once I capture a sprite from an emulator it's taken into Photoshop and cropped and the background is removed. Removing the BG is sometimes tricky because it can be hard to tell what's part of the sprite and what's the BG. There have been a few sprites I've started on and gave up because the BG is just too busy.
Then I recolor the sprite using a custom palette I created by taking pictures of my beads and sampling them. You can see the custom palette in the top right.
Then I enlarge the image and print it out. But the colors that I see on the screen and the colors that get printed aren't always very consistent (I'm using just regular printer paper, not expensive photo paper). So sometimes it's not always apparent which shade is which. This became a problem with Final Soldier and I had to redo a good chunk of it because I was using the wrong shade of blue.
And the printout isn't the same size as the pegboard, though I'm sure with a little tinkering I could get it to fit. But I find it more useful to have it next to me in case I have to take it back to the computer to compare colors...
But Final Soldier is done! I like how it came out. But I'm DONE with beads for the day. That one took longer than I was anticipating...
EDIT: It's no wonder more people don't make Obey bead art. There are just too many damn colors in the sprites!
Not to mention the perler peg boards are 29x29 and a lot of the sprites are 32x32, which can be done but is a pain. I've been thinking about getting a really big pegboard, but I hear they warp easily (after reading amazon reviews). Still on the fence. I have worked out some really nice, big projects (like title screens), but they would have to be done on a larger pegboard. And I'd need a larger work area.
