Perler Bead Mixed Media

A little bit ago I decided that I needed to start doing something with my Perler beads designs besides gluing them to my door or sticking them in a box. No, I wasn't gonna sell them. I usually give them to folks when they ask for one...usually. Some are going nowhere. I took the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and a bunch of action scenes from old comic books that sucked and glued them to a poster board. It came out very colorful.

Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles Perler Beads

I found this pattern for these a long while ago. They are from the NES version of the game that was damn near impossible to play and finish. I made a Raph one a while back and gave it to a co-worker so today decided to make all of them. The design I found didn't have the weapons so I added them. These took about 15 minutes each to make.

1Up Perler Bead

These took about 7 minutes each. Very easy and very fun to make.

Beads For The Week

I made a few simple Perler Bead patterns this week. I love the Double Dragon ones since they are so easy but, damn, they use a lot of black beads! Why don't stores carry more black? It is the hardest color to find!

Donkey Kong

Hyrule shield from Zelda

Some Video Game Perler Beads

Its been hard to find some of the designs I've wanted to do. Instead of Perler Beads I've been searching for patterns for games made from stitching instead of beads. I'm looking for some Altered Beast ones and found one I'll be starting soon.

Billy and Jimmy Lee versus Abobo.

I Still Draw?

I forget sometimes that I draw with the other stuff I focus on. Well, my internet was out at home and I decided last week to start drawing weekly and updating old characters. This is one of the ones I've had since high school named Tabitha.

Latest Perler Beads

I have not been making as many Perler beads since it was getting out of control. I was neglecting my writing, blogging, podcasting, and art. But here are some I made over the past few weeks.

Just When I Think I'm Out...

I know I said I was gonna stop for a while making these Perler beads, but I had some extra time…meaning I finished writing all the stuff I needed to write, nothing to iron or clean, and needed to keep my hands occupied. So here’s a bunch of ones I’ve recently made.

Last Perler Beads For A While

Captain Falcon.

These are the last Perler beads that I’ll be doing for a few weeks. It got to the point where I was sitting here cranking them out one after another and not writing as much as I know I can and I cant keep running to Santa Monica to get more black beads since no place near me sells the damned things. This is a fun hobby and thanks to all the people before me that makes these from scratch and those who post pixels for me to zoom in and make designs from.

Way Too Many Perler Beads

I have been making far too many Perler Beads lately and will be slowing down…because I go back to work next week. Also, I don’t think that people make as many as I do in the short amount of time that I do. Anyhoot, here are a bunch I’ve made in the last few days.

So Many Perler Beads

For the past few weeks I have been making a lot of Perler Bead designs. From getting images offline of other designs, zooming in on video game pixels which is ridiculously hard, and even looking at sprites that are made of just lines and counting them out in bead form. This is still a super fun hobby to do and I have a lot more to continue making for others and myself.

Come On With The Perler Beads!

This weekend I finally got my black Perler Beads and got to working on some new stuff. I started off with three different version of Chun Li from Street Fighter before I got this one down. I made so many mistakes and ended up changing a color that was used to something lighter. This one came out so huge! I'm working on a Sagat one that will probably take another four hours.

Will Dante Stop Making Perler Beads?

Decided to add to my Zelda Perler Beads. I did a Princess Zelda along with some of the keys used and a heart. These are some fun little things to make.

I also made the Raccoon Mario because I loved using it in the game.

Dante Makes More Perler Beads

This weekend I worked on a few more Perler Bead patterns. I get most of the images from offline and try my best to mock them. Most times I don't have the right amount of certain colors or just straight up don't have them at all and work with what I have. Like with these designs I didn't have black beads (yes, still) so I used a dark gray. Up first is Gilian Thunderhead from the old Golden Axe game. I used a bit more heat on this one to make it smoother. I also had to do it in two parts since my grid I use to place the beads on is warped.

Next is Naruto. I love this one. His hair was ridiculous to do so I changed it up some. The people that create these originally are amazing and hopefully soon I'll be making my own original designs.  

Dante Making Perler Beads

A couple of weeks ago I got addicted to making Perler Beads. These things are too damn fun to make. Oh, and also aggravating if you mess up. I started off making really simple designs and quickly tried making ridiculously difficult ones that require a super steady hand. So far my favorite to create have been video game characters. They are simpler and easy to find images of online. Just Google what you‘re looking for and hopefully someone else has already created it or something close to what you want.

Feeling bold I made one for The Munky. It’s the creature from Alien and was so damned hard to do! Look at that damned tail. I messed it up a few times ironing it and had to let it cool off and attempt to get everything in order all over again. I’m happy with how it came out but wish I had more beads to make the tail even longer.

One of my favorite ones I’ve done so far is Batman. This one was really hard and based on the Batman & Robin video game. I ended up using almost all of my black beads doing this. I haven’t figured out where I‘m gonna put him but it’ll be somewhere over my bed probably.