Beaded Snape

[tripperfunster]

Here's Snape, still on the loom.

God! Beads are so friggin' hard to photograph! I tried to take a good one of the Snarry now that it's off the loom, and it's like the camera can't deal with the details and makes it all ... liney.

Anyhoo, here they are.



Obviously I still need to stretch out my original design so that they don't end up so skinny! (not that I don't loves me a skinny Snape.)
This one is 75 beads across and 65 down.

Here's the Snarry off the loom.

Looking at it now, I wish I'd gone a shade darker on everything, but oh well, live and learn!


These are both for sale, btw. (funding a trip at the end of Nov.)
I'll send them glued and each string knotted mutltiple times to facillitate non slippage. They're pretty tough this way, but are still able to be sewn to any surface. (you can seen the knots in the Snarry one. They can also be cut a lot shorter, but I'll leave that to the buyer.)

I will also consider a bead comission. :D

Comments

[sumsumlovesyou.livejournal.com]

Those are really amazing! How long does it take to make something on that scale using that particular medium?

[tripperfunster.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

The Snarry one was 90 beads across, and took about ... 10-15 minutes per row. (assuming I didn't make any mistakes and have to go back and remove or add beads, which happened more times that I care to remember.) and was 62 rows tall. So *multiplies* around 13 hours of just beading? Add to that tweaking the design, choosing which colours of beads should go where etc, probably add another 4 or so hours? Oh, and knotting it took about an hour. Okay, now I'm depressed. :D

The second one went quicker. I was a bit better at not making mistakes, and managed to be a bit quicker with picking up the beads onto the needle. Snape was 75 beads across and 65 rows high. Probably more like 7-9 minutes per row, so 9 hours of beading?

If I got paid by the minute, I'd be rich! :D

I would hope, that as I improve, my time will get better.

[sumsumlovesyou.livejournal.com]

I hope you atleast charge a fair amount for all that time and effort put in! I tried my hand at loom beading for about... 4 minutes. I'd rather hand bead a wedding dress bodice. I don't have the patience, but I envy all those who do, because the work always turns out so beautiful.
Any plans to turn some Megamind into a beaded beauty? :D