Perler Bird

So these will be going on a canvas for guests to sign. They are representatives of our world of warcraft characters. That’s where we met. His is a Tauren paladin and mine is a Blood Elf warlock. The elf is slightly shorter here but the reality is my elf doesn’t stand past his waist.

The original sprite for the paladin, as well as the sprites I used as references for my elf are from latinwords.tumblr.com

So I was looking through old art to see if there was anything worth reposting here just to start off. There are a couple things, but these guys had to come first. I put so much love into these little bastards, I don’t even know why. WOW SPRITES.

Top row: Darion Mograine, Alexstrasza, Varian Wrynn, Tirion Fordring, Ahhhthuss, Sylvanas, Kael’thas, Illidan

(Player characters vvv)

Middle row: Stehl, Afterburn, … the Judgement set, because freaking all of our characters wear it at some point :|, Oliver, Chadley

Bottom row: Dizzy, Senkha, Ahlis, Nighteye, Wilhiem, Olney, Ariadine

I’ve seen a lot of cool Perler crafts made from game sprites, and I thought that could be a fun project. Since I was thinking of doing Sailor Moon murals, I wondered if maybe I could do a Perler project instead, that way I wouldn’t have to leave it behind/paint over it when I move. I thought I’d calculate how much it could cost to make a large one.

So, using this as a model:

The resulting piece would be pretty large. (The sprite is 326 pixels hight, so the Perler version would be about 54 inches tall, if my estimate is correct.)

A closeup sample of the full size:

I’m not sure how many interlocking boards I’d need, but I’m sure I’d need at LEAST two.

Interlocking boards ($5.99 x 2)

14 Perler bead colors x ($1.99) ——- $67.42

Yikes. And that’s not counting for extra colors I’ll need. (I’m sure I’ll need extra yellow and peach at least.)

I’m debating if it’s worth it… I could always go for some smaller sprites like these:

That would be about 17 inches tall and the materials would be about 30 bucks.

Or if I really want to be cheap, these are probably only around 6 bucks to make. (Here is the link if you want to buy it from Etsy!)