#beryll

Not only did I have to use my laptop's trackpad the entire time, but the /fill command mostly worked for just the bell beast's head because when I designed the art, I used the dithering brush way too much, so there was a lot of switching blocks.

Minecraft maps are 128*128 pixels. At their smallest size, each block equals a pixel. That is 16,384 blocks. Since I made a base that I then used the staircase method on top of, that's almost twice as many blocks. Yes, the staircase method was necessary to get the right colors. I don't think it's unrealistic to say this might have been 30,000 blocks.

I realize that I'm really complaining about nothing in particular, and some people do lots of map art that is way better than this. I just wasn't prepared for how long it would take me. I started this on March 28th and finished on April 4th, and I estimate that it took about 24 hours.

I don't like playing video games that much, and I think the only reason I stuck to this was a sort of sunk cost fallacy thing. I'd already spent so much time on it that it really bothered me not to finish it, even if I should have worked on homework and stuff, or even other art instead. It doesn't help that making the reference art was so quick. I think I gave myself unrealistic expectations.

Anyways, here are some more pictures of my reference art, the different versions of the maps, the bats that started spawning (I did do this in Creative Peaceful mode so mobs wouldn't bother me too much) and other miscellaneous things.

Blocks I used:

For Bell Beast's body- light blue and blue terracotta, clay, and quartz

For Bell Beast and Hornet's heads- quartz blocks and mushroom stems

For Bell Beast's legs- cyan terracotta, light gray wool, dark gray wool and stone

For Hornet's cloak- red terracotta, crimson hyphae, and netherrack

For the ground- black, brown, gray and light gray terracotta

For outlines- black wool

oh, also scaffolding was useful even though it's not part of the art itself