Category Archives: Mosaics

Spearmint

Posted on April 7, 2011 by 8bitliving

Now that I’ve set up “Double Wide”, I need to put it to good use.  Because I don’t have enough pieces of any one color to serve as a Sprite background, I decided to try something more “decorative.”  I did … Continue reading →

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Megaman

Posted on March 29, 2011 by 8bitliving

My favorite so far… I have since fixed the eyes based on some feedback from the experts. It took about 45 minutes to convert from Mario to Megaman. I took one picture midway through the transformation.

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Zelda’s Link

Posted on March 28, 2011 by 8bitliving

Everyone’s favorite elf.  It turned out great! Based from an image I found here.

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Mario-Redux

Posted on March 27, 2011 by 8bitliving

Finally got the colors right!  I recreated Mario on the new Metal base boards

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Space Invaders

Posted on March 22, 2011 by 8bitliving

I’ll spare the details, but I made another trip to Home Depot,  got some more paint samples and painted some a few new batches of squares.  Because the first Mario’s colors were kind of weird, I wanted to change it … Continue reading →

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First Incarnation of Mario

Posted on March 20, 2011 by 8bitliving

Now that I have a decent stock of colored tiles, I started work on my first 4×4′ 8-bit sprite.  I always planned to use the original Mario for my first legit piece.  I found a good reference image on DeviantArt … Continue reading →

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