The Beadsprites Challenge is back up and running again, and to get it off the ground again, I figured a good topic would be: “Off the ground”.

The challenge is for spriters to create an image they think embodies the phrase “off the ground”, whether it be a flying ship, a jumping character, a gliding echidna, whatever!

After I saw someone else post some balloons, I figured out what I wanted to make. It took about 4 hours total, including ironing and taking the picture.

There are 4,065 beads and this time I included clear beads… mostly because I used a ton of them… they’re around every edge and “rope”.