@lyleberr . Thank for sharing your process. That is really amazing and brave! Can’t believe this was your second stained glass project. You are truly dedicated to the process of creating! I admire that. Well done well done!
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Yeah, it isnt really advised to jump into it like that but as Ive told holahart, I had to go all out and pull out all the stops to do his art justice.
I think one of my favorite parts is that I was able to keep the texture oriented correctly throughout the whole piece and that I was able to match the balloons with the eeveelutions nicely. Violet for espeon, crackle texture ice blue for glaceon, wispy dark watery blue for vaporeon, electric yellow for jolteon, bright red for flareon, plant green for leafeon, cotton candy pink with hints of white and blue for sylveon, and the smokey grey for umbreon.
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So cool to see what went into this piece. Especially the attention to detail, down to the glass color you chose for each balloon. Makes me appreciate it that much more!
Thanks again for such an amazing gift!
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Truly an amazing piece of work! I’m also very appreciative you took the time to take pictures in the middle and walk us through the process, as I very much enjoy seeing how pieces/projects are created and put together (and sometimes, you can find inspiration from other crafts and apply them elsewhere!). The picture with the finished copper outlining/foiling is itself very visually pleasing 
As everyone said, it’s crazy that it’s just your second stained glass piece and that you could accomplish it on such a timeline. And the matching glass colors in the balloons for the eeveelutions is also great attention to detail (that Slyveon match is perfect, and I’m surprised there was such a glass pattern that existed!).
I really can’t get over how great the end product looks and the amount of effort (and apparently money, for the glass) it took. The hyping up was well deserved!
What do you actually use to cut the glass? Do you just score it and then it breaks somewhat nicely along the score… with some tool? The picture with the sky background with the contact paper looked super stressful 
I thought you would’ve spread out the pieces a bit more to give yourself more wiggle room (but I guess you’d lose the bigger picture of the shape?—but all the pieces are numbered anyway)
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Thank you for the kind words and feedback @bbobrob!
Surprisingly it seems glass is made in every pattern you can imagine but you have to be able to see it from larger sheets. As far as money, ive learned that due to the amount of effort and generally significant material cost stained glass works are usully priced in the range of $5-10/piece depending on complexity. Given that, it was definitely more cost effective for me to learn how to do it myself, lol. Of course I can see where the cost comes from now but I also doubt I could reasonably ask that unless i really didnt like the piece, but then i probably just wouldnt do it. As you know it can be an awesome experience to think of your creations be appreciated in someone elses home.
Glass cutting is definitely a misnomer because it is exactly as you said, breaking the glass along score lines. A glass scorer is actually one of the cheapest parts that can be found in most home improvement stores but it takes a lot of careful gentle tapping and pressure, with the help of some specialized pliers, to get it to break mostly where you want.
The sky glass was interesting because i did have to move a couple pieces so I could get a couple cut lines through safely and I really had to plan the order of cuts to give myself new edges to cut from since glass cant make sharp turns in the middle of a cut, its straightish lines end to end or a gentle curve with maximum of around a 60° arc. I really wanted the textures and pattern of the glass to flow well and in person it shows much more than photos.
It was a really fun craft for me and has been the most personally rewarding so far. Im generally uncompromising with my vision for a craft so to get it to be realized so completely from original concept has been wonderful, even though glass is something that has pretty strict guidelines of what it can tolerate, it was cool that I could bend those ideas as long as I was careful.
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Simply incredible!
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Dude that’s beautiful and a wild creation process. Not sure if your genius or crazy. Likely both. Thanks for sharing!
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There is a certain madness that goes hand in hand with making art or crafts. Mine just has a bit more unfounded confidence that ideas can be made to work out. I mean the worst thatll happen is some money is lost and some time is wasted but the journey itself wasnt a waste in my eyes.
Im now struggling on patiently waiting for the signature exchange to be revealed. Something new will also come from that.
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It’s like an almost free, educational self discovery retreat 
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Simply amazing
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Insane work and super thoughtful! Thanks for walking us through another one of your masterpieces 
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Such amazing work! Maybe you could do one inspired by the stained glass Moltres/Zapdos/Articuno ETB promo? Either way, simply amazing 
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Thanks for the suggestion! I actually visited that card art this past year for the E4 Art Contest and hand drew it without text as lineart for a color by number. After learning stained glass I found that it would be a Mosaic style and the glass would be held together with a mortar instead of solder. I currently dont know much about that specific process but who knows what the future will bring (and once I build up more small glass cutoffs).
Here is the lineart I submitted.
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I always end up doing this, i see a long post that i want to read peacefully and then it takes a week and i’m late to party 
but very glad to see what was teased earlier, your dedication to things like this is both exciting and enviable, i have to have massive appreciation for everyone with with this patience level 
it really feels like someone is directly teaching me how to do it with a post filled with this amount of details. Also i had way too much fun finding the two pieces that made the total piece count go from 96 to 98!
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The party never stops in this topic, it’ll come alive again whenever the signature exchange is completing and you’ll see more oddly unique things 
. Im glad all the photos werent annoying and were helpful to see and understand the process, I figured if Im going to work out a way to do it then I may as well put the information out there in case someone else wants to do it (or learn what not to do).
That was not supposed to be a challenge , but I had no desire to waste glass recutting when I didnt need to and I was already very far into it when a piece broke while dremeling. For me it gives it a type of authentic rustic artistic proof that it was handmade.
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I’m clearly too deep in find the differences in these pics -game
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Was just browsing the E4 art contest hall of fame and saw @lyleberr’s awesome quilling creation in a past contest (I was just lurking at that time, but I remember it!). I’ve dabbled a bit with quilling also and would do more, but, as always, am limited on time. Here’s my first pokemon quilling creation (out of only two total).
I chose the colors I did because I only had a starter quilling kit, and they didn’t have shades of gray, so I improvised
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This is amazing! I knew very little about quilling and now I’m interested to see what you create next.
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I really like the colors you chose, the way the gaps in the swirls in the lower body space out makes it look like stars in space. It has a very cosmic feel to me.
Ive been wanting to do some more quilling but it can be very time consuming so I understand why youve only done two.
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