This is the art piece that Black Thread will be submitting to the auction at AnimeFEST this year! It'll be a first for me, so I'm hoping everything goes well

This is Snake from the Metal Gear series, in all his raspy voiced glory.
This was around 15 hours (possibly more since the ironing was spread out over a week) and exactly 16,100 beads. Very much a collaborative effort between my honey and I. Lots of curse words were said, many beads were lost on the floor, and I'm pretty sure I went cross-eyed for a couple of minutes... but we finally have a completed piece!
Are those medium or huge beads? And I suppose you ironed it when it was all complete in the pegboards,right? I'm scared of ironing something so big :/ How did you do that?
the size is the medium, i guess? whatever the "normal" size is that you see at hobby lobby/walmart.
it was ironed in sections, and then the sections were ironed together