Dragon Tapestry

[I Scream Clone]

Hi Eurobrickers,

Here is my 1st ever tapestry, constructed for the classic castle competition. I used up all my 1 x 1s fairly quick building this behemoth. If I only were to use 1 x1s on a 48² it would take 2304, which most would struggle to own, fortunately there was a fair bit of black background

I will post a small pic as well as the larger size, which you may want to view from the other side of the room.

You can find an even larger copy here at my Flickr

Cheers, now I promise to finish my EBCCB Barracks next.

[Dragonator]

Wow, it's amazing, it's fantastic, and I absolutely love it to bits!! Man you've got me all excited.That must be one of the coolest tapestries I've ever seen, and not just because it's of a dragon.

It's cool how you can see all the details in it, from the forked tongue to the fangs and the spins on the back of the head. Truly outstanding work, I think we might have a winner! I was considering quickly building something for this category, but I think I'll focus on my siege entry, because you've got this one made!

I just can't get over how cool it is to see a dragon tapestry! Thank you so much, I'm honoured to know you. Oh the emotion is getting to me.

So how did you come up with the design? Did you use a computer to render it first from an original picture, or did you make it up completely? If so did you have a plan all drawn up, or did you just shape it as you built? Whatever you did, the end result is terrific, and has certainly impressed this dragon lover!

[I Scream Clone]

Wow, it's amazing, it's fantastic, and I absolutely love it to bits!! Man you've got me all excited.That must be one of the coolest tapestries I've ever seen, and not just because it's of a dragon.

It's cool how you can see all the details in it, from the forked tongue to the fangs and the spins on the back of the head. Truly outstanding work, I think we might have a winner! I was considering quickly building something for this category, but I think I'll focus on my siege entry, because you've got this one made!

I just can't get over how cool it is to see a dragon tapestry! Thank you so much, I'm honoured to know you. Oh the emotion is getting to me.

So how did you come up with the design? Did you use a computer to render it first from an original picture, or did you make it up completely? If so did you have a plan all drawn up, or did you just shape it as you built? Whatever you did, the end result is terrific, and has certainly impressed this dragon lover!

Hey mate, thanks for the lovely words. Spoken like a true Dragon afficionado Basically, I was mucking around with another design based on a minifigure, then discovered a cool dragon picture whilst surfing the net. Saved the pic and shrunk it down to 64 x 64. I decided to build the largest part first to see if I had enough bricks. As it turns out 48² was the limit for small black bricks. I still had enough of the others, but didn't feel the need to BL black bricks so close to chrissy and the deadline. Besides, I was happy with how it looked so decided it was done.

I then loaded the shrunken picture into Paint.net and enlarged it 1200%, this allows you to see each pixel. From here, I had more than four shades of grey, but I averaged it out in my head (as I wasn't savvy enough to find a way to narrow the grey scale to only 4) Averaging it out in my head took a lot of time as I often got lost in the pattern. It was always nice to take a step back and check it out from a distance

Hope that answers your questions.

[NewRight]

This is the only tapestry entry I have noticed and it looks great. Will be hard to beat for anyone else entering.

[JimBee]

Truly fantastic. It's really detailed, and I can see the dragon perfectly. I agree with what Dragonator said, that this is a wonderful entry, and you should blow away the competition.

[I Scream Clone]

This is the only tapestry entry I have noticed and it looks great. Will be hard to beat for anyone else entering.

Truly fantastic. It's really detailed, and I can see the dragon perfectly. I agree with what Dragonator said, that this is a wonderful entry, and you should blow away the competition.

Thank you both for the lovely comments, now you are both judges for CC right? Im a shoe-in woohoo!

Aliencat raised a valid concern when he mentioned that this is more of a mosiac than a tapestry, thoughts? Anyway im happy with the complete product and any attempt to put a fancy border around it to give it a more tapestry feel will just look tacked on

[Erdbeereis]

Beautiful work ISC!

It looks so realistic, and the image itself is very majestic. I think it looks fine in regards to the mosaic look, I don't think that's a big deal.

Nice job!

[kill will]

_{Angry dragon will eat you...}

Very nice! You made it look great in B&W, I wonder how it would look in color? Good luck in the contest!

Edited December 16, 2008 by kill will

[mania3]

Wow, this is a really great example of mosaic work. I'm impressed! Great entry.

[Sir Dillon]

A seriously impressive mosaic! You've done a good job conveying the depth perception, and the use of negative space works very nicely here.

I do have to agree that it does not look much like a medieval tapestry though. At this point however, you might be better off creating a new one, because I think trying to add more to this would look, as you said, tacked on.

[Guss]

that's a very cool mosaic, I'm not a fan of mosaics but that's still cool^^

[I Scream Clone]

Thanks for the nice comments guys I feel I don't have enough time to do a new Tapestry entry justice with only a fortnight to go till the comp is over, and im immersed in EBCCB, so if the judges don't like it on CC thats cool with me.