Dragon race - sand sculpture
In the world of sand sculpture there are two types of people those who don't like making sand castles and those with an anally retentive ungodly fetish for making straight lines and tinny weeny windows. Thankfully for my own sanity I fit into the first category.
I have very rarely made a sand castle an have on very few occasions been asked to attempt one. but when I have I feel like I am in a constant fight with the material and what ever I can achieve is sub-par to what the perverts in category two can do.Their patience and attention to detail is breath taking and to see what they can do in this genre makes me feel inadequate.
It's a crazy world
I present you now with one of my 'rare' attempts. Made in the seaside village of Tossens, Germany along with my old and equally as crazy friends @stijgerart and Edith Van Der Wetering.
Our sculpture was to be the Demo pile on this project themed on Dragons. After some chatting we thought it would be cool to make a dragon race like it was some sort of sport practiced in a fictional land. Of course having a big pointy compaction of sand didn't lend itself well to many designs so we had to think outside the box.
What if we were to create a landscape based on the movie Inception? A movie that didn't exist at the time. We could carve all the surface like it was a planet and have the dragons racing around it. This would give the viewer a birds eye view of all the action and create a perspective never seen before in sand sculpture.
Bending the landscape to match the surface of the block of sand led us to having the top of the sculpture be viewed from above and as we worked down to the ground the viewer would see it from the side. This is all a very difficult thing to explain in words so hopefully you can get what I mean by looking at the images.
Top down the finest castle
My castle was from a top down view but carved sideways, a bit of a mind melt to achieve to make sure it had enough support to stop it sliding down the mountain. I had a brain wave to have one of the dragons flying on by and with the trail he left behind I could use to hold the castle up. You can see where he just clipped the castle tower as he flew by. (All my posts have click-able images so you can see them in their original high-def vista-vision glory)
The dragons themselves where quite small so that they would fit in with the landscape and they were beginning their race from a large amphitheatre made by Edith and Wilfred on the other-side. Edith got it into her head to fill the stadium with people and spent days in her little cave.
The whole piece worked out quite nicely and had a certain mind F%*Kedness about it. Wilfred did a very nice job carving this canyon. For me making the castle only reinforced my dislike of making straight lines and windows. I did think it looked cool, especially the way it sloped down into the town that surrounded it but, as you can probably tell if you have been following my other posts organic carving is more my thing.
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Those are brilliant! I do like that they're not square blocks. My sandcastles always end up being one pail of sand, then washed away.
Hi @wwwiebe. Thanks for your visit. Architecture is really not my thing but making it from this strange perspective helped make it interesting for me.
I recently found out that the upvotes I give to comments are burned to dust and so they are pointless for me to give. I want to try and find a new way to reward people who engage with my posts but for now I am sorry about my low upvote.
Yeah, my vote is pretty useless on comments too, so I only vote on the original posts now. I'm trying harder to engage with comments at least.
Love this! The detail is quite amazing, there's just so much to look at. Brilliant!
Thanks Deirdy. I really enjoy getting into the details of a piece altough Most of the time I am the only one who sees them and that is why I think a sculpture needs to read from a distance as well as up close. Revealing different layers of interest as you get closer. With this sculpture it was more of a challenge but the big forms from Edith and Wilfred gave it some nice distance viewing.
I recently found out that the upvotes I give to comments are burned to dust and so they are pointless for me to give. I want to try and find a new way to reward people who engage with my posts but for now I am sorry about my low upvote.
I was a bit concerned about that myself when my own vote went to dust immediately after HF21 and I was considering giving commenters a vote on their last post instead. It seems a fair number of people subscribe to dustsweeper or dustbunny, so I've done the same!
Thanks for that Tip. I will check into that.
Ahhhhh munty perspective, good job XD
I sympathise, I did a piece with munty perspective and it was headaches all the way down and it was only 2d XD
It looks awesome. You should do more sandcastles ;D [runs away very fast]
I have never heard of Munty perspective before, is that something you coined? if so I like it and I will be using it in the future.
You better keep running, I avoid making castles like the plague.
I recently found out that the upvotes I give to comments are burned to dust and so they are pointless for me to give. I want to try and find a new way to reward people who engage with my posts but for now I am sorry about my low upvote.
I don't know if I coined it or not, that's just what I started calling it in my piece because it was munted and not at all nice like Escher XD
I like all upvotes equally so don't sweat the amount. If you'd rather save the vp to put on posts that's fine too, I'm going to comment regardless.
i love it :D it has a lovely narrative feel to this one! very cool sculpt, Daniel <3
love the ideas you're playing with, with the dragon race theme, so much ! :D for a sand castle build, i think you kind of rejuvenated the topic (for me!) :D
Thanks. I really had to try and make it interesting for myself by making it sideways. Sand castles and architecture are really not my thing.
I recently found out that the upvotes I give to comments are burned to dust and so they are pointless for me to give. I want to try and find a new way to reward people who engage with my posts but for now I am sorry about my low upvote.
Daniel! Dont worry about upvoting my comments <3 You are so sweet :)
Recently, I signed up to 3speak and I have to upload videos but they upvote some of the comments with at least 30 cents' worth of upvotes for people to engage with my contents posted through there. So, that might be something you'd want to look into?
They charge monthly fee of about 20 Steems though, so it is NOT free.
I totally understand wanting to reward people who engage with our posts, but I think this is very difficult to do at our smaller upvote power ...
Anyway, love your contents, your talents. Keep on being awesome, Daniel <3
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