APR/MAY Challenge - Dragons!

[Firehawke]

Is it hard to use a rainbow loom???
Looks great!!!!

[MeiTow]

We got a cheapo version so ours doesn't come apart, unfortunately, like Rainbow Loom does. That being said, I don't think it is hard at all! It's quite fun and I love finding designs, like the dragon, on youtube and attempting to do them. My daughter sells the bracelets I make at her school and we split the money so that's cool too. The loom frustrates her because she doesn't have the attention span + patience to deal with it. lol

[starrley]

Everyone's dragons are super awesome! Celebriwen, I am totally into your paper-cutting. I've always loved it, and yours look amazing!

[PinkPoodle]

I thought the red dragon logo with Morrigan and the warden in it would be a cool thing to do, but it would take way longer than a month... So I might go with Trogdor. He's just as good, right?

[Miss Clawful]

Finally got my 2nd entry done. I little later than I liked, so will be pushing it close with my last one, but going for it.

Crystalis - shadow dragons



without flash:


Neither image does much to show the vibrancy of the colors. Either too grainy or washed out.

PATTERN:
112x224 pixels = 8"x16"


MATERIAL:
Black Aida (14ct)

COLORS (DMC):
3021 - Very Dark Brown Gray
831 - Medium Golden Olive
319 - Very Dark Pistachio Green
367 - Dark Pistachio Green
954 - Nile Green
369 - Very Light Pistachio Green

total colors: 6

DATE/TIME:
Started stitching: April 29th 2013
Finished stitching: May 21st 2014
5510 minutes = 91 hours 50 minutes

STITCHES:
9607

PROGRESS LOG:

Spoiler

4/29/2013
10:40pm-11:25pm

=45 minutes

4/30/2014
12:40am-4:10am
2:20pm-3:05pm
3:45pm-6:15pm
7:05pm-8:45pm
9:10pm-10:05pm

=560 minutes

5/1/2014
11:30am-12:40pm
1:00pm-2:00pm
2:30pm-3:50pm
5:05pm-7:30pm
8:10pm-8:50pm - got all medium golden olive done for background

=395 minutes
(medium golden olive =1000 minutes =16 hours 40 minutes)

9:25pm-10:15pm

=50 minutes

5/2/2014
10:15am-12:00pm
11:20pm-11:55pm

=140 minutes

5/3/2014
10:00am-12:00pm - got dark pistachio green done on vegetation tentrils
9:45pm-11:05pm - got all very light pistachio green done on flowers, and all medium golden olive done on flowers (both of these colors finished)

=200 minutes

5/4/2014
6:50pm-10:30pm
11:45pm-12:30am - got all nile green done (all foreground vegetation done)

=265 minutes
(vegetation =655 minutes =10 hours 55 minutes)
(total time so far =1655 minutes =27 hours 35 minutes)

5/5/2014
11:10am-1:05pm
1:30pm-2:15pm
3:50pm-5:15pm
7:55pm-9:30pm - got all dark pistachio green done on rocks (this color finished)

=340 minutes

5/6/2014
9:00pm-9:45pm

=45 minutes

5/7/2014
3:30pm-5:40pm
7:00pm-9:00pm - got all very dark pistachio green done on rocks (rocks all finished)

=250 minutes

(rocks =635 minutes =10 hours 35 minutes)
(total time so far =2290 minutes =38 hours 10 minutes)

5/8/2014
7:50am-8:30am
5:15pm-7:20pm
8:50pm-10:30pm

=265 minutes

5/9/2014
12:15am-2:00am
11:15am-12:25pm
8:05pm-8:35pm
8:55pm-11:50pm

=380 minutes

5/10/2014
10:00am-11:10am
12:00pm-12:30pm
12:40pm-1:50pm

=170 minutes

5/11/2014
1:55pm-3:40pm
6:05pm-7:35pm
9:30pm-11:20pm

=305 minutes

5/12/2014
1:25pm-3:35pm
4:10pm-5:30pm
8:50pm-10:40pm

=320 minutes

5/13/2014
5:45pm-7:30pm
8:50pm-10:50pm

=225 minutes

5/14/2014
6:35pm-8:40pm
9:55pm-11:10pm

=200 minutes

5/15/2014
5:30pm-8:00pm

=150 minutes

5/16/2014
7:35pm-8:45pm

=70 minutes

5/17/2014
4:00am-5:30am
6:45am-7:30am
10:20am-11:50am
3:30pm-4:35pm

=290 minutes

5/18/2014
7:30am-8:30am
8:10pm-11:10pm

=240 minutes

5/19/2014
9:20pm-11:10pm

=110 minutes

5/20/2014
8:50pm-10:00pm
10:45pm-11:05pm

=90 minutes

5/21/2014
2:15am-4:15am
4:55pm-6:25pm
7:45pm-11:00pm - done!

=405 minutes

(trees/background fill in =3220 minutes =53 hours 40 minutes)
(total time so far =5510 minutes =91 hours 50 minutes)

NOTES:

Spoiler

For my second dragon stitchery for the Sprite Stitch Dragon Challenge I wanted to do something different. I had been thinking about doing this intro segment from Crystalis for a long time. I really liked the scenery with those bizarre flowers and plant tendrils in the foreground and what looks like a nook of a cliff ledge or opening of a cave, and the dragons merely silhouettes against what appears to be a jungle or swamp. The dragons, wild, majestic, beautiful frightening forms, free in their natural habitat, mere shadows in the darkening swamp lands, only things left unstitched, their shapes outlined by the background around them.

I started with the lighted background first, plants next, rocks after that, saving the dark fill in of the jungle for last as I knew by the time I got halfway with that color it'd start to get monotonous (much like when I was doing all the fill in of the enormous full moon on the Little Mermaid cross-stitch). I had a finish date goal, projected for completion by the 17th and could have pulled it off, but I created a bit of a distraction for myself with another unrelated goal that I decided to set for myself, so it slowed things down with this project, finishing 4 days later.

Halfway through the very dark brown gray background I ran into a problem, the same that I had for the StarTropics one I had completed end of last year, 5 skeins of #3021 and one didn't quite match with the others, being slightly lighter and very noticeable just as when I had trouble with the water on the Octo the Huge StarTropics project. I may go back and remove the bit that doesn't match or perhaps try to make it shift gradually instead of so abruptly as it currently does, but I'm not making a big deal out of it this time, it looks really good regardless. If I so choose to fix this color issue it'll be after the challenge ends, but now, with time running short, better get started on the next one so as to finish it on time.

[FluffyBunnySlippers]

These are all amazing! I have a really neat idea for this, but I don't think I'll have time.

[Firehawke]

Finally got my 2nd entry done. I little later than I liked, so will be pushing it close with my last one, but going for it.

Crystalis - shadow dragons



without flash:


Neither image does much to show the vibrancy of the colors. Either too grainy or washed out.

When I saw this in your topic, I thought that it would be perfect for the contest. Next topic I looked at was this one!

[RMDC]

Awesome job, Miss Clawful!

[Miss Clawful]

Thank you.

Got one more dragon stitch to do. I'm a few hours into it now, thankfully its much smaller than the previous two. Still, getting it done on time, well, pushing for it. If not, the two month challenge this and last was a great motivator to do some really big projects that probably would have taken much longer otherwise. Wondering what I'll be stitching next after the challenge. Though I am thinking, if the next doesn't interest me, to continue with more dragons.

[blackberrybear]

Finished just in time. From Dragon Warrior 3 title screen

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