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Big Bead Dragon Tutorialby *Rrkra

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Took a whole month... No way am I going to do something like this ever again... Probably

Will add the finished dragon photo later.
Anyway. Have fun.

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Большой бисерный дракон.
Доделала. На мастер-класс, конечно, вряд-ли тянет... Так, описание работы с комментариями.
Почти месяц времени... Чтоб я ещё хоть раз? Бррррр.
На двух языках - английский и русский.

Есть комментарии, дополнения, критика? Делитесь. Не обещаю исправить, но запомню и, наверное, учту.
Ниже в описании - ссылки на полезные сайты - разные техники, хитрости...
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A tutorial for a big beaded dragon.

Comments welcome. I need to know how many mistakes I did, after all.

Suggested materials: Size 11 TOHO seed beads, 0.10mm braided fishing line (normal fishing line, thread - should do too), something to use as filling (big beads/plasitc maybe).
If you want to make large wings - thick wire (something like 1mm diameter copper wire). And thin beading needles. I use a size 12 needle.

Chezsh beads will do fine too. Chinese ones - not sure. If they have big holes and colour won't come off. But japanese (TOHO, Miyuki round beads) are best. Use strong thread - make sure you can't tear it with bare hands. For such a big project - better to use most durable quality materials you can find.

*Some links that might be useful:

Beaded bead with brick stitch (In russian, but pictures are pretty understandable. Useful when making the head.)
Peyote stitch basics - in russian (8th picture there = useful for odd-count peyote or when making turns on the neck.)
Peyote stitch increases, decreases - on the sides, in the middle. In russian.
Tubular peyote stitch. In russian.
Brick stitch basics. In russian.
Brick stitch increases, decreases - on the sides, in the middle. In russian.

More info on stitches.
And even more info on stitches.

Different legs.

PDF is in the download >

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~amberjackson1990 Apr 16, 2013 New member Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

That is amazing!! I'm hoping some day soon to try making it. Although, I am still yet to makr a beaded animal with this stitch.. fongers crossed I get it worked out. Thanks for posting!

*Rrkra Apr 16, 2013

Ooh, good luck when you do

Maybe practice a bit with the stitches first^^

~amberjackson1990 Apr 17, 2013 New member Hobbyist Artisan Crafter

Thanks! There will definately be alot of practice before I attempt this. I have made lots of animals with the french beading technique but peyote seems to be alot harder to pick up. Keep up the good work.

*Rrkra Apr 17, 2013

Yeah, it's fairly different from working with wire

But not too hard

~SkyeRyder1 Mar 19, 2013

WOW

*Rrkra Mar 19, 2013

Hehe

~Theblindbeader Jan 19, 2013 Hobbyist General Artist

Hi again, I have started a dragon but the power went out and I was up to the closing of the mouth to make the snout /nose part and so I just did what ever but make the bottom of the mouth / lower jaw part with your pattern it took me a bit to figure out as I can't see very well at all but I got something like it. I am doing mine in size 5 triangle beads and size 6 seed beads as the base. I TOTALLY LOVE the triangles for texture. Mine will be rather boring in that I don't think I can add the pattern like you did in the scales I can't visualize and make happen like that with patterns I once tried to brick stitch a galaxy around a blue goldstone bead in black and light blue but failed to get the arms of the spiral galaxy to go right. So I thought I will do my first one with no pattern but chose blue c/l amber (sort of iris blue or blue ab in colour) They look lovely. I want to do wings in tila beads for membrane and herringbone for the wingbones but large enough to fit the armature inside. I have 20mm dragon eye cabs that I peyote stitched around and make some herringbone ropes with size 15 and size 8 beads to be eyelids. I am adding gums and shell teeth to my mouth and I flat herringboned the tongue. So I think it will be different to your dragons and made with less skill as yours but I do my best and it will take me a LONG time already been about 3 weeks and just getting the last row of teeth on the mouth then I have to put the two halves together and stuff it with I am thinking bubble wrap and armature in the top of the mouth to hold it up and bring the armature down the head and neck. It is fun to think of how I will do each bit and I know I have your pattern to fall back on if I need to. Thank you for having done what I wanted to do for a long time. Now I have hope I can do it. Kind Regards The Blind Beader.

*Rrkra Jan 19, 2013

Yay, more dragons))
I have to agree, triangles give an awesome texture.
Iris blue looks good by itself, it'll look even better than many patterns... And I love how the rest of your plan looks, too. Experimenting ftw - there's not so much fun in strictly following the instructions.
Takes ages to complete, but it's a project to be proud of

Good luck, I'd love to see the dragon once it's made.

~poncamom Dec 30, 2012

Found your work while looking for something like this to try. Love it. Started the work but am using 15s since they are all I had on hand. The tutorial is super easy to follow. Thanks for posting it.

*Rrkra Dec 30, 2012

Good luck with it

Size 15s can be tricky to deal with, but they give a great texture

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