Dragon Eye Embroidery Design, Instant Download

Worked up this dragon eye piece over a few days because I wanted the iris to actually look like something biological rather than a flat oval. Its one eye, filling the whole frame, with a proper vertical slit pupil in dark brown sitting inside an amber iris built from sand, brown, and warm gold fills that transition from pale centre to saturated mid-ring. Around it the scales erupt outward, red on red with overlapping curved shapes that give real depth. Silver-white claw tips shoot out from the scale mass in a ring, catching light the way real claws would.

5 colours: deep red for the scale body, white for the claw highlights, brown for the pupil and detailing, amber orange for the warm mid-ring, and sand for the glowing centre. my embroidery software, Tajima format. 5 sizes from 3.47 inch up to 7.44 inch, heights 3.5 to 7.49 inch. This is the biggest stitch count in this range, 27,639 at the smallest size climbing to 62,005 at the largest. Density is 1,113 so theres serious coverage, the red scale mass is dense and dimensional. Use heavy cutaway stabiliser, no question. The 106 trims in the large size reflects how many individual scale shapes get isolated during digitising.

One customer grabbed the 7-inch last christmas for a dark green hoodie back panel, she sent me a photo and the red on dark green looked genuinely striking. Stitch the 7-inch on charcoal or navy for maximum contrast. Avoid light coloured fabric, that crimson outer ring just doesnt have the same impact on cream or white. Pick the 3.47-inch for beanie placements where the detail still reads at close range. Run the 7-inch on a canvas panel and frame it as gothic wall art if youre not putting it on a garment.