American Gothic
96 × 116 studs (77 × 93 cm) · 11 136 studs of color · parts ≈ €526
About this build
American Gothic rebuilt in bricks measures 96 × 116 studs — 77 × 93 cm once it is on the wall — and takes 5 192 plates. Each stud is one pixel of the original, and nothing is painted or printed: the colour you see is the colour of the plate underneath it.
The engine matched the artwork to 21 of the LEGO® colours we can actually buy. Black does the most work at 14% of the surface — 741 plates on its own, followed by Pearl Titanium (14%), Dark Tan (13%). That distribution is the fingerprint of this particular image: a portrait leans on skin tones, a night sky spends almost everything on two or three darks.
Buying the plates for this one costs roughly €526 at current second-hand prices, spread across 21 colours. That is the part most people do not expect, and it is why the instructions and the sourcing list are what we sell: the bricks you buy where they are cheapest, or take from what you already own.
Source image: Grant Wood — PD-US-1930. This piece is here to show what the generator does with a hard image. Upload your own photo and you get the same treatment — the same palette, the same bag-by-bag instructions, the same list of what to buy.
- Plates
- 5 192
- Colours
- 21
- Finished size
- 77 × 93 cm
- Main colours
- Black (14%), Pearl Titanium (14%), Dark Tan (13%)
Image: Grant Wood — PD-US-1930
