You may be familiar with art mediums like paint, drawing, sculpting and photography, but have you seen art in the form of dice?
This is how two pals have chosen to display their work as seen on their viral TikTok account called Dice Ideas — while garnering 1.8 million followers and upwards of 1.4 billion searches.
"Our aim was to create a fun project for ourselves during the 2020 COVID lockdown in the UK," Ben Hoblyn, co-creator of Dice Ideas and resident Derby, England, shared with Fox News Digital.
"We started planning the concept and wanted to make much larger pieces," he added.
Hoblyn, 32, and his friend Ross Montgomery, 32, said they draw inspiration from mosaic artists who select offbeat mediums to create art — including Rubik's Cubes, pennies and even smaller dice projects, Hoblyn told Fox News Digital.
It became a major hit with thousands of views swelling to millions.
"Once we started sharing the pieces online, we felt inspired by people’s comments to create many more," Hoblyn added.
The subjects behind Hoblyn and Montgomery vary from Hollywood’s biggest stars to some of the world’s greatest athletes.
Each individual design features thousands of dice and can take upwards of 50 plus hours to complete over several weeks.
Hoblyn and Montgomery use the different faces of the dice to shade the subjects. A six is used for the lightest areas of the portrait and a one for the darkest areas.
The basis for each piece is grounded in their own creative ideas and passions along with whatever is relevant or popular at the time.
Dice Ideas videos have reached upwards of 45.5 million views on TikTok.
"We hoped that we would be able to get some attention with our videos and possibly make a few commission sales, however we never anticipated that we would reach millions with our content," Hoblyn shared
Dice Ideas hit one million followers in June 2022, a goal content creators can only hope to achieve.
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"These numbers are very difficult to really comprehend. However, it is worth saying that the view and follower count is not something that we specifically focus on," Hoblyn commented.
"Instead, we try to create better quality designs and content that we like ourselves, and hope that others feel the same, he added.
Some favorite designs include a large portrait of LeBron James, the first design the duo every created.
Another piece that brings the duo great pride is their largest image today — a tiger that was created for a gym in London and measures in at 95 inches x 95 inches and weighs around 330 pounds, Hoblyn added.
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While the viral attention is an exciting achievement for the creatives, they continue to create and produce new art because they love it, they said.
"The response from viewers has been incredible," Hoblyn stated.
"It has certainly made us believe that there are more opportunities out there to keep creating our dice artworks!" he said.
