How to Be a Domino Artist

Domino, or dominoes as they are often called, are a fun toy for kids that many adults also enjoy. They can be used to play games, line them up in rows or create elaborate art with them. The most famous domino artist is Hevesh, whose YouTube channel has more than 2 million subscribers. She creates stunning domino setups for movies, TV shows and events—including the Katy Perry album launch. Some of her projects take several nail-biting minutes to fall, and she is able to control each domino by applying the right amount of pressure.

When Hevesh first started creating her sets, she only had one goal: to make a domino pyramid. However, her skills have grown and she is now able to create much more elaborate domino artwork. She can make straight lines, curved lines, grids that form pictures when they fall, stacked walls, and even 3D structures. Hevesh’s largest designs are made from hundreds of thousands of dominoes and can take months to set up.

She has a unique talent for creating these designs, which she calls domino art, and she says it’s something that comes naturally to her. Hevesh believes that everyone can be a domino artist, and she encourages people to start with an idea and to experiment with different shapes, colors and patterns. She also gives tips on how to design the layout of a domino track, such as planning out arrows that will help to direct the flow of the pieces when they are in place.

The word domino has many meanings, but the most well-known is a set of 28 small oblong tiles marked with 0-6 dots or pips, used to play a game in which players try to arrange them into a line with values matching those of the end pieces already laid down. The name is believed to be derived from the Latin dominus, meaning “lord” or “master.”

A second sense of domino relates to the ability of some animals, such as dogs and lions, to control other animals by touching them. This is known as the domino effect.

In comic books, the character Domino is an incredibly lucky character who has the ability to cause luck to flow in her favor. Her power is activated when she is in a stressful situation and is unconsciously controlled, but it has the potential to cause her great harm. Domino has had volatile run-ins with Cable at his new safehouse in Hell’s Kitchen and the assassin Blockade, whose mind Cable vengefully wiped.

Whether you’re a pantser who writes your manuscript off the cuff or a plotter who uses tools like Scrivener to outline your story, using the domino effect can help you keep your story compelling. Throughout your writing, you’re constantly trying to set up scenes that lead the reader to the next scene—like the first domino in a domino rally. If those scenes don’t have enough logical impact on the scene ahead of them, the readers may lose interest.