When Slovakian builder brianbrickster first started sharing medieval LEGO creations, the stonework and siege weapons were impressive. Over the years, with skills honed in the trials of Brickscalibur and the Summer Joust, Brian has become a true artist of castle creations. His latest is a breathtaking display of forced perspective. The transition from minifig to microscale is miraculous. The brick-built sky gives the immersive scene the air of a painting.

Speaking of paintings, Brian has played with perspective before. Created for 2024’s Summer Joust, here the builder creates a whole world inside the ornate picture frame.

Here is another masterpiece of playful perspective where a microscale castle is reframed as a stone sculpture. It’s a beautiful idea, perfectly executed, with incredible detail in the stonework.

Brian plays with a mix of scales again with this cozy cottage emerging from a book on a table. The level of detail in the tiny cottage is commendable on its own, but the detail on the table rewards a closer look too!

Going back further, we present Brian’s very first microscale creation, and what a wondrous build it is. The castle alone is a stunner, but the drama of the meteor hurtling towards impact makes it terrifying and transcendent. My favorite touch is the water spilling out of the circular base, another playful example of the blurring of subject and frame.

Even Brian’s more straight-forward builds use perspective and composition in compelling ways. Take for example this teetering tower where construction continues atop a castle built on a narrow dungeon where orcs patrol. The mix of construction, nature, and sheer verticality turns a fun castle vignette into an immersive surreal scene.

This microscale kingdom showcases Brian’s eye for composition again, with such lovely asymmetry in this enchanting kingdom split by water and united by a fragile bridge.