I'm moving into a new place with my housemates by the end of the month so we were spending some time to do up the place. And being the gatal fella I am I decided to paint a mural on my new room's wall. Thought I'd may as well document the process and see if anyone else is interested in doing the same thing to their walls as well and posting the results for all to appreciate ^^ So without further ado I present to you:-

[ PART I ] - Day 1
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Firstly, prepare a suitable picture for transfer to the wall. In my case I'm painting Kakashi from the Naruto anime. Original picture is as follows...



I desaturated it in Photoshop, raised the contrast to remove light greys and then Posterized to two colors. (Cos I'm only using one color for the wall...) This is what the prepared drawing looks like...



Printed out on A4 paper with a grid to ease transfer onto the wall...



After drawing a grid on my wall with 8" squares, I proceeded to transfer the drawing with a relatively hard pencil so the lead wouldn't mix with the paint later and darken the color. I used a 3H and an eraser for this step...



Also when drawing, make sure your underwear is peeking out to balance your drawing arm.... (i'm just kidding here... )



Tadaa... completed pencil outline of Kakashi on the wall...



Stay tuned for Part II tomorrow! I'll start painting it tonight after work and hopefully have the pictures up by tomorrow afternoon. Feedback would be appreciated.

nice work man... coz of you ive just learn something today...
but an advice though make sure that you put your bed in a very suitable place coz you dont want Kakashi to stare at you every seconds...it would be scary

my gawd.... sweeet .... mebbe u shud take this as a part time job ...

Lol... it's just a hobby ^^ Hopefully this demo would help you guys do your own.
I hope I don't screw up the painting part later. hahaha...

Ok here we go... just got back from the new place and now its time for...

Part II - Day 2

Now it's time to PAINT! Woot, so grab yer brushes, gloves, paint and cigarette...



Remove shirt, and start painting. I started with a med sized brush to fill in the thicker areas. [ Note my underwear is still sticking out so my body is balanced and my arm steady..... yes, i'm still kidding about this bit. ]



Here's where I switched to a smaller brush to go over the detailed areas. The larger areas were filled in with a large brush [ Duh... ]



After an hour's worth of painting and getting high on paint fumes, this is the end result. woot.



All I have left to do is fill in the details with a much smaller brush (the kind you use for painting on paper) Which i stupidly forgot to bring along. So that will be another day left to touch up this mural. Beh. silly me.



Hope this little step by step thingy kickstarts the other forummers to decorate their houses / offices. Post em up! Lets all make Malaysia a little bit more "arty"

nice blue to use there.. !

but well, i guess if it's possible, do add in more of kakashi's hair and shoulder.. if not it would look incomplete, very incomplete

by the way, why din u enlarge till it reaches ur ceiling? it'll look cooler !

Didn't want to enlarge due to two reasons. It would be really difficult to draw and paint and also my bed will be against the other corner, so I didn't want to cover him / have him stare at me while i sleep

And yeah, still wondering about his hair... was thinking of either drawing the rest of it or maybe swooshing the brush at the end of the line to simulate an unfinished effect. (Don't know if that made sense )

this sounds cool, give it a try, if u think it's not nice.. repaint it white and start to draw out the rest lor.... x

if he want to enlarge it to ceiling, he will need a ladder too.

damn nice man... the way you have it in the corner of your room.. way to go!!

uRm.. make sure if you got a girl, she takes you to her place..

no updates?

oii muffins..

where the updates..

cant wait to see the finish touches..

nice work there

nice
setakat itu saja ka ??
looking foward to see more of this

Bahaha... sangkut... been busy with work lately... just got hold of some smaller brushes.. now just waiting for a weekend to finish it properly... now i have to be extra careful cos i moved in already and stuff is in the room. lol. Stay tuned next week

muffins have you ever thought of doing graffiti?

where did i put my seal of approval
creativeness + skillness = leetness, thought u only do butchering vids , is that your new home cum office cum studio?

This post has been edited by AMDs-PoOp: Apr 4 2005, 08:24 PM

tht really gave me inspirations to paint my room too but my parents will surely kill me. BUT thts totally the first thing ill do if i get my own place.

the color u choose really fits nicely with the whole feel of the room, if u decide to highlight kakashi's hair, u shld try silver and paint the frame of the window silver too.

wow... very nice!

i thought he was going to follow 100% of the colors on one part of the wall, together with its skin color, green clothing, etc...

Can't wait to see the final touches. This is one serious talent.

hello? half a year already muffz.. lol.. not finished yet?

wow
KEWLLLLLLL
last time i juz did LIGHTNING effect on my room wall
Hehehhe
u giv me IDEA!!!
i will try searchin sumting kewl to draw hehhe
thankX broo

Kewl ..

Alamak. Topic kuno dredged up? The mural's done... looks more or less like the front page.. haven't had anymore time to work on it Busy oh...

This topic is now officially dead Thanks for interest but it's time to see other people's walls lol! Whaddya waiting for A&D? Show me your walls... Christmas / New Year coming di...