25 diy photo poster ideas

DIY With Bookhou: Poster DIY Project

DIY poster size portraits this is a quick project that you can do to create a poster image size painting from a small image. I decided to do a portrait, but this will work for any image. what you need: -a photograph (preferably on 8.5 x 11 in. size paper) -large piece of paper (bristol board) 20 x 24 in. and up -pencil -ruler -eraser -brush -black ink (or paint) step 1 I decided to use my daughter’s photo – I chose this photo because of her expression. In Photoshop I took the colour photo and turned it to a black and white image – in the Photoshop program you go to filter – artistic – cut out. This will give you the image that I got from my photo. If you don’t have Photoshop you can use a free onine photo editor like picnik.com or one could find a stock image on the internet. step 2 take the image print out and draw a grid on the photo using the pencil and ruler. step 3 do the same on the large piece of paper (to figure out what size square grid to put on the large image I divided 8 into 20 and got 2.5 – by doing this I was able to maximize my paper usage – if you don’t do this you might have left over squares – which you could easily trip off) – try not to make your pencil lines too dark or else when you erase them they will still be noticeable. step 4 start drawing! the grid is a method used to enlarge images follow each grid on the photo and how it corresponds to the larger sheet – it’s good to look at each image in the grid squares as shapes and not think too much of the whole picture – if it helps for the more complicated shapes like the eyes you can divide the square to smaller ones – this will help you with more exact drawing. step 5 continue throughout the drawing till the entire image is complete. step 6 finished drawing step 7 take the black ink and proceed to fill in the drawing – you can also use paint. last step take the eraser and erase all the pencil lines on the poster. give it a try and enjoy!