Supplies Needed:

Tools:

Computer

Printer

Pencil

Materials:

Paper

You can use this technique to create any design you want for a fuzzy poster but here are the steps I went through while creating my Adventure Time Themed Fuzzy Poster.

To design the poster I started out by choosing a theme, which for me was Adventure Time! Then I did some "rough" sketches and planned out what characters I wanted to incorporate and what I wanted them to be doing. I decided that treasure would be really fun to draw and then sketched out some of my favorite characters playing in a pile of gold and jewels. I used references images from Google so I could get the characters right and make it look as authentic as possible.

Since I knew I would be cutting out all of the pieces by hand, I tried to avoid creating really tiny areas, there are a few but they were all do-able : ) . I Also tried to make the whole design connect as much as possible so that the paper would keep its structure and be easier to manage once I glued it to a poster backing. There are some areas such as the eyes and mouths where I had some "floating" pieces, meaning that they were not connected/touching the main design but it was not hard to glue on these areas in the end.

Once I had my sketch finalized I scanned it into my computer and traced it in Illustrator. I determined the size based off of the largest piece of velour paper I could find which happened to be 20" x 26".

When I finished the design, the last thing I needed to do was to flip the image so it was backwards. Since the design will be used as a template and glued to the back of the velour paper you want to make sure to flip the image so is faces the correct direction on the velour side.

* I've included the file for this design so you can make the same poster! It is 8 pages total. I've also included a smaller 8.5" x 11" size so you can scale to any size you want : )*