fanotastic:

Well I probably went the wrong way about it, I tend to do shit the more difficult way. 

I found the highest resolution image I could find and blew it up to 72 inches high to fit on the largest paper I have 12x18. I section it off into boxes of 11x17 because I prefer to not let this bleed since my printer can’t even print a straight image.

Alternatively if you don’t have a large printer and paper you could go smaller to fit on the usual 8.5 x 11. I reduced the size down to 8x10.5 to prevent bleed. This is a lot more paper but the 19 sheets will get you around a 6ft image.

After sectioning off my image I moved it over to inDesign and placed the images onto 12x18 pages and centered them to give myself white margins.

He then was printed out in sections and then I trimmed most of the background off. I left some of the white margins on the top and right so I could glue the sections together as I moved up the figure. I just used a box cutter, paper roller and mounting adhesive.

He was printed on 120lb paper so it was a little sturdy but I wanted to reinforce the figure so I mounted him onto some more thick paper. I continued to trim him down, the edges are very forgiving and the shape got better as he was coming together.

From here I actually ran out of glue and had to take him home with me.

From there we scare roommates.

After causing several heart attacks, get some more mounting glue and 3 foam boards sized 20x30 because I cant fit anything bigger in my car. Moving him so much and then mounting him on the foam boards caused some of the seams to pop so he looked a little less neat at this point but that would be fixed afterwards.

I used my box cutter to cut inwards around the body then finally gave him a generous layer of mod podge. He stands at 69in and looks damn fine.

I haven’t made the stand yet but those would be wood or foam triangles that are taped and glued to the 4ft mark. That’s something I’ll be doing over the weekend.

If I were to do this again, there would be a few steps I would have done better but he looks fine as is. So yeah, I probably made this more difficult than it needed to be but yeah… he did it to me.