I painted my office wall and thought it turned out pretty dope [OC]

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ghostttoast on May 22nd, 2022 at 16:11 UTC »

Dude that’s so pretty!

chickenstripsbad on May 22nd, 2022 at 16:48 UTC »

Nice wall. I'm thinking if it's an office (doctor of some type) where children visit, take that wall design, covert it to an 8.5x11 sheet of paper and let kids color it while they wait.

Oscar-Wilde-1854 on May 22nd, 2022 at 19:14 UTC »

Not suggesting this is how OP did it (based on the comments I'm assuming they did freehand) but I see a lot of comments saying "wish I could do something similar" or whatever so I thought I'd share a tip.

Get a projector! You can likely rent one for free from your local library. When I was a kid every few years my parents would let me pick a theme for my bedroom and we'd take a weekend where they rented a projector and they'd get cool images of that theme and we'd trace them on the wall with paint, and then fill them in with the right colours.

When I was really little I had all kinds of Disney characters around me. Then I had monster trucks. Then I had sports. Then I had Hockey only (I really narrowed my interest in sports as I got older haha). Then when I got to high school I wound up just painting it a colour.

Anyway, it would work perfectly for something like this! Just project it up and move the projector around until it looks how you want. Then just get to tracing!

It was such a great way to let my room as a kid be super creative and personal to me, while also not costing much. (Free projector, base paint colour for the room, cheap acrylic craft paints for the colours).

So don't let a lack of artistic ability prevent you from having the space you want! That's a really easy/cheap way to achieve a similar result without OP's talent!