Introduction: What Happens When a Nerd Goes Camping

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About: I'm a 21 year old country bumpkin from Ireland with too much time on her hands, figured I'd share my shtuff up here! :) Hope ye all enjoy!

So I'm going to a festival this weekend and I have got, genuinely the worst memory in the history of ever! It's like a goldfish with severe Alzheimer's!

I was laying in bed one night and I decided it would be a good idea to paint my tent, that way I wouldn't get confused with all the other generic tents surrounding me, aren't I clever.

It took me a while to decide on the design but once I'd picked Pokemon everything just happened and fitted, I mean, how cool is that at a festival?

The whole project took me about 6 hours in total, spread over two days and I'm still not sure if I want to paint on the other side.

I was thinking Butterfree and Psyduck? Opinions on that would be appreciated, I hope you guys like it anyway!

Step 1:

I started by drawing my design onto an A4 sheet of paper, outlining it in permanent marker, and sticking it to the inside of the tent.

Step 2:

I then traced the design onto the outside of the tent, again using permanent marker.

Step 3:

I free-handed the vines and Yin Yang sign in a way that made it look like Bulbasaur was holding it up in the air.

Step 4:

I then started painting. I began by just using acrylic paint, this meant I had to put on 3 layers of colour on, which was time consuming more than anything. I mixed blue, white and a hint of green to get this colour, it looks much more blue in the picture.

Step 5:

I added more green to the paint I'd used to colour the body and filled in the spots.

Step 6:

After painting the bulb a brighter green I added the detail on the face (eyes: red and white, same with the mouth and teeth)

Step 7:

I then painted the vines a darker green colour.

Step 8:

This is when I learned that mixing acrylic with fabric paint made the paint stick to the tent much easier and it went down to only needing one coat! I mixed a light brown for the shell and shaded it with a darker brown, same with the blue for the head. I then used white for the outer shell line and eyes.

Step 9:

I mixed the colours for Charmander, which turned out to be difficult getting a nice orange shade when I'm painting an orange tent but y'know, it worked out well enough. I also turned the outside of the Yin Yang into a pokeball, as an afterthought on the original design.

Step 10:

After the paint had dried I outlined everything again in permanent marker to add definition.

Step 11:

I added more detail's into the Yin Yang using permanent marker.