Hey I seen your set for that Lil dude in the forest. How did you make your set? What was the base that you used and how did you make those tiny leaves? ;) hope to hear from you. Thank you
Hey! Sorry about not getting back to you sooner, it seems that the tumblr app ate my reply.
The set was fairly simple: the main piece is just a large board cut to about 3’ x 5’ which is c-clamped to a support that i built so that i could drill tie-down holes into it. I covered the wood with a sheet of burlap so that 1. the leaves would stick better to it, 2. so that there was a bit of an uneven texture, and 3, it would cover up the tie-down holes better. Next was the trees which I just went to my local park and found twigs and sticks that had fallen to the ground. I leveled off one end of them to make it easier to attach them to the wood/burlap with hot glue. After that, I collected a bunch of leaves from outside and waited for them to dry & become very brittle. I crunched them all up and used spray adhesive and wood glue to attach them to the surface. Some of the leaves are still pretty loose, but I’m okay with that.
A tip on gluing down the trees: If you look closely, you’ll see that some of them sticks are attached to small blocks of wood. That was a time consuming mistake that I would fix if I wasn’t on such a time crunch. Hot gluing the leveled sticks straight to the surface would have been WAY EASIER but I thought I was helping myself by making them sturdier this way…in all realness, just a nice clump of hot glue worked wonders on them since I used both methods.
Thanks for your question! I hope whatever you’re working on goes well & I’d love to see some pictures!
