{ DYI String Art }

Beside graphic design I have a love for DIY crafting as well. Back in January I came across a crafting trend taking over Pinterest. This art form perfectly combines my love of the fine arts and of graphic design it's called DIY String Art. To create string art is simple. All you need are tacks or some kind of nail, a board, string or thread, and a way to trace your wording or image on the board. From their you trace the image or wording on the board, nail or stick the nails in the board following the tracing. The next step is were it gets hard, the easy way to describe it is to show the steps. From this point on I'll be explaining the DIY String Art process in photo form.

Step # 1 - Print out a tracing of your word, you can do this by either printing it out or projected the image or wording on to the board .

Step # 2 -  Once you have the tracing placed on your board, begin placing your pins or nails along the outline of your word or image. Be careful placing the pins and make sure to stay on the tracing line. It may help if you create a series of dots on the lines to make sure you stay on track.

 Step # 3 - Your next step is to begin adding the string onto the pins or the nails. The best way is to do so in a criss cross like pattern, starting at the corner and working down. This is the longest part of the process and can be very time consuming.

Step # 4 - Continue with adding the string in a criss cross pattern. Once you have finished one thing of string tie a knot on the last pin and continue. You'll keep doing this till the end.

Step # 5 - At this point you should be finished with the string process. All of the ends of the strings should be left, you'll tie them again around the pins and tie a knot making sure that it's tight. Once you've done that you will cut the ends, and be finished.

Step # 6 - Pat your self on the back because you have just finished your String Art project. Your project should look simliar to the one below. If you really want your project to pop you can add black string around the outline.

Hope this was helpful and I would love to see what you guys create. Feel free to post it on the blog.