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Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

In order to make a sincere and original gift for his girlfriend, a Russian young man made a portrait using thumbtacks and gave it to his girlfriend. The character in it is of course his girlfriend! Let’s take a look at the finished product first. Rendering, can you see that this is made of thumbtacks?!

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

Secretly select photos of your girlfriend.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

Then print the photo in six colors at the size you want. Six colors: white, yellow, green, red, blue, black.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

Prepare a large enough fiberboard and 300 boxes (300 pcs/box) of push pins.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

It took two days to organize the thumbtacks of different colors into categories. At the same time draw these grids on the fiberboard.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

Then use an awl to punch holes in the nodes of these meshes.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

Let’s take a look at the awl he used. It should be relatively easy to use.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

It took him three weeks to drill the holes manually.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

The area of ????hair was so large that in order to get enough black thumbtacks, he had to spray some with paint himself.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

If the push pins of other colors are not enough, you can also spray paint them yourself.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

Complete status after four days.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

Another four days...

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

Another four days passed.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

After about a month, it was finally completed!

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

It’s really made of pushpins one by one.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

In order to be more beautiful, of course it needs to be framed~

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend

Wow, the overall effect was great, his girlfriend must have loved it... except, this cute guy collapsed from exhaustion.

Thumbtack making tutorial: It took him a month to pin a portrait of his girlfriend