ALL DONE!

It's done!  I have finished putting all the stars on the board : D  In the end I needed to make an extra 20 or so stars to fill in a gap I had made.  For future projects I'm going to make sure a grid of some sort is present.  Lots of lines that aren't straight.

Still needs a frame, but that's another thing!

58% and going!

So here's it at 58%.  Probably could've finished at 60 today but I went out for a while.  Still quite a bit to go, but looking good so far!

Painting!

So, painted those lavender stars and now they show up much clearer.  I also diiiiddddd this!

 

I painted it all black. The colors show up waaayyyyy better than before!  Here's a comparison shot:

Before:

 

After:

 

Much clearer, yes?  I love the end result and it honestly wasn't too hard to brush in between the stars since the hot glue has made them slightly raised.  It took about two hours to paint the black in between all the stars.

And here's some other pictures I didn't include yesterday

Close up of the stars:

Also, made this a couple weeks back for a friend's birthday:

It's an Amaterasu hoodie.  It's made to look like the official one, only I bought a white hoodie and painted it all on myself with fabric paint.  Took maybe 4 hours or so.

 

So, I finally got to work gluing the stars to the board!  I had to cut the posterboard to the right size, but it's all good.  I used hot glue to adhere the stars to the board, which works better than glue which might strip some of the paint.

Here's the current progress!  Will be putting up some more pictures in a little bit.  This is about 23% complete and has 1,618 stars out of 6,952.

Sadly, the white posterboard kinda drowns out the colors.  I should've bought a black one instead.  Lesson learned, and will take that into consideration for the next one I'm planning.

I had to repaint the dark orange stars as they were blending in with the orange too much ( you can't really see them much from this distance)  and I now have to do the same for the lavender ones that make up the outline of the butterfly.

I kinda want to do something about the background to make it black but with so many stars already on it it's just not worth painting in between and possibly getting black on the stars. I wonder if there's anything I could do that won't damage the stars...

Well, sleep time for now.  Looking forward to more star stuff tomorrow!