How to Make a Glitch/square Pixelated Type Art Poster for Minamalistic,DIY Home Wall Art

This was inspired by so many things, the first being the wonderful posters by Magdiel Lopez, and other things like the two half circles, which came from the Japanese Sumi-e landscape drawings which always incorporate a red sun somewhere.

This drawing was meant to be very minimalistic, and balanced, and the great thing is that you can do this with any silhouette! you could try making a side view of a loved one, or maybe your dog. the options are endless... you can also use any colors you like, but I think that a good two-tone type vibe works well with this. I went for the red/black color scheme.

Too much talk!!! let's make a poster!

• Glue
• Pen (or marker)
• A Pencil
• Precision knife
• White poster board (or any color as long as it has a strong contrast to the color of the paper used for the portrait)
• Tweezers (very useful, even for applying glue)
• Paper (I used black/red but any color with contrast to the poster board will work.)
• Ruler
• A quiet room(with no wind or fans)
• patience...

First, grab a piece of paper and draw a design up, I first used gimp but found that good old paper works best.

As you can see this was the best out of many sketches and tests, using different sizes of squares, and playing with colors. I thought to go with this simple silhouette of a person.

Once you have it out on paper and filled with squares and rectangles, you can proceed to the next step. if you don't want to draw you can just trace off of a photo.

So now you can draw and cut out the silhouette, and trace the shape very lightly using a led pencil onto the poster board.

As you can see I only drew over the pencil drawing with the pen on one side of the silhouette and left the other side open, only leaving the light pencil trace mark, do this only if you want to have some of the inside coming out, this gives it a really creative, unique vibe.

I wanted the portrait to "melt" towards the bottom, so I drew it roughly jagged at the bottom.

Start by cutting vertical cuts through your paper sheets, then cut horizontally to make squares if you cut far apart you will end up with rectangles and if you cut the same distance from the last cut, you will end up with squares.

If you are making a portrait of a person or animal make some small triangles.

if you want it to melt off like mine you can cut some long thin strips of paper.

I just placed everything on the poster board to make sure that it looked right, and then removed it all!!! it seems a bit counter-intuitive but, I really suggest you don't glue it the first time just test fit everything and then glue it very carefully.

If you want it to "fade" you can glue the long strips at the bottom amongst the rest of the square and rectangle.

Don't overlap the pieces, just put them very close to each other and try not to show any of the poster board beneath the squares...although I did that quite badly...

Now I made a circle and cut it in half, and cut a bunch of short strips of paper to glue them vertically around the portrait, almost like a piano visualizer. I glued the half circles to the upper left, and lower right.

No, you can write a scribbled version of your name at the bottom right of the poster.

That's it...that's how you make a CyberPixel (That's what my dad calls it) art poster. you can find the materials anywhere, and all it needs is a lot of patients and a steady hand.

I made this to be about 12" tall and 7" wide, but you would be able to make it even more detailed if you made it really large. I can see this in some creative studio, gaming room, chill coffee shop, or your minimalist room.

I hope you try to make this poster and thank you for reading!!!