This Guy Painted an Awesome Mural For His First Baby's Room

1/13 It started with a projection. In the man's own words "After seeing multiple pictures of people painting Calvin and Hobbes murals for their baby's room, I thought "I could do that" even though I had no artistic ability at all. But, I'm an engineer and we can solve any problem"

2/13 Initial wall.

3/13 Starting the sketch. He worked in 1 - 1.5 hour blocks after work.

4/13 "Sketch part 'ow my wrist is cramping'"

5/13 "At this point, I decided, 'Eh, I can just paint out the rest of the picture.'"

6/13 The black outlines drawn in. "At this point, I'm quite elated with my work. 'This isn't going to turn out too badly.'"

7/13 White painting.

8/13 Orange and second layer of white.

9/13 Red, second layer of orange, and base coat. "Had to touch up the orange as I previously did with the white. Decided to try giving a base coat of white on the lighter areas so I wouldn't have to paint a second coat again."

10/13 Calvin's face, balloon, and starting the tree. "The base coat of white really helped out, got the colors I was looking for on Calvin's face. Finished off the rest of the traced area. Now I have to show off my "artistic" skills."

11/13 Leaves painted on. "Not as much details as the original image, but still gets the effect of foreground and background."

12/13 Tree done!

13/13 Very cool little set up!