Terrain textures can be expensive. Here is an alternative way to make your own, and in any color you want. All you need is pencil shavings and paint.

I show you how to make pencil shaving terrain.

I keep my pencil shavings in a cigar box. Occassionally empty the pencil sharpener. In no time at all I have a nice bunch of shavings.

Mix up the pencil shavings with a watery color, lots of water and paint .

We are making green terrain so we are using green color. But you can use any color at all, brown, yellow. whatever color you need the texture to be.

Spread it out onto a sheet of paper.

Then spread it out nice and thin so it's like a blanket. The more you spread it out the faster it will dry.

Now dab it really good with the paper. And do it several times, you can use more paper. Get it pretty dry.

Once it is dry you can use it as terrain. Nice and rough terrain

Or you can grind it one way or another and make it much more fine. Here we did the same process except with a brown color paint. Now we grind it up in a coffee grinder.

And we used that brown to make the fur on a miniature bear. It looks and feels great. This bear was for the Brave terrarium.

You just paint some glue or mod podge onto the item then you can roll it in the shavings or sprinkle the shavings on.

To apply the pencil shavings as terrain to a diorama you brush on a thick layer of glue to the surface.

Then you sprinkle on the terrain texture. Once it dries you can brush off the excess that didn't stick to the glue.

How to make your own terrain textures

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