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ekuNNN posted:Finally made this, woo! I loving hate it when I do an awesome piece and then let a tiny bit of overspray in... Buttsax fucked around with this message at Mar 26, 2008 around 00:09 |
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haha, yes me too usually, but when you see it in person it's way less obvious and actually adds something awesome to it. I just suck horribly at photographing my stuff.
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| # ? Mar 26, 2008 00:38 |
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Had a question that I wasn't sure warranted a new thread. I basically want to make a stencil and apply it to my guitar, but my knowledge of various paints is none, and I want to gather as much know-how as possible. I play an ltd ex-400, here's a picture; It's a very glossy paint that isn't really reflected in that picture, but that was the best picture I could find for surface. Figured someone in this thread would have possibly already done this and might have some info on making paints not conflict etc.
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ekuNNN posted:Actually I live in the Netherlands, and I think they were so quick about it because my town is very graffiti free. Ahh, Netherlands. I have only been there twice. Once in 2005, when we only visited Amsterdam, and once in 1974, when I was slightly younger. Yes, the Netherlands can also be considered "Tidy", as can the Scandinavian countries. There was very little in the way of graffiti in any of those countries when we visited, Which is both good and bad. I hate tagging, but I like actual wall art. Tagging makes me think of a human version of a dog pissing on a tree to mark its territory...
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MDR posted:It's a very glossy paint that isn't really reflected in that picture, but that was the best picture I could find for surface. Figured someone in this thread would have possibly already done this and might have some info on making paints not conflict etc. I hate to say this, you probably wont be able to get a good stencil on that without stripping first.
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Best Friend posted:I hate to say this, you probably wont be able to get a good stencil on that without stripping first. This is likely true. He can try and stencil right on top of the factory paint and seal it with several coats afterwards, but the stencil will still probably come off on any part you touch regularly.
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Best Friend posted:I hate to say this, you probably wont be able to get a good stencil on that without stripping first. That's what I figured, just not sure how well I could strip it and apply a stencil without it looking totally mismatch, i'll have to look into it more
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ekuNNN posted:
Wow, that's awesome! I thought it was a photoshopped photo for a second  Here's one I did a few weeks ago:  The only thing I am a little disappointed with is how it looks like his chin has a huge growth. But overall, I'm really pleased with how it turned out, especially since I didn't have a printer at the time and so I had to do it freehand.
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I have a stenciling quandary: while stenciling fine lettering onto a previously stenciled surface, the ink bled out of the stencil like crazy. Any tips to avoid this? Sorry I don't have pictures. It's a one-sie (bodysuit) for a baby, and we're putting a control panel on the front like the baby is a robot, and these are the labels for the buttons. So layer one was the a square panel, and this was lettering on top of the panel. The fabric dye is labeled 'fabric screen printing ink'. Maybe this is more a screen printing question than a stencil question, but anything you might be able to think of would be great. Thanks!
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MDR posted:That's what I figured, just not sure how well I could strip it and apply a stencil without it looking totally mismatch, i'll have to look into it more You could strip it pretty well if you do chemical stripping. There's this nasty poo poo called AirCraft Remover by Kleen Strip that will eat the finish right off the guitar (You can get it at AutoZone). What you should do take the neck off (if it has a bolt-on neck) or cover it because this stuff is really mean. The best thing to do is wrap the body up in a plastic garbage bag and let the stripper do it's work for about 18 hours. Flip the body, repeat. This treatment shouldn't do any damage to the wood. After stripping, sand the body clean, and you have a clean body with no finish, ready to be repainted. As for putting a stencil on it, I would use high-end heavy duty paints like auto spray paint to get a really nice clean gloss, and finish it up with some laquer and nitrocellulose finish from http://www.reranch.com
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ekuNNN posted:
That my friend can get you laid. Take it Sleazy posted:Wow, that's awesome! I thought it was a photoshopped photo for a second Bad call. Considerings the average Americans opinion of petty vandalism thats not going to get us any supporters. Just saying.
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This was my latest stencil here: I did (very stupidly) a large Yeah Yeah Yeahs pirate ship and the process was a bitch. Because I was dumb I just hand-drew it on 2 large construction papers and taped them together. It was very dumb, but I liked the finish product  .  Though my favorite is hanging up on my wall now...  
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Vasily Zaytsev posted:Bad call. Don't worry about it, that's actually in Germany. I sort of appreciated the pointlessness of it more than anything else
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Oh okay, that's cool then. Also nice free handage.
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I made my first stencil the other day. It's Godot. I didn't really think about what I was making, heh, so I needed white spray (because it's connected by the darks). I don't have any action shots. It was a fun experience. I'd love to make some more. Preferably after finding myself an x-actoknife that isn't some big unwieldy thing used primarily for ripping cardboard boxes open. I needed to be way too careful around the bridges / thin lines in the hair.
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Zackarotto posted:I made my first stencil the other day. It's Godot. What exactly are you saying? You realized it wasn't a stencil until after you had it set up to cut out, or you made a 2 layer and forgot to get 2 colors of paint? I'm so confused. I've found as long as the razor is razor sharp it's significantly easier no matter the size of the knife.
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Vasily Zaytsev posted:What exactly are you saying? It's a one-layer stencil but reversed from how most people make stencils. The black in that image represents the paper or film or whatever he used. All the white was either cut out or off of the rest of it.
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I made a scoreboard for a friend of mine who recently became a firefighter. We use it to tally if he is winning or if Death is. Currently it's still a draw. The underspray at the top is kind of annoying but not too bad and you can probably tell I hate cutting out S's. I found a place that sells canvasses for almost nothing, I'm so happy. an A3 size canvas for 1.20 euro, woo! ekuNNN fucked around with this message at Apr 1, 2008 around 13:42 |
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ekuNNN posted:I found a place that sells canvasses for almost nothing, I'm so happy. an A3 size canvas for 1.20 euro, woo! Tell me more!
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It's a chain of stores called Action. There is one in Hilversum, near my school. http://www.action.nl/default.aspx There's two of them in Amsterdam! Anyway, they sell loads of cheap stuff. Yesterday I got two cans of spray glue, three masks and an A3 cutting mat for 6 euro's, I'm so happy I found this store  They have some pretty big canvasses too (a2 and bigger) and weird long ones, all under 5 euro's I think.
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ekuNNN posted:It's a chain of stores called Action. There is one in Hilversum, near my school. Awesome, I've been there before, I think. Do you go to the HKU in Hilversum?
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Yeah, I study Digital Media Design (I don't really like making websites, so please don't think it's that  ) there, so I need to compensate sometimes by making something that's not digital
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I just started doing some stencils over the weekend and I am already addicted. These two are really simple and I want to do some more complex ones now.  The last one here I made to advertise for an art blog I run/draw for. I am thinking of using it for tagging and making shirts but I wanted to know if you guys have any suggestions for how best to approach doing two layers of different color when making shirts. Any advice is appreciated.
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  As a side note, I drew this on someones facebook graffiti wall.  And here's just a cool pic. 
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By the way, InvisibleMonkey, where do you get your textile medium? I've been looking around Utrecht but I can't find it anywhere.
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 My most complex stencil to date. There's a couple of places where paint went where it shouldn't, but overall I'm happy with it.
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ekuNNN posted:By the way, InvisibleMonkey, where do you get your textile medium? I've been looking around Utrecht but I can't find it anywhere. I can't either.  I usually just pick some up when I'm visiting my parents (in Arnhem).
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Vasily Zaytsev posted:As a side note, I drew this on someones facebook graffiti wall. I just wanted to comment on how totally awesome this is, great work . To contribute: I've made a few stencils recently (and got myself a self-healing mat, an exacto knife, and some replacement blades), but I haven't had a chance to actually paint anything yet. Here's my latest stencil:  It needs some more work (specifically the monkeys along the outside of the clock), but it's getting there.
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 Heres my first t-shirt stencil. Its of the new joker. I didn't like the thickness and texture of the acrylic paint i used, so i'm going to remake this. I need a good thick paint thats smooth and even that works well with shirts, and a stronger material to make a stencil out of, but still give me the ability to make small details.
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Eugenics posted:I know there's a lot of stenciling being done with Illustrator and/or Photoshop, but does anybody have any experience with the Gimp, or other software being used on osx/linux? Did this ever get answered? I do mine in Gimp/Inkscape, what's your question?
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curious posted:Inkscape Any good? What is it's pros/cons, compared to Illustrator?
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Uncle Meat posted:Any good? What is it's pros/cons, compared to Illustrator? This is a bit embarrassing, but I've never used Illustrator, so I can't really make the comparison. I've enjoyed Inkscape on Linux, but on OSX, some builds have been crashy and because they run in X11, asian font support is a pain in the rear end to get working correctly. It generates reasonably clear SVG most of the time, which is good if you like to tinker by hand. And I'd be able to use it to drive my massive plotter that I want to use for stencil cutting if I ever got around to soldering up the cable for it.
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| # ? Apr 7, 2008 11:19 |
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 Without looking at the link what does this look like to you?
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Vasily Zaytsev posted:
Bar of soap with bubbles.
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Vasily Zaytsev posted:
looks like a stage monitor and some circles.
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Vasily Zaytsev posted:Are the bombs supposed to be roses? It's hard to make out the two jets, try spacing them out a little.
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This thread has inspired me to give stencils a shot. This is my first stencil, it didn't turn out too great but I enjoyed making it even if I lack creativity on subject matter.  Does anybody have any tips on lining up multilayer stencils?
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I'm making around thirty or so CDs that will have some indie games on it and passing them out. Does anybody have any good minimalistic, but professional patterns lying around? Also, how does spraypaint do on CDs? are they still readable? Does it stick alright? I'd check, but I don't have any paint and not many CDs.
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 I really wanna make this a shirt but I gotta find some print screening matte. Anyone in the Chicagoland area know were I could find some, like maybe Blicks?
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This thread has inspired me to try and create my own, stenciled shirt. However my lack of knowledge in such things is evident. What is the best kind of paint to use on fabric with a stencil (preferably spray)? I'm a UK goon so hopefully you're not all going to start announcing products I can't buy.
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