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I just made this for a friend, It's really complicated so I'm not sure if it'll play yet. 3 layers white undercoat. Let me know.
Vasily Zaytsev fucked around with this message at Apr 21, 2008 around 23:47 |
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It's kinda cool, the idea is really old though, but it's not for you, so that's acceptable...design wise, the type is kind of offset, and I would love to see something else that had the center figure looking sad, like a tear or something. Other than that, yeah, it's kinda cool.
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TheKingPuuChuu posted:It's kinda cool, the idea is really old though, but it's not for you, so that's acceptable...design wise, the type is kind of offset, and I would love to see something else that had the center figure looking sad, like a tear or something. Other than that, yeah, it's kinda cool. Should I make it SIXBUCKS COFFEE instead? Slightly more witty.
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| # ? Apr 22, 2008 00:47 |
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I usually just cut simple stuff to get a quick sense of accomplishment, but recently I made this and think it's interesting enough to post! Oh and I wanted to say some of the stuff you guys do is incredible.
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| # ? Apr 22, 2008 04:22 |
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loldance posted:That is... intricate! Is the black edging the top layer or did you put down a larger black fill first?
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| # ? Apr 22, 2008 08:07 |
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There's some seriously sweet poo poo in this thread, so i figured i'd post my own. I'm still a relative novice when it comes to stenciling. (sorry for the noisy pictures, my camera is on the fritz) On an 18x24 canvas  Test sprays on a poorly stretched canvas (18x24). I'm working on incorporating a better cut version of this into a larger work.  On an 18x24 canvas  My first (and likely only) freehand stencil on a random chunk of cardboard.
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| # ? Apr 22, 2008 09:08 |
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curious posted:Jesus christ, I was clarifying for my own benefit. I paint indoors? I'm not really down with the lingo of "the streets". ( edit: i.e. I have no idea if markers are mops too or whether the term is only for home-made shoe polish bottle things. The distinction might be important because it looks like they're going to ban things in "classes", and other laws like the weapons acts ban e.g. only commercially made shanghais but not homebrewn ones. ) Sorry about that, I misunderstood and thought you were calling me out or something  But yeah, usually I just say mop when referring to homemade stuff like emptied out shoe polish bottles with your own ink and the nib cut out so you get mad drips. But yeah, if they ban all that stuff or cops know what to look for then you only got one other alternative: beat it. Although if you're out catching tags or throwing stuff up with paint / markers / mops / streaks / stenciling / whatever then you should be prepared to be running from them anyway.
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| # ? Apr 22, 2008 13:13 |
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curious posted:That is... intricate! Is the black edging the top layer or did you put down a larger black fill first?
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| # ? Apr 22, 2008 18:38 |
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InvisibleMonkey posted:I bought some expensive opaque white textile paint to do these but when I ran out I used my regular mix, applied another layer and I was surprised to see it worked just fine. OMFG that is so bad rear end. I would totally love to get that template from you so I can make a rocking Xenu shirt for May 10th.
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| # ? Apr 29, 2008 05:40 |
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 The Grudge theme on canvas. White sections done with spray paint and red with a roller.
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| # ? May 1, 2008 07:29 |
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ekuNNN posted:
that is gorgeous, thank you for sharing.
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| # ? May 3, 2008 02:09 |
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This is the new Stencil I did.   
The Emperor fucked around with this message at May 3, 2008 around 03:57 |
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frumin posted:Here's my first stencil. I hosed up with spray paint and his face didn't come out at all. Stencils are definitely something I can get into, despite this fiasco. what is this image taken from? I know i've seen it before and it jumped out at me so I feel like i should know what it's from. Is it an illustration from a book or album cover? it's drivin' me BATTY nevermind, just checked it out on the flickr page and saw the Megaman tag. pretty dope! MikeRottremondo fucked around with this message at May 13, 2008 around 03:05 |
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Can you guys tell what this is? One of my friends couldn't see what it was until I told him. submarine
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| # ? May 15, 2008 08:25 |
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I have a question. I'm pretty decent at coming up with and cutting stencils, but I'd like to make some that last for more than one piece. For the more complicated ones I've been using transparencies and an exacto knife, because I can see through and line them up properly, and have had good results until I try to reuse it. Could it be that the spray adhesive I'm using to keep them flat (no overspray woo) is ruining the surface so they don't stick again? Sorry to just ask without any examples but I'm not at home and don't have my pics with me. I figured being plastic they'd work better than cardboard but I just don't know.
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Take it Sleazy posted:Can you guys tell what this is? One of my friends couldn't see what it was until I told him.
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1 Pair Breadsticks posted:I saw it immediately.
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| # ? May 17, 2008 19:50 |
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Take it Sleazy posted:Can you guys tell what this is? One of my friends couldn't see what it was until I told him. I recognized it when I saw it. I think the thing is it looks a little bulbous in the front, kinda messes up the gestalt.
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Take it Sleazy posted:Can you guys tell what this is? One of my friends couldn't see what it was until I told him. It needs a base silhouette color. It's already two layers so you might as well make it three.
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| # ? May 17, 2008 22:59 |
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Was pretty obvious to me immediately.
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| # ? May 18, 2008 00:13 |
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http://img.waffleimages.com/a380d21...d302/skull1.png linked due to table breakage maybe Getting into stenciling and I whipped this up really quickly. Based on a GIS of 'Skull' Looking to put it around my neighborhood but I'll probably chicken out 
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Buttsax posted:Anyways here are a couple paintings I did over the week. ekuNNN posted:
I've been making stencils for about four months:   ^This was a proof of concept spray for a commission I got from a professor.^  ^This one's four sprays of the same stencil.^    Probably  http://img.waffleimages.com/c1a642c...oeticOddity.jpg  Does anyone have any suggestions for media to paint large stencils on (I'm planning one that'll be about 20 inches high and around ten feet long) other than buildings/walls or paper?
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poeticoddity posted:Does anyone have any suggestions for media to paint large stencils on (I'm planning one that'll be about 20 inches high and around ten feet long) other than buildings/walls or paper? You could do a triptych with 3 landscape canvases that are 24"x 36". That'll make it 24 inches high and 108 inches (9 ft) long. Edit: or 4 20"x 30", or 2 20"x 60"... you get the point
thpook fucked around with this message at May 19, 2008 around 18:20 |
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LiquidPropaganda posted:http://img.waffleimages.com/a380d21...d302/skull1.png linked due to table breakage maybe Jolly roger that poo poo. Put down a black base coat, wait 5 minutes put it down in white. If you don't I will.
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| # ? May 21, 2008 01:37 |
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 All the detail from before would have been murder.
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| # ? May 21, 2008 01:44 |
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Did I ever post these? Made it for my cousins husband for Christmas, framed and all.   I typed up the text using a type writer, it's a selection from Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance. I put it on my moleskin as well, but it's wearing off. The source is a bw photo I took of my first motorcycle, RD200
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Vasily Zaytsev posted:Jolly roger that poo poo. What's with the black base coat? Why wouldn't you just do white twice? At least when I'm screenprinting if there's going to be a base coat it's gonna be white.
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I think he means spray a black background and put the skull in white on top of that, so you've got a pirate flag thing going on. Also, that looks great Richbomb, I love that background you sprayed it on, works very well with the stencil.
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RichBomb posted:Did I ever post these? Made it for my cousins husband for Christmas, framed and all. I really like these. I love it when people use photos they take to make stencils.
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This has been a really great thread, and I'm enjoying it immensely. I myself have been stenciling over the last four or five months, I've come to really enjoy it, and have been taking it more and more seriously ever since. Going through this thread I feel we have a lack of actual tutorial going on. It's not big deal, I just feel we could use a little more guiding, and a little less Hey-Look-What-I-Just-Did! Personally I would really love to see a tutorial on how we are doing stencils using multi-layers. I know we've posted links to stencilrevolution but really I feel their tutorials are kind of weak (could be better!). Also everybody I've talked to already is aware of the site. I'm not bashing, I'm just trying to justify a goon's guiding hand tutorial. It would be great if one of the more experienced stencilers on here gave us a photo step-by-step on how they spray one, because as I've found out recently, there is a lot to screw up with using more than three layers or so. I will share: This is what I've done recently of a friend of mine.  It's a black and white layer, and four shades of grey. If I remember right. I made a lot of little mistakes here and there, and managed to salvage certain grey shades by respraying them. I use printable transparency film, and I didn't account for the fact that when I spray over one, it loses it's, uh, clearness. Thus making it harder and harder to line up correctly one over the other. It was okay for a first run, but I can't do it again as I can't see through them any longer to tell where I should align the layers. What makes this stencil special to me is I'm doing it on several layers of glass. I have a third layer I want to place on top of her to utilize in a way I'm not sure yet.  Lesson learned #2. Paint peels off easily off of glass. Very, very lame for the end product. Managed to save some trouble spots. This is my recent project of another friend. I'm drawing this one off of a photo of her, which is a very new thing as I mostly use photoshop and my tablet.  Probably four layers? We'll see. I have to turn her into an actual stencil now. Anyways it's nice to share. Keep it up guys, I'm loving this thread! Purple Drink fucked around with this message at May 24, 2008 around 03:48 |
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LiquidPropaganda posted:Looking to put it around my neighborhood but I'll probably chicken out Dude, if you don't do it, I will. And I'm talking by tomorrow night. Except I would probably add a backround and beams and such (cuz I like beams). Buck up! It's an awesome stencil, go spray it! Vasily Zaytsev posted:All the detail from before would have been murder. What? No it wouldn't have you pussy. Just cut it out the way it was. I think you made it uglier :[ When you make yourself a stencil that will take DAYS to cut out, then come back and tell people their stencils could be edited more concisely.
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ekuNNN posted:I think he means spray a black background and put the skull in white on top of that, so you've got a pirate flag thing going on. Yeah I thought about that after I posted. Knowing loldance used a black underbase on his Home Movies shirt didn't help the confusion.
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TravisBot posted:What? No it wouldn't have you pussy. Just cut it out the way it was. I think you made it uglier :[ When you make yourself a stencil that will take DAYS to cut out, then come back and tell people their stencils could be edited more concisely. Calm down buddy. I'm no doubt a lazy mother fucker, but if the stencil is too complicated and/or structurally unsound I edit it in the cutting out bit anyway. It would be literally impossible to put that much detail into box cardboard. Anyway you have your ways/morals and I have mine, in the end though we're both stealing a pirate flag.
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Vasily Zaytsev posted:It would be literally impossible to put that much detail into box cardboard. That's why you use thinner cardboard than boxcardboard  (also, you could just print it larger than A4)
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Vasily Zaytsev posted:Calm down buddy. I'm no doubt a lazy mother fucker, but if the stencil is too complicated and/or structurally unsound I edit it in the cutting out bit anyway. It would be literally impossible to put that much detail into box cardboard. Yeah, sorry I blew up on you there. I just felt like you weren't in a position to correct him, but I see that's not what you were doing. You should also try using something better than cardboard, and/or making the image bigger. Anything plastic is very good, and his skull is so super feasible to cut out. Also I would never spray his stencil unless he literally gave me the go ahead on this forum, because he may or may not have been serious when he said he was too scared to spray it. It's his, I'm not going to use it unless he's giving it away, also in which case I would never put my name or tag next to.
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I followed the last thread and I figured I'd give it a go now. I have some time off and nothing to do. My main problem is that I'd like something easy to start out with. Any good places where one might find a lot of stencils up for grabs? I'm trying to find some of that temporary glue, which is proven hard to find for some reason. Another thing is that I remember in the old thread, somebody did a big rear end tree on their wall in their apartment. Anybody have that picture? or a similar stencil?
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Hey guys. Great work by everyone, I'm very entertained and impressed. I just wanted to chime in a bit about t-shirts because I'm frankly surprised no one has mentioned this. If you're lazy and cheap, like me, plain spray paint works totally fine stenciled on shirts. Obviously, it won't have the exact same effect as fabric ink, that is to say it will be a little less opaque and more likely to over/underspray if you're not careful, but it doesn't have to be cured (just let it dry for half hour or so) and it's a lot less work than mixing up mediums and using rollers (in my opinion). However, this effect can be cool when it comes to the colors of spray paint showing up differently on differently colored garments. Also, if you don't feel like messing around with spray adhesive just get some latex gloves and hold the stencil down with your hands where you're spraying. Again, not a perfect method, but if it isn't obvious by now, this is how my dumb rear end stumbled on doing stencils on my own. Besides then you never have to worry about gunking up your work. I suppose this is the part where I should show some hard evidence that it works. First images are the stencils, and the other images are some shirts and a skirt that I spray painted on. All of these have been washed, and I have other shirts I've had for years so I know the spray paint doesn't fade. Ok maybe it fades a little, but over the course of a couple years what isn't going to fade? And just to clarify, all the non-dino/kitty imagery is screen sprinted not sprayed (and if you ARE going for the clean, crisp look, I recommend that over stenciling for t-shirts anyway).      EDIT: If you want to see more head to my flickr http://www.flickr.com/photos/partybot/
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ghostpower posted:
These are awesome and everything on your flicker is awesome. I've never been much into doing clothing but I think what you've done is very fun looking.
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TravisBot posted:These are awesome and everything on your flicker is awesome. I've never been much into doing clothing but I think what you've done is very fun looking. Hey thanks. I really appreciate awesome complements like that. I just wanted to add, too, that I also prefer manila folders to anything else as stencil material. It's just durable enough, yet still way easier to cut than cardboard/matboard, etc. Just in case you couldn't tell, my stencils are on a manila folder too.
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ghostpower posted:Hey thanks. I really appreciate awesome complements like that. I just wanted to add, too, that I also prefer manila folders to anything else as stencil material. It's just durable enough, yet still way easier to cut than cardboard/matboard, etc. Just in case you couldn't tell, my stencils are on a manila folder too. I've actually found that the covers of old records do a really good job, I find them to be much more durable durable and only marginally harder than the card stock I was using before. They're also really cheap, if you go to Goodwill you can pick up like 4 or 5 for a dollar sometimes.
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