juju's Spraypaint Art Tutorial (lots of pics)
 

Since a few people seemed interested, this is how ive been making my paintings. I'm sure there are lots more (probably better) ways of making these, this is just my way...

Stuff you need:
- 1/8" thick hardboard (like pegboard but without the holes... i use 2ft x 2ft and 2ft x 1 ft pieces, i suggest menards because they have precut pieces)
-2" painters masking tape (i use the delicate kind, DO NOT use normal yellow masking tape, it will rip the paint up)
- x-acto knife or any fine razor blade
- spraypaint, whichever colors you want... i like flat or satin finish
- pencil and sharpie marker

First, look for a photo, preferrably with some good shadows, I found this pic of bob dylan on yahoo image search, then copy it to your photo editting software. (i use paint shop pro, very similar to photoshop, im 99% sure photoshop has all the same features plus some)
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut1.jpg[/img]


Now, we need to convert it to less colors, you can make these paintings with as many colors as you want, but each extra color means lots more work...
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut2.jpg[/img]


Now this can be tricky, play with the settings a bit until you get something thats starting to look ok..
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut3.jpg[/img]

After applying your changes, you may want to remove background stuff you dont want in the painting, also, if the stencil seems too complicated, play around with blur and contrast settings- then re-do the the step above to bring it back to 2-colors total, this photo didnt require any of that extra playing...
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut4.jpg[/img]


Now, if you are an amazing artist, you can go ahead and draw this on your hardboard... but for accuracy, its pretty necessary to put a grid over it. Before we do this, we need to resize the photo to a smaller version of our hardboard. Since im doing this painting on a total of 2ft x 3ft piece of hardboard, I just divided those inch mesurements by 8 (to make it 1/8th scale) to get 3inches by 4.5 inches. Next, File -> New, and create the new dimensions as 3inch b 4.5 inch and copy the photo onto it as a new layer, then pull the corner to resize the layer to fill the 3inch by 4.5 inch image
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut5.jpg[/img]

Now we have a 1/8th scale of what our final product will be. The reason that is important it so that we can put a grid over it to make exactly 2" x 2" grid squares on our hardboard to make drawing the image WAY easier.
Now, in PSP, its View -> change grid properties.. and set them to 1/4" (which multiplied by 8 will eventually translate to 2")
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut6.jpg[/img]

View -> Show Grid
Now, since the image wont print with the grid, hit the print screen button on your keyboard and paste the screenshot into the program. select just the gridded photo and cut - paste it again, you'll end up with this...
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut7.jpg[/img]


Then print it...


Now for the fun part... first spray your background colors (im doing 2 separate ones for a more interesting look) mine is on two panels, you could cut your hardboard into one single larger piece, it think the panels make it more interesting to look at.
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut8.jpg[/img]

When dry, cover both panels in the 2" painters tape, then use a ruler to mark off a 2" by 2" grid over the whole thing in sharpie.
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut9.jpg[/img]

(im doing one panel at a time from now on)

using the grid, going one square at a time, draw out the negative space in pencil, then go over it in sharpie. Finally, go over it a third time with your knife.
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut10.jpg[/img]

Now, peel away all the areas that are going to the second color..
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut11.jpg[/img]

Spray over the whole thing, let dry, and carefully peel away all of the tape to get your finished piece!
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut12.jpg[/img]

Doing the same for the other panel..
[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/tut13.jpg[/img]

and... FINISHED!

[img]http://i44.photobucket.com/albums/f35/TerryBentley/dylan.jpg[/img]

looks cool eh?

If you had a third color, you would simply recover the whole thing in painters tape, draw the grid, and draw the next color layer the same way.

Let me know if any of that was confusing..

That's fuckin cool dude. I would never take the time to do it though.

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thats nice, i might try it

Nice.

You ever consider dedicating one to multiple layers and extensive detail? These are good but I guarentee you could get some sick effects with more detail and time investment.

thought about it, but i find im really liking the single layer look, the simplicity appeals to me

you should make flags with art on top

How long does it take you to draw that out on your hardboard as you're copying the patterns from your picture? Everything else seems easy, but that part would take me hours.

real neat stuff. keep up the good work

yea thats cool as hell, but I just don't think i have the time.

pretty flippin sweet

[quote="Chronic Diarrhea":ca64d]How long does it take you to draw that out on your hardboard as you're copying the patterns from your picture? Everything else seems easy, but that part would take me hours.[/quote:ca64d]
it depends on the complexity of course, but for this it took about 20-30 minutes to draw it, then maybe 10 to cut it out. using the grid, its easy to look at one square of it and see about where the line goes, its a quicker process than it looks

you think this is a good picture to use?

[img]http://www.pinkfloydonline.com/downloads/RogerWatersPaper4.jpg[/img]

Looking good

Why dont you just save time by printing a stencil onto card, cutting it out and spraying it? Then you could keep the stencil and use it again as well...

because i havent figured out a good way to hold the pieces not connected to the main stencil- interior masking pieces like the bottom part of dylans hand in this one. if you can think of a good way, let me know. the great thing about tape is that all the edges are, well, taped securely down so the spraypaint has no chance of getting under it and ruining the clean lines, other times ive used card stencils like youre referring to, this has presented a problem which would only amplify with more complex stencils like these. i know i could just lay those interior pieces down, ive thought of it, but spraypaint has some force to it which can easily blow them out of place. I have thought about coating a card stencil with a little spray adhesive just so it gets tacky, but for what im doing, this way works best, i have no real reason to spray multiple prints, though it would be nice if there was an easy way of doing it

i now have something to do tomorrow. thank you so much.

post your results!

njwavesREDUX.jpg

I have no idea how to do this in PS cs2...any help would be appreciated.

You just have to use the right adhesive, I'd suggest using gum, it peels away no hassle, and you can push it to the edge of a piece of paper. Ive done a few stencils before, clean lines arent a problem if you use the right technique.

...but if your way is working fine for you - then theres no point in changing it...lulz

2 second search
http://www.melissaclifton.com/tutorial-stencila.html

[img]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v383/jotun/DSC_0410.jpg[/img]
not bad for my first one. it looks like the paint is worn in the middle, but thats just the lighting. also, its not on hardboard, its just on a canvas panel. i got some more ideas and more material, hopefully i will do more soon.

hopefully some of you know what it is.

for once, i love you, jotun.

I really respect this kind of stuff. Just the stuff I've seen so far in this thread is fuckin' a. I could never do that.

chainsaw looks like a dong.

face looks like sloth from goonies

looks sick! glad to see you giving it a go! pretty easy huh?

Groovy.

rock:

Ash 4tw

I think some sweet ass zombie one or a marvel zombies would look sick as hell. I would love to do that for my office.

of course as soon as I started my daughter would be like WHAT YA DOIN DAD /fucks up my shit

holy shit ill blow whoever does sloth from the goonies

if i dont do anything tomorrow or sunday i think ill do one.

I tried the PS tut that kyle posted but when I follow the instructions it doesn't always work out, I can make the stencil, just not by the way that site says to.

here's one that I tried first following the tutorial, but then I gave up and did it on my own, doesn't look that good though, I might "buy" the corel program juju was using.

[img]http://img510.imageshack.us/img510/2021/gatstencil1nr1.jpg[/img]

i just picked up 2 pieces of hardboard. what side did you use the shiny side or the grainy side?

im not 18 so i cant get spray paint, tuesday i can tho. :-\

you have to be 18 to buy paint? wow...Ottawa has been trying to do that, but they can't yet. If you guys are going to make lots of stencils, try buying krylon paint from crappy tire or any other store, or if your town has a graffiti store, try buying some cans of montana paint, they have alot of bright and vivid colors, check it.

I looked around on google for another stencil tut for PS and I found a different one, little harder to follow but I found this pic of Dj Qbert and stenciled it.


[img]http://img329.imageshack.us/img329/1337/djqbertstencil1fz6.jpg[/img]

came out shitty

all you do is desaturate, change the threshold, maybe gaussian blur it if the edges are rough, then you can change the curves if you want. its not hard at all.

who wants to make one for me, and mail that fucker too me.

like this image

[img]http://img178.imageshack.us/img178/7285/imageu25vghet3.gif[/img]

Stalker. :D