>>2847 Yes. What is the point of your post? Next time try doing it by hand from a black and white printout with the contrast upped a little, that tutorial is nice and all but you'll feel much better doing the stencil yourself. It also produces islands a lot, like the whites of her eyes and the face itself. You'll need to bridge all those areas if you want to spray that.
>>2848 I was generally hoping for tips and for others to share their creations as its something I'm interested in.
I brought it up on the big TV downstairs through PS3 and put a big bit of paper over it, and outlined it with felt tip. Just means I dont have to bridge the face itself as the white around the hair is much thicker.
Hold on, I still don't see how this method stops her face being an island/unlinked to the outside. If you're cutting out the black parts then the face is still not linked to anything. Unless you're splitting the stencil into two parts and simply placing the face inside the space created by the hair, which shouldn't be too hard.
What else do you want to know, really? You've already worked out that you need to use a scalpel rather than scissors so that's the basics covered. What are you using, cardboard? It'll do for something like this that you'll probably only use once. All other tips I can give you about spraying are very basic and can be found anywhere. Skill with creating a good stencil has more to do with artistic eye; if you want to get better at making stencils yourself try doing some traditional still-life sketches and line drawings of objects in charcoal or pencil, to teach you how to see shadows and create an image in as few shapes as possible, as well as how to draw perspective. I'm very much a fan of backing up practical knowledge with traditional artist's skills. If you don't even make an attempt to learn how to draw you'll never make a truly amazing stencil from scratch.
>If you don't even make an attempt to learn how to draw you'll never make a truly amazing stencil from scratch.
I wish more people would understand this. To be honest if you can't draw something you'll never be a good painter or sculptor either.
There's a huge stream of shitty stencils out there made by people who have access to a photocopier or Illustrator's Live Trace function, I'd advise everyone to avoid adding to it, it might cause embarrassment later.
>>2854 It was for my girlfriends birthday, not for use on a wall. So yes I literally got some double sided tape and stuck the bits to a piece of paper.
>Never picked up a scalpel
I fail to see how else you could effectively create a stencil without the use of a scalpel. Scissors would be clunky are harder to control.
>Pure digital image
It is a digital image, I nicked it off of her facebook and went nuts in paint.
I'm not the person you're replying to, but I assumed that he meant you had posted an entirely digital image and it was not a finished stencil, which is the impression that I got from the earlier posts.
So are you just spraying it on a single sheet of paper? Care to post the finished article?
Yea pretty much. I sprayed a baby blue back ground with some bright pink paint spots (not sure how to describe it) over the top. With the stencil just laid out in black. Its currently up on her wall but the next time im over there I'll take a picture.
