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~almost5519:iconalmost5519: Mar 25, 2008, 1:55:48 PM
Alright, I'm hoping this is the right forum for this, but..

I've just started getting into doing graffiti stencils, because I do a lot of work with ink pens and a lot of my pictures lend themselves to being used for graffiti. I already made one of my pictures into a graffiti stencil (both the ink version and the spray paint version are in my gallery)

It was a fairly simple deisng to stencil, but I had to tone it down a bit and connect some areas because I was having trouble keeping the entire thing as one stencil, which is where my question comes in.

I want to start doing more intricate, and larger stencils (I like the work of Blek le Rat and Banksy as examples) but the problem im having is if im making a stencil for a picture, lets say its gonna be black on a white surface, and I have a lot of spaces in the black that i need to keep white, how do I do that. The way I did it in my other one was to just have a small peice of the stencil connecting it to the side and then paint over it when i remove the stencil.

Is that the only way or is there an easier way to go about making the stencils? Any help or advice is appreciated.

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*hesir:iconhesir: Mar 26, 2008, 5:56:19 AM
What about multiple stencils... say two or three for one image?

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~almost5519:iconalmost5519: Mar 26, 2008, 1:01:34 PM
yea, I was thinking of that when I watched a video of banksy doing one of his things but i cant figure out how you'd do that exactly.
*hesir:iconhesir: Mar 27, 2008, 1:44:12 AM
I think you'd have to get your head around it as if you where building it up in layers.

If the image has a larger silhouette shape to it, the outside of a head or something, that would be your primary stencil - spraying black. And you would have to spray white through secondary "detail" stencils maybe.

I guess like Banksy says at the back of that big book of his, take a craft knife, some big cardboard and just get out there (laughs).

h.

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~almost5519:iconalmost5519: Mar 27, 2008, 11:42:55 AM
True, that's a good idea, I'll try that with my next stencil, thanks. I should also probably pick up a copy of that book.
~mysonkaleb:iconmysonkaleb: Apr 26, 2008, 2:15:19 PM
This video should answer all your questions:

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~speddy:iconspeddy: 4 days 13 hours ago
The best way is by making a multi layered stencil. Or by making bridges, but yeah, you would have to paint over them if you didnt want anybody to know. But bridges can look cool..

Check out stencilrevolution.com The gallery is down, but the forum still works

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