/diy/ - Do It Yourself

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No Op but ...

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>>3588
thanks for the bump

moar like this pls....
1/2

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>>3595
moar portal?

>>3592
No problem.

2/2

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>>3602

moar caeks

(I have a stencil folder with
31 stencil pics)

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silk screen ftw

>>3613
I don't think I got moar caeks, sorry will a chef do?

my stencil folder is about 600 but I usually just use my oc

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>>3622
Okay.

bumping'

If you guys want anything specific, just ask. Cameras, guns, memes...


And can you help me with my main question?

>>3645
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>>3571
i recently had problems with this, it depends on the material of the shirt. i went to my local craft storm and they helped out lots. I'm really out of right now form meds so sorry i'can't be more help.

>>3648
haha, I remember me and my 2 friends spraying this one all around gov related buildings.. we got cought. Fortunately we were only 15

>>3646
get yourself some silk screen kit.

it's not cheap but it's the best way to do it.

also, you might be able to recoup some of the outlay by charging for custom shirts for the impressed people who like your shirt

Do you have any camera stencils by any chance?

Also moar non conformist bullshit please, it's quite fun to look at

>>3655
Thanks still

>>3657
I won't be chargin anything, this is just my non-profit hobby. And thanks for the advice, I'll look into it, although
>not the cheapest solution
that might be a problem

>>3658
Yeah sure. you mean cctv right?

>>3658
I lost count so ?/?

austrian streetartist reporting in

doing stencils for about 3 years now, not only on the streets also on canvas, wood and t-shirts

the best way to make your own shirt is to print out your logo, take a piece of thick paper (no cardboard, just a thick piece of paper) put spray-adhesive on it and put your printed logo in it. let it dry and start cutting it out with a sharp blade. then take a piece of cardboard and put it between your front site of your shirt and the backside, align the stencil of the shirt. use regular spraypaint (acrylic or textile) and start painting

>>3658

>>3683
thanks a lot bro, this is the kind of advice I was looking for.

Any tips on letting the paint dry/ironing/washing?

And I'm going to do multi layered stencils too

>>3658
Still want?

Anybody still there?

>>3720
Right. I'm out.

trip I was using was #ouyfj

See you later stencilfags

I've done two shirts.

>>3748
and this one

>>3748
>>3754
Looks awesome. Technique tips please?

I gotta run but please post them anyway. I'll read them once I get back

>>3764
I bought a cheap silk screen and squeegie from an art supply store and a bunch of different coloured fabric inks. I made the NES controller stencil in GIMP but the awesomeface one I found on 4chan. Printed out the pics then transferred them to butcher's paper. Cut out the stencils with a model knife, sticky taped them to the underside of the silk screen and positioned it in place. Put enough of the ink onto the screen, squeegee'd across the screen once and scooped the excess ink back inot the container for later use. Let it fry, ironed it for a good 5 minutes or so and it was done.

Easy peasy.

>>3784
Let it dry*

bump

>>3784
What kind of ink did you use?

what about spraypaints? has someone tried to make a t-shirt with sprays? is it a good enough technique?

>>3865
I personally use this one.

>>3764
I'm so gonna put this one on my shirt. Is there any program or way to convert images to stencils ? I'm completely new to this.

>>3870
I'd like to know this too.

check this link out guys

http://www.melissaevans.com/tutorials/stencil-art-printing-t-shirts

I'm back from my bicycle trip. You've done a great job uys, thank you so much. I'll post pics once I'm finished with the shirt.

>>3870
>>4102
Refer to this
>>3683
And from what I've heard it's okay to use. Someone who did multi-layered and -colored shirts (I've seen a few finished ones) said he used acryl based paint and did the painting with an airbrush.
Basically I want to use an airbrush because it's much cheaper to buy acrylic paint for 2€ and get a liter/more out of it than buying 400 ml spraypaint for 4€. But I'll try both and share results whenever one should ask.

>>4029
This already is a stencil. I don't know what you mean by 'converting'
If you want to put it on a shirt, do this:

1) Get a white 100% cotton tee. No questions, just use it. You may use other kinds/colors later
2) Buy black spray paint (buy from a graffiti/art store. Hardware stores usually sell overpriced)
3) Print the image of the lady out
4) Use a utility knife/exacto to cut the black parts of the image off the paper. There should be space instead of the black spots now.
5) put your finished paper over the tee and spray over the spaces in the paper.
6) look at the final product

This is a very basic and very easy form of doing it. But just go ahead and try it, it'll give you a basic idea of what is good to do and what is not. You can spray the shirt until there's no space left/the can is empty. Now practice, and please make nice stuff.

And always lurk moar

>>4499
By converting I mean to take any image(like the image I have) and turn it in to a stencil image. So you'd know what to cut. What I want to know is there a program that would turn any image into a stencil image or do I have to do that manually with photoshop and such.

About techniques, I recently tried this one:
http://www.instructables.com/id/Make-your-own-freezer-paper./
It worked out decently.

Pic related, my first try. The fail at the corner was due to the paper not sticking well at that corner and my carelessness.
Made in two steps, beige first. Cloth paint.

>>4682
You have to do it yourself. There are some pretty handy tutorials though.
>pic

I use photoshop.
1) open pic in ps
2) apply filter sketch > torn edges
3) use pen tool to create awesome smooth vector stencil

Give me some time to try it with the pic you posted.

>>4735
Looks pretty good. thanks for the link.

>>4739
>what I was talking about; using th pen tool

>>3683
hey austriabro, where's your area of operation?

>Print Out Stencil
>cut stencil out
>spray stencil onto bike
>Bike to Uni
>Wait for bomb squad to mutilate your bike
>????
>Profit

howdy fellow stencilfriends! im going to gibz s0m linkz for my super stencil pack that i keep losing the link to and end up having to re-up it. and some links for THE BEST FUCKING SPRAY PAINT IN THE WORLD!!!!


stencil pack (bunches and bunches of stencils from years of collecting them)
http://www.mediafire.com/?dicwi2zc4zuhuim

and the bestest spray-paint to get for tagging or doing quick and dirty t shirts is Montana Black (because its mostly cheaper) but gold is crucial as fuck for some of the colors that are available

amazon has them
http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=bl_sr_arts-crafts?_encoding=UTF8&node=2617941011&field-brandtext
bin=Montana
and this is a good cheaper store for them and they sometimes have them for supercheap.
http://www.33third.com/

go forth and enjoy peoples!!! long live /diy/!!!!!!

>>4762
Scientology=chaos lol :p

>>4776
You think that'd happen?
I guess not, but when someone does it and the bike actually IS a pipebomb.. then they might freak pretty easily

Thanks for the stencils dude

>>4786
Chill and don't tell people to tag. Tagging is for faggots. I (and many others) would rather see art on the walls than trash. There's too many "fuck" and "hi" garbage already, better not contribute to this crap.

If you tag to a piece you've sprayed, however, I have nothing against that although personally I don't.

>>4809
It actually did happen. It's a band and they used to sell bumper stickers. So some kid decided to put it on his bike. What happen what he chained his bike up at uni, and when he came back, the bomb sqaud and police were surronding where his bike was and the completely mutilated it. I think the kid got the state to pay for a new bike, but it's a hilarious story.

>>4809
i wasnt advocateing tagging, i was just saying its the paint they use, its a bitch to remove and it lasts FOREVER on shirts.

>>4739
>>4753
Looks like I lost my trip there
>>4682
Still working on the pic. You still there, hentaiguy?

>>4859
haha, wouldn't have thought it would. Pretty funny

>>4877
Sorry on my part of rage. But still, even bringing it up is not cool in my opinion.
You must know, I hate to see when people put their tags over art that doesn't belong to them..

>>4809
>Scientology=chaos lol :p
Please don't tell me the underaged /b/tards came to this board, because this board started fairly well and I don't want a bunch of retards making retarded comments in my /diy/.

these are fucking awful

Anything involving fabric is probably best directed to /cgl/, OP, but I've got your solution regardless.

Pick yourself up some contact paper and an exacto knife, cut out the stencil you want, paste in onto the shirt, and paint screen printing ink in your color of choice onto the stencil with a regular brush. Give it however many layers will be necessary for the color brightness you want. After it's totally dry, put the shirt into your dryer for a full cycle so that it sets. If you want to be sure it sets, iron the shirt with aluminum foil over it, NOT DIRECTLY.

>>5065
Thanks for the advice bro.

>>5039
I'm still here. You can drop the pic if you want. All I'm looking for is tips for the process . How many hours does it take to convert the image ?

I see this thread and I see pumpkins.

>>5097
I've been on it since I said that
>>4739
Just sometimes walking into the kitchen for a snack and checking/replying in the thread. I'm about 90% done now.

If you don't have ANY experience on the pen tool however, it will logically take longer for you.
You might want to look into inkscape. It's an easier to use program than photoshop and it's free. I'm not using it because I'm way too used to ps and Inkscape keept irritating the fuck outta me.
>another preview

Excuse my English. What do you mean by "dropping" the pic? Cancelling it? Even if you don't want it I'mma finish it. The girl's too hot not to

>>5126
fucking HELL I haven't even thought of that.. silly me :p

>>5126
in my stencil pack (sorry about the multiple copies of some of the images) there is a few pumpkins done up with some designs.

>>5144
That long even for a experienced person. Fuck making something new will be a drag.
>What do you mean by "dropping" the pic? Cancelling it? Even if you don't want it I'mma finish it. The girl's too hot not to.
I see you are a man of your work, this I respect. I'll use it when I get my hands on some t-shirts and paint. Thanks for the hard work.

>>5172
What I should mention is I'm a perfectionist.. I always spend more time correcting little mistakes than on the actual piece :/

And I've been using the pen tool for 2 months now. But I guess you could say I'm a fast learner

>>5181
So I guess simpler images would take let time to convert ? Is there a trick to how make your stencils larger than A4 format like splitting the stencil in two or three pages ?

>>5242
Yeah for example I did this cat in just 15-20 mins

Sorry I'm being slow, I have a steak on the plate and a hungry stomach..

And on the image splitting thing: there's an awesome program I've been usin since a year or so that's called "rasterbator". It's free, fast and gets the job done. Just download and see for yourself.

>>5280
This cat
>>4753

the hunger is taking ahold of me..

>>5242
Any more pictures like that?

>>5290
What do you mean ? Animu ? Disgaea? That girl in the pic ? Dat ass ?
>>5280
I'm in no rush, take your time. So how long would it take to convert this. And how about the larger-than-one-page stencils ?
Fucking 4chan X acting up again.

>>5144
I just used the threshold filter in gimp

>>5324
about 10 seconds

>>5328
>>5344
You can't compare it to this

>>4682
Used only filters in photoshop and the block erasor tool for cleanup. Any more requests? I need to practice making these they're fun anyway.

bottom

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>>5401
>>5328
Guys there are a trillion islands in there. I bridged just perfect. Try to find a mistake in mine.. no dare, I'm just proud ;)

>>5344
>>5379
>>5401
>>5328
>>5420
I'm saving this thread. As a request some good stuff I found in Pixiv.

>>5410
>>5420
I'm very happy with how it looks, I hhope you like it aswell hentaiguy.

Now off to some tasty steaks!

>>5435
Bye and thanks for the work and answers. Have a good one !

Is bleaching a shirt worth the trouble? How hard is it to do?

>>5476
if you are using a screen printing setup, get something called "DISCHARGE PASTE" its like bleach in a gel form that wont eat the cloth.

you can use bleach if you are going to reverse tie-dye (which does look really neat). just be careful you dont fuck up any good clothes while you are doing it.

>>5430
Here you go, it was a bit hard to include the penguin so I included more details on this one. I'll post the completely black one too.

>>5595
Just came back from dinner to check on the thread.
Dude. You can't do shit with that. Just look at the hair, wayy to many islands. lrn2bridge

unless you post the white layer that may be sprayed on top of the black one (which is a really bad thing to do), this fails pretty hard.

You could however do some simple bridges right now so that when cutting it out you can have at least an idea of how you should cut.

>>5640
you should also scale the image up quite a bit (the mouth, eyes etc are way(!) too small to work with. If you attempted to print this, it'd take up a quarter of the A4 at best (printing the image you posted in it's original size).

Scaling it up would make a lot of things easier - and harder. because you would be able to see how to work with eg. the mouth - would, if it wouldn't be pixelated as hell.

But you're using the right effects so far. Try cutting some of the layers in half so that it will be possible to achieve this pic with several layers of stencils.
Then again that's why I prefer properly bridged stencils. you just need one piece of card. Except for multi-colored pieces of course.

Anyway I'd love to stay and explore /diy/ further but I have to do homework now. Good night/day fellow /diy/fags!

>>5683
>>5640
Sorry man I just messed with the filters I know I could have done a better job. I'll try harder this time and I'll follow your tips. Thanks btw. I've never done stencils before but they're quit fun give me a few minutes.

>>5707
>>5640
>>5683
Thanks for the tips and I'm still monitoring this thread.

Here it is one.

All black one.

>>6391
>>6518
My patience has rewarded me yet again. Thanks !

>>5379
newstencilfag here, want to get into this, when it has multiple layers (Like how it has White, Gray, and Black) How do I know what to spray and in what order?

>>6655
You're lucky I checked /diy/ again before going to bed.

You ALWAYS start with the lighter colors first. That means from white to black. If you attempt to spray white on black, the black will pretty much "eat" the white.

Check out this
>pic
And then this
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UKccW3onMQE

As you can see, the wall I was spraying on is kind of grey-ish. Now if I attempted to spray green/gray/whatever, the color would look darker, because of the surface. If the surface you're using is dark, you can expect your final product to be darker than your actual colors are. That's why I sprayed white in the background in that vid.

Feel free to ask me anytime you see my trip :)

>>7599
So how should I cut this stencil >>6518
so it won't fall apart when I'm spraying it ? Any tips ?

>>7599
Please do the internet a favor and stop using cheesy video editing "tricks". That bit where the image was trying to pulse in time with the rhythm of the background music was groan worthy.

Actual video content was neat though. Thanks for that.

>>7635
Yeah see, THAT'S what I was screaming out in all of my previous posts.
There are a lot of motherfucking islands in there. You know what an island is?

Now assume you have cut this stencil out and want to spray it onto a white wall.
You want your stencil to be correct. But you left places that are supposed to stay white in the middle of the black WITHOUT ANY CONNECTION TO THE ACTUAL CARDBOARD YOU'RE USING.
So think of this: If you cut the black all around the white spot out, the white which was in the black will disappear, fall away with the black.
look at my pic to understand

>>7674
It was in sync with the rythm but fucking youtube was mad about the pirated song so I had to change it. but you couldn't know that so I'm not gonna say shit

>>7772
Damn I wish there was a [B] command, typing in caps makes me seem like I'm raging

>>7772
So guys, I'm going to finish this day and this thread off by saying thanks for your advice, I've learned great t-shirt stenciling techniques today.
And I hope I could be helpful. Looking forward to chat some more.

I'll probaby start/join a stencil thread next week and post pics of the finished tee.
Goodnight ♥

How do I make this into a stencil?

>>8613
Well, start by separating the colors out to different stencils.

make this please

Here is how to make them yourself.

sorry if this has already been posted
but for stenciling on fabrics
or getting good quality stencils

use a sponge with acrylic paint.
then use a fine paint brush do get all the details

>>8744
>>8744
>easy bitch mode

>>8876
I do all my stencils in vector

Mine (1/2)

(2/2)

>>8833

How durable is the acrylic paint on fabrics?

If you go to a craft store and read the uses of acrylic paints of different brands, it'll say if it's ok to use on fabric. There are paints made to be durable.
I've painted a lot of shirts, and I've made my own stencils. I've sold shirts that I've made and none have came back with any issues, and i've washed mine many times and nothing has flaked off. I use acrylics.