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--- Quote from: reptileink on April 28, 2010, 10:00:23 am ---What I am stuck on now is a theme. My favorite comic book character is Venom. So I was thinking of doing a black cabinet with white t-molding, and some Venom artwork, but that is kind of scarce. Also not sure how I feel about white molding either. I was thinking of maybe dark blue since a lot of artists shade Venom in blue.....
I really like the idea of old school characters, but I feel that is too generic, and been done a thousand times....
I am a big comic book fan too, so I could always do a Marvel themed unit....... :dunno
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+1 for the Venom idea. You've peaked my interest.
I think if you are going to go that route, the black cabinet with white trimming would be great! You can then have Venom in his dark blue shade as well, as it fits more of the old school spider-man/venom comics.
Here's what I'd do:
I took the liberty to throw your image into photoshop for a theme test.
Now this may look intimidating, work-wise, but if you want a good looking cabinet I say go all out with it. The fact that the webs and the venom symbol are one colour, white, it would make it really easy for you to make stencils and spray paint the white. Now, everyone fears stenciling, but it really comes down to patience and confidence in getting it down. I've stenciled my artwork onto my Canucks Cocktail cabinet (link in my sig), and even had more than one colour. It was actually pretty easy!
What I'd do is stencil spray-paint the symbols and webbing straight onto the black, then get an image of Venom (whether from the internet, or scanned in from one of your comics. you don't have to worry about vectorizing if it's a high resolution picture) and print it out to be pasted on top of the painted webbing.
With the stenciling, again, find an image on the web and print it out with a normal printer in black and white. Then trace the image onto poster board or stenciling sheets (if you can find them), then cut the image out where the paint is supposed to be spray through. Attach the stencil and paint. Easy-peasy, and the outcome is so much nicer and more durable than printed vinyl. You'll save lots of money too. There are a bunch of threads here that people have used stencils, do a search if you're interested.
For the printed Venom image, I'd go with a glossy adhesive vinyl print...it doesn't have to be a big image either. The Glossy vinyl could look really good with the white spray paint, if you get a glossy paint to match. Again, on my Canucks cocktail cabinet I went with Glossy white paint, and the contrast between the eggshell blue and glossy white turned out excellent.
Another idea is one side of the cabinet could have venom, the other could be Spiderman in his black suit!
Anyways, that's my suggestion, and it gives you a starting point at least. :cheers:
reptileink:
I spent half the day at work(in-between customers) reading your Canucks thread(even though I am a Canadiens fan)
I have done some stenciling before
I actually like the haze on this, but not on the cab.
I think it would be pretty damn hard to get a spiderweb stencil to go on that crisp though.. :-\
I really love your Photoshop though....lol.....great design!
Thanks for being the one comment out of 50+ views..... :notworthy:
EDIT: Would you suggest dismantling this whole cabinet, or should I just work on it whole?? I fear if I take it all apart, I will run into more problems re-assembling it...... :dunno
opt2not:
Work on it whole.
Oh man, go Canadiens! They're my eastern conference team. Big game tonight.
I'm rooting for an all Canadian Stanley cup final, Canadiens vs. Canucks! That would be epic.
Cool looking 360. I like the haze for the Punisher symbol too, it definitely works for that. But you don't need to have the haze happen to the venom artwork if you seal the stencil good enough.
Actually, spider webs wouldn't be too bad if you just used painters tape. They're real easy, a bunch of lines converging to the center, with rounded intersecting lines connected all around.
It could be as simple as this. It would just take some patience.
Alternatively and probably easier, you can paint the cabinet sides white first, then mask the lines you want to be the webs with painter's tape, then paint the cabinet black. When you remove the tape, you'll have the white lines revealed from underneath!
Also, the photoshop image I put up has the spider webs being pretty thick...you could opt for skinnier ones using thinner painter's tape, which would look a lot nicer (sorry, I was in a rush when putting this image together).
reptileink:
Errrrr, not sure I am too talented with painter's tape. That would be a crap-ton of work to get curves, etc....