FALSE is doing a cab based on 'The Madness of Mission 6' art.
I suggested doing the side artwork in stencils, and, because I really like the ghosts, decided to do a smaller version myself.
1st attempt.20 x 30 cm.- used the protective vinyl cover on a piece of plexi for masking
- printed the pic, doubletaped it onto the backside of the plexi
- used a scalpel to cut out the ghosts, removed the vinyl that covered the ghosts
- spraypainted the ghosts
- removed the rest of the vinyl
- painted the backside of the plexi black using a roller
As you can see, using the plexi's vinyl for masking doesn't work too well.
2nd attempt.42 x 60 cm.- used proper masking vinyl, covered the entire piece of plexi with it, lots of air bubbles
- printed the pic, doubletaped it onto the backside of the plexi, cut the ghosts out
- removed the vinyl that covered the ghosts, spraypainted the ghosts
- removed the rest of the vinyl, the stuff left A LOT of glue residue
- decided that I didn't want to take the time to remove the stuff, aborted attempt #2
InterludeI wanted to use thin white cardboard for masking. Cut the cardboard, thought that this looked way too good to waste it, and just doubletaped it to black cardboard. Looks pretty good. For the fun of it, I put the white cardboard on a piece of sheet metal. Looks great, but the ghosts would both have the same color.
This bigger version made me realize that vectorizing the ghost faces makes them look kinda goofy. Vectorizing them by hand also didn't work, so in the end I just cut out the original faces and used those.
I also thought that the yellow ghost's face doesn't look mean enough, so I did a face swap.
3rd attempt.42 x 60 cm.- tried to make my own vinyl stickers by sticking opaque vinyl used to protect books onto doubletape vinyl
- printed the pic, doubletaped it onto the vinyl
- rollerpainted the backside of a piece of plexi black
- used a scalpel to cut out the pieces of the ghosts, basically creating stickers
- put the stickers on the front of the plexi
- the stickers don't stick too well, the colors are not bright enough
4th attempt.20 x 30 cm.Same as attempt #1, this time I used proper masking vinyl and spraypainted everything. The ghost's colors bled through the black.
Final attempt.42 x 60 cm.- decided to use cardboard
- cut the ghosts out of the black cardboard using a scalpel
- cut out the blue ghost's shape out of blue cardboard
- cut the red ghost's shape out of red cardboard
- taped the red and the blue cardboard on the back of the black cardboard
- doubletaped the pic on a piece of scrap MDF
- I wanted to cover the pic with plexi. Used black edge banding to glue the plexi to the MDF.
This came out well, I think. As usual, the pics don't do it justice because of the reflections. Now I just have to find a really dark place to hang this up to minimize those.