I thought it would be a good idea to start a thread where we could post pics that would look good as stencils. Personally, I'm horrible at picking them (and I'm probably not the only one). Anyways, it would be great if people could post some pics with great stenciling potential

well here are pictures I made for stencil.

i didnt make this one it was from a magazine or something:

dang those are good

I made a shirt out of this one, it kicksass, oh yes!

WOW!
that is awesome!

damn..that's good. how did ya do it?

Omg. That almost made me pee a little

wow, that one's so good!

I madeone too, but it's very simple. It's Carlos, by the way

I haven't got a proper camera so err sorry for the poor quality.

Edit: I didn't use anyhting like photoshop, just a pencil and a marker

how did I make the stencil or the shirt?

BOTH!

Just 2 seconds in Photoshop and voila..


It'd would look better if the lines were cleaner, I think. can't be bothered to vectorize it though; takes an effort because there's more detail in this image.

Ok, first I start out by chosing a picture, (I find that pictures with less details in them come out better), then in photoshop, I usually select the main object and cutout the crap I don't want to be on the shirt(threshold comes out better). When I have a nice clean picture of what i want then I use threshold on it. and you can screw around with the options tilll you like it.

and for the shirt making instructions you can go to this website

the poor mans way of screen printing

I used this for a t-shirt I made.

THANK YOU FOR THAT SITE! ITS SOO HELPFUL!! Now I'm off to start my own Interpol tee business!

In these pictures it looks like Carlos' stuck his hand in his pants

...Also looks like Sam's fighting the urge not to do the same thing
"So..... close...!"

antix: your stencils are totally awesome!

but one thing that confuses me about stencils is which part do you cut out? the black, or the white part?

like the purple one, great job

you cut out the black parts.

thank you so much for the stencil! i just made this bag last night.

yourwelcome! It looks GREAT!!!!!!!!!

aaah.
your amazing.
thnks you so much!!

Thanks, and once again I hope it helps, when you finish your shirt make sure to post it.

i saved these to photobucket a long time ago. they're from the Space galleries.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/Citr...ol/danspace.jpg

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v48/Citr...carlosspace.jpg

Wonderful Stenciling Site

An alternative to silkscreening is stenciling with freezer paper or cardstock



I love freezer paper

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Behold!
I stencilled the first onto a shirt.

gunHERdead.

Those are amazing.

How do make those?

oh will
quick question:
do you use spray paint or some special kind of ink?

^^^^I guess it depends on what your stenciling, if it's something other than fabric, I would use spray paint, but if it fabric defenetly use fabricpaint. I use a fabricpaint called Jacquard textile.

thnks so much

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you can take the stencil
if you want to
its of the photograph
of paul wearing the paul banks shirt
easy to make. so steal!

I swore someone posted the link to it.
http://www.livejournal.com/community/diy_t...999.html#cutid1

I did it months ago. I wish I had my paint with me.

har har i think he needs a wee

i need to master the stencil. i dont have photshop, so i dont know if i can make em.

LoL, Paul looks bloated.

You don't really need photoshop.
I've used this thing call irfan view.
You just download it and you can easily change a picture to just black and white.
The sites just http://www.irfanview.com/.
Hope that helps.

^ i just downloaded that program, but I have absolutely no clue how to turn a pic to black and white. Can you help me out?

i want to make a stencil but it seems abit hard

i mean how do u get such small details like eyes and hair to come out so awesome???

and is the silk screen way, or the cut of stencial easier?

also where do u buy freezer paper and how do u print on it

^ I used to make my stencils using the program 'paint'. I'd get a picture, and click 'save as' then change the part that says 'save type as' to 'MONOCHROME BITMAP' and it'll turn black and white. It doesn't always work though. Not all the details show.

Anyways, I print out the picture on regular printer paper, and then I paperclip it to a sheet of transparency [clear overhead paper] I then use an exacto-knife to cut out all the black parts

I've never tried the silk screen technique before.

I made a Pulp Fiction stencil a while ago, I'll try and post the picture of it, so you can get an idea of how the stencil turned out.

bored minds...

^^LoL, that looks funny. It doesn't look so much where he's drinking, but more like he's sniffing.

It was tough to do with a dark bottle and a black background. But now that you point it out, it kind of does.

wow this is the best!!

carlos looks amazing as a silloette!