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My first stencil...

I was so excited after discovering the stencilism community that I had to make my first stencil... it's an homage to the recently passed Elliott Smith, and his glorious song "2:45 AM"... what a way to go out, suicide by stabbing one's self in the heart, ho hum. For a good post-mortem piece on Elliott Smith, check out "Remembering Elliott Smith" by Carl Wilson at Clink (Here's a compressed EPS file (84KB) of the stencil if you want to writ it large... licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license):

esmith2simple.png

If you'd like to start making your own stencils... for the street or studio... get yourself some graphics software and head over to the tutorials at stencilrevolution.com:

  1. Basic Stencil Cut
  2. Converting a colour photo to a single layered stencil with Photoshop
  3. Creating a 3 layer multicolour stencil

Posted by joebeone at Enero 4, 2004 01:56 AM