Sketchbook Cover Design: Spray paint Stenciling

Assignment

Your assignment is to create a personalized sketchbook cover design using a stencil and spray paint. You will design and create your own stencil utilizing positive and negative space.

You will also incorporate text using graffiti style lettering.

Objectives:

Students will select imagery that they identify with
Students will understand positive and negative space
Students will transform a complex image into one with simple cut outs
Students will create a stencil

Requirements:

You need to create at least one home made stencil to use on your sketchbook cover design

Art Inspiration

What is a Stencil?

Stencil- a piece of card, plastic, metal, etc. into which shapes have been cut, used to draw or paint patterns onto a surface

Understanding Positive and Negative Space

Positive Space is the subject that you are drawing.

Negative space is the empty space around and in between the subject.

Why is this important?

The negative space (what you cut out from your stencil) will be the area that is painted.
The positive space will be blocked by the stencil
Positive spaces must connect or the stencil will break into multiple pieces

Lines vs. Shapes

Planning and Design:

Select imagery for your stencil

What are your interests
choose a simple image
You may choose to create multiple stencils with multiple images

2. Simplifying a complex image

Do you have an image that you want to use, it is just too complicated to make into a stencil?
Use Pixlr.com to simplify and print your image

Find a reference photo & save it to your Chromebook files

Edit the photo using Pixlr.com- Crop, Auto B&W, Posterize

Photo editing Site:

Pixlr E: Free Advanced Photo Editor & Image Editing Tool | PixlrFree online photo editor with advanced image editing features. Perfect for both beginner & professional. Start editing with Pixlr E now!

How to edit and simplify an image:

Edit Stencil Image.wmv

Process:

Step 1: Priming the cover (optional)

Spray a base color on your sketchbook folder

Step 2: Creating the Stencil Design

Trace prited image onto card stock using light table
Check to make sure you have enough connecting positive space
color in negative space to make clear what you're cutting out

Tracing Stencil Design.mp4

Step 3: Cut out Negative Space Using an X-acto Knife

Cutting out the Stencil.mp4

Step 4: Spray Paint the Stencil onto your Cover

Tape down securely to the cover
Lightly spray with paint
Let dry before removing stencil

Step 5: Add Graffiti Style Text To your Cover Design

INSTRUCTIONS:

Step 1. Draw a word in basic letters.

Step 2. Fatten up the letters into outline letters.

Bend the bars of the letters a little bit.

Step 3. Redraw the letters with clean outlines.

Step 4. Add an arrow and some bits.

Step 5. Add 3-D.

Rubric

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