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Part 2: From Photoshop to painting

Now you’ve done all the hard work, it’s time to have some fun with aerosols

1. Sometimes it’s helpful to print out one image with the colours and one image of just the outlines. This will help you to distinguish the lines better when it is time to paint. If it’s wet, put your printouts in a plastic wallet.

Click Here for Part 1 (Tutorial – From Sketch 2 Wall)

2. Start by painting your wall with emulsion. The quickest method is to
use a roller and roller tray. Chill out and wait. When the paint is dry,
you’re ready to start. If you start when the paint is still wet, the spray paint
will bleed and form a skin on top of the emulsion.

3. It’s now time to get your hands on a spray can and put down rough shapes with a light-coloured paint. Continuously check your sketch to match the composition. Keep your movements fl uid, moving your whole body to make your lines flow. At this stage you can use any cap. These lines won’t be visible in your final painting.

4Now that your basic shapes are down, you can begin to add detail to your lines. Use a new colour and begin to work into your piece. These are still your sketch lines – they do not have to be perfect but it helps. Practise getting thin lines and no drips now where it won’t show.

5. As you become more experienced you’ll fi nd you can sketch up faster and more accurately. Once you’re confident with your sketch-up skills, paint your first lines in black. This cuts out steps later on and is essential if you are fading your tones towards the lighter colours.

6.Now it’s time to fi ll in your shapes with colour. The most important thing is that you practise your can control.You need to achieve a completely fl at colour without any drips. It’s basically painting by numbers. Practise painting smooth straight lines while you can still change it. Most of these fi lls will be outlined with a black line. Work out a system you’re happy with, such as working from left to right, or from light colour to dark colour.

7.Practise your cutbacks  as you paint. When you’re putting colours next to each other it’s important you understand the order to lay down the paint. Always paint darker colours over lighter colours. Yellows and whites are notoriously difficult to cut back with – they will overspray or be too transparent to fully cover a darker colour.

8. Fill in your background colour around the edges of your shapes.
It’s important that you do this before you add your fi nal outlines to
achieve a clean and tidy outside edge. Aerosol dries really quickly so if
you do mess up, it’s not the end of the world. Just give it a few minutes to
dry and paint over it with the correct colour. Use a fat cap to cover large
areas of colour and clean up the edges with a thin cap.

9. This is a really important part: your outline. Practise your flow first without painting and then go for it. Try to keep all the lines the same thickness and quality throughout. And try to get into the habit of painting upwards. If you paint downwards, your line will almost always end in a drip.

10.  Once you’ve finished your outlines you need to correct your mistakes. Take a step back. Look at your sketch and now look at the wall. How do they compare. By constantly checking that the shapes you’re painting match the ones on your sketch you will become better at correcting mistakes and not making them in the first place.

11.Now you need to clean up any loose ends. Invariably something will have got through – a drip you missed, an outline you forgot, or a colour in the wrong place. Have a good look and make sure that you haven’t missed anything.

12. Sign your name. Your tag is the fi nishing touch and should be a piece in itself but with less marking up and less
colouring. We can’t help you with this part of the tutorial. It’s all down to you. Marks will be awarded for fl ow, funk, line width and joined up writing.

It’s all in the preparation. LUCA BRATSI shows you how to take a sketch and get it ready for spray painting onto a wall…

Graffiti has been around for many years and applied using a huge variety of methods. A favoured tool is the aerosol can, which can be clumsy in the hands of an inexperienced ‘Toy’ (a person who is not well versed in the techniques of graffiti). Put one in the hands of a professional muralist, though, and the most amazing artwork can be created. Modifications to the tools of graffi ti have allowed a new generation of artists to add more detail, more colour and more substance to the traditional art form. Whether you’re writing your name on buildings, creating wildstyle letters or painting detailed characters, you will be judged on your line quality, use of colour, shape and form and the freshness of your piece. Do not expect to be amazing the fi rst time you pick up a can. Chances are you won’t, and not everybody will immediately master the skills needed to hold their own on a wall. The best graffiti artists are dedicated, experimental and talented. There are many techniques you must learn before you’ll be able to master the art of aerosol, but research, time and dedication will all pay off. Sketching and using computer programs to plan your production is a great way to work out the order in which to apply the paint. You can edit and adjust your sketches before you get to the

painting stage and look more prepared in front of bigger boys. This tutorial will guide you through the initial stages of planning through to the production of a finished painting. The process starts with a sketch that is then prepared and rendered in Adobe Photoshop and Illustrator. Once the colour scheme has been defined, you can start to use spray paint on a real wall. Follow the instructions with your own sketches. Keep it simple and, above all, experiment.

Part 1: Prepare your design

Get your piece ready using pen and paper, Photoshop and Illustrator

1. 1.Your fi rst step and perhaps the most important one is to draw your own design. Sketch your initial shapes lightly and build up the image using darker lines when you’re confi dent they look right. You can then ink over these lines and rub out the pencil marks for a cleaner image.

2. Scan your image at a high resolution. In the top toolbar select File>Import. Select 300dpi and choose the Grayscale setting. There’s no need for colour at this point, as it will cause problems when you adjust the levels.

3. It’s important to work with a clean image. Adjusting the Brightness

and Contrast will take out the midtones and leave you with a black-and-white image. Alternatively, you can change the levels in
Image>Adjustments to suit.

4. Now make fi nal adjustments to the background using the Eraser tool to remove nuisance
greys and random dirt. Starting with a completely clean image will save you lots of work later on. If you have a Wacom tablet, you’ll find this job much easier.

5. If your lines need more definition, draw over them with the paint tool set to black. It’s very important that you keep the same line quality throughout. Your fi nal inked image should have crisp black lines to make it easier to trace in Illustrator.

6.Change the grayscale to RGB in Image>Mode and create a new layer. Fill this new layer with red or another vibrant colour and select Screen in your right-hand toolbar. Merge your layers to create one final layer. This will make all your black lines red in preparation for tracing in Illustrator. Now save
this as a JPEG.

7. Now you have two options in Illustrator. If you’ve got the time and
the skills, you can trace your sketch in a new layer. Alternatively, you
can use the Live Trace option to clean up your Photoshop lines. Select
your image and choose Live Trace in the toolbar at the top, experimenting
with the settings to achieve a smooth line throughout, or you could simply
spend more time in Photoshop cleaning all your lines. Save your file.

8. Next, open
the saved
Illustrator fi le in
Photoshop at
300dpi. Now
you’re almost
ready to add
colour to the
image. First,
create a new
colour layer
ensuring that
your original
outline is the
top layer.

9. Start adding colour to the new layer. You will see, from the previous image, that the colour is painted underneath your outlines like an animation cell. Use erasers to clean up the mistakes and make a new layer for each new colour.

Hue order

Understanding layers in Photoshop will help you understand
the order in which you should paint your colours in aerosol.
It’s often a good idea to paint background colours before
painting the outline.

10. Now it’s time to give your whole image a
white outline. Make a new layer and drag it
underneath all the other layers, then select your
background (the area not coloured in). Make sure the
Select All Layers option is ticked in the toolbar at the
top of your screen. Click Select>Inverse and
Select>Modify>Expand by 10. Use the Paint Bucket
tool to fi ll the new layer with white and you should
now have a crisp white outline.

11.Make a new layer and fi ll in the background with a complementary colour. Your image should now be fi nished. Save the PSD fi le so you can adjust it in the future if you want to but save a JPEG version of your image, then print it out at A4. Now you’re ready to start painting.

Click Here for Part 2 (Tutorial – From Sketch 2 Wall)