Painting Lettering on Your Drupalicon Munny

Drupal Word Mark Stenicil
Drupal Word Mark Stenicil
Test of Drupal Stencil
Test of Drupal Stencil
Hand Painted Words
Hand Painted Words

Adding lettering for me was a multi-part process. Creating a stencil, painting on the lettering through the stencil with the air brush, and finally hand painting to fill the stencil gaps and to make the paint a little more solid.

First I resized the Drupal wordmark in photoshop to be about 6.5cm in width.

I then printed it out and started to create a stencil. I couldn't use masking tape for the stencil because it would be too flimsy. Instead I used some acetate like film that I had lying around. Its rigid enough to create a stencil, but nearly flexible enough to conform to the contours of the Munny body shape.

After creating the stencil I did some tests with the airbrush. Since the stencil doesn't have an adhesive back it is not a perfect mask and could easily bleed the paint if care wasn't taken. (as you can see in the one image on the left). The trick is to use a very light mist of paint and do several passes slowly building up the colour.

I didn't want to attempt to use the stencil to completely fill the lettering on the body with colour, I simply wanted a way to transfer the shapes of the letter to the body.

Once the basic letter shapes were on the body I used a fine brush and carefully painted in the letters with several thin coats of paint until I was satisfied with the opacity.

The only trick to getting this right is a steady hand and patience.


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