Im starting new stencils: billy the kid

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Im starting new stencils: billy the kid

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Im starting to practice cutting lettering so my stencils wont be so bland. I liked this particular typopgraph which is an ambigram. Read it one way, it says white. Turn it 180 degrees and it says black. I combined pictures of it both ways so you can see what I mean. It might be better with political symbols stenciled in there. Maybe racial for both sides, maybe a swastika on one side and a black power fist on the other. Ironic that you can have both extremes on the same canvas joined in the middle by a single word. Just an idea and any feedback would be appreciated. Maybe no symbols at all? Anyway, here it is:

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Post by not just souLLy now »

i personally wouldn't change it at all, looks great to me.
lets see some of these in public places now ;)
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Get a good Xacto brand knife, if you're cutting manually.

Better yet, make your art on a vector program like Illustrator and output it to a vinyl-cut plotter. You can get a perfect template, or make decals if you wish.

I'd say think twice about the swastika thing. I realize te point you're trying to get accross, but that stuff is VERY easily misinterpreted...
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I think having a swastika (or any symbol on it) would take away from the ambigram. Right now, it looks really original... putting a mass produced symbol on it might take away.
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By the way, you are very talented.
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Man, thats really nice, and creative... Nice jo.
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Thanks for the kind words guys. I dont want to give the impression that the ambigram is my original design. I only wish I was that creative. Someone else made it, I just made it into a stencil.

I tried another one today. I decided to try billy the kid.

This is the google image I manipulated. It used to be in color, but I lost the original.

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And this is the stencil I made:

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It looks a lot fatter than my avitar, but that avitar is pic's pixels are streched. Might be a little fat, but that was the best google image to manipulate. Do you think I should redo the stencil with that image, or find a full body one with the famouse pose with the rifle? I think I am also going to make the paper I spray on look like parchment with tea bags and coffee. Do you think I should antique-ize the paper I spray outlaws on? Im going to do a series of outlaws and old west personalities with billy the kid, doc holliday, wyatt earp, and jesse james in the series.
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You can buy paper with a "parchment" texture, that already looks aged. An office supply store should have it.

Or you can use thick vegetal paper, and crumple it up after you paint it. Besides, you can buy it by the roll
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