Spray Paint Techniques_Lines and Can Control

[Music] I'm back with another episode of spray paint techniques this one on doing fine and skinny lines for graffiti artists street artists and then I'm gonna do some stuff on the fine art side as well the first technique I'm going to show you is how to restrict the flow on this on the spray paint by pulling back and down on the can and what it does is that peaches the straw on the inside of the cap and makes it spit and what it basically does is when you're pulling back it tilts the like the cap backwards and then it pushes it against the edge of the the retainer piece on the inside and what that does is if not only will you you're not pushing all the way down so you're not getting the straight flow up and out but it also restricts it through the cap also so instead when you push all the way down it's the the paint goes straight up and it's going through an open hole what you're doing is making the hole oval in the cap and by pulling it back and you'll hear it spit so what you want to do is and it is super tricky to do but you you can listen to the cap make sure you're getting the amount of pressure that you want out of it and you want to get as close as you can to the wall so you want to get the cap almost touching the wall or touching the wall depending off this if it's a rough surface you don't want it completely touching because it's gonna it's gonna bounce against the wall but on a smooth surface like this you can make some really really skinny lines and then if you want to pull them out and you can see you can get super skinny and the faster you move the skinnier the lines gonna get but also towards the end you'll see they taper out and I do this a lot when I'm doing like like hairs on animals or people or whatever as you you you go fast and longer and it will give you a lot skim your line what you can typically get and it is tricky and it does spit quite a bit so sometimes you have to go over the same line two three times to get it the thickness and the the amount of spit that you want sometimes you want that little bit of coming out the little spit coming out because it actually helps the character quite a bit I've learned that when you're doing especially realistic stuff because a little bit of overspray is a great thing in the character I'm not saying don't paint paint sloppy but a little bit of overspray can actually help the character quite a bit and the harder you push the the thicker line and the more solid the line the next technique I'm going to show you is basically on on which way to move the can to get the smallest line a lot of people don't realize that moving side to side we'll get you a skinny line especially if you're close to it but the trick is you want to go parallel to the straw so if you're going if you want a vertical line you want to move with the straw and turn your can with the straw if you want it to arc or if you want to go straight go straight up and down parallel to the straw so if you're going this way and you want a skinny line the best thing to do is turn the can 90 degrees and let it follow itself because what it does is it allows you to put less pressure on the cap and it allows you to to have this the spinning part of the line to follow itself so it's not at an angle facing down and you're going away from it like if like if you were to fade something so and you can definitely see that to keep you tilt it down you're gonna have a little bit of a fade but if you go to the side it will make your skin your line then if you're going this way and that's as skinny as I can do that direction turning the can makes a huge difference and how skinny the line can be these two techniques are specifically we can't control they're not something you're just gonna pick up a can and just do you're gonna have to practice and practice and practice and you're still going to mess it up from time to time but it's alright if you just it's paint you don't like it paint over it the type of cap that I like to use for skinny lines is the gold dots grey dots worked pretty good too a lot of people like the grey dots because they're a little bit softer they don't spit as much but I like the gold edge to the thinnest ones although they do spit a lot and they do clog a lot yeah you will burn through a lot of them that those are the ones you chose chose II use a lot of people like the the older 94 caps those seem to work pretty good for most people I don't particularly care form because the the shape of the cap doesn't allow you to pull back on it and restrict the flow that dirt that way it just restricts it by pushing it up and down and having a smaller end on it so I prefer these and I like the and I pretty much issues these and the fat caps that come on the black line for most everything that I do and the next technique I'm going to show you is more for street art people are possibly using for canvasses things like that not necessarily for graph writers but what it is is how to restrict the paint and make a skinnier line using a piece of cardboard or tape which you think would be self explanatory but it's really not and I'll show you why it's because when you're when you're using these what you want to do is you don't paint on the end of it you can but it's gonna make a very solid heavy line do you want to do is shoot about an inch away from them the middle and as small as you can get it and angle it about a I don't know about a 40 degree angle and what it does is it allows the just the overspray to travel down the cardboard and get to just the end of it and if there's a very light line you don't want to be touching the wall because it leave a heavy side one side will be super clean and the other side will be like faded out so you the trick is you want to get it a little bit straighter and and be a little bit away from the wall and then when you hit it it'll it'll give you like a little thin line and the closer you get you'll see the cleaner that it gets and the thinner that it gets but you don't you'll see by looking at this I'm not painting on the end I'm painting further up and if you want to get it heavier line you can also do you want this line to be super clean and come back on the other side and let it travel back the other direction but you're always it's always gonna be faded out unless you're like touching the wall I guess I can show that but then you see how it fades on one one side the other side cleans that's pretty much what you're gonna get for doing like really straight parallel lines or if something like you're painting buildings things like that where you need to be super straight a sign that sort of sort of thing the best thing to use is if they're 2x4 or a three-foot level levels are great because you can make everything parallel and perfectly straight up and down and what you want to do is put it about about two inches two and a quarter inches away from where you want to be at because your lines actually going to travel here because you're gonna force the can against it and you're gonna go you're gonna bright actually ride this edge and what that will do is it allow you to be perfectly straight with their lines it seems super easy super and and it really is two by fours look really good when you're doing a super long line that's you know eight or ten foot long you can also pop you a chalk line and put the chalk line if you're gonna pop one and you're gonna do a super long line like you know maybe you're doing a two-story building or something you need a 45 degree angle pop the chalk line but pop it were the two-by-four is gonna go or the three foot level and not where you want your can to go that way you can set the your utensil that you're using in the exact same spot every time going down the line and your line will stay perfectly straight if you try to put it where the cans go then you're trying to you're guessing where the where the the two-by-four or the levels going and that can cause your lines to be a little bit off and the next technique and the final technique that I'm going to talk about today is using tape which seems relatively easy but there are some tricks to it that you may or may not realize if you get super thin tape you actually be able to bend it and move in different directions the opposite effect happens when you get thicker tape the thicker the tape is the straighter the line is going to stay for the longer duration so if you're trying to do a super long line if you can find like the three inch three inch wide tape it'll stay super straight for you without with that much bending and stuff like that which will make a really big difference if you're trying to do a border on a mural or something like that also when you're using tape on the fine art side and you're doing canvases things like that and you have you'll have issues with it bleeding under the tape either due to the texture of the wall or the texture of the canvas will cause the tape to actually your paint actually bleed underneath especially with spray paint it works the same with acrylics but acrylics oils they'll actually will bleed underneath the tape the way to get that to stop doing that is you either take matte medium or gloss medium depending on which type of paint you're using and paint the edge of the tape and what that will do is the matte medium or gloss medium will go bleed underneath the tape but they're clear so you don't see it and that'll actually seal the line of the tape and allow you to paint over it without having your paint bleed through the tape and that's the final technique I'm gonna show for today [Music]

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Length: 10min 56sec (656 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 10 2019