Tuesday, April 08, 2008

Banksy Wanna-be?


Continuing to experiment with digital stencils for Crusade 19, I tried to come up with something mimicking Banksy stenciling. Here's what I came up with, the idea being that it looks like grafitti spray-painted on a wall.

To get the sprayed-on-a-wall look, I blurred the stencil image quite a bit, then went over it with a background-colored textured brush at extremely low flow. I think it's cool!

For more Banksy inspiration, check out the Banksy Flickr group: http://www.flickr.com/groups/banksy/pool/



15 comments:

michelle ward said...

Suzanne - So you did this all digitally? I'm a Banksy fan too. Love his sense of humor. My favorite: POLITE LINE: DO NOT GET CROSS. *giggles*

ArtKat said...

Great digital stencil! I would be very happy indeed, to make a digital or real-life stencil such as this! :)

Becci said...

I'm trying to get inspired for Crusade #19 and am blog cruzin' tonight...I picked your page because of your last name! :-)

I am gonna try a digital stancil because I really like your!

Have a great hair day! Becci

susan w said...

Way cool! You didn't have to hunch over a table with a buner - just crunch up in front o' your monitor

Stephanie said...

great image!

ladylulu said...

This is supah-dupah! I love it! I have found myself opting for digital collage over scissors and glue lately. I never thought of digital stencils. Hmmmm...

LostLuggage said...

Awesome! I had no idea you could make something like this digitally....it's fantastic!!

Cath Sheard said...

You're right - it *is* cool :-)

Maj said...

Your digital stencilling looks great! I'll have to check up on this
Banksy guy.

belindaschneider said...

very cool! never heard of banksy and will have to check it out for sure. you should cut this into a real stencil, just too cool!

Sarah aka Flo said...

hey this is brilliant!!!

my eldest son is a Banksy fan - I have to show him this :)

LaY hOoN said...

Dear Suzanne, this is really beautiful :)

PLO said...

I love it, I really need to try this...if I could ever get my kids off of the computer long enough to dig in to photoshop.

inge bekaert said...

hello Suzanne,

just another trick to try with photoshop ! Thanks and i'm gonna check out that banksy boy..;
greetings
Inge

JeriAnn said...

If you hadn't told me this was done digitally, I'd never have known. I've been reading about how to alter a photo on Photoshop so you can cut a stencil, but it makes so much sense that you could imitate the stencil itself. So cool! I love what you've done here. You can count me as another Banksy fan.