1 month into striping, newbie from west yorkshire england

[timbo]

hello!!!!

this site is very very cool, ive been looking through it for about a week now, theres so much inspiration here its unbeleivable!!!

Im sure i came across a thread just for newbies to post theyre work in but i cant seem to find it now, its a shame really because ive finally got some bits id like to show you guys after a month of trying.

anyone got a link to it???

[Joey Madden]

Just ask whatever it is that you truly need and someone will answer it. There are many newbies and many posts...

[purplemyth]

You may have come across a link to the newbie lines thread that is in the old site which is just an archive now.
As Joey said, post up , several here willing to help :)

[timbo]

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i started on the 17th of sept

[purplemyth]

I think those look pretty good for just over a month.
Keep working on line consistency and you corners, where 2 lines meet. An old trick I read and works sometimes is turning your brush upside down and cleaning up the point. (it puts the belly up so you are only using the tip).
Over all though, they look good! :)

[LOWSHOW]

You have some great design elements, keep em coming, and follow purplemyths advice, that is the key to all of this in my opinnion. Practice a lot.

[timbo]

thanks for the replies, ive been doing as you suggested purplemyth and its helping alot.

thats a good thing to hear longshow, im trying to be a bit different with my stuff, whether or not ive managed that i dont know haha.

been having a little bit of trouble with my one shot recently, its seems to goes sticky really quickly. does this mean i need some thinners or is my paint just old and getting unuseable???

[purplemyth]

stickie paint, what are you using for thinner? if it's hot temperatures, you may need to get the high temp reducer by 1 shot. It slows the drying time a bit.
But in England,(aren't you like us, going into colder seasons? fall and winter?) I don't think thats the problem. Unless you are working in a very warm building. But then, I use high temp in the house and the temps averages 70* lately. I just paint a lil bit each day.
These paints usually only go bad if left open for a long time. Have friends in the sign biz with very old cans that work fine. My oldest is from june '07, still works fine. Some colors also act differently than others, like red, stays stickie longer, yet white and sometimes black, dry too fast.

As for developing your own style, don't worry about that right now, it'll come on it's own. It's like handwriting, it looked like chicken scratch when you were little, and now it's fine. Takes time, and will change, just keep having fun :)

[David Blakeman]

Looks like you have a good sense of style.Looks like something from an old car dashboard.There is a tool for cleaning up corners too. I got mine in an art store but Ive read it can be a cuticle tool from pharmacy.I could never find that.Heck, you could sharpen an eraser and make the tool .Just push the over run back gently into the other line.

[Joey Madden]

I love it when my paint get sticky after its been brushed on a surface. It gets sticky because its drying. Is this what you're saying or what is is that you're saying?


timbo said:

thanks for the replies, ive been doing as you suggested purplemyth and its helping alot.

thats a good thing to hear longshow, im trying to be a bit different with my stuff, whether or not ive managed that i dont know haha.

been having a little bit of trouble with my one shot recently, its seems to goes sticky really quickly. does this mean i need some thinners or is my paint just old and getting unuseable???

[timbo]

sorry i wasnt really clear on it, its going sticky on the pallet, but really quickly, it twists my brush up when i try to load some paint on to it.

im doing it in my garage outside my house, its not very warm, am i right in thinking they make low temp thinners?? im not using any at the moment

[Joey Madden]

Heres my personal opinion and what it is that I do to combat this kind of stickiness. Before I start striping I shake the can for a minute or two, I than pour a certain amount of paint into a 1oz medical cup. I do not add any thinners or solvents other then a drop of smoothie which is not necessary for you. ( smoothie is pure silicone ) I use 2 empty sardine cans with reducer added to clean the brush and the second to make sure the brush is clean, also use 2 second one for when brush gets sticky, I also use 1 more 1oz medical cup with a flow enhancer in it, ( Penetrol works great for flow, can be gotten at a hardware store) which sits directly next to the 1oz paint cup. I dip the brush into the flow enhancer and then palette the brush on the clean area of the palette. You can use a magazine for your palette, works great and never continue to palette your brush on top of the wet paint over and over because when you do that - The brush gets sticky.
When paletting your brush, first dip your brush into the Penetrol or thinner, solvent whatever lightly, palette the brush, then dip into the paint and palette the brush on another clean part of the page to mix both the solvent and paint together and then when it feels right, go to work and when the brush gets sticky, dip it into the solvent and start all over. This is the way to learn and the way most all the pro's do it.

Any questions, I like many more are here to help..

timbo said:

sorry i wasnt really clear on it, its going sticky on the pallet, but really quickly, it twists my brush up when i try to load some paint on to it.
im doing it in my garage outside my house, its not very warm, am i right in thinking they make low temp thinners?? im not using any at the moment

[timbo]

thanks for the tips joey, ive got myself a little bit of thinners today so ill try what you said.

i think i was continueing to pallete my brush on top of wet paint too, so ill stop doing that and see how i get on.

what brush/brushes would be good for a beginer to use? ive got a mack brush at the moment,im not sure which number it is tho, i think its either 0 or a 10, ill have to check. only reason im asking this is because on all the videos of people striping ive watched, none of them seem to be using a mack brush like mine, the majority are using some thing that looks more like a convention paintbrush just with longer bristles.

thanks again to everyone whos replied and i appologise if mny questions are very basic.