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Wow. So I had an absolutely horrible time trying to figure out which category to upload this to; the only entry for stencils I could find was under street art/graffiti, which really isn't where this goes ...

Anyways! The first of many stencils I'm working on for a huuuuuge project. No, I can't tell you what it is yet. ^-^ But I'm excited.

I would just like to say here and now that creating a stencil from scratch is humongously difficult. Like AMG-WHERE-IS-AN-INDUSTRIAL-SIZED-BOTTLE-OF-ADVIL-WHEN-YOU-NEED-IT difficult. Sketching something, converting the sketch to a line drawing of only positive and negative space, blocking it and then cutting the whole thing out is ... just wow. Hopefully I didn't do too badly. Some of the edges need to be cleaned out, I can still see the paper fibers where the cut didn't -quite- go all the way through the cardstock and sort of ripped out instead of pulling out cleanly. :<

The actual size of this is about 5"x5", so a lot of the inner part of the rose is -very- delicate, and I am oh-so-afraid-to-rip-it. x_x

Tools of the trade: 0.5 Mechanical Pencil, Clicky Eraser, A LOT of Strathmore sketch paper, 60 lb. cardstock, and an X-acto knife.

And some advil. -_-

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Wow. So I had an absolutely horrible time trying to figure out which category to upload this to; the only entry for stencils I could find was under street art/graffiti, which really isn't where this goes ...

Anyways! The first of many stencils I'm working on for a huuuuuge project. No, I can't tell you what it is yet. ^-^ But I'm excited.

I would just like to say here and now that creating a stencil from scratch is humongously difficult. Like AMG-WHERE-IS-AN-INDUSTRIAL-SIZED-BOTTLE-OF-ADVIL-WHEN-YOU-NEED-IT difficult. Sketching something, converting the sketch to a line drawing of only positive and negative space, blocking it and then cutting the whole thing out is ... just wow. Hopefully I didn't do too badly. Some of the edges need to be cleaned out, I can still see the paper fibers where the cut didn't -quite- go all the way through the cardstock and sort of ripped out instead of pulling out cleanly. :<

The actual size of this is about 5"x5", so a lot of the inner part of the rose is -very- delicate, and I am oh-so-afraid-to-rip-it. x_x

Tools of the trade: 0.5 Mechanical Pencil, Clicky Eraser, A LOT of Strathmore sketch paper, 60 lb. cardstock, and an X-acto knife.

And some advil. -_-