Finally done!

[cyph]

16 hours of painting, 10+ hours of arthritis-inducing stencil cutting, and i'm finally done with my mural!

Check out my documentation of it!

If you're in the L.A. area and wanna check it out, or you're feeling a lil' scrappy, come through L.A. Sands Boxing Gym. Be sure to lock your car doors.

 

[auntiehill]

WOW, that's pretty impressive.

I wish I had one ounce of your artistic talent.

 

[Trippy]

Wow...the time it must have taken to cut out those stencils!

Well done

 

[backstept]

wow! such a work of art! well done

what was that conveyor belt thing on the stairs? (I'm at work so I watched without sound in case you explained it in the video)

 

[RoJoHen]

Yeah, I am very impressed with the stencil work. I've never understood the ability to take a picture of a person, break it down into just black and white, and then have it still look like that person. I would screw it up so bad.

 

[cyph]

wow! such a work of art! well done :thumb:

what was that conveyor belt thing on the stairs? (I'm at work so I watched without sound in case you explained it in the video)

Gotcha

The century old building used to be a textile manufacturing warehouse. Thus, thee conveyor belt. It's actually BOLTED into the concrete stairs. It's pretty cool; it's like remnants of the building's past life.

Designing the stencil isn't hard at all. Just desaturate (convert to b&w), raise contrast levels, then take the pen tool and trace out your design. CUTTING it however... is a different story.

Original Pacquiao picture:

Design concept:

Painted:

 

[RJDiogenes]

Very impressive. I hope it's there to be admired for many years.

 

[Kestra]

You really do fantastic work. Congratulations! I'd love to see future projects, as I really like your style.