Need some help creating some stencils for a present. - General

Not sure if this is the section for it, but I couldn't figure out where this correctly goes. Hi guys. :buddy: I need the help of some artsy people. I don't have Photoshop, and I'm terrible with it anyway, so hopefully some of you guys can help me out. I'm making a special nerf gun for my little cousin's birthday (he's like 9) and I want to paint it like a gun from MW2 (his favorite game). I know he uses an ACR with Urban Camo, and I found a nerf gun that looks like an ACR and I'm finishing up the body touches to make it look accurate. When it comes to the paint job, however, I'm at a loss. I know what the camo LOOKS like, but I'm not sure how to turn it into paint. [img]http://images1.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20091205181534/callofduty/images/8/8d/Weapon_camo_menu_red_urban.png[/img] This is the camo. I was hoping someone awesome here can figure out what the individual shapes look like and then isolate them and turn them into stencils or something. I have absolutely no idea how to do that, which is why I'm hoping you guys will. :D let me know if this is something possible to do, and if you have free time to do it or something like that, it would be really appreciated. Thanks.

I can do this easy, Outline the shape type or draw inside a shapes outline type? Also, Nine year old MW2 Player. :psyduck: [editline]3rd June 2011[/editline] Made some very terrible quality ones: [URL=http://filesmelt.com/][IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Stencil1.png[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://filesmelt.com/][IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Stencil2.png[/IMG][/URL] [URL=http://filesmelt.com/][IMG]http://filesmelt.com/dl/Stencil3.png[/IMG][/URL] [editline]3rd June 2011[/editline] Its the stencils for white, black, and grey areas, rest should be some red pretty much.

Awesome, thanks. Now I just need to figure out how to use stencils and keep a consistent pattern on something like a dart cartridge...using stencils around right angles seems difficult. Maybe I'll make them pure black for convenience, it might contrast nicely. [editline]4th June 2011[/editline] Also, it would be a stencil to basically just spray paint over, so a stencil to fill in is ideal. I can probably make yours work, but it'll be hard to blow that up to stencil size and keep it smooth and fluid.

What good is that going to do him? If you're making physical stencils Zina, you'll have to print that pattern out three times and cut all the black shapes out of one, the grey out of another and the light grey out of the last. First, paint the whole thing red. Then paint the other colours on with the stencils in this order: Light grey, dark grey, black. That will give you the best result, but if you wanted less hassle you could just cut one stencil and keep using it for each colour, in a different position each time. All that someone else can do for you is pretty much the resizing. Here's the pattern repeated further on a larger scale. [img]http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6144/camostencil.jpg[/img] [editline]4th June 2011[/editline] The poor quality can be ignored, since it's how well you cut it that matters.

[QUOTE=MakoSkyDub;30234760]What good is that going to do him? If you're making physical stencils Zina, you'll have to print that pattern out three times and cut all the black shapes out of one, the grey out of another and the light grey out of the last. First, paint the whole thing red. Then paint the other colours on with the stencils in this order: Light grey, dark grey, black. That will give you the best result, but if you wanted less hassle you could just cut one stencil and keep using it for each colour, in a different position each time. All that someone else can do for you is pretty much the resizing. Here's the pattern repeated further on a larger scale. [img]http://img39.imageshack.us/img39/6144/camostencil.jpg[/img] [editline]4th June 2011[/editline] The poor quality can be ignored, since it's how well you cut it that matters.[/QUOTE] I'll cut it out with an Xacto-Knife, but I just want to make sure I can make the stencils "full size", you know? It's hard to enlarge it and keep it looking reasonably fluid. I was planning on making physical stencils, yeah. Probably about of mylar or something I can cut easily, not sure yet. Probably shouldn't spray paint paper.

Erm, it doesn't matter if it's blurred or whatever, unless that will somehow cause you to cut a blurred line.. As for the material, I would probably use paper if I needed to wrap it around something. Nothing dreadful will happen if you spray onto paper.

Also remember [b]multible thin layers instead of a thick ones[/b] The painting is the part that makes or brakes the props. If you fuck this up you'll ruin it so put extra love and care into it.

Edit: There's no way I can paint that well, I'll keep it simple.