BEFORE DURING AND AFTER

THOUGHT I'D TAKE SOME PROCESS PICS WHEN DOING THESE CUSTOMS SINCE I RARELY DO.

YOU MIGHT HAVE SEEN MY BRICKCITY CUSTOMS AT WWW.UUFA.CO.UK UNDER THE BEST CUSTOMIZER SECTION, WELL THIS IS HOW THEY WERE DONE.

A CUSTOMER WANTED THE THEME PERSONALIZED FOR A PERFORMANCE THEY HAD, ALONG WITH SOME TEES.

HERE THEY ARE BEFORE I STARTED PAINTING. I USED OUTLINE STICKERS TO GIVE THE SHAPE OF THE BRICKS, TOOK FOREVER TO DO, CUTTING AND STICKING ALL THE STRIPS BUT IS EASY TO DO. AS LONG AS THEY LOOK KINDA STRAIGHT AND YOU LINE THEM UP WELL, THE END RESULT WILL BE GOOD.




I WATERED DOWN SOME ANGELUS 'SADDLE' AND BASICALLY COLORWASHED TO GIVE THE BASE LAYER. MAKE SURE YOU USE A SOFT BRUSH AND DONT LOAD IT WITH TOO MUCH PAINT OR IT WILL SEEP THROUGH THE OUTLINE STICKERS. DONT WORRY TOO MUCH ABOUT BRUSH MARKS AT THIS STAGE


BUILD UP MORE LAYERS, PAINT SLIGHTLY LESS WATERY, MAKING EACH BRICK DIFFERENT - STUDY HOW BRICKS LOOK, GOOGLE IMAGES WILL GIVE YOU PLENTY TO GO ON


ADD A LITTLE ORANGE TO THE PAINT SO THAT THE BRICK COLOR IS MORE AUTHENTIC, AND AGAIN JUST BUILD UP DIFFERENT PARTS OF EACH BRICK.
NEXT, TAKE OFF THE OUTLINE STICKERS... YOU ARE NEARLY THERE

TAKE SOME ANGELUS 'CHOCOLATE', WATER IT DOWN AND COLORWASH AGAIN, RIGHT OVER THE SHOE TO DULL DOWN THE WHITE LINES AND DEEPEN THE COLOR OF THE BRICKS.NEXT GO OVER SOME OF THE BRICKS WITH THE CHOCOLATE BROWN STILL SLIGHTLY WATERED DOWN TO GIVE A MORE AUTHENTIC APPEARANCE AND ALSO TO MINIMIZE BRUSHMARKS. YOU CAN ALSO GO OVER OTHER BRICKS WITH ORANGE IF YOU LIKE.



ONCE YOU HAVE FINISHED YOUR OVERALL DESIGN MAKE SURE YOU SEAL WITH SOME FINISHER - EITHER ANGELUS OR I USE KRYLON CLEAR ACRYLIC SPRAY.


THE REST IS AS PER THE CUSTOMERS REQUESTS






SOME PICS OF HIM ON STAGE ON SATURDAY NIGHT... LOOKING GOOD!







and some shameless self promotion!












YOU CAN LET ME KNOW WHAT YOU THINK!!!! AND HOW WAS MY WEE TUTORIAL? HEHEHE

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dang, those dont look too good to me

THOSE ARE CLEAN !

thanx...

I'm getting half and half +ve and -ve comments with these... keep the comments comin!

not my favorites but i like the method ... ,, i have to b honest i hate the flames

i think their dope, queen...definantly innovative

I liked it better white with the bricks. Don't like the whole airbrush/customs looks on tee or shoes.

I liked it better white with the bricks. Don't like the whole airbrush/customs looks on tee or shoes.

agreed....airbrushing just comes off as cheap flea marketeqsque....

dude....i hate to be a hater...but the only thing ive ever like from you queen...wer the color changin shoes....the rest is trash. I'm sorry....i feel like a mean person for sayin it....but I have to. I'm sorry. Please don't hate me.

lol... ur entitled to ur opinion however drastic it is!

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I know everyone has their own opinions and perspectives on designs, but I don't see how anyone can call these "clean". 1. Some of the paint goes onto the sole 2. The black outlining the panels and swoosh isn't straight (some places it leaks onto the stitching...other spots it doesn't)..looking at the painting process and seeing how much of the brick color you accidentaly got on the surrounding panels, I almost think the black outline was used as an attempted coverup 3. The flames are too symetric in the length of their ends making them look more like red snake tongues than a natural fire pattern 4. The spacing between the letters on the strap isn't uniform. Basically an overall sloppy job on a design that probably should have been done on a black base shoe in the first place.

The skull shirt is better, but also has notable problems with the design. The most obvious being that it just doesn't match human skeletal structure. 1. There shouldn't be any space between the bottom of the eye socket and the top of the nose region. Our noses begin between our eyes, not below. 2. All of the vertical spacing is off. The forehead is too long, the space between the nose and mouth is too great, the chin area is too long...all of it...Thats why you end up with a skull thats twice as long as it is wide and looks like a malnourished alien. Your name on the back of the tank looks good. That's about the only positive I can point to honestly.

I know everyone has their own opinions and perspectives on designs, but I don't see how anyone can call these "clean". 1. Some of the paint goes onto the sole 2. The black outlining the panels and swoosh isn't straight (some places it leaks onto the stitching...other spots it doesn't)..looking at the painting process and seeing how much of the brick color you accidentaly got on the surrounding panels, I almost think the black outline was used as an attempted coverup 3. The flames are too symetric in the length of their ends making them look more like red snake tongues than a natural fire pattern 4. The spacing between the letters on the strap isn't uniform. Basically an overall sloppy job on a design that probably should have been done on a black base shoe in the first place.

The skull shirt is better, but also has notable problems with the design. The most obvious being that it just doesn't match human skeletal structure. 1. There shouldn't be any space between the bottom of the eye socket and the top of the nose region. Our noses begin between our eyes, not below. 2. All of the vertical spacing is off. The forehead is too long, the space between the nose and mouth is too great, the chin area is too long...all of it...Thats why you end up with a skull thats twice as long as it is wide and looks like a malnourished alien. Your name on the back of the tank looks good. That's about the only positive I can point to honestly.

Now thats what I call an opinion! Thanx I wish people would be this thorough more often.

A few points to redeem myself.
Yes I got paint on to places it wasnt meant to go, but acetone takes it right off. The customer wanted the black outlines.
The flames are meant to look cartoonish - the customers label is called 'full flame' and thats how their flames look.
The customer brought me the base shoe - obviously would have been better on anything but all white.

the tank - I didnt know the guy was so skinny... when a tank is worn, it gets stretched out - which is how I painted it. He said it was going to be tight - that is something I checked with before I started. So... yes it does look distorted. I was happy with the result when I painted it, but when I saw it worn, realized that it would have been better painted as is.

Its all learning though, which is what I do everyday. So thanx for ur comments.

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