Thread: taking ideas

Hey guys i just found this forum, WOW . Im a professional painter in an up scale body shop by trade but do a decent amount of custom bike painting on the side.

I'm wanting to my own bike wich is all black victory. (no chrome on at all )My personal taste is simple and clean so im thinking a fairly simple flame design or tribal but keeping it dark, so its ghost or almost ghost. Problem is that im extremely indecisive with my own bikes. So i thought some of you guys might be able to throw out some ideas.

Welcome Matt. How about posting a pic of your bike for us ? Sounds like your Idea is a pretty good one.

Welcome to the forum!

Brad

thanks for the big welcome guys. this site is awesome. i hope i can learn from all this info on it. WOW

here is a pic of the bike , the little bit of chrome you see on it is now black except the wheels.

You might consider doing the flames or tribal in a dark range of a chamelion color, or maybe candies over a pearl or super fine flake. Doing a traditional flame design, then filling those flames with a ghost style trueflame/Truefire texture, it would let you keep the colors as subtle as you want, and keep the design as simple or complex as you desire.

matt: nice ride, i'm sure whatever you do is gonna look schweet. Welcome to the forum too.

Kicks: those pearl flames are so friggin coooooooooooool. Awesome effect.

the ideas sounds similair to what i had in mind. Good to know i must have good taste always difficult for me to commit to an idea for my own stuff. if it helps i plan on using house of kolors . its usually my go to for custom colors . sometimes Ill use the new Dupont Hot Hues .

What about a Dark pearl, House of Kolor has several of what they call" Black pearls " or consider a blue pearl, and trying to make it have a 3d look. could you pull that off with a dark color over black? ive done this before with lighter colors but never dark on dark.