Hell Sucks

[Airpro]

Well Here is my first skull. I used one of the lessons on stencils as a guide but i sketched it out and used press n seal as a friskit which left me with pencil lines. not sure how to get ride of them. Any help would be great

Thanks!

[aixguy]

When working on shirts, vine charcol works well. You can shapen it with a pencil shapener to give you finer lines. As your airbrush follows the line, the charcoal blows away. No way to get rid of your pencil marks if you are using transparent color. Opaque might cover them but probably not.

[airraid]

You probably can't get rid of them just minimize them, freehand another color on top of them will do it.

[zero420]

i think if you do what airraid said freehand another color on the outer edges sourght of like a pinstripe affect could cover the lines pretty good i myself use charcoal pencils also i use a soft black and a harder white when i do black tee's another thing that some have been known to do is use color pencils lightly(very) so when they airbrush it blends to the corresponding color just a thought hope it helps

zero420

[Airpro]

Thanks for the input. I think I will give it another shot and see how it works.
Thanks!

[mysticmonkey]

best bet might be to do your outline on the stencil rather than on the shirt. get some clear plastic (transparency overlay, sheet protectors, etc.) and do an outline in waterproof marker or something. use repositionable adhesive, or even a light coat of regular spray-glue. voila, cheapie frisket. you can even just hold the stencils down with your hands and skip the glue if you don't mind getting paint on your hands. or wear gloves. and you have a stencil you can re-use, to boot. of course, you have to cut it, which is time consuming. but if you do a decent job, and get more than one use out of it, it is way worth it.

[Shad]

Great job on that by the way. I'm new to here and AB but have been drawing with pencils for about 25 years. Everyone slips up. It's whether or not you can make that slip up work to your advantage. Since you can't erase, add light and heavy smoke all around(more heavy where the lines are darkest) and eventually you won't even notice them and you can lie and say this was your intended masterpiece.

Shad

[AirTodd]

Cool skull.