To get started you ll need some equipment and materials.
Making stencils with vinyl cutter.
If you are familiar with regular vinyl you know that once you pull it up you can t use it again.
This process can create extremely detailed stencils at the cost of having to cut a new one for each use.
Quick tutorial on how to make your own stencils.
You cut the stencil on adhesive vinyl adhere it to your target surface and paint over it.
These stickers were made from greenstar sign vinyl cut on a graphtec ce 6000 cutting plotter.
In the past i ve used regular vinyl to create stencils.
How to make a stencil with vinyl.
The red sticker on the left shows the pattern we want to transfer to a soccer ball using a vinyl stencil.
This is all fine and good but i found another product that is specifically for stencils called wait for it stencil vinyl.
When the paint is dry you remove the vinyl and reveal the stencil.
Airbrush setup we use a basic compressor and airbrush gun setup that is easy to find on amazon for 100 bucks along with our own diy airbrush booth.
Vinyl cutter not going to specify a model since any vinyl cutter should have no issues cutting stencil film at our makerspace we use a us cutter mh 871 mk2.