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Hello,
For a project I'm creating an industrial factory, and I would really love it if I could add some 'graffiti' to it. I've tried painting it with a brush before, but it didn't turn out well, so anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks

There are a few ways you could do this

The cheapest would be to find some pictures of graffiti online and then print them out - put that over masking tape and then cut out the shapes.

Masking tape over your factory, then brush or airbrush it.

If you have an airbrush, I'd be sorely tempted to just freehand it really close to generate small drips, but I'd probably chicken out and use a template

Camkierhi did a nice tutorial on one style of graffiti:


As for myself, I pretty much freehanded anything that didn't follow the above:

Many of those didn't turn out as well as I hoped, but with graffiti it is meant to look a bit rough anyway.

If you are doing lots of graffiti, like my wall there, you want to think about how each piece overlaps the others. Try to imagine someone coming along to add their tag and going over a previous one just to fit it in; no respect for the previous tagger.

Also, what I did was to search the internet and find a style that you like. Then do a few practice runs on a spare piece of plastic until you are happy.

I also planned out the whole wall, with all the styles and overlaps, just on a piece of paper with a pencil. The final piece varied a little from that, but not by enough to be worried about.

Hope some of that helps a little.

kb_lock wrote:
The cheapest would be to find some pictures of graffiti online and then print them out - put that over masking tape and then cut out the shapes.

There are also various online graffiti generators, that let you enter whatever text you like and select from different fonts and colour styles.

That's how I did the graffiti on [url=http://www.dakkadakka.com/gallery/images-99-47060_Maelstrom%27s%20Edge%20Terrain.html]these[/i].

Printing onto transfer paper would probably have been better than regular paper, but I used what I had at hand

Not related to graffiti but you can also use posters. Basically just print them in the size you want, cut them out and glue them on! Tearing them is optional.