Damn... Your skills are just insane.

Thank you kindly. I'd rather cut than spray, that mentality has lead to better stencils, which in turn have lead to better paintings.

Thank god finally a true artistic stencil rendering on this site. This is an excellent piece. The colors, composition, precision, and how you integrated the wood grain into the piece are all dead on. The only thing I don't care to see in stencils is the very jagged lines that generally make up the color separations as a result of using Photoshop or Illustrator. For that reason I'm not a fan of Logan Hicks' stencils. In spite of how intricate they are they still look computer generated. In this case it's most apparent in the dark brown color on the tank. If I use one of the above programs to do my color separation I always print it out and trace or redraw the lines by hand, using the generated separations merely as guidelines which I feel gives the piece a more personal style and hand drawn feel. It also makes it a heck of a lot easier to cut out. The redrawn piece can then be scanned back into your computer. It's an extra step but I feel the results are well worth the effort. In this case though this is such a well done piece that I can't say that it detracts at all. Extremely well done. I hope you don't mind the critique. Thanks for giving me something on here I can finally enjoy and admire.

No prob. The dark brown layer was the first layer down (meaning the large cutout of the tank... it took like 2 mins to cut), everything else is on top of it. I am sometimes a fan of the hand drawn layers, but I find that with most of my work, it detracts alot (computer generated look or not... there is something very mechanical about making stencils that gets captured). Of course, Hicks was one of the first, so now everything done looks like a copy of what he did (happens when you're the first I guess). The beauty of stencils is lies within 2 aspects, process and the final image. Most detail artists are all about process, what most 'content' artists are about the image itself. You also have the retarded emos in the middle that just think it's cool to have a can and copy their favorite band logo or some crap.

I am attempting to get away from the posterize look, but due to the complexity of most of my images, it's sometimes hard to do. As for the crit, no I love it, and thanks. There are alot of posters that come at me with ideas on how to make my work look more like theirs so they can appreciate it more (drips, splatter, more underspray... etc) but they rarely can verbalize why. It's good to hear from someone with motive behind their opinion, and for that I respect it.

Glad you enjoy it, check some of the other stuff out, and stayed tuned mate.

After viewing your other work I'd like to comment a little more. I have to say after seeing your architectural renderings there is a definite sense of personal style balanced with a mechanical feel to your work and that is what I find lacking in Logan Hick's pieces. I agree that many times the mechanical aspect can make a stencil as much as break it and I do feel that in the case of your work the mechanical aspect works very well and doesn't detract from the piece. Most people in my opinion can't pull that off and I think it's because most people have the basic computer skills and the patience to use an exacto knife but they're missing the artistic side of the equation. They're not looking at their piece in terms of color values and composition. Even some of the more skilled stencil artists.

As much as I don't condemn anyone enjoying and creating art regardless of their skill or knowledge, it is very, very refreshing to see something that actually challenges the viewer and actually conveys a serious underlying message. I can't be too critical because I currently don't have any of my own work posted but I have to say I do get really burned out on seeing really poorly done one color stencils of completely mindless subjects day after day on this site.

One final word about your work. You may or may not be familiar with Pisa73 and Evol , two Berlin based artists who work as partners but they are considered for lack of a better term, stencil Gods. From what I've seen their work has nothing over yours and in many ways the styles are very similar. Thanks again for giving us something thought provoking to view. I look forward to seeing what comes next.

Pisa73 and Evol are gods. I just can't think the way they do and incorporate the background with the piece like they do.

You might wanna check Kngee out too.. he's from Boston, but he cuts the most insane stencils ever.

And yeah, get your work up, even if it sucks, you get the criticism you want/need to make it better.

gerat job again

when i saw this, i thought it was by one of the guys in ct'ink

fuckin great

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