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Hand Painted Designs Creating Highlights
7.More white was added to... 
   
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Hand Painted Designs Creating Highlights
7.More white was added to the gray to create the highlights. The use of light will give your design depth just like the shadows, but where to apply it is something that comes with practice. Steve's advice: "Add them where you think the design is the highest and closest to your eye."
Hand Painted Designs Gray Highlight
8.The same gray highlight... 
   
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Hand Painted Designs Gray Highlight
8.The same gray highlight was used for the wings and goatee. More white was added to the gray for the eyes. The tailgate was set in the sun and allowed to dry while we went and had some sushi. Stefan and Steve gobbled up some soft-shell crab while I ate the standard California rolls. What can I say? I'm boring.
Hand Painted Designs Stabilo
9.When we got back, everything... 
   
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Hand Painted Designs Stabilo
9.When we got back, everything was dry enough to move on to the lettering. The phrase "Stinga X" will be lettered onto the banner, and the Stabilo will help with mapping this out. An upper and lower line were drawn first to create the height of the letters, and then the width was set by evenly spaced vertical lines.
Hand Painted Designs Painting Letters
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Hand Painted Designs Painting Letters
10.Unless you're a pro like Steve, I'd recommend hand-drawing the whole letter and then coming back and filling it. Steve is good enough to just paint the letters. Showoff.
Hand Painted Designs Outline Design
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Hand Painted Designs Outline Design
11.While the letters were drying, a long-liner brush was prepped with some black paint. He used this to outline the whole design to clean up the edges and add definition.
Hand Painted Designs Iwata Eclipse Airbrush
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Hand Painted Designs Iwata Eclipse Airbrush
12.To add a little kick to the letters, Steve decided to thin some blue so he could spray it with his Iwata Eclipse airbrush. He coated the lower portion of the letters with the blue. Again, I think he was just showing off here, but I'm glad he did because it did add to the complete design.
Hand Painted Designs Adding Highlights
13.Steve grabbed a small lettering... 
   
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Hand Painted Designs Adding Highlights
13.Steve grabbed a small lettering quill and added even more little highlights to Stinga X in all the solid areas like the antennas, legs, and some parts of the abdomen.
Hand Painted Designs Red Outline
14.I thought it was all done,... 
   
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Hand Painted Designs Red Outline
14.I thought it was all done, but Steve had one more trick for us. He outlined the whole design again this time in a red. He said, "It will be cool, trust me." He was right-it does look cool.
Hand Painted Designs Steve Vandemon
Hand Painted Designs Finished Design
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