Midi Fighter Tutorial (Custom Painting The Acrylic)

by selfpaint on October 21, 2011

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Video Rating: 4 / 5

Demonstrating techniques of still life painting during art class, EJ Gold discusses skills for drawing, composition, and application of pigment.
Video Rating: 3 / 5

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Badl2ussian October 21, 2011 at 11:51 pm

do want track ID

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BamPistolwhip October 21, 2011 at 11:58 pm

hahahaha check your under-spray son. Dude can mix but he needs more practice painting. Use better quality paint and spray slow in one direction. That will minimize your underspray. But I’m glad you can customize this shiz. I’m throwing my Wall-E stencil down on my Midi-Fighter when it comes.

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DjRetroKidd October 22, 2011 at 12:03 am

what is the name of the track playing???

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eangolden October 22, 2011 at 12:12 am

yeah- we royally screwed this up :) – it was kind of perfect though so others dont make the same mistakes. The purpose of this video was mainly to demonstrate the concept of reverse printing on acrylic (which looks rad) so people could envision doing yourselves.

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dodge70chargerrt October 22, 2011 at 12:33 am

Think of layers. You do the one which has the least amount of color or most up front one first. This is most likely the black around the letters. Then you color the white in (behind the black but in front of the gold). The last is the background. He didnt use a stencil for this because the others have been painted on already. Coloring on these will not show because color doesnt shine through, and just shows the areas that havent been painted yet.

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infuzer October 22, 2011 at 12:36 am

Lol, Instead of designing the stencils backwards,
isnt it easier to just put them backwards when you spray?

Am I the only one finding it hilarious that you make a _tutorial_ for something you have obviously never done before?

Still love you though :)

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kyleismrsmiley October 22, 2011 at 12:51 am

I like how her threw in some painting 101 at the end, “paint across from side to side.” Most people don’t know this and end up with giant sticky blotches all over from holding the spray in one area for too long. Side to side works great on anything! Wood, cloth, metal, plastic :D

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ChewyGordness October 22, 2011 at 1:00 am

Since he’s spraying the backside he doesn’t have to bother using a stencil for the yellow/gold. So he can just spray it and it doesn’t cover the white and black.

The layers just show up through the other side of the clear faceplate.

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iTubeYou October 22, 2011 at 1:47 am

OK I must be an idiot but how does this stencil thing work? at 1:29 it looks like he takes the stencil off and then paints the whole thing gold?

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jaminandjosh October 22, 2011 at 2:08 am

yeah

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Persianbmw94 October 22, 2011 at 3:00 am

Nicee Job!! Can u run 2 midi controllers, I have a Numark omni w/ traktor, but can i plug this in and use it at the same time as the omni? Thanks!

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nikki112459 October 22, 2011 at 3:37 am

I hope and pray people didn’t pay a lot of money for this course. It is not worth it. i won’t pay two cents for his work.

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nikki112459 October 22, 2011 at 3:41 am

I hope and pray people didn’t pay a lot of money for this course. It is not worth it.

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AcademyArtVenture October 22, 2011 at 3:47 am

You can get some good ideas from this – like painting in the background first and working on negative space, but like Cagney7723 said, you do need a “LOT” of drawing skill to be able to produce very good works of art! – Okay demonstration..

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Cagney7723 October 22, 2011 at 4:34 am

As a painting instructor…I can NOT believe you actually told your class that ‘little’ drawing skill is ever needed…for serious painters that is absolutely ridiculous.

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wickedinsight October 22, 2011 at 4:41 am

lol ya that was ummm ok

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vorvodoss October 22, 2011 at 5:27 am

Um…….what?

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majas08 October 22, 2011 at 5:59 am

thank you Mr.Gold, you make it look so easy!

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