Customs Pinstripe galore or bust!

Hell yeah!!!
I dig, I dig.....

 

Here ya go, done by the one arm bandit

 

Redline, kick ass Fotki pinstriping file. Saw a bunch of my work. Feels good to know someone else appreciates your work. thanks man. Anyone who didn't check it out yet, its a great collection. Give me something to look at for inspiration.

http://public.fotki.com/redlinetoys/

Brian

 

What is a good book that just has pictures of pinstriping work in it?Sometimes when I pinstripe, I sort of draw blank in my mind and takes me awhile to get going. Just need some motivation.

 

I think I beg to differ on this subject.
I am a 19 yearold striper and have no problem evolving.
I always try to stripe differently than the other guys to create something of my own.

1shot

 

Sooner or later the new guys will learn to devolpe their own style or if they don't they are not real artists. This is the reason I do ALL years, makes and models of vehicles as most stripers do. If you don't move you get old. I love the old school striping but I don't know too many customers who want that on their new Beemers, M-B's or Escalades. Occasionally I get to incorporate some old style on newer rides and it looks good but at times the customer is fairly conservative so we adhere to their taste. No matter what type of striping you do, it has to be fresh and different. That's what the customer is paying for anyway. We are supposed to be innovators, not imitators.

Mikey Did it
www.mikeyspinstriping.com
"Does Bad Things to Good Cars"

 

Fuckin A.
I agree with Mikey.

1shot

 

BMAN,

Glad you dug the pics. I enjoy seeing everyone's work on here.

You might also like the art folder on the same site.

I truly admire what some of you guys can do...

 

Have all the OLD striper's evolved???? Not really....they've been pulling the same style of lines for 40+ years....but are still artists. When they all DIE, who's gonna continue to do TRADITIONAL striping if new guys don't???
And some of the really cool, multi-colored, scrolls and linework, while it looks killer and shows off the striper's skill on a panel, honestly wouldn't look good on a car.....

 

i think pinstriping should make the car look better... some designs dont do nothing for the vehicle. the designs look stagnant or like stickers. it should flow with the cars body lines and accentuate the color of the car. but then again.. whatever the customer wants!

 

I'm goona stand on this side of the fence . Sometimes when I hear guys say that they like to do "asymetrical" striping , I think that maybe that's what you call it when you can't match the other side . I've always tried to adhere to my 'ol friend Kenny Youngbloods' advice , that you try and make it look fast ,while it's sitt'in still !

 

in the original post, the striping was done by Watson around the nude pose done by Duane Steck who built and owned the car...that was what Watson told me...

 

The brushes in the ears thing in your avatar was quite cool when Von Dutch did it in the fifties. You will eventually evolve into your own coolness.
There will come a time when you look back on your work and laugh. It happens to every striper.
Look at the work here and learn and grow from it. If you look at your work, you will see that it has been done over and over for years. You are doing no different than hundreds of other stripers.
All stripers start out striping by doing short little lines while pivoting on their pinkie.
You will probably get all mad about what I have said, but take it as helpful. I was doing what you are doing when I was nineteen, and that was fifty years ago.
If I have offended you , I apologize.
Practice is the answer to everything.

 

I like it simple personally, because I'm a simple guy. Flashy stripes just take away from the car instead of accentuate IMO of course. If it's going to be busy I like it with only 1 to 2 colors, not multiple.

 

very true, and good advice.

bob bond got me my 1st job in a body shop when i was 15, cause i could stripe ,and do many differnt body and paint tasks i got hired.
over the years i got plenty of help and pointers by guys like walt prey, dino, gotcha and others. i got to where i was doing toyota,honda and mercedes dealers, and stripe repair work for many other body shops.
that was before i was 17, and i have owned the same shop now for over 35 years, and done alot of stripping over the years, some good, some not, lol.
over the years of runnig the biz i usually call in stripers now, but i still like to do a job here and there.
now 35 years later i look at the friday art show here, or the pinhead lounge and i kinda feel like toad did in american graffiti when he rev'd the 58 chevy at the stop light next to falfas 55 chevy, lol.
there were quite few great old timers for sure, and some of the new talent is unreal for sure......but just when you think your hot shit, along comes some dude with unbelievable talent. try to pick something up from them all, but never think you are anything special, i know i wasn't.
and new dudes, you can still learn something from those old masters

skull


skull

 

I think there is a lot of truth to this. You have to do your own thing. I try to be different everytime I stripe. Not everyone is going to like your work but you have to be happy with it and try to satisfy the customer at the same time. Everyone is different and stripes differently. That's what makes us unique. Just my .02 Sorry if it pisses anyone off.

 

I've seen some fine work over the years;here's a couple of examples from last year's Frankenmuth show:






These were part of a group of rodders that showed up with some of the nicest rides I've seen.

 

scratch at lonestar round up 2009 free hand in about 20 min.

 

But...I respects all ya'lls for at least tryin' to be great stripe artists. Here's what I told one newbie, don't get too technical. Just do your thing every day and sooner or later you might get it.

On the issue of symmetrical stripes..

My Dad, who started striping way before the 1950's, had a unique way with people when he striped cars, he told them if they could whip him, he would do the same designs on both sides of the car. He was never challenged. 6'-5" ex-wrestler with 20' guns.

He was pretty intimidating but he did teach me a few things about striping and people who thought they knew everything. First of all, never take it too serious, have fun with it and if they start to tell you how to do it, just hand 'em the brush. That bit of advice has worked great for me.

Mikey
www.mikeyspinstriping.com
www.autopsycho.com
"does bad things to good customers"

 

Some of my stripes. I dont have a lot of pics of cars, I have done a few, but I never have time to photograph them. Always working at a show.

I'll get some of the stuff I've got at the shop photo'd this week and get more pics up.

 

This is insane!!!!! really really cool!

 

Anthony, you're getting quite philosophical in your "old age"!
I'm not a striper, but I've been around for a while observing car stuff. I've seen many different styles come and go over the years, some more pleasing than others, but somehow, some define the times...or perhaps define the car and era at the moment.
So it is with traditional striping, you'r enot going to find truly innovative stuff HERE on the HAMB. These guys want the old style striping and that' what you'll see here. You can find more modern exapmles elsewhere pretty easily...I enjoy all kinds!
That said, I think that you can still define your style and personality with striping, even within your traditional guidelines. Anthony here is a perfect example....started out with relatively "safe" trad designs. sometimes well executed, sometimes not so much. But over th years he has both developed an exacting, precise definition of traditional striping, while giving it his own subtle ( and not so subtle) twist. You know his work when yousee it, but it's still within the traditional field. He has matured both technically and artistically..something that is pretty unusual.
A lot of the striping here is thick, and heavy handed, non-asymetrical (tho not intended to be) and lacks flow and motion. I'm sure some of the young guys will develop their technique, and maybe their style, if they keep up with it, but I'm sure many more will just drop out, especially if their customer base matures, and gets more more educated, and choosy about decorating their cars. Not picking on stipers here.....you can say pretty much the exact same thing about building style, welding, painting, whatever!
In any case, I know how difficult good striping is to accomplish. I know good technicians, and I know good artists, in the pinstriping field. It is rare to be both, and luckily for us, there seem to be quite a bunch of ones who are both, here on the HAMB, to set an example for the rest!

 

Mine is different mostly because I have no idea what I'm doing and have only been practicing a few months

My first few attempts I didn't realize how fast to go and that I could pencil it first, use grids, etc so for months all I did was freehand work and with a quickness, still I can't do anything that takes more than a couple minutes. The guitar I just did took around 5mins for each color, the one on glass with the brush in the pic was my first thing I did when I got my first brush in Feb.

 

this thread rocks. alot of info for a young striper can be found here.

the best suggestion i have heard yet is practice. 10,000 stripes. no one is perfect and no one will ever reach perfection. If you cant evolve as an artist, then you cease to be an artist. Gotta talk to and learn from those that have been doing it for decades.

 

On the old school/traditional/the way they did back then type of striping...my Dad's did not looked like what we do now. He was striping way before I was born in '57. Not much sysmmetry either, read post above.

If you want to grow as a striper and be innovative you must stripe ALL types of vehicles for ALL types of people. Never get stale. You'll soon rot and it'll just make you poor. So far, looks like everyone on here smells real good!

Mikey did it
"does bad things to good cars"
www.mikeyspinstriping.com

 

I had a guy that I did some striping for come back to me at a show and say $40? That kid over there did that car for $60 and there is way more lines on that stripe... It was at that moment that Mike Klines (one of the all time greats in my opinion), Walked up and said "Hey Hey, your not paying for someone to put lines on the car. Your paying them to leave the ones that don't need to be there off!" This is so true in striping, These days a lot of stripers figure if they put two hundred 3 inch arcs on a trunk lid they have done their job (hidden there mistakes with all the lines), and made it look expensive. But truth be told a simple design with some well implemented smooth flowing lines that match in both symmetry and weigh (width), with some difficult technical pulls such as a broad circle through the middle that is completely round and balanced, and all together compliments the styling, taste, and accents on the car will win the votes of both the populous and fellow pinstripers alike. IMHO of course.

 

here is some of my works...and i would have to agree with mikey. you have to be able to stripe everything from a chrysler pacifica to a 39 zephyr to a custom harley. the harley is all asymetrical and hand painted

 

I here that, I got a call one day about stiping a Prius, I figured what the hell... Its money right, so I go over to the ladies house and she goes off on this tangent about how she wants lightning bolts, and dinosaurs to show off this whole fossil fuel energy regime!!! I said hold on and slow down for me for a second, whats your main goal, And she said " I just want it to look cool like the porshe I have in the garage" I said Whoa! I'm not a magican I'm a pinstriper, your driving a prius! I can't make it look cool but I can make it look different than all of the other priuses out there! She agreed and I did the work (some organic style lines) down the sides. I took the money and tried to forget the fact that I starred at a prius all afternoon. Well after that I ended up getting 16 referals from this lady and all of her gdam prius driving friends started getting me to do their priuses! I started a whole prius fad! All in all it probably wasn't worth the money because Prius vision for such a long time afterward (Its like nuclear fall out, but worse!). But I got paid got more testimonials, and have this story to share with you guys so all's well that ends well... I guess. I'm going to go curl up in a ball now and cry till I forget the image of that silver Prius seared into my brain.

 

Applicate???

 

I luv dat story about the Prius, Pins&Needles. We may be striping electrics and hybrids, one day. As for them old ladies, I have a whole group of Caddy owners who buy new cars every year and they love striping. Most are women in their 70's. I even did one for a lady who was 93 years young last year. Said she is heading over to Louisiana to do some gambling and show off her ride. I feel like a gigolo, only less strain, not much dinero.