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In case you wanted to remind everyone that (though fictional and in the reruns phase) he's still as concerned for our well being as ever, just avail yourself of this educational page. These instructions work best for Frasier Crane but the process is generalizable for any fake person, really. These are of course for absolute newcomers to the art of stencil-stenciling. Just be prepared to make your first foray into vandalism a classy one. | |
| Start with a picture - make sure you have a fairly high resolution one, with not too busy a background and with roughly even amounts of light on both sides of the face. I looked high and low and came to the conclusion that this was in fact the only picture of Kelsey Grammer on the internet that satisfied these conditions, so if you want to know what is not acceptable just check out the Frasiers that don't make the cut. |  |
| This is a little bit of hand-waving here, I suppose, but I never promised to lead you through step by step: Save this picture, open it in a photo editor of your choice, and use the 'threshold' tool. Play with it for a while, get a good idea of what you're looking for. Make sure there aren't 'island' type shapes that won't fit in a stencil. You should not need to be told to rotate, crop, trim, or otherwise edit the image, but oh no I've just wasted the bits to type that and now you've gone and read it anyway oh well. Throw some text (use a stencil font of course) on there too, something good enough that you will be adding something fun to the public space. I lied about committing vandalism, you'll actually be decorating. Sorry. |  |
| Oh my, you're almost done. Print that guy out in life-size. Then tape that page to a manila folder, cereal box, some crazy form of light cardboard like that. Then with an exacto knife you must - carefully now! - cut around all of the positive space, leaving only a crude husk of your image. The more meticulous you are here, the better the results will be. |  |
| I think you can probably take it from here. Spraypaint that guy real good. Don't do it on a house or a dumpster. Who does art on a dumpster? Hit a sidewalk or a construction lot or one of those electric boxes. |  |
| Yeah, that's the ticket. Hey, it doesn't have to be perfect, it can be a little drippy or whatever. You've just become a little bit more a part of the pulsating beast that is your neighborhood. You're like a little red blood cell. Hell, if you want to, you can pick up some trash on the way back home and then you'll be a white blood cell also. Have fun! |  |