Making Spray Paint Art You Can Actually Use!

So you may have seen my video where I tried to viral street art spray paint. That got me to wondering, could I do this on something that I would actually use that's practical, say as a gaming controller? I don't know, but I guess we're about to find out. Let's get started. All right, so I'm doing this on the Xbox controller, but you could totally do this on a PlayStation or whatever you like. I don't know, I don't care, but you just gotta figure out how to take it apart and separate it to the paintable portions. There. All right, now that we've got that all taken apart, it's time to scuff it, clean it, and prepare it with a layer of spray paint. All right, so I got my pieces all white. I taped this little stick to them so I could hold it so I wouldn't have to hold it here on painting. That'd be weird. All right, for my first shape here, I wanna do like a moon shape. So I'm gonna do some blue. Well, maybe I'm gonna do some blue. That'll work. Whoa, this thing's seen better days. Then let's do some white and black. Ooh, that was a lot. That's fine. Since the blue didn't work, let's use this lagoon color. I think that'd be cool. And now we're just gonna take our little bag, lay it across it. Little tap, tap, tappy. Oh, that's gonna be sick. Let's give it a little bit more of a highlight and then the shadow, same thing. Give it a little dab, dabby again. Look at that. That's gonna be crazy. All right, next planet, this cool green color, this yellow, and why not throw this little magenta in there? I've always seen people use those. It always works pretty good. And if you remember my spray paint and alcohol ink table, I had this little tool here that I make wood grain. So I'm just gonna take and swirl with that. That was a terrible idea. Well, that's how you learn, you know? Do it again. Put some more here, more of the yellow and the color there. Put the bag on. This time when you do it, you're gonna just twist your fingers. And I meant to get some newspaper. I could totally do this with newspaper. There we go. Oh, I did it on the blue part. I guess I'm gonna have to redo it again. Let's wipe it off. That's the cool thing about this. You're just resilient. Do the green. Yellow on this side, magenta on this side. That's a pretty color. Wow, that's pretty. I think I might use that on the next one. All right, take your magazine, crumple it up and then hold it and then swirly. There we go. Ooh, that's different. It's a little white on there. Why not? Black on the shadow area. Swirly. All right, this is not really doing what I want it to, but that's a cool thing. You can just keep working until you get happy with it. I'm just gonna do like a little sponging. Let's do a little black for the end over here. This is definitely way cooler. Nice. Okay, that's much better. That's gonna look sick when you got a circle on it. And now for that last one, I'm gonna do something right here. Might do another one up here too. I don't know. We'll get crazy. This one's just gonna be purple and magenta. Got a little heavy there. It's running. Somebody catch it. A little dark here. And then where's my white? All right, let's try not to get this guy. There we go. I cut off a little piece of my grocery bag. Lay it on it. Do it. And then just pull it this way. Pull it across. Oh, that's cool. Oh, that's gonna be real cool right there. That works great. Just a little bit of gravity there, buddy. Wow, look at that. Look at that difference right there. That's gonna be sick when you cover that up. So I got a circle here, circle here. And I think I'm gonna do one little moon right here, but I'm gonna try to cover up so I don't spray crazy everywhere else. You know what? They need to make like little miniature spray cans. I could totally do this with my airbrush, but I'm trying to keep it real with the way I did the other street art style spray paint. All right, now got a little crumply piece. And all I'm gonna do with this is put it down and my fingers are huge. It's not. Oh, that actually did what I wanted it to. Okay, well, whatever. Wow. Oh, I know a lot of you can't see it, but just wait till I get the cover. Oh, I touched it. It's okay. I get the circle covers on, and then we do the background because the background is gonna have like a little galaxy thing going right through there. I can already see it. Can you see it? Some people can't visualize. I have no idea what I'm looking at. You might be that way. And then we'll do the same streaky galaxy on the backside in preparation for our rocket ship here. So let this dry and I'm gonna go make my circles. And then my favorite part, the flicking of the stars. Oh, that's so fun. All right, got some little circles, templates, stickers, whatever. This is Cricut removable vinyl. I didn't know what size to make. So I made anywhere from a two and a half to one and a half, one, I don't remember, all the way down to a 0.25. So surely I have the right size. You know, on the last one, I used the little lids from my wife's Tupperware. Don't tell her. I know it's gonna be tricky right there with that little curve. That's why I use vinyl because it's stretchy. Circles all on. Make sure they're all pushed down good, especially this guy where the little curve is. I mean, if you're painting the Xbox, I don't know, you might not be. Now we're gonna cover it with all or all with black. Let me make sure I got it right there. Boom. While I'm doing this one, I'm gonna go ahead and black this mug out too. A lot of surfaces and angles with this mug. All right, now let's pick another color. We're gonna do our galaxy. I'm gonna have it like a purpley outside and it's good when this is wet. And when this hits, it kind of melts right in. Look at that. One stripe there, one stripe there. Let's do the pink in the middle. Oh, that's a beautiful color. Oh, I think I want some like aqua-y on the outside here. Let's just do a little, like a little, almost a little star-ish looking thing here, huh? That looks cool. All right, next, we're gonna have white go straight across the middle. And you gotta move quickly cause this stuff gets kind of runny on this porous-y or more non-porous than paper, so. Ooh, that's a lot. Oh, I missed the middle. Go back with the pink. Oh, crap. I missed the middle. It's okay. I'm pressing the button, it's not going. Good. All right, let's go, buddy. There you go. There we go. Now, I'm gonna set that to the side. Let it sit and rest for a minute. I'm gonna do the same thing for this guy back here. There we go. Now it's a purple. This purple, I don't know what it's different about, but it comes out like a rocket, honestly. There we go. Now for the white in the middle. Here we go. Three, two, one. There we go. All right, now comes the fun part. Turn this around this way, because that's like go straight down. You spray. Splat, splat, splat, splat. Oh, yeah. The little ones, I like those. All right, we're back down here to planet Earth, and the last thing I'm gonna do before I let these dry and pull these off, because I want, I like, I don't guess you have to let it dry, but whatever. I'm gonna try to do a little, like these things, compared to the big poster board, this is really, it's really hard to get the control to do tiny. I would really want to use my airbrush, but I'm trying to stay true to seeing, you know, this test is to see, can we do this on a smaller practical scale on something that you use? And the answer is yes, obviously. This is looking really sick. So, do a little ch-ch-ch. If I can aim right, good gosh. Bro, I cannot hit my targets. All right, let's just gonna pull this off, even though I took my gloves off already. This is gonna be dangerous with it wet. Oh, did you see behind that? Oh, boy. Oh my gosh, there's paint everywhere. Dude, look at that. Oh, that is sick. And I'm gonna pull this one off. I tacked this off on my jeans, it's still holding on pretty strong, and I'm trying not to make a huge mess because I have wet paint still on here. Look at that. Oh, that is sick. All right, one more back here. I think this one's gonna be my favorite. I'm not even looking either, I'm trying not to. Pulling off very carefully without pulling my stick off the back. Flicking oil paint everywhere. Oh, I could see, I seen it. Did you see it? Oh, I'm right. Yep, that was my favorite one. Now, I really have to wait till it's dry to get that one off because I will mess up the world around it. I'm not even looking. Oh, that's so cool. That legit looks like a moon. I could do my rocket ship on the back. Oh, that is sick. That is a gigantic star right there. I don't know, he's about to blow up or something. All right, now for the rocket that I wanna do on the back, I laid down some transfer paper and I found this image on the old interweb. Something sort of like it that I'm gonna do. So, I'm just gonna sketch out something similar. That is just like my inspiration. It's not set in stone. Two little wings over here. I'm just gonna sketch this out and we're gonna paint it real quick. Now, I'm just gonna whittle this bad boy out very carefully. All right, now we're just gonna try to peel this off. See how good a cutting job we did. Make sure all your edges are down. Now, I'm just gonna dust this with a little spray paint. For this, I'm actually, I was gonna use white, but the way that table turned out, I think I'll use some metallic silver. Whoa, back it up, Terry. What do you reverse, Terry? Little heavy. That's just enough. You only need just a little bit, it's fine. Let it dry and then we'll be back. All right, I got my silver down, it's dry and I'm gonna do a few little techniques. Try to replicate this. I'm not gonna like super detail that. So, to do so, I'm gonna do a little trick here. Instead of spraying it there, because it's so tiny, I'm just gonna make a little shield and bounce it off of it like this. Well, if it'll spray. There we go. See the little shadowy? That's pretty nice, huh? Now, we'll do the orange and we'll leave it a little bit higher so that there's like a, not a hard line, but a, like a softer line. In my mind, I think that's what it'll do. I don't really know. So, if I can hold steady. Yeah, it did it, literally. Did exactly what I was looking for. Now, on the other side, I'm gonna do some blue. And it's splattering, which is fantastic. No, I'm just kidding, it sucks. But, wow, that did what I was wanting it to do, actually. Literally. Now, the last thing I'm gonna try to do with this technique is make like a little shape of the bottom. I'm just gonna use like a dark gray. We'll see. Fingers crossed. Let's see here. How would this go? Probably like so, right? I don't know. That's what it's gonna be today. Yeah, it kind of did pretty good, like a curve. What do you think? I think we could noodle in the rest of it with some Poschka markers, what do you say? After we do the fire. We gotta take this off, and we'll do the fire. Come off the rockets. Because how else is it gonna move, huh? Whoa! That's nice. Hey, look, it looks like it hit something. That was that star. It was a big old drop, and I tried to like pull it out with a toothpick. So, that kind of, you know, it did something. All right, for the fire, we're gonna do a little hit. You gotta make sure he's going in the right direction. You may not be able to see, because I need to see for this. Just a little hit of there. A little hit of fire here. Oh, that works out pretty. Let's put another one right here. Maybe there's a burner in the back, how about it? Because that worked out so good. All I did was make like a little pointy shape with a poster board. Just like I did the stars on the last one, you know? Comets, that's the word. Now, let's put a little hit of yellow in there. Dude, oh, what? Look at that. That's so legit. All right, now we'll let that dry, and then we'll pashka margarite. They're like so fine tipped and tiny. They're so nice. If you wanna get your own, I have a link in the description. I think that's sick. There we have it. It actually worked. I took the same technique that I did for street art, and I applied it to a tiny, amazing. That is, that is, whoa. That's my favorite right there. Look at the back. I customized it with a rocket, and what he goes by, sweaty. He goes all out. He sweats. That's how we all should do. I don't know if you wanna be sweaty. I don't know. Do whatever you wanna do. If you wanna see how to do this on a larger scale on the poster board, like street art style, click this video right here. And YouTube thinks that this is the one that you're really gonna like. So check it out. Hey, who knows? That could be right, hmm? See you next time. God bless. Goodbye.