4 Planet Spray Paint Art, Beginner Tutorial!

All right, so here we go. This is a beginner-friendly spray paint art space painting tutorial thing. I did this painting earlier in my live class on TikTok live, but for those of you who wanted to go over the steps again, or maybe you missed the class, or maybe you didn't know it existed and you're brand new around here, we're just, we're going to do it again. We're going to do it again. This is going to be a four planet space painting, and you can use whatever colors that you'd like. I just recommend that you have at least black, white, and clear spray paint. You're also going to obviously need a thing to paint on, so I have a poster board here. You can also use canvas. I just recommend that you prime it, or you get one that comes pre-primed if you're using canvas. Now you're also going to need some either magazine pages or newspaper type paper, four planet stencils, like cups, bowls, lids, or even spray cans themselves, and grab yourself some scrap poster. We're going to, we're going to make some tools out of this. And last but certainly not least, spray paint is toxic. It's not good for you. You should definitely, at the very least, paint outside, but you should definitely pick yourself up a paint respirator if this is going to become a normal hobby for you, and you should also protect your skin and wear some some gloves. What you want to do is you want to take your four planet stencils, and you just want to go ahead and put them one in each corner. I do recommend if you have, if you're working on something smaller, you might want to consider taking away two. You might want to consider only using two planets here, but go ahead and put one in each corner. And I also recommend we're going to be doing planet rings, which can be a little tricky. So the way that we're going to make this as easy as possible, we're going to take one of the planets and move them so it's like partially off canvas. Do whatever you want for the rest of them. Once you're happy with the positioning, you want to go ahead and take some spray paint, some black spray paint or dark spray paint, and just outline these real quick so we know exactly where our planets are going to go. This is going to help us make sure that we don't use too little paint or too much. Go ahead and lift them up. For each planet, we're going to go ahead and use a different technique. Okay, so we're going to start with the classic planet, right? So go ahead and grab whatever colors that you want. The only rule that I like to follow here for this classic technique is just what I think looks best, is you start with the lightest color that you have and then go to the darkest. Lighter to darker. That's, that's, it's just what I prefer. Okay, so I'm going to be using yellow and red. I'm going to start with, oh, I'm sorry. It's lime. I forgot about that. Lime would be the lighter color than red though. I'm just going to fill in the whole circle and then I'm going to go ahead and just top it off with my darker color. Whatever that color may be. You could do like two or three layers. I think that's like the sweet spot per se. But after you have your color down, what you want to, what you could do now is top it off with either black, white, or both. I'm just going to do black. Just go ahead and top it off. Now you want to make sure that this paint is still wet, which is where the clear coat comes in handy. Just want to go ahead and spray that down. It'll re-wet the paint for you. Magazine or your newspaper type paper. Crumple it up and uncrumple. Now we have all those wrinkles in there. That's exactly what we're looking for. Just go ahead, place it and lift it. Place it, swipe it, pat it down. Whatever you want to do and then lift. And if you're unhappy with your results or you're not feeling it, whatever, just do it again. Go ahead, place your colors or your layers again. Top it off with the black or the white and do it again. So now let's move over to the top right over here. We're going to do a swiping technique. Once again, random colors because you could do literally whatever you want. So you can make like squiggle lines. Like that. You can go ahead and make, maybe you want to just line them up. And make just actual lines next to each other. Doesn't matter. Doesn't matter. Do whatever your little heart desires. Oh, struggle bus. You can also throw black and white in here, although you don't have to. I have this like magenta type color in here. What you want to do, once you have that absolute mess, grab your clear coat again. Make sure that this paint is still wet. And what you want to do is you can take your hand or if you don't have gloves and you don't want to get paint on yourself, what you can do is take like a piece of paper and you can just kind of like fold it up. You can swipe using this, right? And all you want to do is just swipe back and forth. Just swipe back and forth. And we'll get all of those colors smushed together and it's going to look sick. It's going to look sick. So now let's go ahead and move down here to our partially off canvas. It doesn't matter. Our third planet. We're going to move to our third planet. Now you can pick I recommend one or two colors for this. You could just do one solid color planet here, just like that. But these colors don't have to make sense. Like you don't need colors that necessarily flow together. You can, you can be random with this. I'm not going to do anything special or fancy down there. We're literally just going to keep the paint down there and it's going to look great. I promise. Same technique as the first one, except we're going to make a specific pattern because you can do that. You can do that. So we're going to go ahead and layer them using the same rules, lighter to darker, like a really light blue. So that's our first layer. I'm going to start with the lighter one. The purple is the darker. Top it off with either black or white. We did black before. So how about we do white this time? All right. I'm just going to top it off with some white. Now there's a couple of patterns that you can do here. You can go ahead and just like start folding up your paper. And this is going to give us like a straight line type of pattern. Infinite ways that you can do this really. Like you can fold this page however you want to get a specific design. All right, so you can go ahead and just like fold it up a bunch. And then unravel it. Uncrumple it. And what we have, it's not random wrinkles like the first time. It's a specific like line pattern. Would look really cool. However, my favorite. I'm going to take my finger and I'm going to stick it in the middle. And then I'm going to go ahead and just crumple the page around my finger. Right? And just kind of like squeeze it down. Squeeze it down. So it starts from the center and then you can see like all the lines kind of just like go outwards. It looks really cool. Anyway, we want to make sure this paint is still wet. Those are just a couple of examples, but now I'm going to put the center of that on to my planet. Pat, pat, pat, pat, pat, pat. Lift it up. Instead of randomness, order. What we want to do is our shading and our highlighting. These are just smiley faces, okay? So before we even get started on the shading and highlighting, you need to figure out where your light source is going to be. Now for this painting, my light source is going to be in the middle. Right in the middle. You can't really see that, but it's white and it's right in the middle. That's going to be our light source. The side of the planet that gets highlighted is the side that's closest to your light source. Simple, right? This side of the planet would be what gets highlighted because it's closer to the light source. This side of the planet over here is what would get the highlight because it's closest to the light source. Same thing over here and over here for this one. Shading goes on the opposite side, right? So since the highlighting is going over here, shading would go on the opposite side. Simple? Yeah. Now if you have some sort of soft spray paint from Depot's brand, it says Quick Color underneath all of that gunk. This is a brand. It's like two bucks a can. I recommend it for beginners. It's great for highlighting and shading because of how soft it is. However, you can also get soft caps if you're using some brand of paint that has compatible soft caps. I'm not using that. It's not necessary. But the key to this is you want to find your distance. This is going to take some experimenting. So actually, let me move this. Let's experiment a little bit, yeah? If you hold your can too close and you spray down, you get that. That is a puddle. That is a puddle of paint. That's no good, okay? But if you start holding it farther away, it's not so rough anymore, is it? Not so rough, right? We're going to hold it farther away again. It's almost like a cloud. Super misty, okay? Every paint is going to be different. Every brand is going to be different. And also, once again, the caps are going to change how this feels. So you have to experiment, okay? But we want to find our distance here. We want a cloudy look. So go ahead and find that sweet spot distance for you. Now, back to this. I'm going to find my distance with the white and I'm going to make smiley faces. That's all this is, right? We're going to make smiley faces on the edge of our planet, right? Don't need to do too much. There we go. We're done with the highlighting on that planet. That was it. That was it, right? So we can move on over to this bigger one. Smiley faces. Quick. Quick. Easy. Simple. We don't need to do too much, right? We don't need to do too much. Now, if you have a smaller planet, I mean, I could freehand this if I wanted to, but if you have a smaller planet and freehanding your highlighting and shading seems impossible, go ahead and grab that scrap poster, right? And go ahead and rip yourself off a piece that has a flat edge like this. Now, the whole idea of this, hold on, let's move this again. The whole idea of this is we're going to hold it and you're going to curve it, right? So it almost aligns with the curvature of your planet. And the whole idea here is we're going to spray the white here, not on the painting, but here, and it's going to redirect a line downwards. So, do you see? Magic. This can help you get those precise shading and highlights on those small planets. Just a tip. Just a tip for any of you who are going through it right now. Simple. Just, if you have those smaller planets, wow, look at that. Easy. Easy. And then finally down here, we have our last one. We can freehand this. It's kind of a frowny face because I'm doing it that way, but you get the idea. Smiley faces. We like this. We would like to think of them as smiley faces. On the opposite side, it's the same exact thing. Smiley faces, but on the other side with black. And it's the same idea. We want to find our distance. We don't want to hold this too close because it's shading. Okay, we don't want it to be super solid. We want it to kind of fade, fade into the planet. Shade it. All right. So I'm just going to kind of work my way into that planet making smiley face motions. That's it. Smiley face motions. So let's go ahead and move over to that top planet. So I'm going to kind of like start in the corner here and make smiley face type motions. I went ahead and I found my distance. That works for me with this can, with this can. Now we need to do down here. It's going to be the same idea. Smiley faces. We're going to just kind of work our way in until we got what I think is the appropriate amount of shading. Yours might be different. And then over here as well. Just going to kind of work my end with a little bit of shading. That's it. The best thing to do is let this paint dry. Now remember heat dries paint faster. For most people in the US, it's scorching right now. We are, we are in pain. It's scorching. Okay, so the paint should dry pretty fast. However, you can also speed up this process using something like a blow dryer or like a heat gun. Okay, but we do want to let this sit for a few minutes and let it dry. If we want to get the best results. Yeah, once all of these are dry, you can go ahead and just place your stencils. Remember you want to pick up a little bit of that black, a little bit of that white and also remember we want one of these planets to be off canvas a little bit. Uh Well, I think we might have been off with the shading here, but it's fine. We'll work with it. We'll deal with it. Just go ahead and place everything down. Oh, we were a little off there too. See if we can fix that real quick. At this point what you want to do is just cover cover most of this with black. Just cover most of it. It doesn't have to be 100% solid because we're going to throw a bunch of colors in here. Try and get most of it. Make sure to get around your stencils really nice. All right. Now I want you to go ahead and pick some colors. Once again, these don't have to make sense. If you want them to make sense and you want them to flow together like yellow, orange and red, you can do that. You can do that. I'm not going to do that. Okay, so go ahead and just pick some random colors. I recommend maybe like three maybe to five. I think three or four would be the sweet spot though. Whatever colors that you pick, I want you to go ahead and order them from lightest to darkest. Now what we want to do here, we want to go back. Remember our light source. Wherever your light source is for us, it's going to be in the center. We're going to start with our lightest color right in the center. Remember, find our distance. We want this to look like cloudy, like misty almost. So I'm just going to go ahead and spray some of that of my lighter color towards the middle. Take my next lightest color and I'm just going to go around that first color there. I'm going to find my distance and just spray around. Make like a ring. Try to get around those planets again. We don't want to leave too many crazy gaps or anything like that. But just throw it down. Now if you think that you accidentally used too much of your color or something like that, that's fine. Go back with your black. Find your distance again and just kind of throw some down. Don't dole it if it's too much. Get rid of some of that color. I'm going to move on to my third color, my darkest color that I have here. And I'm going to go around color number two. Same idea. We find our distance, we throw it down, throw the color down. I like to do as well with the light source. Take the white, just put a little boop of white in the middle. We're going to make some stars, right? So let's move over here. I'm going to spray some white onto my finger. Flick to the side like twice. We want to get the big nasty blobs off and then you want to bring it over here and flick onto your painting. Very simple, very simple. Easy, easy money, right? Flick to the side once or twice. Flick onto your painting. Maybe you need to flick three times. It probably just depends on what paint that you have. For me, two flicks to the side seems to be it. Seems to be where I get the best results. And also, so if we want to do like a more of like a bigger star right here in the middle. Someone was calling it the north star earlier in our live class. So one thing you can go about this, you can get a straight edge. You can get like an actual putty knife, like an actual straight edge. Or you can go ahead and just get a piece of poster board. This one's pretty straight, flat edge, right? And we're going to do the same thing before, right? We're going to spray the white here, not here, here. And we're going to hold it just straight up and down. Look, we have a line and then we can cross it over. Look, we have another line. Incredible, right? And you can go ahead and like throw an X within the cross or a cross within the X, whatever way that you're looking at it. And then I like to just kind of put that little boop in the middle. Go ahead and just take off all these stencils. All these stencils. Two things you can use here for the ring. Angle palette knife. This is what's by far going to give you the best results. Or, grab a poster board. Grab that scrap poster and tear yourself off a little piece that has a flat edge. Right now, how wide you want this to be depends on how wide you want your rings to be here. Take my clear coat and I'm just going to spray this area here where the ring is going to be. Now, we're only going to do this halfway because this can be a little tricky, right? We're not going to do, uh, this is why we put it off canvas a little bit, right? Best piece of advice that I can give here is to full send it. Slow and steady. Bunch of bullshit. We do full send it, okay? So we're going to go to one side of this planet and it's going to be a swoosh. Just a swish and you just just go for it. We're going to swish right across our circle here. So maybe right about here. Swish. I think we need a little bit more clear coat there. It's pretty, pretty dark, but there we go. Just a little swish. And because we have that that off canvas a little bit, we don't have to do the other side, which is what makes this so beginner, which makes that so beginner friendly. But once you're done, that's it. That's it. That's the painting. So we're going to take our clear coat. Whoops. Clear coat. Give it a nice layer. Give it a nice even layer. You want to go ahead and sign your name, but give it a nice squiggle right underneath. Look at it. Look at it. Look at it shine, right? This works with any color. This is probably my favorite technique to do because of how random you can be and how good it looks in the end. Regardless, we practice our rings. We did our classic, right? Classic technique. Did a special little pattern. I think we did pretty good. Yeah, we did pretty good. If you guys have any questions, let me know and I'll do my best to answer them. Thank you.