airbrushing difficult designs onto a board..

[IdRatherBeSurfing]

how rare are the artists who can do it?? say I wanted this on a board ------->

http://www.guinness.com/a/img/craic/downloads/wallpaper/1024x768/surfer1024.jpg

[Dr Rev]

Thats a gorgous picture, i think it would be quite expensive though.

[Phil]

isnt that from the wet dog advert a few years ago with the leftfield - phat of the land sound track to it?

[pault]

Think it was the Guinness advert, but think you right it was Leftfield with the music.

I also love this image a little scarey though

[IdRatherBeSurfing]

yep it was the guiness advert. so far have been quoted £250 to airbrush it onto a board bound to be able to get it done cheaper than that!

[kitesurfer]

yep it was the guiness advert. so far have been quoted £250 to airbrush it onto a board bound to be able to get it done cheaper than that!

You reckon?

[IdRatherBeSurfing]

yeah! i'll buy an airbrush and learn to do it meself

[isaluteyou]

250 squids thats almost a new board

[FishKid Wales]

The only problem with havin a real fancy stick is that you'd be scared to take it out anywhere near rocks which means no surfing reef breaks ever + when youve got 2 months of build up of wax its gunna look pants.

But on the other hand it would look well cool hung on your wall but £500 for a board is crazy

[bluesnowcone]

isnt that picture from the guiness advert or something??

[Phil]

did you not read the other replys?

[kitesurfer]

Guess what just arrived on my doorstep this morning.
A compressor and an airbrush kit!!!

[IdRatherBeSurfing]

get practisin man . I understand what your saying Fishy.. and this is why I want the artwork done cheap as poss!! No way am I paying £200 odd for a bit of paint!

I'd want it done on the underneath of the board I think, because of the wax thing... I dunno, it was just an idea

[bluesnowcone]

did you not read the other replys?

i did now

[gdude335]

that looks expensive. I would be way too overprotective of my board with that on it.

[FishKid Wales]

Jo been having a little think about this 1 and if it was airbrushed on you would lose a hell of a lot of the quality(talking from previous experience from a few fancy lorries use to get in my last job)
Your best bet would be to find some large decal paper or get the image printed on cotton then use it as a inlay which would keep all the orginal image quality + be 1 hell of a lot cheaper and you could play around with it on a computer to make it fit better.
Not sure how you would go about either but atleast it opens up options

[IdRatherBeSurfing]

the cotton idea could be a plan its just finding a big enough image of good enough quality

spose i could get in touch with guinness directly and ask if they could supply higher res image... hmmmmmm..........

[CheeZee]

Yo Jojo ..

theyd nail you on using their marketing image .. if they let you have it at all ! you should be able to find a high res copy of it floating around on the net , it might take you a while but you can guarantee that someone has it and has used it for something !!

[IdRatherBeSurfing]

Cheez mate, Ive been searching for about 8 months

[Phil]

and they wait, tick follow tock, follow tick, *cue leftfield music*

defo one of the best surfing adverts there has been, what happend to the old spice adverts anyone rember those?