How Low-Rider Graphics Are Painted On Cars _ Insider Cars

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Everybody ?

Uh I am Pablo Prado from Candy and chrome custom paint work .

Let me show you guys real quick how I lay out these graphics on this uh 1962 convertible .

The base is gonna be the foundation of the paint job because I like to use the silver bases with , you know , real heavy metal flake .

The silver bases is always gonna give you the the most vibrant color and the silver flakes is basically gonna make that candy dance , but you're gonna see all the , the glitter like all the flake dancing in the sunshine .

Once the flakes are spra are sprayed out , the next step would be adding clear .

You wanna make sure all that metal flake is buried underneath to encapsulate that flake .

But I'll come back the next day and I'll send that down flat to pretty much eliminate any of the texture left behind .

Basically start off by laying out that center line , basing off that center line .

I'll start my design on one half of the car and using reference points like such as tail lights or certain body lines .

Once I lay my first line out , then I build off of that to kind of develop the rest of the pattern design when you lay a design out , let let's say you lay a square out .

I mean , you can lay that out in five minutes and be done with it .

And for me , I like to add a little bit more detail to that , to that main shape .

I'll go ahead and lay out different size tapes on within that certain simple design to kind of just to give it that more detail to the design .

Once I have my initial design on one side of the car , I'll go ahead and lay a , a white masking paper on top of that area and I'll trace it out with a pin .

Once it's traced out , I'll go ahead and flip the template or the stencil over to the opposite side and I'll go ahead and cut it out and outline it with my tape to outline my stencils .

Once my tape design is all masked out , I go ahead and start with the paint effect , which is the water drop effect .

First off .

Uh What I like to do is lay out a clear base coat and that's gonna make my water beat up on the surface .

So as you can see here , I'm spraying at a low angle .

So that way the water drop captures just the overspray part of the paint .

You go ahead and let that sit uh overnight .

Uh Once you eliminate all the water from the surface , you're able to put a clear coat on top of that , that's gonna basically lock in the shape of the water .

So up next , we're gonna be doing a flake , fade out .

I go ahead and mask out certain sections on top of the water drops and I'll go ahead and just fade out flake in those areas .

So the next pain effect that I'm gonna be doing is gonna be called the candy streaking effect .

And I just basically create uh like somewhat of a streaking effect just by smearing it using the micro fiber to .

So what I like to do around the edges of the paint effects , I like to darken up the edges of it with the , with the candy that's gonna do is just basically give it a little bit of a shadow effect question .

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Mm So once the paint fake is done , kind of check out uh which , which areas are gonna take the solid color , which areas are gonna have uh candy fades .

I kind of plan out which area I'm gonna spray next .

So once I figure out what colors I'm gonna do in those areas , I uh go ahead and unmask those areas and begin to lay out the color that I decided on , which in this case is the , it's a candy apple red and then I'll add the next color or the next form of laying the paint out , whether it be filling it all in or fading it , you know , just adding paint along the edge of that area .

So , in that area right there , I'm just uh fading out a little bit of the candy paint out onto these three quarter inch strips to kind of make it look like some spears are coming out from underneath the pattern design .

Once I uh fade out the color , I go ahead and go back over it with uh a little bit more candy along that edge right there to kind of make it , you know , give it that little depth this stage right here .

We're unmasking the next level over and we're gonna be basically doing the same thing as far as uh with the candy paint , we're gonna be fading out some candy paint and these uh along these edges , I'm basically using the masking tape just to kind of give me uh another layer of uh of depth and , and in a pattern design in this section right here , we just be doing a basically traditional tape fade effect and we're gonna be fading in a real light candy color along this edge right here and we uh spray out the color and one in the first section , we'll go ahead and remove the next layer of a three quarter inch tape and add another pass of candy paint lightly fading just like right along the edge of it .

The main purpose of this is to fill in this empty sections right there .

So once we got all of our color laid out , it's time to do my favorite part , which is the unmasking part of it .

You know , it's basically like a sneak peek into what the final product is gonna look like .

So this is basically the same process that gets repeated on the rest of the car and on the different sections of the car , the hood , the trunk , the sides .

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