Using Stencils for Painting a Leather Jacket

Video Transcript

"I'm going to talk a little bit about stencils. Basically, you can use a stencil or you can free hand paint on your jacket. If you want to do a stencil, what you're going to need is some velum, tracing paper, or transfer paper. This is what it looks like. It basically goes over your design so you can see through it. You can just trace right over whatever you choose. Here's one that I did actually. A couple of different ones. What you want to do when you're tracing your design is use a hard pencil, pen, or Sharpie. Basically, something that's not going to rub off, because you're going to take your paper and flip it over on the other side. Let's say you're using this design. When you do that, you're going to do the hard line. Then you're going to flip it over so it's upside down, and you're going to use a soft pencil, charcoal, or something that's going to rub off, and you're going to go over the back of your design with the soft pencil. When you lay it on your jacket, basically, you're just going to rub it off. Your design will come off onto the leather through the soft graphite or charcoal rubbing off. It's really easy to do, and I'll show you a little bit of it on the test jacket here just to clarify. That might be a little bit confusing if you've never done it before, but it's actually really easy."