Design the underside of your skateboard with your own artwork.
Personalize your skateboard by drawing or transferring pictures on models constructed out of wood. Many websites offer services that allow you to purchase a skateboard with your own customized designs, but it is actually cheaper and more hands-on to paint or use pyrography to adorn your skateboard. If you do not like draw you can use designs from pyrography book to paint or wood burn on the underside of a wooden skateboard. When envious friends ask where you got your awesome new skateboard, you will be able to tell them you designed it yourself.
Instructions
Design a Wood Skateboard with Pyrography
1. Look for pictures you enjoy looking at in a pyrography design book. Transfer a pyrography design found in a book onto the skateboard by tearing out the page to trace over the carbon transfer picture with a pencil. Draw your own design directly on the underside of the skateboard if you prefer your own artwork.
2. Use the pyrography stylus to burn the image on the underside of your skateboard. Experiment by using various sizes of tips to get different kinds of effects, such as using thick tips to create bold lines, and thin tips to burn minute details on the wood.
3. Color the pyrographic image in with oil colored pencils, which are ideal to use with pyrography projects.
4. Allow the oil colored pencils to dry on the wood.
5. Apply a coat of wood varnish to both the underside and the topside of the wooden skateboard, which will give the board extra protection.
6. Allow the wood varnish to completely dry before trying out your newly designed skateboard.
Paint a Design on a Wooden Skateboard
7. Find designs for your painting the same way you did when looking for pyrography designs. Using a pyrography picture transfer is ideal for painting because you do not have to worry about drawing anything. Transfer the pyrography design to the underside of your skateboard by tracing over the carbon transfer picture with a pencil. Draw your own design directly on the underside of the skateboard if you prefer you own artwork.
8. Use a variety of acrylic paint colors to achieve the painting technique you would like to create on the underside of the skateboard. Allow each layer of paint to dry if you do not want the colors to mix while painting on new details.
9. Allow the paint to thoroughly dry.
10. Apply a coat of wood varnish to both the underside and the topside of the wooden skateboard, which will give the board extra protection.
11. Allow the wood varnish to completely dry before trying out your newly designed skateboard.
