I love the challenge of stencils. Before I got into digital, this was the easiest way to get crisp, clean lines. Couple that with the scalability and mobility that stencils represent, and I was hooked from the first one I cut and the first tag I laid down.
Long before you could just pull up an image on Google, I used to freeze videos and sketch and 'stencilize.' There are a few quick sketches of ideas, translated into stencils and painted.