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Fun Stuff => MAKE => Topic started by: Unosuke on 21 Aug 2007, 11:11
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you don't have to be the one who made it, but if you think its awesome, post it. Here's mine:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v361/Unosuke/shirt.jpg)
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Silkscreening is fun!
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/andlemonade/P1010007-1.jpg)
(http://i137.photobucket.com/albums/q228/andlemonade/P1010003-3.jpg)
The first is a hoodie I made for a friend's podcast, the second is a shirt I made for him as well. The bottom design warps around at the side. The first one is kinda crap because the hoodie was stain resistant, so the ink didn't stay on well. I ended up painting it on.
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(http://img207.imageshack.us/img207/8145/tshirtjj5.th.jpg) (http://img207.imageshack.us/my.php?image=tshirtjj5.jpg)
Made this today with stencils and bleach. There was some bleach that ran under the stencil and some of the edges show up but I kind of like it. The bleach was VERY unpleasant to work with though, even outside, yeuch.
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RadioElectric-
I love your bleaching job!
I tried it myself a few times, made some tiger-striped shirts but utterly failed at the viney designs.
Any tips?
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Well, the one I posted the picture of was the first one I'd made but I feel like I learnt a bit. I'd have to know what particular problems you had but here's some general tips.
1. Make your stencils out of something the bleach won't soak into. I used thin plastic that you can put into a printer to use as overhead projector slides.
2. Don't make too intricate a design, my t-shirt uses 4 simple stencils that I laid over each other to build the pattern.
3. Use a spray bottle to apply the bleach, don't soak the fabric too much. If you want a really strong pattern it might be better to turn the t-shirt inside out and apply the pattern to the inside, that way only the strongest bleaching will show.
4. Wipe the stencil with paper towel before you lift it... always... otherwise the bleach WILL run under the stencil.
5. Don't worry about it looking a little messy, most of the bleach designs you see in stores are just splashes, nobody expects bleached t-shirts to be perfect.
I hope that helps.
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Yeah, I think step 4 is my path to victory.
Thanks a lot! :-)
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Ohh Radioelectric, that tshirt is very awesome.
I really like mucking around with stencils, fabric paint and t-shirts. If I remember later, I'll take a photo of some of the things I've done.
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Didn't get it made yet. I really want to though. Can you guess what it is with out scrolling all the way down?
(http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee98/AndaleTheGreat/miho_shirt.gif)
Then there's this photoshop, the faces are just switched, so that really was that shirt's face, just reversed for fun.
(http://i228.photobucket.com/albums/ee98/AndaleTheGreat/brian_beard.jpg)
The shirt is Miho Hatori (formerly of Cibo Matto) in the Barracuda video.
The clue is the left sleeve has an MH on it.
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I have a pair of pants that is basically me applying lots of stencils made out of freezer paper and then painting acrylic paint on them. They're pretty punk.
I also made a series of POLYSICS shirts by using just black paint and freehand freezer paper stencils on white tshirts/wife beaters. My friend saw it and made a white paint/black shirt POLYSICS tshirt.
I do this sort of thing all the time. Its so very punk of me :P
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They're pretty punk.
I do this sort of thing all the time. Its so very punk of me :P
You're being sarcastic, right? Please? Please?
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They're pretty punk.
I do this sort of thing all the time. Its so very punk of me :P
You're being sarcastic, right? Please? Please?
Well the pants have been called "punk" but are much more political things on them. And of course I was being sarcastic. WHY would I come to the Questionable Content forum without having my sarcasm switch set to "ON DAMNIT ON!"
:D
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I've got lots of hand-painted t-shirts.
Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows shirt:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/KharBevNor/Soporaeternus.jpg)
Death in June shirt:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/KharBevNor/Deathin6.jpg)
Impaled Northern Moonforest shirt front:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/KharBevNor/100_2238.jpg)
and back:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/KharBevNor/100_2239.jpg)
I got two home-made shirts for my own bands as well, a Halo of Flies shirt with a screaming ghost with glowing red eyes and an inverted cross on its forehead (for the song 'Heathen Ghostfire') and a Death Throes Shirt that just says 'DEATH THROES - NATIONAL HATE SERVICE' and a load of red splatters on the front, but I cannot find decent pictures/any pictures.
There is also my denim cut-off with a picture of a six-armed robot demon simultaneously throwing the horns, drinking whiskey, firing a machine gun, brandishing an axe and playing a flying V guitar in the middle of a lake of fire on the back, but I do not have a picture of that either.
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I love that last one, and we need a pic of your cut-off denim.
I feel the need to quote this to stress the need of the picture of that cut-off denim.
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Oh man, I need to make an INM shirt now.
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Khar, as always, is amazing.
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Here we go. Not quite flat, but hey.
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v331/KharBevNor/Supersatan.jpg)
The painting is actually pretty crude, but, seriously, denim is the worst thing to paint on EVER.
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Crude?
You were able to get distinct guitar strings on there.
Bravo.
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That's great and all, Khar, but you've got a V shaped guitar with a single-coil pickup?!
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The humbucker is under his steely claw.
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Guys, I just realised I was wearing a shirt I made. So, here's a photo of it:
(http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v736/branston_pickle/Untitled-1.jpg)
It's a velcro chess board. I tend to suck at chess, though, I just made it for the novelty factor.
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I really want to try silkscreening, but the initial investment seems high. And I'm cheap.
So it's only stencils for me. Brownie points to whoever guesses who this is:
(http://img152.imageshack.us/img152/8476/f21b641bac25ef29ia3.jpg)
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I really want to try silkscreening, but the initial investment seems high.
Wooden frame, piece of silk, carboard masks, printing ink, some sort of scraper. You could easily get silk-screening for under £20.
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...is it Nikola Tesla?
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A good grade screen cost me $32 (US), acrylic ink/paint isn't that expensive, find an inexpensive squeegee, and get some plastic scrapers from a car body shop for $2 (US) and you're set. For cleaning, you just wash the screen off with a hose. I don't remember how much things like red block out or photo emulsion cost, but you can always use contact paper or frisket paper. If you're really interested in it, it isn't that bad of an investment compared to other things.
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Edgar Allen Poe.
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I think it's Vakar Lajos.
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I'm gonna go with Ringo Starr.
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Clearly it's Val Kilmer from Tombstone. With such rugged good looks and a glued-on moustache, who else could it possibly be?
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...is it Nikola Tesla?
This is in fact the answer people. Cease your futile motions.
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sloppy stencil work of Nikola Tesla is sloppy
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@ KharBevNor: I fucking love you.
Here's some of mine. Sorry for big images. I used CARD for the stencils, and acrylic paint and fabric medium applied with a sponge.
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r309/FireAarro/arts/larkstongues.jpg)
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r309/FireAarro/arts/link.jpg)
(http://a620.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/images01/106/l_fe0006ea7cfd21542aef4a8d81a37553.jpg)
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Not only are you a god amongst men, but do you want to come over sometime? Ignore my roommates.
Too cool.
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You did that with cardboard? Wow. The second one is pretty detailed for cardboard. They're all awesome!
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You can mail me shirt #3 anytime now. Thank you.
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Thanks guys :D.
Shirt 3 is kinda sloppy but it turned out pretty well anyway. Paint leaked under the edges of the layered stencils because my adhesive doesn't stick to (somewhat-)dried paint very well. I touched those up a bit with a toothpick. Also the paint is a bit too thick, especially because I fucked up and had to paint over the mistake.
It's not the brown thick packing stuff cardboard.. there's probably a different word for it. It's like paper but thicker. Wikipedia tells me it might be called card stock. Works pretty well, is easy to cut, and is durable enough.
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The word you're looking for is 'card'.
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Thanks. Edited. The packaging for it calls it "White Board".
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Yeah, that's card or card stock. I was thinking of the bulky brown stuff and was in shock. But it's still impressive!
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Ampersandwitch asked me some questions in PM but I thought I'd answer them here for anyone else.
I made the OOT stencil by taking this image:
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r309/FireAarro/arts/Linkadult.jpg)
Then using the threshold function in my image program (GIMP for me) to make it black and white. Then I made sure all the white bits were connected in a way that looked alright enough. What you're aiming for is an accurate representation of the original image in monochrome with the background colour all connected. You can see around Link's chest and neck area on my stencil it doesn't look too great, and in some other bits too.
Here's the stencil image file if anybody wants it. If you make it out of the same stuff I did, be prepared, there's gonna be some pretty weak joins in there, especially the shield designs. Cutting it takes a while but is kinda fun. Use an x-acto knife type scalpel.
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r309/FireAarro/arts/Linkadult-1.png)
As far as the paint goes, I used acrylic paint mixed with fabric medium, which you should be able to find in art shops. It helps the paint stick to the fabric. I dabbed the paint on with a small sponge (actually the corner of a square of foam I got from some acoustics place) which gives me better results and control compared to using a sponge roller.
@ ampersandwitch, I haven't had much experience doing this either (and I make plenty mistakes) but it's pretty easy to pick up. Look up some more tutorials on the internet, they shouldn't be too hard to find. Good luck and I hope this helps :).
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FireAarro, your work is amazing.
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Well this was my first time ever trying this sort of thing, I'm not very crafty with this sorta thing, but it was terribly fun.
(http://i9.tinypic.com/86ysxoo.jpg)
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No problem!
We could trade, maybe. How'd you'd like to swap a copy of your E.P. for velcro chess pieces?
Making the photo emulsion screen, and then printing onto the velcro is the hardest bit. You'd also need a sewing machine for sewing the chess board onto the shirt.
Anyway, PM me if you're up for it.
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(http://scarlette.missetiquette.net/photos/Josh/zomboshirt2.jpg)
you're sister's hot...
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I always thought Scarlette was the lady.
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Nope, no girls at all. Anyone that claims to be a girl is lying, and if they post pictures, those pictures are of their sisters or friends.
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So who's pictures have you been posting, eh? CREEPSTER.
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I can ask you the same question. Let's just call it even, mmkay?
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am i practicing thread necromancy?
i dont have pictures of any finished shirts, i give em away or get them dirty before i remember to take photos :/ but these are some of my silkscreen designs;
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/021/e/9/milicumber_by_screamingfool.jpg)
(http://fc04.deviantart.com/fs14/i/2007/021/7/9/requierdo_by_screamingfool.jpg)
(http://fc02.deviantart.com/fs15/f/2007/021/1/1/leaf_veination_by_screamingfool.jpg)
this is the digital version before i put it on a screen
(http://fc05.deviantart.com/fs14/f/2007/021/6/a/star_tattoo_by_screamingfool.jpg)
(i retired this one a few years ago when my girlfriend got it tattooed on her forearm)
i print with acrylic paint instead of silkscreening ink cause it holds up forever in the laundry and keeps it's color longer. i'm intimidated by photo emulsion (stupid i know) so i cut my designs out by hand from ruby-lith. If anyone is looking for a distinctive medium that's cheap and permanent, it's pretty good and damn fast.
oh yeah, FireAarro that sun/moon shirt is hot, i want one
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December was a good month. This isn't necessarily necromancy because the Arts and Crafts forums don't get many posts anyway.
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i dont have pictures of any finished shirts, i give em away or get them dirty before i remember to take photos :/ but these are some of my silkscreen designs;
I don't like the first one much, but the other three are really cool.
oh yeah, FireAarro that sun/moon shirt is hot, i want one
Thanks, it's actually the design off the cover of King Crimson's Larks' Tongues In Aspic... I'm not big in the way of originality :P. I think it turned out pretty well for a tricky design to stencil though.
i'm intimidated by photo emulsion (stupid i know) so i cut my designs out by hand from ruby-lith. If anyone is looking for a distinctive medium that's cheap and permanent, it's pretty good and damn fast.
Can you explain this? I don't know anything about silkscreening.
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Photo emulsion is pretty easy. Print off on a transparency or do a cut out of black paper and in a dark room: coat your screen, let it dry, get a light bulb that emits "natural light", let it expose for such and such time, and then rinse with water. When you're done, you put photo emulsion remover on it, let it sit for 15 min, then rinse it off with water. I haven't done ruby-lith, but it's definitely easier than using red blockout or blue drawing fluid. Stencils from contact paper are less complicated, but they take about as much time and they don't get very detailed.
And all the silk screening inks I have used have been acrylic. I know you can get oil based, but I think that's a bit silly, due to all the solvents you'd need to clean out your screens.
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yeah, that much i know about photo emulsion, i mostly dont want to waste time and materials getting the distance and timing of the uv light just right. which is totally lame i know.
as far as using rubylith, i didn't follow you (linds) about the blockout thing, i've never messed with that. All i do is attach the image i want to cut out on the acetate side of rubylith and cut out the stencil with a slightly dulled xacto knife (so you don't have to worry about cutting through the acetate). Then put the image rubylith side up on a bed of newspaper, put the screen silk side down on top and apply a light coat of lacquer thinner to a roughly 3 in square corner of the stencil. Rub the now melty stencil into the screen a little with a hard edged squeegee that has a layer of cloth over it. Do this from one corner of the stencil to the other and let it firm back up for 20 minutes, then peel off the acetate slowly from one corner making sure the stencil is affixed, if it comes off put it back and give it a little love with the thinner.
The downsides of this method are rubylith doesn't come out of the screen as easily as other materials (only a downside if you make small runs of things you don't plan to print again) and you gotta cut it out by hand so you're limited to making things you have the patience and skill for (i like it this way cause it streamlines designs and gives it a distinctive look).
and i use straight up acrylic paint, not the stuff made for silkscreening cause i find it sets thicker, bolder, lasts longer and most importantly doesn't bleed, the only downside being you have you wash out the screen a lot more often.
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It's Homemade Band T-Shirt O'Clock!
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r309/FireAarro/arts/emus.jpg)
*not actually a Muse fan*
(http://i147.photobucket.com/albums/r309/FireAarro/arts/daftpunk.jpg)
Some white leaked under the stencil or something. I didn't like this so much at first because of that but I've gotten used to it and it looks kinda cool.
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It's a cool effect, actually. Outlines the letters nicely, and doing it intentionally would probably have been ten times harder, and still not come out as good.
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godyouaresocool
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Ok so I have really been wanting to get in to screen printing lately. I looked in to it for a while but I couldn't find out everything that I need so I gave up. So I came to the serious pony because people here are dependable. So, what I am asking is, what do I need to successfully screen print a t-shirt?
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A screen, a squeegee, ink, something to form your image (either a stencil, a photo imulsion, or an image blocked out onto the screen), and either a book or videos to learn how to do it. I know there are demos on youtube and I'm sure you can find a book. And if you buy a kit, it probably comes with instructions.
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(http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_c1f13evWDog/SPbLBy5OqAI/AAAAAAAAALE/OiQnKEC_K2o/s320/Cynicshirt.JPG)
(http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_c1f13evWDog/SLE9bZ7qGyI/AAAAAAAAAHQ/1yXPHOpLCwk/s320/006.JPG)
My designs not my actual printing job. Stilkl, designing is fun all on its own. Not having to do the actual work is just a bonus.
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Live again!!!
(http://img442.imageshack.us/img442/160/imag0268k.th.jpg) (http://img442.imageshack.us/i/imag0268k.jpg/)
Screen printed it for fun.
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Oh hey I made one of these
(http://sphotos.ak.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ak-snc4/hs1153.snc4/149582_1680202801200_1121446362_1831821_370082_n.jpg)
Goofy smile not included