The Image Reproduction Techniques Forum is way too flippin' quiet! I plan to change this. I'm concentrating on shirt designs in AP Studio Art: 2-D Design this year, so YOU BETTER WATCH OUT!

Over the summer in AP Studio Art our assignment was to do four pieces. As I am a lazy ass, I did three of my four projects on Thursday and Friday. School starts Tuesday. Do the math! xD We weren't required to do them in our concentration (we don't even have to know what that is yet, but I have picked mine already because I am SUCH A BADASS), but I did, so there. I needed to make sure I was pretty comfortable with freezer paper, although I recently bought some photo emulsion for a project I did with some friends (maybe I will post this later), so I shall probably be returning to my first and one true love a couple of times over the year. :]


My first design. The idea to do a picture of Sailor Moon in some cool pose and sans outlines just kind of came to me one day, and this is what I came up with. I had a much cooler looking pose in my mind, but my drawing skills are sub par when it comes to perspective and dynamic poses and such, so this the closest thing I could muster up to what was in my head (senshistock on deviantART is my best friend). Obviously she is based on newschool PGSM-style Moon which dearest Naoko has given pink instead of red on her fuku. :] I am considering making this a series, doing the rest of the inner senshi in this same style.


I originally made this one for my swap partner in The Mighty Boosh Swap round 5, but remade it for myself. (The one in the picture is the one I sent to my swap partner) The original idea I had was to do Old Gregg's tutu, legs, and boots, but when I started drawing it out, not only was I confronted with the fact that I can't draw masculine legs, but what I was sketching just seemed bizarre and somehow vaguely sexual. I dunno, lol. So I just did his boots. I regret that there isn't much significance to the boots and the phrase "Love Games" but there you go. You can just barely make out the pearlescent pigment I dusted over "Love Games." I did this on the boots too, but for whatever reason when I washed the shirt the ink flaked off on the boots, and I didn't reapply the pigment when I repainted it. The remake I did for myself is doubly shiny though. xD


I wanted to do a Doctor Who themed shirt, since I am absolutely obsessed with that show, and figured the TARDIS would be good subject matter. I considered doing a picture of the thing itself, but I didn't feel like drawing it out and didn't want to use the stencil I've seen around the net a few times, since I'm supposed to be doing this for art class so I should be coming up with my own design. I started thinking about what TARDIS stands for, "Time And Relative Dimensions In Space," but that would look lame on a shirt. So instead I started thinking of a phrase that I could pull the letters of TARDIS from, and eventually this is what my brain created. It's not particularly significant, just there so it makes a little sense and you can see the letters T-A-R-D-I-S. My dad, though, saw the shirt after I made it and asked, "What is that a quote from?" Upon hearing that it was just something I made up willy-nilly, he was rather impressed and called it "poetry." Word. xD


I am rather obsessed with Scissor Sisters at the moment...I recently downloaded "Ta-Dah" and would say I have easily listened to it about 20 times on repeat whilst crafting in the past week...I'm addicted. So thus I had to make myself a shirt. This is simple, I just pulled a B&W image of their logo of the 'net and mixed some white ink with pearlescent pink pigment. Then layered oodles more pigment on top. SHINY!!! This obviously isn't for art class, just for fun.



So there you go, another one of my novels. :] Expect many more from me over the next year!

Thanks for looking! :]

I made this AAAAGES ago, around the time I actually started posting on Craftster, but never got around to posting it until now.



If you stalk my posts long enough you will see that I am obsessed with rainbows. Heehee. So I had to make a rainbow throw! It's just a ginormous granny square, each color done for six rows, except for red, which has three, so the widths will be nice and even. Of course, I had to use two different kinds of yarn since for whatever reason I couldn't find flippin' rainbow colors in Red Heart *grumble* so green, blue, and violet are a bit off. OH WELL.

I might make a second one someday but start with purple in the center. I don't know why I didn't do this in the first place, because I much prefer ROYGBIV to VIBGYOR...(wtf lol?) Still, I love this. Rainbow is so pleasing to the eye. xD

Well, after a long love affair with photo-emulsion silkscreening, I have realized that if I really and truly want to make t-shirts and make a lot of them, that method just isn't feasible. It may look super professional, but it's extremely time consuming, especially for someone like me who has low motivation for it and usually employs her father to help so when I find time to ask for it, the whole thing ends up taking about a week. Not good. Plus I wait forever between doing screens (again, the process wears me down), so my emulsion gets wasted as it only lasts so long...

But then I come to Craftster and hear about the wonder that is freezer paper! I had a blank t-shirt lying around for a silkscreen I never got around to doing, so as soon as I heard about freezer paper I basically could not wait to try it out, and ran out to get some so I could make my first design.

Now, most people would probably start simple, or at least somewhat simple (say, one color, moderate cutting, no islands) but I was just so impatient that I simply could NOT go that route! For me, 3 layers and many, many islands was all that would do. I know, seeing as this was my first stencil I went a bit crazy. >_< That's just how I roll.

Anyway, here is the result!




As you can see, I made some accidental smudges...oops! I actually think the one at the bottom kind of gives it a nice effect, actually...lol!

I'm essentially obsessed with Noel Fielding from the Mighty Boosh, so I HAD to make a shirt of him. I found this photo from the BBC:



Turned it into this with Paint Shop Pro:



And then separated it into my 3 colors, white, grey, and black, respectively:



Now, something I did differently from most tutorials I've read was instead of cutting out first and then ironing, I figured it would be much easier due to the amount of islands I had to iron first and then cut out. I knew there would be a risk of damaging the fabric, but I made sure I had a really sharp X-acto and pressed down very carefully, and it worked beautifully! The freezer paper still came up at times, but after the first layer of paint the knife made slight cuts in the paint and I was able to use those as a guide to repositioning and I just ironed it again. I really wanted to use my silkscreen to apply the paint for a thin, even coat, but the holes in the fabric I had were too small so the paint didn't come through and I had to paint it by hand. Next time though, I'm buying new fabric so I can silkscreen it! I think it will come out a lot better. This one is much too thick, and I'm afraid it's going to crack big time when I wash it. Oh well!

Anyway, this was super fun and I'm so so proud of the results. Thanks for looking, everyone!

Well, Round 4 was going on when I first started getting into Craftster, and I have been wanting to be a part of one ever since! Looking at the intervals between the previous rounds, I'm thinking that it's about time for another one! Anyone up for it? I'd prefer not to organize just because I feel like I want to be a bit more experienced with swaps before I do, (even though I have been in two already so I could do it) but I could think about it if no one else wants to and there is enough interest.

Who's interested!

[teapotdnky]

So I was somewhat inspired by this project by teapotdnky to make this. When I started, I was freaking out about being nominated for North Carolina Governor's School and not having enough pieces to choose from for my portfolio, so when I saw that project, "clay + canvas" instantly went into my brain as something really cool to do.

This is on 12x16 canvas. Originally, I sketched a drawing on paper and then transferred it to canvas w/tracing paper. From then on it was all experimenting!











I don't know how many hours total I worked on this, but I worked on it off an on for about two weeks.

The sweater is one of my favorite parts. I really thought doing a knitted sort of pattern would add great texture to the picture (I thought about this before I even knew what I was going to draw!). As you can see, the lips don't really look like they did in the original drawing, which is probably the only thing I'd change about this. But sculpting isn't really my area, so I'm pretty happy with how it turned out in that respect. The hair was the most time-consuming part, obviously. The background was completely random and pretty much thought up on the fly today, but I like it. I think I had a bit too much fun with the pearlescent pigments though...much too shiny. Oops.

This is my first time posting a project, so thanks for looking!