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Bleach shirt - WoW geekeryAll > Fashion > Clothing > Bleach shirt - WoW geekery by sykora
Edit 3/20/08 I'm now making /flex shirts for folks, @ http://Mellonea.Etsy.com /flex is one of my favorite WoW (World of Warcraft) emotes. Often, the programmers made this emote way over-the-top, and funny to watch. It's also rather instantly recognizable in silhouette, which made it a good subject for this shirt. I read Jesse and Brenda's instructions and saw their bleach shirts, and was so inspired! Taking my cue from Jesse and Brenda, I wanted to print out stencils and cut them out, and I found some semi-card-stock around the house. After printing and the long and tiring chore of cutting them all out with scissors and X-acto knives, I sprayed the backs of them with Spray Adhesive and let it dry for 15 minutes, so it would form a temporary-only bond with the shirt. By using this method, I hoped to retain some of the finer details of hair, bones, fingers, etc. And it worked! Oh my, it worked! I didn't even let the shirt dry completely before ripping it out of the dryer to take pictures. Here's a longer, rambling blurb about exactly how it was done... Captured high-contrast (I used the "Lighting" options and darkest available skin tone to achieve this.) silhouettes of the characters in WowModelViewer on my PC, used a graphics program to crop, and heighten the contrast even more, so they were basically black and white figures. Placed the figures in an Illustrator document to more easily design the shirt. The first thing I did was make the relative height of the figures correct. Drae and Tauren the tallest, then Nelfs and Humans, Gnomes last, etc. Once I had the relative heights all correct, I saved the file and was sure to not resize any individual figures again. Then I placed a rectangle on the screen in the exact dimensions of the main area of my shirt. I resized the group of figures to be the correct size on the shirt, and then set them up the way I wanted them! I did a dimensions test to be fully certain that I'd done this right, that the figures were going to end up just the right size in relation to the shirt, and it checked out, my math was good! So then it was a simple matter of printing out the bits and cutting them out! Nnnngh this part took the better part of a painful hour, and Kanten helped a lot, too. Otherwise it would have been two hours, and there's no way I would have finished it that night. <3 So then, it was time to make them sticky, so they'd stick to the blank shirt, and retain the beautiful details of the horns, fingers, etc. I took them upstairs to the spare room where there's this bar/counter thing, and put down an old unused painting dropcloth that Kanten found. There was some concern that the paper would get blown around by the spray adhesive, but when the time came, they seemed to behave alright. I think the heaviness of the paper mattered. I wouldn't want to do it with regular paper. After the adhesive had dried on the figures, I picked them off, set them aside, and peeled off that layer of dropcloth to get a clean dropcloth surface to work with. I laid the shirt down on it, and used a tape measure to help me with the 'straight line' bits. I stuck the figures on, (They did end up being re-positionable) pressed them down hard when they were in their permanent resting spots, and then sprayed them with a 50/50 Bleach/water solution. The fine bleach mist beaded up a bit on the surface of the shirt, but that didn't seem to hurt it. As it began to develop, I quickly flipped the shirt over and hurriedly applied the rest of the figures to the front of the shirt, and sprayed again. Thus, the back of the shirt is a bit lighter, with more contrast than the front. I flipped the shirt over again to the back, and peeled off the figures carefully, with my gloved hands. Once they were all off, I flipped and peeled the figures from the front of the shirt. Happy exclamations ensued as I held it up to the light! The details - Hair, fingers, horns, everything was so sharp and beautiful! That adhesive really did the trick. Then it was into the washer with just a little bit of soap, to stop development and get some of the bleach out. I had the water and soap already poured and ready, in the washer. I turned it on and started the agitator before I put the shirt in, just to be extra thorough. I checked the shirt a minute later, to be sure that the development had indeed stopped, and that the details were still sharp. They were! Ok, so that's the rambling story of this shirt! It was so easy, once I had the dropcloth and adhesive and cardstock and X-acto knife. >_> Now I have to decide what design to make next! Maybe I'll do my jeans! EDIT: I did end up doing my jeans, and I wrote it up on my blog: Sy's Murmurs and Mumbles -Sy 
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Posted by julian 2 years ago ( 30-Jan-2008 01:14:46 )