I said I was going to put pics from my adventure with bleached t-shirt designs and here it is.
Before I start I would like to state that the inspiration for this came from:
1. Jon Schindehette, founder of ArtOrder (http://artorder.ning.com/) community, who came up with this particular challenge and pointed me to:
2. Instructables, where you can learn plenty about creative DIY & recycling
Ok, here are the steps I took. And since I played it safe and arrived at pretty much unexpected results, I would like to really stress the importance of self-initiative…
Tools used: Bottle of bleach, large piece of cardboard to stretch your t-shirt on, scissors, stanley knife (or anything else you’re comfortable cutting the shapes out), paper towels (do come in handy to wipe out the excess of bleach), drawing materials, camera, computer, image editing software (last three – totally optional)
Let’s begin.
1. Take a plain guy in a plain polo-shirt and chop the head off…
2. By means of cutting edge technology, transfer the image into your editing software, doodle the graphic onto the t-shirt. What I did here is I created a new layer above the t-shirt layer, set it’s mode to “screen” and roughly painted with brighter colour, then I erased out shapes from it to reveal darker areas. Because I am going to use posca pens at a later stage, I took some liberties marking the highlights and notes onto the design, too…
3. Grab a piece of cardboard, draw your shape and cut it out. I went really easy on the design so again… did not bother that much with the accuracy.
4. Some measures had to be taken and the quality check was called for at one stage…
5. Another look to assure it’s… identical. so NOT.
6. Combine the elements, while taking a chance to show off your wacom…
7. Secure the perimeter (I didn’t and now some of my sheet, that just happened to be drying out in the spare room) smell of bleach…
8. Go trigger happy with your bleach bottle… ( had to cut that scene out…)
9. Admire the results while asking yourself: “Where did I go wrong?”
That is what I thought on immediate comparison between what was initially planned and the result but must say – it has grown on me since. I am still going to try with posca highlights and try to add a logo or type elements but I am now quite taken by the creepiness of this work.
This subject is to be continued… as you can see there’s another t-shirt drying out behind this one on which I tested the power of my bleach, but this is yet another story;)
Cheers!
