It’s Nacho Time

Now that I have a camera I can show you the actual stamp I carved.

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I carved out a stamp from that squid design I posted earlier. I really like the stylized stamp look I’ve got. I’ve found it’s a good way to make a digital image a little more interesting. I used a similar technique on my Death Cat shirt. I might clean up some of the stray lines, but I’m happy with the result. The original design was just too sterile. I might use this one in a future shirt.

Well, here it is. I’m either getting attacked by this squid, or am some kind of part-squid part-man creature; it’s up for interpretation. This is my craftiest project yet. I hand-sewed everything except for 4 of the tentacles (my Aunt helped me out with those). I used snaps to attach the tentacles to my shirt, and mesh from my laundry basket for the eyes. It’s really too bad that Halloween is only one day!

I think I’ll add some spots for next year.

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Here’s the result. It’s not as deep as I had hoped, my blue tape mask fell off as I was checking the progress and I really didn’t feel like putting it all back on. I’ll definitely try this again.

El Chupacabra Shirt

Before starting on the screenprinting process, I decided to make a quick freezer paper stencil of my chupacabra design, and today I finished it up. This is also my first 2 color stencil. It’s a bit blurry around the edges, but I’ll definitely do better next time. One problem with this stencil is that I made it soo small.

Here‘s the original design.