Well, I’m so happy about my squid design that I’m going to make it into a shirt. I’ve fiddled around in my vector program (inkscape) and I’ve got a black and white image to use. It’s a bit darker than the original (I’m not talking about brightness), let me know what you think.
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.
Here’s a preview of my next shirt. I’ve just gotta buy some blanks (I’m thinking brown) and then I can get started.
El Chupacabra, for those of you who don’t know, is a mythical Latin American beast who feeds on the blood of farm animals (mainly goats).
Notice the amazinly clever posterboard shirt template I’ve got underneath the stencil.
Update – This weekend I’m going to try and buy a screenprinting setup. I think this design is worthy.
Update – Here‘s the graphic I used for the stencil
