More squids. Yay! I put this together during finals week; it was the only thing keeping me sane. I used the last scraps from my squid costume fabric to make this. Very soon I hope to make my own army of toy squids. For future purchase? I hope so!
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.
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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 an idea for my Halloween costume: getting attacked by a monster cyclops squid.
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.
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.
preview!
