A WoW-themed Bleach shirt: Success! [/flex]
SHIRTS LIKE THIS NOW AVAILABLE AT MY ETSY STORE!! http://Mellonea.etsy.com
/flex is one of my favorite wow 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 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.
Click the pics to see bigger versions!
 Cutting out the complicated shapes with the X-acto knife made my hand hurt, but every bit of detail showed up on the finished product, so all the hurt was worth it! ^_^ |
 I laid it out in Illustrator after capturing the silhouettes in WoW Model Viewer on my PC, and then Printed some out to do a dimensions test. Everything checked out, so I printed on the cardstock and got cutting. And now, the finished product!  |
This is the back side…   |
And this is the front!    |
It still smells a little like bleach, which drives me nuts, but this shirt will get washed with every load of wash I do for a couple weeks, and that should really take the edge off. (EDIT: I wasned it a couple times and now there is no trace of bleachy smell at all.) I just LOVE it! The details turned out so nice, and I even like the bleach splashes and smudges on the sleeves, it looks so DIY! Hehe. I’m now trying to think of another idea for a shirt…. maybe I could do my jeans!
I welcome your comments! ^_^
Edit: Much better pictures now! Also, this shirt got featured on Make Magazine’s blog! I r famus nao. ^_^ Make’s write up of this shirt, wewt! They saw it because I listed it here: Cre.ations.net
Rich said,
September 8, 2007 at 10:18 pm
YAY! That’s an awesome shirt, I’ll take 7!
Oreet said,
September 9, 2007 at 8:35 am
Hah!
I love that shirt. Great job :D
Sarah Chiang said,
September 10, 2007 at 3:15 am
I love it, Sy! <3
Nicolas Ward said,
September 10, 2007 at 6:02 am
So, I didn’t look at this entry yesterday, but the last thing I saw on my computer before I went to bed was your away message linking to it.
Which means, of course, that I had a dream about the t-shirt.
I forget some of the details, but it was pink and involved night elves, and I was a meanie and rejected it for being “too girly”, and felt all guilty about it.
Sy said,
September 10, 2007 at 6:07 am
zomigosh Kjall so meen!
Ego said,
September 10, 2007 at 6:38 am
oman, that’s too awesome.
How long did it take you? How much would you charge to do this for other people?
Sy said,
September 10, 2007 at 7:48 am
Lol! Well, I’d love to make some for others, and the ‘fee’ would be either non-existent or just a small donation to cover shipping. ^_^ It’d actually be really fun to take ‘orders’, especially for buddies who I know will enjoy it! *hee*
Oh, and this one took me… ummm… well, there were so many to cut out, prolly liiiike…4 hours? ish?
But I still have the cut-outs! And they’re all curly from being wet, but methinks I can save them. o_o
Ego said,
September 10, 2007 at 7:56 am
I is be emailering you.
Sy said,
September 10, 2007 at 8:00 am
Yey!
Kanten said,
September 10, 2007 at 8:02 am
I see lots of beefy muskels.
You know, a /dance themed shirt would be pretty sweet too. Like snap shots that would be like frames of a certain race/gender dance that goes around the shirt. =P
Sy said,
September 10, 2007 at 8:48 am
Ooooo!
Oreet said,
September 11, 2007 at 7:45 am
Hey!!!
Where is the male troll /flex???
/e is one angry Troll.
Sy said,
September 11, 2007 at 7:48 am
It’s there! it’s right in the middle of the, uh….. the screenshot of my computer screen? >_>