"Vintage" Fake-screenprint T-shirt Design

Step 7 Exploring Other Techniques

These other techniques tend to go outside the clean lines of faking "screenprint," but they still look vintagey/worn and are fairly easy to do. Check the tags of each photo for an explanation.

Comments

[ewebbdesigns]

Also instead of taping down or holding a stencil... Go to your local grocery store, buy some freezer paper. Use the freezer paper as your stencil, so cut out your pic that you want to print out of the freezer paper. This paper i coated with a waxy layer, so write on the other side. Then line it up on your tee shirt and iron it down. This gives a really close contact with the shirt, and it leaves no residue when you tear it away after you have placed the paint on! If you have a lot of spaces in your stencil, you can either stencil separetly the designs or use a sturdy tape, ducked tape, on the same side you are drawing on. This will allow you to place it correctly on the tee shirt and keep it from loosing its right dimentions in transfering from cutting area to shirt.

[kenyaaa]

i think you should try using more than one layer of paint. like put it on let it dry and then addd a second coat.

[Mercat]

just be careful because you don't want the paint to be thick, as it is more likely to crack and is more uncomfortable to wear.

[kenyaaa]

thats true too.

[Arios Schiffer]

Fabulous instructable! I shall certainly try this out. I love the vintage look, dry brushing is such a good idea.