I finally printed a Tshirt!
But still no colors though. hehe

Front

and the back.
It’s a cartoon version of my boyfriend and I. I illustrated it on my pc and I failed for the first design.

This is the first design, as I am using a black tshirt I don’t like having white onlines, so I make it that the the black on the t-shirt will be the outline for the print. But this first illustration that I did didn’t work out as the lines are too line and some of the lines are not join together and that makes it hard to make sure the design will go into the correct place. So I corrected the illustration and moved on with the one below. Which is more paper-cut style and I like it.

After I the space out, I iron it on the from of my tshirt.

There it is… all ready to get painted.

I don’t have a roller, so I just use a paint brush to slowly go through the corners. This take quite a long time because the brush is small but I just want to make sure I get all corners covered. I might want to get a roller sponge or something and perhaps some fabric paint too.

Being an impatient person.. a hair dryer is my best friend.

After 4 layers of acrylic with textile medium and hair dryer, I peel off the stencil and there it is. I noticed that the edges are not crisp and clean and in some area, the paint actually bleed through the stencil. So I am wondering if is it because of the textile medium that makes my acrylic to watery or something. (If you refer to the picture before this one, that’s the first layer of paint and it’s really thin IMO) So I might experiment with fabric paint when I get some.

I turn the tshirt inside out, have a piece of cloth under the front side and iron press the painted area to set it.
Now, I move on the stenciling the logo at the back near the collar area.

Loving this logo, it’s our initials ^^

See how thin the first layer is?

After 4 to 5 layers of paint.. I think I applied too much and a part of it actually cracked, and ironining didn’t really help. I just wanted to make sure that it’s white enough, but I guess the paint is too thick.
Same as the above, I turn it inside out and iron set it.