[QUOTE=Culture Shock]I just bought a sweater for 5 bucks although the "neck" (for lack of a better name) is a little long. I was going to just cut around the seams of that but then it will unravel. Any suggestions?[/QUOTE]
Couldn't you sew around where you're going to cut (with a sewing machine, not by hand) and then cut it? Like hemming a pant leg.


I found a site dedicated to pictures of graffiti in my city over the past 3 years or so. It's pretty interesting, quite a bit of it I hadn't seen before, and then some I know right where it's located. Some of the stencils are much better than what I could do, but not many.

They said they were looking for more pictures of graffiti around the city, so for laughs I sent them this classic:
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/buddah.jpg[/url]
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/buddah2.jpg[/url]

What's the site? I'd like to look at some good (and bad) stencilled graffiti.

[url]http://www.equalized.org/grgraffiti/gallery/[/url]

There's also tags, and good graffiti. Most of the big stuff I haven't seen, and has probably been long since painted over.

Ah, cool. Thanks.

I just finished making a Bomb The Music Industry T-Shirt.

Post pictures if you can.

I am camera-less.

Gotcha, do you have the stencil you used?

[QUOTE=asdf][url]http://www.equalized.org/grgraffiti/gallery/[/url]

There's also tags, and good graffiti. Most of the big stuff I haven't seen, and has probably been long since painted over.[/QUOTE]

Wow, No offense but Michigan's graffiti sucks compared to Los Angeles. That's the one thing about this place I'm proud of.

I hate taggers. What a bunch of lamerz. Actuall graffitti slogans and art is great, but 99% of graffitti (at least around here) is some indecipherable scrawl made by some middle-class white kid trying to be ghetto.

[QUOTE=xxGumbyxx]Wow, No offense but Michigan's graffiti sucks compared to Los Angeles. That's the one thing about this place I'm proud of.[/QUOTE]
Oh, I know it's horrible. And anything somewhat impressive on that site, I haven't actually seen in real life.

Ann Harbor has better graffiti then where I live, but I'm sure Los Angeles has some great stuff.

[QUOTE=RIP Ian Curtis]I hate taggers. What a bunch of lamerz. Actuall graffitti slogans and art is great, but 99% of graffitti (at least around here) is some indecipherable scrawl made by some middle-class white kid trying to be ghetto.[/QUOTE]
Very true. The best example I can give of that is:
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/buddah.jpg[/url]
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/buddah2.jpg[/url]

I really hate taggers. I got arrested and accused of being a tagger. Out of all the lame taggers in my city, they catch someone who thinks tagging is stupid. Good job, cops.

I think I may make a Phil Ochs shirt and use this image: [url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v151/PunkRockLoser666/philochs.jpg[/url] as a way to stencil it (It's him from the cover of All Thew News That's Fit to Sing but silloutted) and put Phil Och on the top. Not sure yet though.

I made my first stencil that I drew by hand, because I couldn't sleep last night.

It's based off a picture of Tom Waits on the back of Rain Dogs.
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/tomwaits2.jpg[/url]

That's nicely done. I'd reconize it right away was Mr. Waits.

[QUOTE=Brain Toad]That's nicely done. I'd reconize it right away was Mr. Waits.[/QUOTE]
I'm thinking that if I use it, I should also stencil out some lyrics. Haven't decided which ones I want, though.

[QUOTE=DaveToopes]Gotcha, do you have the stencil you used?[/QUOTE]

I got it from Lukeh. [URL="http://photobucket.com/albums/d10/Lukehh/?action=BtMIstencil.jpg"]http://photobucket.com/albums/d10/Lukehh/?action=BtMIstencil.jpg[/URL]

asdf, you're really good at drawing.

Where would you go to get some clips to attach at butt flap to pants? I saw some in a fabric store once but they're no longer there.
Also, I'm going to be painting an Anthrax 'capitalism is cannibalism' logo on leather jacket, which looks like this:
[url]http://www.southern.com/southern/label/CRC/pics/09425L.jpg[/url]
it's kind of hard to see here, but it's line art with pen. I don't want to be painting a bunch of lines in, so if I paint a white background, how will a pen turn out? I have a fine pen with waterproof ink, but I still don't want to draw that whole thing out only to have it get ruined.

On a nother note, I made Sheep Farming in the Falklands patches, but gave them away before I could get pictures. They were cool though.

[QUOTE=ratsinthecity403]Where would you go to get some clips to attach at butt flap to pants? I saw some in a fabric store once but they're no longer there.
Also, I'm going to be painting an Anthrax 'capitalism is cannibalism' logo on leather jacket, which looks like this:
[url]http://www.southern.com/southern/label/CRC/pics/09425L.jpg[/url]
it's kind of hard to see here, but it's line art with pen. I don't want to be painting a bunch of lines in, so if I paint a white background, how will a pen turn out? I have a fine pen with waterproof ink, but I still don't want to draw that whole thing out only to have it get ruined.

On a nother note, I made Sheep Farming in the Falklands patches, but gave them away before I could get pictures. They were cool though.[/QUOTE]

For your butt flap as you called it. Get a bondage belt, they have the hooks to put it on. But if you can't get enough cash for one(the come to about 40-30 bucks). If not, you can easliy just attach it to your pants with some thread. No more than 5minutes of sewwing.

For the leather. If your gonna do it on the back, spary paint it, put some sealer on it. Then when a extra fine Deco outline it, then with an fine Deco fill it in. Then put some more sealer. Should stay perfect.

I actually have leather airbrush paint so I'll hand paint it in. Does sealer help a lot to put on first? Also, what do I use to get paint off? It's acrylic and water based but I put sealer on over it.

Paint thiner. They say it ****s up your jacket. Never did anything to mine. So eh.
The sealer for mine made the paint stay on. Any for rain it helps.

{edit} My leather. Not that good of picture but eh. Lemme get some more...
Ok. One side and the other...don't ask why I'm looking down....
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/classhed/Untitled-2.jpg[/url]
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/classhed/100_3049.jpg[/url]

[QUOTE=Clashed]Paint thiner. They say it ****s up your jacket. Never did anything to mine. So eh.
The sealer for mine made the paint stay on. Any for rain it helps.

{edit} My leather. Not that good of picture but eh. Lemme get some more...
Ok. One side and the other...don't ask why I'm looking down....
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/classhed/Untitled-2.jpg[/url]
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v236/classhed/100_3049.jpg[/url][/QUOTE]


Looks cool, but why are you tucking your chin to your chest?!

I was acutally looking at my shoe, but eh.

[QUOTE=Sebek]Just got a few pictures of what I have done to my leather jacket so far. I just need to get some more paint before continuing.

Bottom back:
[url]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/VixennEvenblade/Picture005.jpg[/url]

Right side:
[url]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/VixennEvenblade/Picture004.jpg[/url]

Right side zipperline:
[url]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/VixennEvenblade/Picture003.jpg[/url]

Left side:
[url]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/VixennEvenblade/Picture002.jpg[/url]

Front:
[url]http://i2.photobucket.com/albums/y12/VixennEvenblade/Picture006.jpg[/url][/QUOTE]

I hate you....patches on leather...

[QUOTE=ratsinthecity403]Where would you go to get some clips to attach at butt flap to pants? I saw some in a fabric store once but they're no longer there.
Also, I'm going to be painting an Anthrax 'capitalism is cannibalism' logo on leather jacket, which looks like this:
[url]http://www.southern.com/southern/label/CRC/pics/09425L.jpg[/url]
it's kind of hard to see here, but it's line art with pen. I don't want to be painting a bunch of lines in, so if I paint a white background, how will a pen turn out? I have a fine pen with waterproof ink, but I still don't want to draw that whole thing out only to have it get ruined.

On a nother note, I made Sheep Farming in the Falklands patches, but gave them away before I could get pictures. They were cool though.[/QUOTE]

Good luck with the Anthrax logo.

I've always wanted to go around stenciling that "h" in a circle from half-life.

[QUOTE=RIP Ian Curtis]I've always wanted to go around stenciling that "h" in a circle from half-life.[/QUOTE]

x_h_l_c_x

Halflifecore

up teh punx gam0rz

this painting i made in art class today

[url]http://i17.photobucket.com/albums/b73/mascara_hero13/twofeetofftheground.jpg[/url]

ig the basis for the next shirt im going to make...
only it probably wont look like a crazy person wrote it...
and its going to say the dead milkmen on the back

Someone give me links to home-piercing and tattooing sites plzkthx.

I'm sort of in a sculpting/ceramics class (technically, I'm signed up for it, but really I'm in photography indiependent study, although I have the option of doing both) and I'm thinking of building my tall bike with the help of my friend during that class. They have a welder, and that way I'd have some guidance from a teacher. We tried explaining a tall bike to him, and he'd never heard of anything like that. We'll see what happens.

If not, I have plenty of people who want to help me over the summer.