[QUOTE=sam-a-lam]snails are bugs[/QUOTE]
Snails are mollusks not bugs. Thank you to the person who posted the link too.

Bugs just means a pest, something that bugs you. I think you are confusing bugs with insects.

This thread is so dead.
 

I'm making a simple stencil of a local band's logo. I can't decide what to do with the "a" -- none of the bridges I've made look right. The best thing I can come up with is to fill in the A completely.

[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/A55-1.gif[/url]
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/A55-2.gif[/url]

Any suggestions/someone who would do it for me? (**** "diy")

I'll post some pics of what I've done recently sometime.

I'd just cut straight across and let the middle of the A be a solid color. Like just don't make any bridges.

So I realized all the stencils I've been doing have been of other stuff. So I figured I'd make my own **** and throw that up just to get some street cred or something.

So Jark Shark is my secret alias among my friends, and I made this stencil to go with that.

I have yet to even begin the actual cutting or anything, but I'm gonna make this one super high quality and put it up all over, so everyone knows me.

[url]http://i57.photobucket.com/albums/g236/JarkShark/jarksharkstencil.jpg[/url]

I haven't made a shirt in a long time, and since all my friends were elsewhere today, I decided to make an against me shirt.

[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/Stencils/againstme.jpg[/url]

It's not finished, because I still have to paint in the faces and do some touching up, but I like it so far.

Also, the hands turned out like crap. I'm going to need to think about how to fix that.

That's so awsome. I wish I was better at making stencils.

yea its pretty sweet the way it is, and the hands you can tell are hands.

as for scum, i would go with making a bridge. make the smallest bridge you can, and just hope to go it doesn’t break.

as for shirts ive made recently, ive made a Abfluss shirt (German or Belgium punk band) its just the name across the front, and there anarchy sign on the back, nothing grand.

yeah, I'll figure out the *** patch later.

Here are some patches I've made in recent days:

[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches001.jpg[/url] - Profane Existence
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches002.jpg[/url] - World/Inferno
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches003.jpg[/url] - Bush
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches004.jpg[/url] - Radiohead bear
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches005.jpg[/url] - Low
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches006.jpg[/url] - DK's

asdf and scum are you using fabric paint

[QUOTE=BCT]asdf and scum are you using fabric paint[/QUOTE]
I am.

[QUOTE=BCT]asdf and scum are you using fabric paint[/QUOTE]
White and black are; not the red.

asdf that shirt is so good. i am amazed by it. i need to master the art of using fabric paint and making **** on black shirts.

i got my wisdom teeth and some other secret teeth out a couple of days ago so ive been ****ed up on painkillers so i havent been doing anything. im going to make some strike anywhere stencils for my backpack for school first. then i have a sean connery 007 stencil i need to make. i also am planning on making an aganst me shirt but i dont know what im going to do with that yet.

[url]http://s56.photobucket.com/albums/g199/iam2000pounds/?action=view&current=jkghhjg.jpg&refPage=&imgAnch=imgAnch1[/url]

That's a stencil I made for Against Me! I haven't used it yet though.

I dont know if I've posted about this yet, I probably did a while ago.

This is my dads old road bike from years upon years ago. It's been sitting in the rain for about four years so I decided to fix it up.

[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/2.jpg[/url]
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/3.jpg[/url]
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/4.jpg[/url]
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/1.jpg[/url]

It's all pretty much finished now. I just need to get some new photos of it. I've re-taped up the handle bars, replaced the tubes and tires, patched up some old tubes, got rid of the leather strappings on the pedals, slowly worked on getting rid of all the rust, adjusted the brakes, removed the drink holder and added a light on the back for riding at night.


EDIT: here's a crappy camera phone picture.
[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v158/goodrats/Bike/bike.jpg[/url]

Nice man, I'm sure that thing kicks ***. :)

do you guys use spray fabric paint or a roller? that spray **** does not work well i think i might try it agian. i am thinking about making a silk screen soon. has any one else done that?

[QUOTE=BCT]do you guys use spray fabric paint or a roller? that spray **** does not work well i think i might try it agian. i am thinking about making a silk screen soon. has any one else done that?[/QUOTE]
I use a brush. Roller works just as well. According to my friend, that spray stuff is ****, I really wouldn't even bother with it.

i have never even considered a brush those little foam brush might work well. i am goint to start so many diy projects when i move in to my own apparment on the 16th

[QUOTE=plebeian scum]yeah, I'll figure out the *** patch later.

Here are some patches I've made in recent days:


[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v66/idiosyncratic/patches002.jpg[/url] - World/Inferno
[/QUOTE]

Your World/Inferno patch is amazing. I'd make one if I had the slightest clue how.

i dont have one clue on how to make a shirt...

no idea how you guys are doing this...

but can i just make a stencil, and put it over a white shirt, and use black spraypaint, and spray over the stencil?

Yeah, Jono, that would work fine, but it'd give a different feel than fabric paint. Whenever I paint shirts, (which, granted, aren't very punx,) I use a brush set and So Soft Fabric Paints. I have made two with spraypaint, and they look pretty rocking, but they don't look store bought. The best part about it is how nicely they fade.

A few tips for doing that, though: make sure that it's a preshrunk t-shirt, and put something between the layers of the shirt so it doesn't bleed. I do most of my painting with my shirts stretched out over my guitar case, which works effectively and bleeds through hella cool-like. My guitar case looks all dope and psychedelic.

haha niiice

i dont want to make them look store bought anyways
i like homemade stuff haha

what guitar do you have, i have a gibson sg special faded, and im getting a white and black epiphone sg, this week, for 200$

I had a black and white Epiphone SG, but recently a pipe broke in my house and soaked the pickups. Actually, it soaked just about everything, caused 40,000 dollars in structural damages, and got us evicted because we couldn't pay for it.

But whatever. Life goes on.

I use my acoustic guitar case neck to paint things with. it fills the shirts out really well, because I'm a small and the fit is perfect. My acoustic guitar is an Ibanez purchased from my brother's ex-girlfriend for twenty bucks. Best buy of my life.

damn, sucks about your house, and your guitar, was the epiphone a G-310, cuz thats what im getting, looks sooo sweet.

yeah, i wont be painting, i cant do that yet hah, just spraypaiting.
ill make my own stencils out of cardboard, and then just spraypaint over that wtih a white shirt. That will work well, im guessing.

[QUOTE=Jono9119X]i dont have one clue on how to make a shirt...

no idea how you guys are doing this...

but can i just make a stencil, and put it over a white shirt, and use black spraypaint, and spray over the stencil?[/QUOTE]
[url]http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/print_stencil.html[/url] - though that's a bit more involved than spraypaint.

[QUOTE=Microwave meals & ideals]Your World/Inferno patch is amazing. I'd make one if I had the slightest clue how.[/QUOTE]
[url]http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/world_inferno.gif[/url]

Stencilpunks is where it's at.

Oh, yeah, this sounds dumb, but what kind of places sell safty pins? They're tacky as hell (and I'm not one of those people that think they look cool), but I'm too lazy to sew, especially if it might just be temporary. I'd like to aviod the big discount stores also.

HOT TOPIC!!!!!! lol

[QUOTE=plebeian scum][url]http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/print_stencil.html[/url] - though that's a bit more involved than spraypaint.


[url]http://stencilpunks.mattrunningnaked.com/world_inferno.gif[/url]

Stencilpunks is where it's at.

Oh, yeah, this sounds dumb, but what kind of places sell safty pins? They're tacky as hell (and I'm not one of those people that think they look cool), but I'm too lazy to sew, especially if it might just be temporary. I'd like to aviod the big discount stores also.[/QUOTE]basically any arts & crafts store. try joann's or michaels.

Any drug store will have safety pins.

I made another shirt today. This one is a streetlight manifesto shirt, and I messed it up a few different ways, but it still looks passable.

[url]http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v294/asdf23/Stencils/streetlight.jpg[/url]