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Making a cool as shirt

First step is to find a cool ass design, and trace it

Here's Mine

Then stick the drawing to a piece of cardboard and cut it out with a cutter

Grab a blank shirt that fits you nicely and add the stencil on top. If you have loose pieces like I did I recommend sticking them with tape.

Now, grab a sponge and dab that paint!

I use acrylic, which works fine but I was too lazy to go buy fabric softener, which you are supposed to add to the paint. It turned out fine but the desing is a little stiff, I definitely won't be lazy next time, you shouldn't either.

And tadaa!

There's a number of things I did which are not pictured tho. I let it dry for 12 hours, corrected some edges with a sharpie, ironed it, and washed it inside out on the most delicate settings.

I love the shirt in the end, next time I'll surely use fabric softener, but having a custom piece of clothing like this is super nice.

I'm already planning the next shirt, I'll go for something like this: