At this point I had originally decided I was done with the illustration, but after a night away I decided
I was not happy with end result. I begin by putting a lot of fine white dagger strokes around the face
to make a fuller look to the fur and enhance the direction of the light source. After that I overhauled
the bottom with a gazillion white dagger strokes over the body. I still left room around so that some
underneath color came through. Then I went back and repeated my earlier steps of misting blues,
violet and brown and lastly came back with some white to create that layered look to the fur. After
all this the painting was finished. The final step is to heat set for color fastness. For this I use a
normal clothes iron and a piece of parchment paper and move the iron very slowly, being careful
not to scorch the fabric; I heat each area for about 2 minutes. The front of the shirt was done in
the exact same way. I hope this how to will help you to get closer to your goal.
Correcting misspelled words and assuring that they do not re- towel when that happens there is a quick fix and that’s what I’ll
turn after the first wash. If you airbrush T Shirts for any length cover in the how to article.
of time you will find yourself in the position of having misspelled a Equipement used: double action gravity feed airbrush, textile air-
word, name on a T Shirt, it just happens. Well don’t throw in the brush colors, t shirt
1. Doing a ton of “In lov-
2. To fix this problem,
ing memory” shirts I ac-
and to make certain
cidentally made a huge
that it does not ever
mistake and placed “sis-
show up after the first
ter in law” on two shirts
wash, I start off with a
when it was supposed to
few starbursts on some
say just “Sister”. What a
of the upper parts of the
way to start the day off
letters. Note that the
by making a mistake on
starbursts are a part of
two shirts but no wor-
the letters themselves.
ries there is a solution
The starbursts are of
to fix my over sight, mis-
course created using
take.
dagger strokes; four
per starburst in this
case.
3. Now I gently fade out
a bit of the old lines that
do not work so well with
4. I then freehand my
my starbursts; note that
new letters in to cover
I do not try to completely
up as much as the old
white out the area. If
letters as possible. I
you do you will build up a
don’t worry if the old let-
thick mountain of paint
ters can not be 100%
in this area and it will not
covered at this point,
only look bad but after
just cover as much as
the first wash it is going
possible.
to look horrendous.
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