DIY Wolverine tank top

About 3 months ago, I made a DIY batman tank top and since then I have been dying to make another superhero one. I have accumulated a whole bunch of designs that I'd like to paint onto a shirt and I have all the equipment, it was just the time that I was looking for. 

As I am not a very skilled artist, I usually look for fairly simple designs to use for the shirts. At the moment, I'm really into minimalist superhero artwork. I found a great Wolverine poster art that got my attention straight away. All credit goes to the original artist! Find the original artwork and other really great minimalist Marvel posters at Behance.net.

The steps I took to make this shirt are much the same as those for my Bat-stache tank top :) I'm not very good at freehand painting so I made my own stencil out of just normal printer paper. In total, making this top only took about 5 hours which is much less than the Bat-stache one. 

I find these projects incredibly relaxing. I just had my music on next to me and my little heater going too. Can't wait to get started on the next design. 

 

 

 

When he's not in his X-men gear, Wolverine is always wearing a leather jacket, so I thought it would be appropriate to pair the tank top with one too :)

DIY Bat-stache tank top

I told my friend that I had a moustache party coming up this weekend and she linked me to a YouTube tutorial for a DIY moustache pendant (Video here). These crafty things are definitely the type of things I want to do for the blog. 

After watching the video, other ideas started to form in my mind for what I could wear to the party. while I was googling moustaches, I came across a cool picture of Batman with a moustache.  

I had the day off work today, so I decided to head out the the craft store Spotlight so buy everything I needed to make both the necklace and my own DIY t-shirt. 

Spotlight is like the women's equivalent to Bunnings. Love it. 

I also stopped into a few other craft stores to buy fabric paint. 

I was so excited to make the t-shirt, that I didn't get time to make the moustache necklace, but I've still got a few more days until the party, so that will be up on the blog soon. 

So here is a very quick tutorial for my Bat-stache tank top. It took pretty much the whole day to paint so I'm a bit pushed for time to write my blog entry. Sorry if it seems rushed!

DIY Bat-stache tank top:

Equipment:

• Black and white (or grey) fabric paint
• Paint brushes
• T-shirt of your choice
• Stanley knife
• Ruler
• Newspaper
• thick piece of cardboard
• Paper clamps

I started off by printing the picture that I wanted and cut it out to make a stencil. 

I placed the thick piece of cardboard inside the shirt so that the paint wouldn't seep through to the other side. I  clamped the paper to the t-shirt and cardboard to keep it in place while I painted.

I used the white fabric paint to do the shadowing on Batman's face.

For the text, I went onto the website Dafont.com and used their Batman Forever font simulator. 

I printed out my text design and made it into a stencil using a Stanley knife and ruler. 

I then clamped the stencil onto the shirt and painted the text on (fabric spray paint would have been good here).

The instructions on the fabric paint says to let it dry for 24 hours, and then turn the shirt inside out and use a warm iron over the design to set the paint to make it permanent and resistant to water. 

I'm really happy with the result, given that this is the first time I've ever done something like this. Sometimes you don't know what you're capable of until you try it :) 

Even my mum likes the top. When I tried it on, she said I looked "sexy", in her Asian accent. I don't think she's ever called me sexy before. She cracks me up hahaha.