Magikarp Pokémon
Magikarp is a water-type Pokemon. Pocket Monster. The Magikarp is considered to be one of the most useless of all Pokemon. The franchise was created by Satoshi Tajiri in 1995, and is centered on fictional creatures called "Pokémon", which humans, known as Pokémon Trainers, catch and train to battle each other for sport.
I’ve done some other Pokemon; Squirtle, Togapi, Duskull, Shaymin, Pika-Kigu.
I have tried a few times to make cheap homemade airbrush stencils.
Years ago, I made a cardstock paper stencil for the ?-marks on my Riddler. I did it by printing out the image, gluing it to some thick paper, and using an exacto knife to carve it out. This only worked because the shape was very simple.
I’ve watched some home screenprinting tutorials done with modgepodge and an embroidery hoop, but I’ve never done it that way.
With this Magikarp, I tried using heat bond and tulle mesh fabric to make the stencil. By cutting the shapes out of the heat bond and ironing it to the tulle mesh.
I’ve done some other Pokemon; Squirtle, Togapi, Duskull, Shaymin, Pika-Kigu.
I have tried a few times to make cheap homemade airbrush stencils.
Years ago, I made a cardstock paper stencil for the ?-marks on my Riddler. I did it by printing out the image, gluing it to some thick paper, and using an exacto knife to carve it out. This only worked because the shape was very simple.
I’ve watched some home screenprinting tutorials done with modgepodge and an embroidery hoop, but I’ve never done it that way.
With this Magikarp, I tried using heat bond and tulle mesh fabric to make the stencil. By cutting the shapes out of the heat bond and ironing it to the tulle mesh.
It worked alright, the shape had clean edges, and it worked as predicted.
But on the very first one, I sprayed too much paint, and it bled. I wasn’t expecting the airbrush-in-a-can to be even more watery than spray paint. So after that one dried, I tried to go back over it with some acrylic paints to clean up the edges, which made that first one look noticeably more detailed than the rest. Luckily, that first one was on the back, so it looks deliberate. After that, the rest of them went on quickly. Covering the whole jacket took about an hour. See the Workshop page. The homemade stencil was ruined from the sticky paint, so it's not the type of thing that can be saved and reused later. I didn’t make the jacket; I just happened to have it. But I did make the little hair clips out of craft foam. |
Overall, it's an understated outfit. From a distance, it looks like I'm an orange crayon.
The makeup is adorable, orange and blue, with little triangle details on the edges. like little rhinestone fishes.
Worn with: orange wig, tights, funny hair clips, scarf, mini skirt, heels.
Photos by Toshi, and others.
The makeup is adorable, orange and blue, with little triangle details on the edges. like little rhinestone fishes.
Worn with: orange wig, tights, funny hair clips, scarf, mini skirt, heels.
Photos by Toshi, and others.
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