"Oh? Haven't you heard? Droid finger earrings are all the rage in the Coruscant Underworld."
Inspired by @keldabekush's phenomenal Punk Clones concept and @nibeul's drawing of it, I had 2 make myself a pair of droid finger earrings. This one's 4 u, Chopper, the original upcycled droid finger jeweler <3
(Also I am not accepting criticism on my Ahsoka Tano themed reverse mullet at this time thank you)
Hey Fairly, you spent a normal amount of time on this, right?
"Oh yeah, for sur-" *blaster sounds*
Don't worry about it.
I was so in love with @keldabekush's design for their all-clones very real Star Wars band, The Meat Droids, that I felt compelled to sew a very real band t-shirt and hand paint on a design based on the album cover they designed. Stream GEONOSIS DRUDGE now <3
A quick DIY punk t-shirt painting tutorial inspired by @irlkenku's ask!
I work in costuming, so I’m like... always 100% down to share my process! Though I can’t guarantee this is the best or fastest way to do this (I think I spent almost 30 hours on this thing between creating the stencil, sewing the shirt, and all the painting :X OOPS), it’s what worked for me! Meat Droids Shirt process under the cut:
(Meat Droids concept and design credit to @keldabekush )
1. I made the stencil on paper first, and then transferred it to the shirt using a chalk marker (you can see the holographic sleeves I made in this picture! ^-^)
As for paints, I used these:
(I ended up using a weird mix of paints because I told myself I wasn’t allowed to spend money on this, and it’s what I had on hand LOL. The tube of aqua green is a heavy body acrylic, which I have learned from years of painting armor, will give you a lot more coverage per coat, but it's still just acrylic. The pink and yellow are fluorescent/neon paints, so that's why they glow super pretty in the blue low light.)
2. Make sure you have cardboard or something inside the shirt to keep paint from transferring to the back.
3.I started tracing in the chalk outline on the shirt with white paint.
This was probably the biggest time sink, but any lighter color isn’t going to show up unless you have a super flat white base.
I think I ended up lining it twice (to make sure I had a super clean edge everywhere) before going in with a bigger brush and filling in every shape with white.
This was after the 2nd coat. I ended up going in with another coat of white after this pic, just to be sure it was opaque. 3 total. I designed the stencil to have breaks in the design so I didn't end up with one big stiff sheet of paint.
4. Then it was time for colors! I went in with the aqua color first and got a few coats of that down, and then I blocked out the "paint streaks" across the face in opaque white again. You can see me starting to block them out in the pic below: (To be clear: I did ANOTHER coat of white on top of the aqua on the places where the fluorescent would go across the droid’s face, because I wanted the paint streaks to be SUPER bright!)
5. I probably did 3-ish coats of the aqua. Then I filled in the two streaks across the droid’s face with a few coats of neon pink and yellow. Afterwards, I shaded the droid with a dark blue and highlighted the lil dude with fluorescent yellow!
Add a little dark red for blooooooood:
And you’re ready to fight the Empire at a space rave babey!
