Welcome to Gaia! ::

There's something going on at the Mansion? :: wanders off to look ::

And yeah, I wanted to design shirts for the GSA soIve been working on gathering supplies. Grandmas been helping me experiment. I can make iron-ons, I work with clothing paint, Im trying out permanent markers to outlining, and Ive been using stencils. If I can work out some original designs on paper, Ill work on getting them onto shirts.

My grandmas always made some of my clothes so Ive picked up on sewing. Once I get better Ill be making cosplay costumes. For now, I just design and make shirts. Thought about working with knit shorts..

Yeah? So wheres the originality in screen printing shirts? All those stupid 'Princess', 'I do what the voices in my head..' and crappy shirts come from button pushers and shirt starer-er people like you and those large companies. XP

Honestly, I have no idea what Im talking about when it comes to screen printing but I prefer designing and creating my own shirts. I like to wear my art and its more personal.

So your screen printing can suck my purple flavored popsicle!

Oh believe me..I shall NEVER sell my ideas to a company for money. No, no, no..my creations are personal. I will only make shirts for friends, my GSA, and anyone I know online who wants one.

The evil company overlords shall not steal my creativity!

I haven't done silk screening in ages. It was damn fun though.

Hell, everyone will try to take away your creativity. People who buy your art, no matter what form, will expect it to please them. When you please them, people consider you to have "sold out," "gone mainstream," or desperate. When you don't give in, people can get annoyed or frustrated for not understanding it, even simply disliking it. That's when you get comments about how ugly or horrible it is, "too abstract for my taste," even to the extent of insulting it as "not being art."

There really is no way out. sad

Those are almost my exact words. eek

My Grade 11 English teacher wanted us all to bring something we could trade with someone else in the class as a year-end sentimental gift, that we could share a story about. (She was a very special high school teacher; one that made us talk to inanimate objects.) I gave someone a pastel artist trading card of mine, and in return I got a glow-in-the dark wand. The story behind the wand was her mother bought it for her as a souvenir her first time going to Disneyland. So long as she had it she would "always be a fairy princess." When I was given it, our teacher told me that I could be a "fairy prince;" like I said, special.

Now I hadn't slept studying for the exams the following week, and was feeling the need to be obnoxious in the class just once. So I retorted with: "Did it ever occur to you that I might want to be a fairy princess?!"

She didn't know what to say to that. No one messes with me and my fairy princess wand. xd

Edit: I know no one needed to read about that, but it sure sounds like a good idea at 4 in the morning, especially after a full pot of tea to myself. Joyous insomnia.

Those were good times. 3nodding

I can.

-is still attached to JoVo's boobs-

Maybe if I stay here long enough, I can become an actual appendage! -gropegrope-

Again, my mistake. I seem to recall reading somewhere that only one gender change was allowed, and the second would require 10k. Maybe I'm just imagining things.