Cultura GEEK: FAÇA SUA PRÓPRA CAMISETA DO MÁRIO BROS PIXELIZADO!

I've been wanting to make a pixel art t-shirt for a while. The problem is, I don't have any materials for silkscreening, iron-ons, or anything of that sort. I figured out a way to make exactly what I wanted using only a few household items and acrylic paint.

Here's how to make a Princess Peach shirt. You can adapt this guide to make any kind of shirt you like.

First, I placed the posterboard inside the shirt to keep it steady and to prevent paint from bleeding through. I then drew an evenly-spaced grid on the front of the shirt with a fabric-safe marker. I made sure to make gridmarks the same size as the masking tape width (18mm).

I used the following image as my template:

I needed four colors of paint: red, white, black, and peach.

I placed masking tape around the areas I wanted to paint (one color at a time). Here's a picture of where I started to mask the shirt before painting it red:

I then painted the red portion of the shirt. Here's how it looked:

Here's how it looked after I completely removed the tape:

I repeated the steps for each color:

And here's the final result: