Everybody loves letterpress! With warm textures, beautiful colour reproduction, and an impression you can actually feel, letterpress is the specialty printing technique of choice for eye catching invitations, greeting cards and art prints.
What illustrator or designer doesn't dream of working with letterpress? But where to start? With a focus on letterpress basics and how they apply to illustration, this class is for anyone who wants to know more about this fascinating printing technique. Join illustrator Tom Froese as he walks you, step by step, through the process of designing a 2 colour greeting card for letterpress. Along the way, you'll learn about key letterpress concepts, incredibly useful Photoshop techniques, and you'll get a good sense of the differences between digital and print design. By learning and understanding these fundamental concepts and techniques, you'll be that much closer to the dream of having your work lettepress printed.
Those who have taken Tom Froese’s Inky Illustrations class will especially benefit from this class, as you will be able to pick up from his in depth creative process and take your illustration skills to the next level.
