Design a t-shirt like a professional: specialty printing methods, fabrics, inks, dyes, and washes.
What you'll learn:
What you'll learn:
- Understand how t-shirt design ideas are conceived.
- Choose the best combination of fabric, inks, dyes, and washes to make more exciting designs.
- Choose specialty inks and printing methods to create unique designs.
- Choose the right type of color separation for their graphics.
- Know how direct-to-garment (DTG), dye sublimation, and screen printing methods work.
Learning the possibilities and options you have when creating a t-shirt design is an essential investment in becoming a professional t-shirt designer. In this workshop, we'll go over all the ingredients that go into a t-shirt design. Let's get started!
In this course we will cover:
- Every t-shirt design should have a story behind it
- The history of the graphic t-shirt
- What makes a good t-shirt design
- The varieties of t-shirts and fabric
- Garment dyes and garment washes
- Alternative printing methods like Direct to Garment (DTG) and Dye Sublimation
- Oversize and allover printing techniques
- How the different kinds of color separation work
- Varieties of screen printing ink
- Specialty inks and printing methods that will set your designs apart
- Supplies needed to screen print a t-shirt
- We will finish off with a demonstration showing how you can screen print a t-shirt - even at home!
