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Design a t-shirt like a professional: graphics, specialty printing methods, fabrics, inks, dyes, and washes.
Learning the possibilities and options you have when creating a t-shirt design is an essential investment in becoming a t-shirt designer. In this workshop, we'll go over all the ingredients that go into a t-shirt design.
In this course we'll cover:
- Every t-shirt design has a story
- 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!
What are the requirements?
A passion for design and t-shirts will help! Otherwise, there is no other specific knowledge necessary.
What am I going to get from this course?
- 19 lectures and 1 hour of video content! (You will always have access so that you may go back and review at any time.
- 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.
What is the target audience?
Curriculum (video lectures)
- Introduction (02:23)
- Every T-Shirt has a Story (08:16)
- History of the Printed T-Shirt (04:27)
- Present-Day T-Shirt Design (04:00)
- What Makes a Good Graphic (02:05)
- Kinds of Fabric (02:25)
- T-Shirt Construction (01:29)
- Garment Dye (02:31)
- Yarn Dye (01:05)
- Garment Washes (02:07)
- Direct to Garment (DTG) Printing (03:38)
- Dye Sublimation Printing (05:01)
- Oversize Printing (05:27)
- Screen Printing Inks (05:27)
- Specialty Inks and Printing Techniques (06:26)
- Color Separations (07:24)
- Screen Printing Supplies (03:23)
- Screen Printing Process (03:43)
- Closing Thoughts (01:14)