T-Shirt Design Workshop 02: Mixed Media Design

• Design a t-shirt using various computer and traditional design tools
• Create thumbnail sketches to quickly test initial design ideas
• Layout type in Adobe Illustrator, using Adobe Typekit fonts
• Create custom Photoshop brushes to add color and texture to designs
• Incorporate hand-drawn effects into computer-based designs
• Choose Pantone colors to specify screen printing ink colors
• Size a t-shirt graphic to the correct resolution and dimensions
• Prepare designs to be printed with sublimation and direct-to-garment methods
• Refine graphic designs by moving seamlessly from hand-sketching to Adobe Illustrator and Photoshop
• Fill out a "spec sheet" for screen printing, so your t-shirt comes back printed with the correct colors, sizing, and placement
• Create color separations in Photoshop and Illustrator using "index" and "halftone" methods (without the need for other expensive software)

Improving your t-shirt design skills is one of the most rewarding investments that you can make in your design career.

In this workshop we will go over the entire process of creating a t-shirt design, from finding ideas all the way to sending your designs out to be printed.

We will send out the design to 3 different printers. At the end, those shirts will be unboxed so you can see exactly how they came back from the printer (there will be a few unexpected surprises you can learn from!)

In this course we’ll cover:

• How to find and apply inspiration
• The various computer tools and traditional tools you will need to create t-shirt designs.
• How to move seamlessly between Photoshop, Illustrator, and pencil & paper so your designs come out as good or better than you had initially imagined
• Type layout using Adobe Typekit fonts
• How to create your own custom Photoshop brushes to quickly add color and texture to your designs
• How to incorporate hand-drawn effects into a computer-based design
• How to make sureyour graphic is screen printed with the exact ink colors, sizing, and placement that you want
• Printing with sublimation and DTG (direct-to-garment) methods
• Avoiding common mistakes so your t-shirts come back printed exactly as designed

As a bonus you will also receive:

• The Photoshop watercolor brushes made in the workshop
• All 3 colorways of the finished “South Shore” design created (Photoshop format)
• 2 bonus lectures showing methods to create “index” and “halftone” screen printing color separations in Photoshop and Illustrator without the need for any extrasoftware
• Downloadable files for the two color separation methods demonstrated in the workshop