today we're going to making a t-shirt design in the daily illustrator using
graphics from vessels which are a great source of graphics for your designs and
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time so how to design a t-shirt illustrator ready for screen printing
firstly I'm gonna explain a few things about screen printing in today's
tutorial this video showing you guys how to set up an illustrator document
perfect with screen printing a t-shirt there are various different ways to
screen print a t-shirt but we're going to be looking using spot colors to
divide a design up into different sections this is the most common form
for screen printing t-shirts this method uses a stock color link without
alternatives were printing it through the stencil in a wide open area of
screen mesh this will produce a very vibrant and solid spot of color this is
the least expensive way to create your artwork for teachers and it can also be
very cost effective to print in one to four colors when you begin to the plan
the design of five or more colors a different printing method like simulated
process may reduce the amount of film work and screen making needed to sell up
the job spot color our work is great for most graphic logos that do not require
gradients or excessive color so what is a spot color I hear you say I'm gonna
address that later in today's tutorial I can also meet tutorials on halftone
earth methods of printing a t-shirt at a later date if you want to see that so
first let's get our graphics we need to edit of excells and grab some vectors
for today's project can find vex was linked in description
below as you can see it displays many different file formats what you need to
do is create an account and insert for the relevant vectors or graphics that
you want to use I'm looking for typography for today's tutorial on how
to design a screen print t-shirt in Illustrator vexos gives you access to a
whole host of graphics and vectors and you can pay for one graphic at a time
where you can pay for a monthly subscription I'm gonna use this graphic
here and as you can see I have options for the fire format but I'm gonna use
SVG for my t-shirt design the monthly subscription looks like a good idea to
download as many graphics as you like every single month I've reported the SVG
graphic from vexos into illustrator for my screen print t-shirt project today
however we need to make an adequate document for screen printing a t-shirt
so make a new document then make sure you use 300 PPI resolution you can set
the document to CMYK but we're going to be using the spot colors something I'm
gonna explain later also the size doesn't matter too much as
the graphic is going to be a vector but two good sizes to work with here are 10
by 10 inches or 8.5 by 11 inches no bleeds are needed and so when you
ready go ahead and generate the document
I'm gonna bring the graphic from vexes over to the t-shirt document and because
I want to edit here I can ungroup it access specific pies I actually need to
ungroup this design twice so I can remove to 2017 part seeing is now it's
2018 you can of course use any graphics from
vessels but today I'm using this example to mix tutorial on how to make a screen
print t-shirt designer illustrator press T taxes a type tool and then go ahead
and replace a top section of the design with 2018 we do want to be a year into
the past this one looks like it will work out with a design I also changed
the color of the 2018 text to match the design with the eyedropper tool you can
access that with I on your keyboard
you can see Adam editing the coding of the type in the type window making sure
that it fits well the design you address a spot cut is soon in this tutorial on
how to design a screen printing teacher narrator the first weeks outline the
tanks of the design like so and then unite everything together as a vector
shape this isn't a must but it does helps you know aspects of design with
the same color now to make sure our design is made up of spot colors and not
CMYK colors we need to open up the swatches window and the colors window at
the same time if you think about it CMYK colors are made up of cyan magenta
yellow and black when screen printing a t-shirt will eat
you single board colors are not made up of CMYK so in a swatches window click
and drag a color like so then double-click it and then change the
preset of spot color
now you can see in the color window the blue is now a single color where you can
change the opacity and not a CMYK color so let's go ahead and color our artwork
with the spot colors it's a good idea to create a new swatch folder to organize
your spot colors for a specific t-shirt design
I'm gonna make a circle design and I want to use a deep purple just before
I'm gonna click and drag the color for this time into the swatch library that I
created and then change it to spa color
you can find the ellipse tool here you can press L on your keyboard then hold
down shift to create a perfect circle
I'm gonna send it to the back of a design and I'm speeding up this process
here me selecting the right color for the typography Paul I landed on this
orange tone before I convert it to a spot color I'm playing around the
composition that layout the design remember to take time to pay attention
to details on your screen print easier design and make sure everything is right
before you print it
so labor for drag and drop it into the swatch library and then convert it to a
spot color with the typography still selected
before show you how to explore for print I'm going to add this final touch by
duplicating the circle by holding down the alt/option key and clicking and
dragging I want to stroke only and I want to use the same orange spot color
as a text uses
you can access the scissors tool by pressing C on your keyboard and then cut
into the circle specific areas press V to access the selection tool and then
delete unwanted areas so essentially that is my design complete it is a spot
color design made up of two spot colors only this is gonna be perfect for screen
printing a t-shirt how to export it for print well once you position your
artwork go to a file and save as you can either choose EPS or PDF for screen
printing a t-shirt but I prefer a PDF and so do many screen printers
you want to use the most recent version of Acrobat and then choose the view PDF
after saving option compression should be fine by default and there are new
planes in this document so no need to address that the output should be ok
with no Commission and then if there's any warnings you'll find them in the
summary and there you have it your design is ready for screen printing onto
a t-shirt using Adobe Illustrator so there was today's video when designing a
t-shirt do build a straighter using graphics from vexos let me know what you
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