T-Shirt Design Workshop 01: Foundation

Learn how to design professional t-shirts with various printing methods, fabrics, and inks in this fun and engaging workshop.

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Brief Summary

This workshop is all about making awesome t-shirts! You'll learn everything from the history and story behind graphic tees to fabric choices and printing methods. It's fun, it's creative, and you can even try it at home!

Key Points

  • Discover the story behind every t-shirt design
  • Learn about the history and evolution of graphic t-shirts
  • Understand different printing techniques and materials

Learning Outcomes

  • Create compelling t-shirt designs with a unique story
  • Master various printing techniques and fabric selection
  • Use specialty inks for standout designs

About This Course

Design a t-shirt like a professional: 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 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!

  • 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.

Instructor

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Ray Dombroski

Ray's extensive background in the surf apparel industry started in 2002. Since then he has designed for many of the top surf apparel brands in California and Hawaii, such as O'Neill, Billabong, Ocean Pacific, BodyGlove, and Local Motion. He is the founder of TheVectorLab, a website that offers graphic design resources, tools, and tutorials. As a graduate of the Art...

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4.9 course rating
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ui-avatar of A B M MAHMUDUL HASAN
A B. M. M. H.
4.0
9 months ago

Good

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ui-avatar of Melissa Little-Crysler
Melissa L.
4.0
10 months ago

This is really informative and has a lot of visuals which is great! It just wasn't what I was expecting to learn.

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ui-avatar of Susan B Calloway
Susan B. C.
5.0
1 year ago

Great class on the fundamentals of t-shirt designing.

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ui-avatar of Natalie Appel
Natalie A.
4.5
1 year ago

Very informative, to the point, no waffling which was great.

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ui-avatar of Brian Worobec
Brian W.
3.0
2 years ago

The information was a bit too basic and not as in depth as I would have hoped. The instructor clearly knows his stuff, but even at my level, I knew a lot of this already.

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ui-avatar of Pascual Miranda
Pascual M.
5.0
3 years ago

As an aspiring new entrepreneur, this is a great recourse. The beginning part is a brief overview of the history of the T shirt, followed by different printing methods. I learned a lot about the different printing methods specially the oddball shirts you see everyday but never quite know how they were produced like that. He doesn’t go too much into cut n sow but I think that was expected. I would highly recommend this course to anyone starting out.

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ui-avatar of Melanie audet
Melanie A.
4.0
4 years ago

good match for learning about silk screening and creating tshirts-different inks, different processes, the history of the tshirt. This class is not how to silk screen, but an introduction into the vocabulary, the culture, information to help make decisions as to what kind of shirt you'd like to make. I would recommend this class to those beginning their journey in tshirt design.

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ui-avatar of Kees B.
Kees B.
5.0
4 years ago

You need to go slow on this one. Bit once you do it's really worth it. Ray is a real expert. He tells you about the techniques and comes up with lots of different designs for inspiration. I enjoyed this workshop and will watch parts of it again. A bit of compensation for all the get rich fast starting a T-shit bizz content you have to work your way around.

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ui-avatar of Travis Grieshiemer
Travis G.
4.0
4 years ago

Great introduction, really deep in knowledge and I learned that I really didn't know anything about t-shirt printing. However I would have liked to see more in different processes not just hearing about it. I did like the end where you he does the actual printing on a basic screen by hand.

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ui-avatar of Airton Costa
Airton C.
3.0
4 years ago

O curso é bom, o instrutor conhece realmente o assunto, mas achei muito pouco o conteúdo, o tempo de curso, já fiz outros cursos na udemy bem mais completos.
Mas no geral gostei, sĂł o tempo de curso que achei muito pouco.

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