Join our fun workshop and learn how to create stunning t-shirt designs using Photoshop, Illustrator, and hand-drawing techniques. Unbox your printed designs and get tips to make your artwork shine!
This workshop is all about diving into the world of t-shirt design. You’ll go from brainstorming ideas to actually printing your designs. Plus, you’ll learn cool tools and methods along the way!
Create T-Shirt Designs using Photoshop, Illustrator, and hand-drawing techniques.
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 sure your 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 extra software
Downloadable files for the two color separation methods demonstrated in the workshop
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
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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...
Entertaining and inspiring! Enjoying the tips and tricks!
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Awesome!
The t-shirt graphic design course was really helpful. I learned a lot about using Photoshop tools for color the separations. I think I need to go through the course a few more times to get a better grasp of the whole process.
Its good course and easy to understand but the instructor only taught us a single way to print on a t-shirt but yes its precious information
Nice overview of the entire design process and a great example of using multiple techniques to create a unique t-shirt design.
I have a bachelors in Visual Communication (graphic design) but this course was so wonderfully packed with excellent information and at a well co trolled pass. I enjoyed the background info on types of printing, inks, and shirt. We didn’t just focus on the computer aspect but other industries that are crucial in the design process. Knowing how they do their job helps us do our job and create a professional product. Thanks Vector Lab!
It was a good course to show how to integrate digital designs and drawings/paintings made on paper to create a blended design.
Really cool course. Very detailed, well explained. I'm not a complete beginner in graphic design, so for me, it was easy to follow. Maybe if I didn't know the software, it could be a little confusing. So it's better for people who know their way around AI and PS. The techniques and process shown in the course are really cool, and I'm looking forward to trying them out on my own designs. Thanks!
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