Creative Character Design for Products
Prep for Tee
A course by Rob Flowers , Illustrator
About the video: Prep for Tee
Overview
“In this lesson, I will show you how to format your work to be placed onto a screen-printed t-shirt. ”
In this video lesson Rob Flowers addresses the topic: Prep for Tee, which is part of the Domestika online course: Creative Character Design for Products. Develop a cohesive set of characters to apply to any kind of object using Adobe Illustrator.
Partial transcription of the video
“Prep for Tee I'll show you how to format your work for a screen printed T-shirt design. Let's do it. Download a template that's been provided for the T-shirt. This is to help us work out the placement and the scale for our T-shirt designs. We'll prepare for screen printing, but if you want digital printing, use as many colours as you like. Screen printing has limitations and you prepare differently the artwork, but we'll stick to it and we'll think about how to separate the colours. We should have a locked layer for our template. We'll use this to figure the placement, the sizing, and expor...”
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Course summary for: Creative Character Design for Products
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Category
Illustration -
Software
Adobe Illustrator -
Areas
Character Design, Digital Illustration, Traditional illustration

Rob Flowers
A course by Rob Flowers
Rob Flowers is a London-based illustrator who specializes in character design. He’s been a freelance illustrator for over fifteen years, a period in which he has created illustrations for TV commercials, music videos, fashion collections, newspapers, magazines, and even edible posters.
Throughout his career, his illustrations have been published in The New York Times, Time Out, Hollywood Reporter, and Creative Review; in advertising campaigns for Converse, Maynard Bassetts, ASOS, Heely’s, Red Bull, and Pull&Bear; and through collaborations with brands like Nike, Mambo, and Wolf & Badger. He has also designed and directed music videos for Kaiser Chiefs and Tinie Tempah.
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