Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration
Drawing for Print
A course by Charlotte Farmer , Screen Printer and Illustrator
About the video: Drawing for Print
Overview
“Here, you'll learn to deconstruct a drawing to make screen printing life a lot easier! ”
In this video lesson Charlotte Farmer addresses the topic: Drawing for Print, which is part of the Domestika online course: Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration. Learn to make a 4-color screen print illustration using your own stencils, and discover how to scale your designs to fit a variety of stationery products .
Partial transcription of the video
“ Drawing for Print In this lesson, I'll show you how to draw for screen printing. I've decided I'll draw a stamp. I love stamps because I think they're little mini works of art. You can draw whatever you like. The main thing to remember is to keep everything separate. I'll explain that more as we go along. To help me with that, I use a light box and carbon paper, but you could also use tracing paper. I've decided to draw an Icelandic stamp. That's because I want to draw puffins. Puffins are great and look a bit too chubby to fly. I like everything to fit together. Puffins come from Iceland...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Software
Adobe Photoshop -
Areas
Arts & Crafts, Printing, Screen Printing, Traditional illustration
Charlotte Farmer
A course by Charlotte Farmer
Charlotte Farmer is a British screen printer and illustrator, based near Bath, England. She studied at Saint Martins, where she got a master’s in communication design, specializing in illustration. The screen prints she creates often involve collections of things from snowglobes, pottery figures, or ice creams to tropical birds and animals. She is passionate about collections because of the way they bring together unexpected combinations of objects and characters.
Charlotte has created illustrations for clients including Red Valentino, The Washington Post, Air France, Boden, Waitrose, New York University, Billboard, The Sunday Times Style Magazine, New House Textiles, Clinique, Superdrug, Tatler, Jamie Magazine and Elle. She also designed and created three books for Ilex press: The Hipster Colouring Book, The Passive Aggressive Colouring Book, and The Museum of Me Activity Book.
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