Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration
Making the Most of an Image
A course by Charlotte Farmer , Screen Printer and Illustrator
About the video: Making the Most of an Image
Overview
“Now you’ll learn how to manipulate the original image to make something new by using Photoshop. ”
In this video lesson Charlotte Farmer addresses the topic: Making the Most of an Image, 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
“ Making the Most of an Image In this lesson, I'll show you how to get more out of your work by modifying the images in Photoshop and then making them into cards. We will go back into Photoshop and I'll show you how I do it. We have the stencil that we used earlier to make our stencil for the screen print for the final project. Now I want to turn that into a sheet of stamps. The first thing I will do is get rid of one of the layers because when you're making cards, you want to keep it a bit simpler. I have been known to make cards that have seven or eight layers but it's not advisable, so l...”
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Course summary for: Introduction to Screen Printing for Illustration
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Category
Craft, Illustration -
Software
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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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