T-Shirt Design Workshop 01: Foundation (Udemy.com)
Design a t-shirt like a professional: specialty printing methods, fabrics, inks, dyes, and washes.
Created by: Ray Dombroski
Last updated April 2017
What you will learn
- 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.
- Choose the right type of color separation for their graphics.
- Know how direct-to-garment (DTG), dye sublimation, and screen printing methods work.
How it compares
Against the other 413 rated Udemy courses in Graphic Design on CourseDuck:
- Rating4.5 out of 5higher than 49% of them
- Reviews1,302#40 of 414 by number of reviews
- Length1.2 hoursshorter than 91% of them
- Last updatedApril 2017earlier than 94% of them
Course Description
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!
Instructor Details
- 4.5 Rating
1,302 Reviews
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 Center College of Design in Pasadena and Florida State University his experience is backed by a mix of business and design knowledge.
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Reviews
By Pascual Miranda on 12/4/2021
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.
By Logan Thayer on 11/7/2020
Excellent.
By Yael on 11/7/2020
For someone whos trying to start a tshirt printing business, i found this course very informative and i learned alot abot it.
By Henry Osman Quintero Quiel on 10/12/2020
Excellent to start with your t-shirt design bussiness
By Jessica Yeatman on 9/17/2020
its a gtreat course
By Guillermo Granados on 9/17/2020
It covers the main general concepts to get initiated into T-shirt design
By Roman Balmes on 8/22/2020
Used to do T-shirt printing in the 80's as a hobby, but lack of resources regarding tools.. and thru this I will be able to do it again with the right tools and techniques..
By Angel-Marie Vazquez on 8/21/2020
Ray is pleasant and passionate. In this course he provides content that is interesting, relatable and informative. He has an extensive background in design and impressive familiarity of the processes and products involved in creating a t-shirt. This was a valuable introduction to t-shirt design. I'm looking forward to the rest of the workshops in this series! Thanks!
By Arie Zhang on 8/20/2020
Really Fundamental knowledge of Tshirt Printing method. Excellent!
By Stephanie Jones on 8/13/2020
I appreciate all thee knowledge given too me, and that eyem able to go back and retain as Eye grow . Great material cant wait to rewatch!
By Lester Cary on 8/9/2020
Im definitely signing up for more of these awesome informative follow up courses. Really excited to put my crazy ideas onto garments in South Africa
By Gerard Kelly on 8/4/2020
Love the content, great so far.
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