MAKIN’ A PRINT, THE SIMPLE WAY!

Hi class!, today i ‘ll show you how to make a print in a easy kind of way. For the exemple i will print a simple hand-crafted design in 1 clear color on a dark grey T-shirt. All you need is a blank paper (not too thick), some black pens, a new X-acto blade, a blank t-shirt, a small fabrics paint, a paint roller, a spray mount can and a hairdryer.

First, lace a nice grafic with minimum cut-outs (the small parts will be harder to replace on fabrics later). Simply black on paper.

After you’r satisfied with the design part, cut the outlines with the X-acto blade, you must be as precise as you want your final product clean. Take your time around the turning points.

When the job is done, you have already locked the hardest part. Now you have to place on the fabrics, your cut paper and dont forget the small parts floating around (like the holes in my 88). Spray the paper and replace the whole design on the t-shirt, you cant move nothing after that so be carefull it’s right centered.

Take the paint roller, wet-it with fresh fabrics paint, and roll over the whole design until it’s totally covered (at that stage you can make fadings and effects!, but not this time for me..). As you can see i got an assistant, so i can document the making of, thank to you buddy!

Then Hairdry untill the paper’s dry.

And eliminate the paper quickly with the help of your X-acto, before the paint melt with the paper and dry together on fabrics. (It’s awfull to separate in that case!).

Ok you’r almost done right now…A lil bit of hairdryer! Assistant please!

That’s it! nothing to do more than let it dry for a few minutes and you can wear it, sweat it and wash it as you want!, I’ve keep one for more than 5 years and the print is like new!

If you got more time and more skillz, you can try multiple-colored print too, it’s more difficult but if  you’re a bit cleaver you’ll find how to do it easily! HAVE FUN people! –KoolFunc’88