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 Atrix
    
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
Veni. Vidi. Video.
 |  |  | First Posting Pics - Silk Screening Experiment Pt. 1
< on 4/15/2007 11:42 PM >
|  | | | I'm not that new to the site, but this is my first attempt at posting.
It seems like a neccesary skill on these boards.
I take video, not photographs, but I've been stylizing some of my screen stills, and the photos of some friends, and made some stencil-looking pics. I'm trying to print some of them with a silk screen press onto fabric or canvass.
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Silo
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Incinerator
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Canada Malt Plant, with modified tags.
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Montreal Downtown (Mountain Side)
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Montreal Downtown (Opposite Side of city)
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CN Train Yard
Pics #2, 4, 5, and 6 use photos originally taken by Spellman. No major technological advances going on here, but I hope they look cool.
C'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui.
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mortimer
Location: teronno
| | | Re: First Posting Pics - Silk Screening Experiment Pt. 1
<Reply # 1 on 4/16/2007 3:23 AM >
| | | | #1 is really nice. Maybe tilt it clockwise a degree or two to straighten it out. #6 is pretty cool too. I'd pass on the red bit in #3, but I've always hated 'selective desaturation' or whatever it's called these days when hacks try to make a boring picture cool by making most of it black and white, but leaving a bit of colour. These would make nice shirts, make sure to post up pics if you do screen these.
yep. |
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hydrotherapy
  
Clever Girl
Location: Circle of Least Confusion
RPS is inside all of us
| | | Re: First Posting Pics - Silk Screening Experiment Pt. 1
<Reply # 2 on 4/16/2007 4:11 AM >
| | | | I'm going to be very honest when I say- as a graphic designer, I've seen the Livetrace tool in Illustrator overused and abused too many times. It leaves its vector paths looking very cliche and distinctly "quickly done"- and almost all of your pictures have that mark.
If you want to stylize and stencil or screenprint your shirts, you need to be more intentional with what you do. I would recommend adjusting your curves and defining your shapes with the pen tool- the little jagged edges and artifacts all over the place are what make it look amateurish (and will make it harder than 10 bitches on a bitchboat to get a good burned screen of). Your compositions and framing are beautiful- it's clear in that regard you know what you're doing. I enjoy 2 and 4 especially. I'd also get rid of that dot of red- it seems unnecessary.
Right now your pics are coming too close to resembling clipart. I would limit yourself to bolder shapes and silhouettes, especially if you're intending on screen printing these. If you're looking at shirts, would you be printing with inks or dyes? These definitely hold a lot of potential, and I hope you keep us updated with any prints or progress you make.
Get down, girl, go 'head, get down. |
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secretdestroyers
Location: Baltimore
Gender: Male
| | | Re: First Posting Pics - Silk Screening Experiment Pt. 1
<Reply # 3 on 4/16/2007 7:38 AM >
| | | | you have taken 2 things that i love and put them together.
i really like them
F this I"m going exploring! |
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Martino
Location: Almere - NL
Gender: Male
2,5 days 5691 km, 1200 cigarettes, 131 beers, 67 locations, 3 girs and 2 cars! I absolutely rule!
| | | Re: First Posting Pics - Silk Screening Experiment Pt. 1
<Reply # 4 on 4/16/2007 2:12 PM >
| | | | Sorry i'm no fan! Although I like 5.
The rest seem just a little to easy (sorry if you put a lot of work in to them). Just a standard PS filter.
http://www.flickr.com/photos/martino_ |
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Atrix
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
Veni. Vidi. Video.
| | | Re: First Posting Pics - Silk Screening Experiment Pt. 1
<Reply # 5 on 4/16/2007 2:33 PM >
| | | | Thanks for the comments so far! I agree 100% that it looks like a fast and rather typical photoshop job with the cutout filter, because it was. I really appreciate the tips and I'm making a few modifications accordingly (like the red dot).
I'm hoping it will develop a more unique style once I use my scalpel to cut out the stencils, then follow it up with a multi-layer silk screening onto a fabric. I'm going to try to switch the colours around when I screen it and see what that does, and I'll also try one with shades of grey.
These certainly aren't the end of the production line. But I did want to give people a peek at the process because if the final result looks cool, maybe other people can give it a shot and they'll have steps to follow and my mistakes to learn from. And there will be lots of mistakes!
I've printed the templates and have begun cutting. I'll post images of the stencils as I finish them up!
C'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui.
It's always easier to get forgiveness than permission. |
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TaP
Location: Montreal, QC
Gender: Male
| | Re: First Posting Pics - Silk Screening Experiment Pt. 1
<Reply # 6 on 4/22/2007 4:42 PM >
| | | | you might want to buy a silkscreen and actually use photo emulsion to transfer the image onto the screen. it would give sharper definition...
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Explorer H
Obla-di-obla-doberator
Location: Around the corner from the Turkey Hill
Gender: Male
I just want some slack.
| | | Re: First Posting Pics - Silk Screening Experiment Pt. 1
<Reply # 7 on 4/22/2007 4:48 PM >
| | | | Posted by TaP
you might want to buy a silkscreen and actually use photo emulsion to transfer the image onto the screen. it would give sharper definition...
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Agreed, little buddy. You'll need film separations. If you do not have access to film, you could separate the file to a laser printer using clear acetate media,
Mmmm, emulsion!
http://doublehmedia.com http://hartmancommercialphoto.com |
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Atrix
Location: Toronto
Gender: Male
Veni. Vidi. Video.
| | | Re: First Posting Pics - Silk Screening Experiment Pt. 1
<Reply # 8 on 4/23/2007 3:49 PM >
| | | | It's funny you should mention this technique. I brought the images to my friend to discuss how we'd want to fix up the stencils for the screen machine, and this is the technique that he recommended. I think. I certainly sounds like the same approach.
I'm going to test it this week on an old T-shirt, snap a shot, and post it asap!
C'est en faisant n'importe quoi qu'on devient n'importe qui.
It's always easier to get forgiveness than permission. |
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