Saturday, February 13, 2010

the obligatory SCREEN PRINT PROCESS post....

ok people, here we go! my very fist screen print process blog entry! well, i'm excited at least.... so i guess i should have used a real camera and not just my iphone for the pics. this is going to be a little light on the visual side since half the photos i took were seriously unusable. live and learn, right? bare with me here...

the poster i was working on in these pics was the new BLACKLISTED U.S. tour poster. as usual, they weren't looking for anything specific in terms of an aesthetic, so i just went for total badass... i started my design process for theses by just drawing some shit out.



once i have some stuff worth looking at, i begin to scan. i hate scanning. i currently can't get my scanner to work with the new operating system on my computer, so i have to scan everything thru my wife's laptop and then pass the files to my desktop to design. awesome. here is a shot of my set up...


once the design is finished and approved by the band, i make my separations and burn screens. (this is where the photos get really bad, so here is just a pic of one of the screens after printing... sorry) this is a 4 color print, so each color will need its own piece of film to burn 4 individual screens.



i like to mix all my inks before i start printing so i can dial in the color pallet. just a preference i guess.... ok, now its time to start printing! this is a shot of just the first color screened...


and then the second color....


(the 3rd and 4th color pics also looked like total shit) so here is the final product!


i printed 170 of these bad boys. they are 4 color 18"x24" posters on 100lb cover paper. go see BLACKLISTED on tour if you want one! or, see more of my art here...


4 comments:

  1. this is so good, i love the type!
    your blog is awesome

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  2. What do you print your seps on and what emulsion are you using?

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  3. films are ripped thru an image setter and processed like traditional film would be . the emulsion i use is a kiwo emulsion that is well rated for water based printing.

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  4. You use 4 color printing Nice artwork!you made it perfectly this is totally cool.

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