Friday, May 20, 2016

SONS OF ANARCHY



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Hello My Friends,

The Space City Comic Con commissioned Poster was a BIG success and gave me a lot of exposure. I got to meet most of the 20 stars at the show. Some even came to the table wanting to buy the posters!  That was so flattering, especially when a few of them wanted to get a shot of me and them with the poster on their own cell phones. It was a really cool feeling autographing for the stars!



Exclusive poster and T-Shirts

Kenny Johnson

The Legend: Joe Jusko

Jacob Vargas

Kim Coates

Drea de Matteo

Niko Nicotera

Kristen Renton

Legend: Allen Bellman

Kenny Johnson Autograph

Sam J. Jones/ Alex Ross Autograph(Rare)
Traded for a SOA Poster



Hello My Friends,

I am introducing, "Hands-on" class experience in Photoshop color separations for T-shirts. A subject that is not really covered in any curriculum in colleges. Why? Because there is no exact method that applies to any one design or color and make-up of the material being printed. 


T-shirt color separation is an art form with a multitude of different methods in different software programs. All with the same goal. Taking a colorful design and splitting it into individual single colors that all come back together while printing on the press and duplicate the design on a T-shirt.


A few spot colors are fairly easy and simple. The real challenge is an illustrated design or photorealism that have no boundaries and a multitude of colors that are limited on how many colors can be printed on a particular press.

Each design requires its own type of execution. And you, the artist need to be able to improvise with each design to make it look good on the shirt. This requires different methods and techniques. Knowing how to get to to this point is what I teach.

My hands-on class study is 6 to 8 hours in one day, learning to separate real jobs. This is geared towards separating middle to high-end separations in Photoshop channels and some crossover into Illustrator. 


• This is a 1-3 student classes so I can give direct guidance to each individual. 

• Discount rates apply to more than one attendee.

• Located at Canyon Lake, Texas(Playground of Southwest Texas) in my studio on the lake. Located in between San Antonio and Austin. Many hotels can be reserved in the local area.

• You will need to bring your own computer. Laptop is preferred, Mac or PC. You must have Adobe Photoshop installed. Illustrator is not required, but it would be to your advantage to learn additional skills. If you don't have these programs you can download a tryout for free for 30 days http://www.adobe.com/downloads.html

• You will also get a copy of "The Art of T-Shirt Color Separation" PDF for reference in the future.

Contact me, Mitch Different for scheduling a class: 

mwdifferent@gmail.com


The class is not formal. It is very laid back, fun and friendly like any art department. An easy environment to learn. You will leave with the acquired skills and confidence you need to do separations on your own.

These are animates samples of what you will learn:

Saturday, April 2, 2016

T-Shirt Color Separation Guide


To purchase the PDF download, go to this page:


Hello My Friends,

I am introducing, "Hands-on" class experience in Photoshop color separations for T-shirts. A subject that is not really covered in any curriculum in colleges. Why? Because there is no exact method that applies to any one design or color and make-up of the material being printed. 


T-shirt color separation is an art form with a multitude of different methods in different software programs. All with the same goal. Taking a colorful design and splitting it into individual single colors that all come back together while printing on the press and duplicate the design on a T-shirt.


A few spot colors are fairly easy and simple. The real challenge is an illustrated design or photorealism that have no boundaries and a multitude of colors that are limited on how many colors can be printed on a particular press.

Each design requires its own type of execution. And you, the artist need to be able to improvise with each design to make it look good on the shirt. This requires different methods and techniques. Knowing how to get to to this point is what I teach.

My hands-on class study is 6 to 8 hours in one day, learning to separate real jobs. This is geared towards separating middle to high-end separations in Photoshop channels and some crossover into Illustrator. 


• This is a 1-3 student classes so I can give direct guidance to each individual. 

• Discount rates apply to more than one attendee.

• Located at Canyon Lake, Texas(Playground of Southwest Texas) in my studio on the lake. Located in between San Antonio and Austin. Many hotels can be reserved in the local area.

• You will need to bring your own computer. Laptop is preferred, Mac or PC. You must have Adobe Photoshop installed. Illustrator is not required, but it would be to your advantage to learn additional skills. If you don't have these programs you can download a tryout for free for 30 days http://www.adobe.com/downloads.html

• You will also get a copy of "The Art of T-Shirt Color Separation" PDF for reference in the future.

Contact me, Mitch Different for scheduling a class: 



The class is not formal. It is very laid back, fun and friendly like any art department. An easy environment to learn. You will leave with the acquired skills and confidence you need to do separations on your own.

These are animates samples of what you will learn:

Monday, January 18, 2016

T-Shirt Color Separation Guide


To purchase the PDF download, go to this page:

If you are a beginner or an intermediate artist and want to know how to do art for t-shirts and have the tools and knowledge that you will help guide you, then The Art of T-Shirt Color Separation is the best and least expensive way to start.

Photoshop is a fantastic program for designing art for T-Shirts.  It is also a great tool to build Color Separations in Channels to make that design a great image on a T-Shirt.  This book teaches how to accomplish that goal in simple and easy step-by-step exercises,  using different methods to make these separations come back together on the press to duplicate the design on the computer.

More Than Just a Book!  Discover How To:

 Separate colors for printing on black shirts
 Cross between RGB and CMYK channels
 Simulated and 4 color process
 Splitting channels to place separately into a vector program
 Outputting channels as an EPS composite from a vector program
 Create halftones without a rip software program
 Understanding the characteristics of individual channels
 The tools, palettes, hot keys and much more

No DVD! FULL Photoshop files are downloaded from the cloud at the click of a mouse as you need them for each exercise.

This is a design for an annual event that I have separated for many years. The client works with 3D models and then brings the images into Photoshop to compose a T-shirt design. My job is to separate the colors to print on the press. I do this manually without a separation program. This one took me about 2 hours. (Click on Picture to enlarge)

Original Photoshop Design


Print on a T-Shirt







You have to think of color separations like the "Transporter" from Star Trek. It takes molecules, breaks them apart and sends them to a destination where it puts them back together again. With color separation, you take a design and decide how many colors need to print on the press that will simulate the original image. This requires a little experience and an eye for color. This particular design, I decided was 9 colors. So the goal is to break the design down into those 9 colors then reassemble those colors when they print on the press to end up with the image on the shirt.

Below is the sequence that the design prints on the press and is very similar to how it looks as it's printing. These images are demonstrating how each plate looks individually as the design comes builds back together. (Click on Picture to enlarge)

Base White

Red

Pink

Yellow

Light Cyan

Blue

Based down Black for Mixing

Highlight White

25% Medium Black

Mitch Different  is a working artist.  He teaches and mentors talented artists who want to learn a field of art that is not covered in formal training at colleges and institutes.  His resume' includes his own company, Be-Bop T-Shirt Shop, Carrousel Productions, Big Ball Sportswear, Sunline products, Different Creative and his freelance art on the Web. He currently resides at Canyon Lake, Texas.

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Much thanks to Terry Combs and Aaron Montgomery for inviting me as a guest on their
2 REGULAR GUYS
podcast show on January 10th.


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And,  IMPRESSIONS magazine,  click  here Impressions


Special Thanks to Deborah Sexton for the great press! She has been a strong supporter for the Screen Printing Industry for many years through her articles and writing for many of the industry's top publications. . . Google her: Deborah Sexton