|
Here's a very simple, quick T Shirt
design you might have some fun with. Please post your results on the forum at
airbrushtechnique.com.
Although
I started out airbrushing T Shirts years ago it's been at least five or six
years sense I've airbrushed a T Shirt so I'm way out of practice but that's ok.
I took this challenge up as part of a design contest we where having on the
forum to see who could come up the best Airbrush Technique T Shirt design. As
you can tell my lettering skills are very rusty but that's ok as the object
here is for you to add your own style lettering and make me look bad. Actually
I had a lot of fun putting this together and I hope you do also. Just remember
it's just paint, relax and have fun with it.
So here is what you will need for this
little project.
Double Action Airbrush - I used an Iwata HP-CS but
you can use a Paasche VL or Iwata Eclipse BCS, these are the most commonly used
airbrush's by professional T Shirt artists.
Compressor - I used my
five horse power compressor purchased from Home Depot use whatever air source
you have. Air pressure 25 to 40 PSI depending on your personal preferences.
Paint - Createx textile colors or Aqua Flow work equally as well and are
used by more professional T Shirt artists than any other brand.
Shirt
board
Easel
Hobby X acto knife with several
blades
Masking tape
Light weight poster board to make
your templates
One white T Shirt
Now for some fun; sense this is a shirt
design to promote Airbrush Technique Magazine it will need airbrushes included
in the design. I draw all my designs on tracing paper as it allows me to make
changes by adding new features to another piece of tracing paper and simply
sliding it in behind the original. Should I decide the changes are not needed I
simple pull the second piece of paper out and I'm back to the original
design.
Now to transfer the design I flip my
original design over and trace the design. Flip it back and place it on top of
the poster board, trace the original design, remove the tracing paper and there
you have the design transferred to the poster board.
Carefully use the X acto knife to cut the
design out, remember the knife will follow where your eyes lcommand it to go.
We are new ready to airbrush the frame
that will contain our lettering. With the shirt secure on the shirt board I'll
position the big airbrush stencil where it needs to be on the shirt. You could
use spray adhesive to secure your template but I find it holds it to secure and
prefer to use the masking tape which forms the border of my template to hold
the template in place. The masking tape boarder will also help control over
spray if you feel it's needed.
Starting out with black and spraying
sparingly along the template edges we begin to paint our t shirt design. Be
sure to keep your airbrush square to the template. If you spray holding your
airbrush toward the outside of the template will lift the template and allow
paint to creep under the template, not a good thing in most case's.
Now we'll just work our way around the
design adding the other three airbrushes which will make up the frame which
will contain our lettering.
Below you can see our frame completed.
You might want to add just a touch of blue into the airbrushes at this point as
you can see I have done. The middle of your T Shirt design should be about
level with the arm pits in the shirt.
Now to add our lettering, here's where
you can out shine my efforts pretty easily. We'll add the letters with simple
dagger strokes making the letters very easy to render. You might want to start
with the middle letters in each word to ensure you have enough room to fit the
whole word in. Using a pencil or vine charcoal is also another way to go about
laying your lettering out within the frame. These letters will require several
dagger strokes to complete each letter. As you can see to make it more
interesting I've made ever other letter smaller than the preceding letter with
the bottom of the letters real fat. Please feel free to use any lettering style
you wish.
 |
Now to add some small airbrushes inside
our letter frame I use a smaller version of my airbrush template, also included
at the bottom of the page for you to print off. With no real pattern I'll just
airbrush some small airbrush using different colors through out the inside of
the design. This part could have actually been done first and the name
airbrushed right over them, whichever way you find works for you
best.
 |
Pictured below the next step is to add
airbrushes outside the frame and that stencil I have also included at the
bottom of the page. These little airbrushes outside the frame we will again
airbrush using different colors. After all it is a shirt design to draw
attention, promote a product so having it nice and bright can't hurt.
.
Place the positive part of our T Shirt template (the little airbrush) on the T
Shirt in the desired location and simply spray your color around the outside of
the template. Use a small piece of masking tape doubled over to secure the
small airbrush to the T Shirt.
To finish the design off add more blue in
the big airbrushes and some high lights with your white. Add high lights in
your letters where you feel they would look best, sign your name and after heat
setting the shirt your done. Refer to the directions of the paint you are using
on how best to heat set the T Shirt. Createx and Aqua Flow this must be done to
keep the paint from washing out.
Below are links to the stencils I used
just click on the small picture to bring up the full size stencil. Print it
off, cut it out and follow along with the project above.
I hope you have fun with this little
project and please post your results on the forum at airbrushtechnique.com.
Remember its just paint, relax and have fun.
| Copyrights :Airhead Airbrush.Com , Inc. Reserved No
part of this tutorial may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system or
transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, electrostatic, magnetic
tape, mechanical or otherwise, without prior permission in writing from Airhead
Airbrush. Com , Inc. and or the Contributing Artist |
|
