What up guys! So today I'm going to show you how to make some stickers
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So I have this note book with some of my drawings in it and I thought it would be cool to turn those into some black and white stickers.
I threw them on the computer on Illustrator. I used the pen, pencil, and blob tool to get the outline. then I threw it on a pink background so you could see the transparency, filled it in with white, and started erasing the white.
After I got them all done, I rearranged it on my art board to fit half real nice. I then added registration marks. These will be important later.. and you'll see why. But it's important to make them before you copy it over on the second half of the art board.
so then copy it. make one all black (by taking out the white) and the other one all white (by taking out the black). [you should be able to lay the black copy over the white and line it up with the registrations marks.. so check that now]
then make it all black. take out the pink background and print it on a transparent velum. I printed it out on the clear on so I could make a screen to Screenprint. I made a video that goes into more detail how to make a screen and you can see that here: bit.ly/2hjYHPo
Next I have this clear vinyl.. (I kept on calling it vellum smh) that I will be print on. "oooo see through" so I cut it in a sheet the size of the sticker sheet.
First think I used was acrylic paint; this chalk paint stuff.. And when I'm printing it, it would be nice to have like a clamp or something holding it down. For now we will just use Romney's hands. I did two passes annnnnd... it looks good.
I wanted to do a bunch of different sheets of these at the same time.. but I waited to long and the paint had dried in the screen.. Every where that the paint has dried it won't come out when you print it.
That sucked but I moved on and did the black next. I traced the registration marks so you can kind of see what I'm doing... With the black screen I'm just lining it up with the registration marks so its all lined up when I print the black.
So you can see here I don't have cute lil romneys hands holding down the screen.. I mean.. it helps.. but it's not completely necessary. As you can see it worked and it look prettttty gooowd.
I didn't want the black to dry in the screen so I washed it out immediately but you can still see it still kind of dried in the little details of the screen. I though maybe water based ink or paint wasn't the best idea so I though I would dry some oil based paint.
I wasn't having the best of luck with it. It kept like blowing out.. I tried it a couple times but it all suuuucked.
So I went back to what I know best, which is plastisol ink, which is like the standard t-shirt ink. The thing about it, is in order to cure the ink you have to put it in the oven or heat it up to like 360 degrees.
I printed the white first and it looked good. I threw that in the oven at 360 degrees for like 10 seconds. I thought I was good.. (but when I marked the registration mark and tried to line up the black screen I noticed the heat from the oven shrank my sticker sheet)
It doesn't look terrible.. but it wasn't what I wanted so I tried it again. But what I did is, I took the sheet and before I printed it I put it in the oven to pre-shrink it. printed it again, put it in the oven for only like 2 seconds, marked the registration marks, printed the black, and threw it back in the oven.
This time everything was looking good! How to screen print some stickers!
Now that I have a bunch of stickers.. I'm going to throw them up on my website if you wanna snag some.
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6 сен 2024
