DIPSY!

Yo so I haven't made a DIPSY post in waaaay too long. I'm still going every week, and I still love it. Here's a little recap:

Week 1

Speaker: Andrew Theophilopolous

Demo: Painting (like Sargent)/Color

Theme: Animal Warrior

Week 2

Speaker: David Coleman

Demo: Character Design

Theme: Inferior Dragon

David actually chose my drawing out of the bunch as being the most successful! 

I was super proud and excited :D

Week 3

Speaker: Me!

Demo: Threadless

Theme: Puns

It was a huge honor to be able to host a DIPSY and I demo'd how to prepare t-shirts for Threadless. It was a lot of fun and I think some people really got a lot out of it. Here's some of my notes from the demo:

Essentially, Threadless prints the full spectrum of designs, from very simple ones, to highly intricate ones. Often times, the simpler the better, especially for t-shirts. Remember that people have to be able to tell what is going on from far away and get the point/joke right away.

Colors cost money. Therefore, it makes sense that Threadless is going to lean towards printing designs using less colors. Not always the case but it is a factor. It shouldn't limit you but you should always be looking for ways to decrease your color count if it doesn't hurt your overall design.

Take any one color layer with varying opacities,

Command C, Command N, Command V

Image: Mode: Greyscale (Flatten Layer if prompted to do so)

Image: Mode: Bitmap

Choose "Halftone Screen", play with the numbers to get the desired look (now your image is purely black and white, no fuzzy edges or different colors)

Image: Mode: Greyscale (so you can have layers again)

Duplicate Layer and Delete Background Layer (so you're left with an editable layer)

Magic Wand Tool, uncheck "Contiguous" and "Anti-Alias", click the white, delete it

You're left with a haltone version of what you had, in black

Color Overlay your original color back on

Week 4

Speaker: Pascal Campion

Demo: The Life and Times of Pascal

This guy is awesome and loving life, as he should.

Week 5

Speaker: David O'Keefe

Demo: Caricature

Theme: Yoav

cherubs included :)

Week 6

Speaker: Michelle Kwon

Demo: Digital Painting/Color?

Theme: Movie Still

Week 7

Speaker: Roi Horn

Demo: Art and Life

Theme: Battle Scene

only had about 15 minutes for this one

it was awesome to hear Roi talk, because he doesn't do that a lot

I also won by default O.o (still counts?)