Hi all. This was my 2nd ever attempt at silkscreening so it's a little rough. I just thought I would share... I've never been good at free-handing cars so I thought I'd give this a shot.

 

looking good! i'd rock it!

 

nice. you are one talented dude.

 

I have no idea what that means. but that's a cool pic.

 

Looks pretty good!
I'm guessing that's on fabric since it's not fuzzy looking?
Did you cut this with an x-acto or do a photo-emulsion transfer from a print?

 

Thanks for the comments

this was done by the reductive method. I painted out the stencils with screen filler, printed one color and kept going like that. My runs were in this order: light gray, dark gray, light orange, dark orange, light purple, dark purple, black, then clear for the windshield reflection.

I'm still working on my photo emulsion project. this is what i have so far:



I still have to work out some kind of background or overlay.

 

its actually on bristol

 

oh wow...so you are painting screen filler directly on the screen? that's pretty impressive then. I'm sure they look sharper in person...must just be the camera making it look like it's on fabric. Are you taking a course somewhere?

 

Yeah. Im at South Alabama. I really want to take the advanced course when I'm done with this one. I want to get really good at it and possibly do it for some secondary income.

 

I didn't mean location as in what part of the country...I meant high school, trade school, college? lol

The only way to make good money on it IMO is commercial printing onto apparel. So you'll have to get good at indexing colors from customer supplied images in Adobe Illustrator. Then you print the separations to plastic sheets and make your screens from that using the photo emulsion process. Try to find a shop to work at first and learn the trade then you can save $ to buy the equipment you need to go into business yourself.

 

vector trace in illustrator will give you that effect, then transfer the different colors to the screen...seems like your doing it the hard way.

 

Yeah. I'm in a beginners class so we're just learning all of the basic ways to do it. The people in our advanced class have been using illustrator and theirs are coming out perfect.

Plus, it gives it a more artistic feel this way. You can definitely tell it was done by hand.