ATTENTION (GRAPHIC) ARTISTS ON MY F-LIST

[seventhe]

...ESPECIALLY THOSE OF YOU LOOKING FOR A LITTLE EXTRA CASH?

I have a friend at work who is looking to have a graphic reworked so that it can be printed on a t-shirt. In order to be printed on a shirt, there needs to be a little bit of space between sections of different colors, apparently, so that the colors don't bleed together when printed. The original also uses a lot of colors, and I think that would need to be cut a little bit so that there are only 1-2 blues and 1-2 greens in the actual image.

He is totally willing to pay! Right now he's looking for a QUOTE from someone as to how much it would cost to have the graphic reworked.

More under the cut --



Jon's exact words: "Krash,
Here is the image I wanted to be able to put on a t-shirt. I was told that there should be a little distance between each color so there is no bleeding. I basically want this image to be clear with no pixelation and some distance between each color. The final image should be in JPEG format. I am just looking for a quote right now. Thanks for your help.

When we talked about it in person we also discussed cutting down on the number of colors in the final image. I told him that printing shirts with lots of different colors was expensive, and while he didn't seem overly concerned about the cost he DID say that it would be nice to reduce the overall number of colors in the image. I'll probably leave that up to suggestions from my wise F-List about this.



Anyway. I could probably take a stab at it, and maybe do a decent job, but I know there are a lot of you out there who kind of do this thing for a living (katmillia, I am initially thinking of you) and could probably do waaayyyy better than I could.

If you're interested, just let me know how much you'd charge so I can get back to Jon about it. Thanks! XD

Comments

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

Tablets are awesome!! You can always practice in Photoshop too. It's kind of a pain at first getting used to the pen tool, but after I got the hang of it, vector curve shading in Photoshop is a lot of fun.

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

I've only ever done free hand stuff, because I kind of stare at the pen tool all "O_______o I DON'T KNOW HOW TO USE YOU". I will have to experiment with it. Do you have any tips?

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

Start out small! The problem I have with a lot of online pen tool tutorials is that they are like O HAI GUYZ TODAY WE WILL USE THE PEN TOOL FIRST WE WILL TELL YOU EVERYTHING THE PEN TOOL DOES AND OVERWHELM YOUR BRAIN AND THEN WE WILL BE DOING REALLY ADVANCED STUFF CUZ YOU OBVIOUSLY HAVE OSMOSED THE ENTIRE TUTORIAL INTO YOUR BRAIN AFTER 5 MINUTES.

What I started out doing is just using the shapes tool in Photoshop to make a whole bunch of circles and ovals and things that have curvy edges. Then I went in and used my tablet with the pen tool and practiced tracing the edges of the circles, dragging the handles on the anchor points, and things like that.

After that, I started experimenting with fill colors and random things, still with simple shapes. I won't lie, the pen tool takes a little while to get used to before you can start feeling comfortable with it. But I don't think it's hard, just kind of scary at first since it's new!

[first-seventhe.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I have that problem with a lot of tutorials, haha. I like to draw and sometimes I think I'm alright, but I don't have a lot of experience with a lot of tools like tablets and Photoshop. Though it's my own fault because I run such a retardtastic schedule that I never have time to practice or experiment or anything.

[darcenciel.livejournal.com]

I did this last year, all with the pen tool in Photoshop and my tablet.


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