LEE!! Thank you. I’ve been watching your videos for about a year. I work in a screenprint shop and do all of the pre press separations, film printing, etc and there is nothing worse than masked files, non expanded fonts and pasted raster images. You’re speaking my language. I wish people understood this 🙌🏽 Love your work man. B
Thanks man! I do all that stuff here and the amount of files I get like that drives me insane, especially when it comes from proper designers or design firms. I've called and chewed out a few of them for this stuff 😂
@@leestuart38 I deal with a lot of trade work business and industrial firms here and at least once per month I’ll get a jpeg photo of an old printed T-shirt or the logo on the side of a work truck and asked to print it with no files. The utter shock when I tell them it’s going to cost them some design time is unbelievable. It’s 2020! Can’t wait for whatever you’ve got coming next man. Appreciate all your tips, tricks, learnings and advice.
Bro I OWE YOU!!! Spent way too much time trying to get my textures right on adobe before coming across your video. You've been super helpful to my wife and I as we start our clothing business. Thanks a million! Going to have to buy a shirt and support you!
You're a G homie. I watched handfuls of different videos from "good" illustrators and ONLY saw the bad way.. and I had issues with it even working correctly. BUT with this... breezy. Thanks so much. Keep it up. PS.. you should probably just go ahead and do another run of Bushido... ;)
when you don't print anything not good with art but you still support someone.. I Hit that like button and tell others to subscribe :) cause even if you are not into this you are definitely someone that can make anything interesting and fun. Keep up the great work and seriously some great step by step shit. keep it up. also bloopers are awesome.. cheers.
Awesome man. Thanks for this great tutorial 🙌🏼 weird how just yesterday i was thinking about adding texture to one of logos 😅 Skillshare is amazing. I joined to learn many things, especially how to use illustrator, because i jumped in this as a hobby and never used illustrator before 🤷🏻♂️ Great video man, your channel helps a lot, thanks for that 👊🏼
Glad to hear man! I learned so much about this stuff on Skillshare, that's how I got started. I've turned down hundreds of potential sponsors for videos, but this one I jumped at because I 100% stand behind it
Great Video!! Explanation was on point. I'm learning how to use AI on my own. Your video helped out a lot. I did figure out how to group same colors onto one layer, the texture part is what I needed to make it look boss. Thanks again- New subscriber.
@@leestuart38 so we just bought a vg2-640 After watching your nightmare of a setup process, here's to hoping ours is a smoother experience. Your videos have been an inspiration to take a few more chances in life 🙌
@@leestuart38 Would one of you mind explaining that to someone who is new to designing? Not me, of course. But...a... friend of mine. He doesn't know what he's doing. Again. Totally not me.
Lee whats good awesome video again. Can you guys make a video how you make a design in illustrator like that skull or that ninja mask maybe in timelapse or something? Would be cool. Gr Tris
"Make sure you have a saved copy of your artwork." "This way is destructive!" OMG! Words to live by. The logo for my husband's company... the logo that I hand drew and spent countless hours perfecting... All had to be recreated in Illustrator after I jacked up a version that just so happened to be my only surviving copy. FML!
Is there a specific name for the artwork style used here? I'm really interested in the style used for the artwork, but can't seem to find online any tutorial of how to do it.
Hi Lee What file is best to save/send to a screen printer? Ai or Jpeg etc? Absolutely loving these tutorial videos. You should deffo turn these turotrial civeos it into a series. From beginner illustrator users/designers and then upto advanced level (Just and idea) :)
Definitely .ai, or vector .pdf if you think someone might be working outside of illustrator. I plan on lots more illustrator stuff in the future so that's an option 🤘🏻
I can relate on this in so many ways! Really good tutorial and very professional. Wish more designers had the same mindset and thinking like you. And no, not a piece of shit ;) Keep it up!
I tend to use CTRL/CMND + 2 to lock objects (CTRL/CMND + SHIFT + 2 to unlock) so I can't touch or move them. But CTRL/CMND + 3 is super helpful as it hides and unhides shit (CTRL/CMND + SHIFT + 3 unhides) when you don't want to see it. Means you don't have to go into your layers panel and hit the eye every time! Hope this helps anyone in the chat!
I tend to avoid as many of the 3 key shortcuts as possible because my hands are so broken and I can't press them without needing both 😂, but for anyone normal this is great for the workflow
Totally with you, ive been cutting vinyl for years before going into screen (which is YOUR fault!!) - the amount of .AI artwork i open and am like.... what the hell is going on here??
i just finished looking into a few things that may help you produce a little faster with screen printing or heat transfers digitalheatfx.com/screen-printing-supplies/ digitalheatfx.com/ as always this is just my opinion as it may or may not help you, but it is worth checking into. keep the great videos comin.
LOL LITERALLY THE FIRST STEP is not possible. so what is the step BEFORE compound path? because everyone starts here and i am missing ALL the info before you get to that point. All i have is 1 text box with 6 letters in it. literally placed text, wrote text, then chose a color. and i cannot compound path it. so what is the step before compound path? how do you prepare the design to be compound pathed? because the text is idle grey for me. compound path is not an option.
Click here bit.ly/leestuart38 to subscribe for more rad stuff, and click that damn bell for me!
This can literally transform a design...really like these two videos.
LEE!! Thank you. I’ve been watching your videos for about a year.
I work in a screenprint shop and do all of the pre press separations, film printing, etc and there is nothing worse than masked files, non expanded fonts and pasted raster images. You’re speaking my language. I wish people understood this 🙌🏽
Love your work man.
B
Thanks man! I do all that stuff here and the amount of files I get like that drives me insane, especially when it comes from proper designers or design firms. I've called and chewed out a few of them for this stuff 😂
@@leestuart38 I deal with a lot of trade work business and industrial firms here and at least once per month I’ll get a jpeg photo of an old printed T-shirt or the logo on the side of a work truck and asked to print it with no files. The utter shock when I tell them it’s going to cost them some design time is unbelievable. It’s 2020!
Can’t wait for whatever you’ve got coming next man. Appreciate all your tips, tricks, learnings and advice.
THANK YOU SO MUCH LEE, super helpful explanation. There is so much CRAP to wade thru on RUclips, I was so lucky to find this video quickly...
Hell ya dude, glad to hear this helped!
Bro I OWE YOU!!! Spent way too much time trying to get my textures right on adobe before coming across your video. You've been super helpful to my wife and I as we start our clothing business. Thanks a million! Going to have to buy a shirt and support you!
That's what it's all about, glad to help!
You're a G homie. I watched handfuls of different videos from "good" illustrators and ONLY saw the bad way.. and I had issues with it even working correctly. BUT with this... breezy. Thanks so much. Keep it up.
PS.. you should probably just go ahead and do another run of Bushido... ;)
Thanks for posting! This was the perfect solution for my problem, keep the tutorials coming!
Glad to help 🤘🏻
Badass man. Love the tutorial. Gets right to the point without the needless bs. 👍👍👍👍
Thanks man, glad it helps!
when you don't print anything not good with art but you still support someone.. I Hit that like button and tell others to subscribe :) cause even if you are not into this you are definitely someone that can make anything interesting and fun.
Keep up the great work and seriously some great step by step shit. keep it up. also bloopers are awesome.. cheers.
Really appreciate it man 👊🏻
Finally caught up on videos, keep up the great work Lee
Thanks man
Thank You for the grit textures, been a subscriber for quite sometime now, really love what you doing, keep it up!
Thanks man, make some cool shit with them 🤘🏻
worked like a charm, thank you!
You are still our hero!!!
thanks for the textures brotha, much appreciated.
Anytime, hope you put them to good use 🤘🏻
The artwork looks like a Devilish Trio type cover. Love it 👌
Thanks!
Great video. This helped a lot. Just learning how to separate colors with no rip and adding an underbase. Very helpful.
Glad to hear!
cool tutorial lee good stuff thks for sharing the texture files awesome
Glad you dig it 🤘🏻
Great video 👍
Another great video bro! thanks again! :) Keep up the great work!
Glad to help 🤘🏻
Thats Dope Bro thank you
thank you so much love the tutorials ,keep being GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Happy they help, thanks!
subscribed for giving us free vector file
Love from India. Soon I'm gonna start my print shop. Thank you for motivation
Good luck!
I can't wait till you company prints my apparel. Your so fucking awesome I really be inspired from you
Cool to hear that dude! 🤘🏻
Love the Font rogue lab. Where can i get it?
Thank you for sharing outstanding content.
Thanks for watching it
You are a perfectionist and that is very inspiring.
You should make a video of how to finish your art to be printed as a photolith
Lithography isn't something we mess with here
@@leestuart38 so how do you do your screens?
Awesome man. Thanks for this great tutorial 🙌🏼 weird how just yesterday i was thinking about adding texture to one of logos 😅
Skillshare is amazing. I joined to learn many things, especially how to use illustrator, because i jumped in this as a hobby and never used illustrator before 🤷🏻♂️
Great video man, your channel helps a lot, thanks for that 👊🏼
Glad to hear man! I learned so much about this stuff on Skillshare, that's how I got started. I've turned down hundreds of potential sponsors for videos, but this one I jumped at because I 100% stand behind it
Man Lee, you always share the exact Ai skill I need bro lol (seriously) Ive been trying to figure this method out for awhile now...
I need to make more of these by the sound of it. Glad to help!
Great Video!! Explanation was on point. I'm learning how to use AI on my own. Your video helped out a lot. I did figure out how to group same colors onto one layer, the texture part is what I needed to make it look boss. Thanks again- New subscriber.
Glad to help man!
Very informative! Thanks for that👍
Ps don't ever stop doing out takes at the end lol good stuff 😂
Haha those have become a staple in these videos 🙌🏻
@@leestuart38 so we just bought a vg2-640
After watching your nightmare of a setup process, here's to hoping ours is a smoother experience. Your videos have been an inspiration to take a few more chances in life 🙌
4:59 🤣🤣🤣 expanding fonts. I love the aggravation in your voice. Can’t wait for that video. Lmfao ✌️🤣
Lol it's the most annoying thing and it happens almost every single day here
@@leestuart38 Would one of you mind explaining that to someone who is new to designing? Not me, of course. But...a... friend of mine. He doesn't know what he's doing. Again. Totally not me.
How would you put this design on a screen for screen printing?
Awesome!!
Lee whats good awesome video again. Can you guys make a video how you make a design in illustrator like that skull or that ninja mask maybe in timelapse or something? Would be cool. Gr Tris
"Make sure you have a saved copy of your artwork." "This way is destructive!" OMG! Words to live by. The logo for my husband's company... the logo that I hand drew and spent countless hours perfecting... All had to be recreated in Illustrator after I jacked up a version that just so happened to be my only surviving copy. FML!
hey man I love your videos! Can you do a tutorial on taking a full color rgb image in photoshop and turn it into cmyk format for printing?
I plan on doing a few separations videos at some point, so that will be part of it 🤘🏻
Great feedback. 🤙🏼
Inspiration bro
Is there a specific name for the artwork style used here? I'm really interested in the style used for the artwork, but can't seem to find online any tutorial of how to do it.
Hi Lee
What file is best to save/send to a screen printer? Ai or Jpeg etc?
Absolutely loving these tutorial videos. You should deffo turn these turotrial civeos it into a series. From beginner illustrator users/designers and then upto advanced level (Just and idea) :)
Definitely .ai, or vector .pdf if you think someone might be working outside of illustrator. I plan on lots more illustrator stuff in the future so that's an option 🤘🏻
I can relate on this in so many ways! Really good tutorial and very professional. Wish more designers had the same mindset and thinking like you. And no, not a piece of shit ;) Keep it up!
Thanks a lot man!
When you started learning AI in skillshare was there a specific person's videos you liked best..thx
Daniel Scott has the best courses to learn the fundamentals. After that I'd look at Aaron draplin
Cool thanks..also excited to see you on shirt lab summit!
I tend to use CTRL/CMND + 2 to lock objects (CTRL/CMND + SHIFT + 2 to unlock) so I can't touch or move them.
But CTRL/CMND + 3 is super helpful as it hides and unhides shit (CTRL/CMND + SHIFT + 3 unhides) when you don't want to see it. Means you don't have to go into your layers panel and hit the eye every time!
Hope this helps anyone in the chat!
I tend to avoid as many of the 3 key shortcuts as possible because my hands are so broken and I can't press them without needing both 😂, but for anyone normal this is great for the workflow
@@leestuart38 Haha, that makes sense man!
DO you thuink layermask will work the same way in photoshop ??
Yes it does
@@leestuart38 I believe layer mask is faster to do. But can you brief me why did you do it this way in IL?
The link for the free texture pack isn't working
I see that, my bad. It's fixed now 🤘🏻
Good looking out bro ... this help me out ... #GMONSTAS
Like, Brazil 🇧🇷🇧🇷
recommend a name for my new workshop
Totally with you, ive been cutting vinyl for years before going into screen (which is YOUR fault!!) - the amount of .AI artwork i open and am like.... what the hell is going on here??
It's a daily struggle 😂. I've had some pretty funny ones
Right with ya on the subject of people not expanding fonts when outputting 🤬🤬
Biggest pet peeve that normal people will never we understand 😂
I've made it a point to use the idiot proof ways as much as possible myself, wouldn't even know how to use that mask tbh haha
You learned right then haha 🙌🏻
i just finished looking into a few things that may help you produce a little faster with screen printing or heat transfers digitalheatfx.com/screen-printing-supplies/ digitalheatfx.com/
as always this is just my opinion as it may or may not help you, but it is worth checking into. keep the great videos comin.
AffinityDesigner, AffinityPhoto, AffinityPublisher.
We use adobe here
Hello, please it could be possible to translate the videos into Spanish, at least the most current ones and those that come. Thank you
Sorry I don't speak Spanish
LOL LITERALLY THE FIRST STEP is not possible.
so what is the step BEFORE compound path? because everyone starts here and i am missing ALL the info before you get to that point.
All i have is 1 text box with 6 letters in it. literally placed text, wrote text, then chose a color. and i cannot compound path it. so what is the step before compound path? how do you prepare the design to be compound pathed? because the text is idle grey for me. compound path is not an option.
First?
Expanding fonts...you know you are gonna make that video. Frustrating every day, do it
I want to throat punch designers who don't do it. Drives me nuts 😂