Screen Printing!

The past few weeks we've been getting practical courses for various parts of the school, and I got to do screen printing! Great fun was had :)

First lesson, we focused on getting a hold of the technique, which wasn't all that hard :3 Decided to make a nice something for two friends of mine, who are one of the cutest couples in the Dutch Furry Fandom 8D

First we had to make the design and then transfer it to the transparant paper used for screen printing o3o

And then you get to pressing, once you've prepared the printing screen 8D

And this was the result. Didn't know what colour to choose, so went with green in the end.


Week two we had to make a more elaborate design, for multiple colours. I didn't quite know what I wanted to create, thus just went with the rule 'when in doubt, draw kitties!' and so I did.

The process is pretty much the same as for the one-colour screen, it just takes a little longer, as you have to make multiple transparants, one for every colour.

And so, in the end, this was the result. I'm not entirely pleased with the lines, but this was the best alignment I could get.

Overall, it's a very fun technique and I'll surely be returning to the Screen Printing studio :) I wanna try making some t-shirts like this sometime! That'd be fun :3 And I wanna make some nice Tani prints, lynxie's design should work well for toony screenprinting pics :)

And that's the end of my screenprinting adventure, for now!