how i make art - silkscreen

[boscobear33]

were do you have the negitaves made ? Can you print them out on a ink jet and use a few copies on top of each other to get them darker? Thanks

[KrepNumbersMan]

hey cfl grow i see!!!

[Airickk2021]

Can i silkscreen a duck ?

[soapko]

@Airickk2021 I don't see why not. You may want to sedate the duck first if you are trying to print multiple colors. Otherwise your registration will be completely off.

[Airickk2021]

@soapko yay!

[thedevo01]

@Airickk2021 Do you mean putting a duck under the silkscreen and printing on it? lol

[Airickk2021]

@thedevo01 Heck Yes !

[ceeb40]

so weird, I was listening to Beastie Boys new album and then I heard this song and thought it was mixed into the new album. What are the odds it's the same group.

[JamesBStudios]

Hello. What type of paper are you using there?

[soapko]

@JamesBStudios I believe I was using Arches 88. Beautiful paper.

[discophatboy]

medeski?

[WeeboPrints90]

When you do your pull stroke do it smooth and with ease not fast dramatic and awkward the image will be crisp and thin but just a opaque!

[chaseracer17]

You are the first person I have subscribed to and Ive been Youtubing it for years..

I really really want to get into silk screening and make some shirts.. So to make a shirt pallete and a screen press are my first steps.. Now for silk screens when you get to a finish product that screen with the image on it can be used multiple times or can you put a new emulsion with a differ pic on it.

any pointers would be great

[gsh73la]

@chaseracer17 Learn to design

So many "designs" are amateur

[savagetribefamilia]

is there another medium to use instead of transparent film to tranfer your image to the screen? why can't you just use regular printer paper or something?

[CatspitProductions]

The transparency method of registration is just fine. It works great with items that won't work in a jig or clips well. And it is easy to do. Really nice video, thanks for sharing. I screen print tee shirts. Oh yea!

[oppositronic]

how do you get your images onto acetate?

[RESPARZA5935]

I am interested in buying a screen printing system called " YUDU " do you recommend?

[supperstorm]

What is the name of photosensitive resin you use to build screen print?

[BeLQuinZ92]

what paint or what thing did u use 0:22 in the first method? it s stayed in silk screen

[soapko]

@BeLQuinZ92 I think you're referring to the photo-emulsion? You apply it to the screen first thing, then develop it with the negatives on top: 0:16

[BeLQuinZ92]

@soapko tnx

[LjNeroLimpin]

@BeLQuinZ92 photogrphic photo emusion

[BeLQuinZ92]

@LjNeroLimpin 

[schoenanimationz]

what are you using to make your positives?

[codyjeff]

Good video except for the fact that I had to keep pausing it so I could read the quickly flashed text.

[soapko]

@codyjeff Yeah, I have the annotations going a little too fast. You're right.

[soapko]

There's been some confusion as to why I'm using transparency instead of traditional registration markers. Long story short: registration clips don't work when you are printing to hand-torn ragged-edged paper. And looking down through the screen onto a registration target is too unpredictable (for my taste). Printing to a transparency first, and then aligning to it is nearly as fast as using registration markers or clips and gives you much more control for each print.

[Khamomil]

@soapko Sorry I don't get this. It would have been good to show how you print the 2nd color at least so we can see how you use the transparency for registration.

If the tr-cy is a loose sheet, how can you register from it???

[soapko]

@Khamomil That would've helped, you're right. The transparency isn't actually loose. It's taped at one end to the table. Before you print a color to your paper, you print it to the transparency first, this way you can see exactly where the paint will fall. This way, you can take each piece of paper, line it up under the transparency, and see exactly how the new color will line up with whatever is already printed to your sheet, no matter if the sheets are different sizes or not. Does that help?

[Khamomil]

@soapko

Ah! OK-DO-K! Very smart your system!

[AerdnaZaze]

man you suck , you have no idea of what you are doing

[saksilangit]

how to screen a real image on t's?? does it required a dotting technic on adobe or corel?? please help me...

[soapko]

If you mean to try printing a photographic image, then what you need to do is called a 4 color separation with half-tone (the dots). The photograph will be printed in exactly the same way a color newspaper looks up close (all dotted with CMYK colors). This isn't simple business, and honestly I haven't tried it myself yet.

[CatspitProductions]

Pretty cool set up. Cool looking prints. Nice video. Check out my videos for tutorials on screen printing and heat transferring tee shirts. Questions welcome.

[stiltsy66]

you are using too much pressure when you pull your squeege. Also the angle is too flat and you pull too fast. You want to feel the edge of the squeege make good contact with the screen.

[soapko]

Hey, thanks for the feedback. Yeah, i'm way off the 45.

[EZA757]

are you using plastisol?

[soapko]

I use acrylics.

[luisluisluisis]

how do you get photo/film positives?

please tell me?

:P

[soapko]

I make my color separations in Illustrator, and get them printed up at Fedex Kinko's. Get doubles printed and tape them together to be sure the negatives are as dark as possible. You can try printing them at home, but the black won't print dark enough.

[CatspitProductions]

Thats pretty cool. Check out my videos for tutorials on screen printing tee shirts. Questions welcome.

[Truex1d]

quick question, if i drew an art myself, how would i transfer that onto a transparency sheet? I know I can scan with a scanner but it wouldnt be the same would it?

[soapko]

Sorry for the slow response. There are a few ways that you can do this, with varying degrees of effectiveness:

If your art is single-color, then you can simply scan it and print it with black only to a transparency. It's best to have a copy place (like Fedex/Kinkos) do this. Have them print your art on a color copier with all colors set to print black. That makes it as black as possible. Hint: most places won't know to do this. You must request this specially. It makes a huge difference.

[soapko]

Alternatively, if you don't have transparencies, you can simply print to normal paper (still in black-and-white) and color the paper with a bit of cooking oil. This will make the blank parts of the paper virtually see-through.

If your art is multi-colored, well, that's more difficult. You will first have to scan it and use something like Photoshop or Illustrator to separate out the colors. THEN you can print them out as individual black transparencies.

[Ranchobob]

I thought the point of your video was to share information, not entertain? And how many people DO like the Beastie Boys?

[Ranchobob]

I hated that stupid music

[soapko]

Not a Beastie Boys fan, eh? :)

[soapko]

Because I tear my own paper, none of my sheets are the same size. Therefore, the traditional method of aligning sheets with markers or pins doesn't work for me. So, what I do is print every new color to a sheet of acetate that is affixed to the printing board. Then, I align every sheet of paper underneath the acetate for perfect registration. It's like simulating a print. You know exactly where the color will hit. Very helpful for printing multiple colors.

[MrSunshine99]

good choice of music

[soapko]

5000. We seem to be moving faster now.

[soapko]

Whoo hoo! 4000 views. It's the little things that make me happy.

[atanguay]

Great setup man!

Looks like you have the process down quite nicely!