Henry Ford II High School Art Department Designs & UCS Art Department Designs
2019 Winning Design Maroon Ink Design - White Shirts design by Christiana Z. redrawn in Illustrator by Greg M.
2019 Winning Design Purple Ink Design - White Shirts design by Caitlyn S. redrawn in illustrator by Rachel G.
Some images are redrawn or traced in Multimedia Class using Illustrator like the 2019 winning designs above.
Create a Design for:
Henry Ford II Art Department
or
Utica Community Schools Art Department
Photograph your drawing
Add an adjustment layer for brightness and contrast
Convert to black and white & paint white over hand written text
add typed text & 1 color
Design by Carter Peacock
Hand Drawn Design Process
Draw the design out by hand on a clean white piece of paper using a black marker. Make sure not to have pencil marks or lines on your paper. Photograph your drawing in good light. Hand that drawing in as a jpeg.
Great Drawing & Great Lighting for Photo by Nina Vinch
Taking photos with poor lighting might produce colors you do not want and makes editing more difficult.
Pencil should be avoided, grayscales do not print to T-shirts well using one or two colors of ink.
Shoot in Good lighting.
Add a Black and White Adjustment layer in Photoshop. Add a Brightness and Contrast Layer in Photoshop.
Great drawing - Poorly lit photo
adjustment layers for both black and white & brightness / contrast applied
Bralelyn Pietz's photo of her design.
Photo converted to black and white and cropped.
Photoshop Process
Create a new document 8 1/2" x 11" with 300 dpi
1. File - Place Embedded - choose your photo to insert it in your 8 1/2" x 11" file.
2. Edit - Transform - to adjust size or angle of any layer or photo.
3. Create an adjustment layer of black and white following the video below.
4. Create an adjustment layer for the brightness and contrast in the same way.
Convert your photo of your drawing in to a Black and White image.
In the third video If the "Fill" button is greyed out when removing a large object: Right click on the layer to "Convert to Smart Object" then Right Click on the Layer to "Rasterize the layer" then right click on the layer to "Fill" the object.