I've always loved Kitsune masks and the other day I realized my logo has the basic architecture of one. So this weekend I tried to turn my logo into one. Still needs work, but I think I'm on to something! Would be cool to have a nice kitsune version of my logo and then a mascot/character as well.
I also realized the kanji for Kitsune kind of has the shapes of an M and J too! ๐
The fox structured around my logo ended up not cutting it for me. I liked the concept, but execution just wasn't there and I just couldn't get it to look good enough. It was a fun exercise though and led me to end up here. Not sure what I will do with these, but there's definitely room for more exploration and still want to attempt to make an illustrative mascot.
Screen printed another shirt design over the weekend. Until now I've been only using water-based inks which I love the look and feel of, but tried plastisol for the richer colors. Also working with 2-3 colors this time (depending on the shirt color). Happy with how this one came out.
Still not sure how I plan to shoot my shirts for the store photos. This one was just quickly thrown together with a single light just to see if I want to lay them flat on the ground (I'll attempt to remove most of the wrinkles when I take final photos.)
One of the more ambitious things I want to do is also take "lifestyle" photos with people wearing them. Will probably start with my oldest son and I as test subjects, but I'd love to hire models once I get the look I want/like down.
My goal is to rival the quality/presentation of a real lifestyle apparel company, but doing everything myself in super small quantities out of my garage. And at small quantities, I can polish the hell out of the customer experience. So many ideas.
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@mark ah. Iโve only ever done it on a commercial scale, so drop it on a conveyer belt that runs it through an oven.
We printed multi color wet on wet (although with bleeds and stuff)
Puff ink was the most fun. Thankfully thatโs gone the way of the dodo
@sanguish Nice! It's been stressful and fun at the same time. I definitely don't have any room for proper screen printing equipment (even the smaller stuff), so the heat press is working fine for now even though everything takes longer.
Puff ink is still a thing! Just not for me. haha.
@mark this was back in the 80s when I was working in screen printing software.
Shame to hear about puff ink. ๐
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