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Fakie Screen Printing Tutorial
Published: 2007-05-12 14:22:47 +0000 UTC; Views: 102577; Favourites: 2272; Downloads: 0
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Once I learned how to do this, I just knew I'd have to make a tutorial out of it, because it's so much easier than I had ever thought it could be! I was so afraid of screen printing, but a friend (K8) assured me that it wasn't that bad when I'm doing it like this, and guess what? She's totally right!So here, I thought I'd share it with you - maybe now you won't feel so afraid to do it. And become addicted to it (like me).
Where to buy the supplies:
- Contact paper can be boughten at Target for like $7/roll, but similar stores should carry it. The rolls last a lot longer than I expected!
- Screen printing ink: You may be able to find this at a lot of place, but I always buy mine from Artist and Display . If you don't have one near you, they do have an online store. It's a great place that's been absorbing all of my money lately
- All the other supplies can be boughten at somewhere like JoAnn Fabrics or the like, they're pretty easy to find.
Just a note: Sorry for the watermark, but I'm still leary on things being used where I don't necessarily want them to be. All the photos in the tutorial are (c) me, except for the very last one, which awesome credit goes to Doll at AetasPhotography.net .
Feel free to link to this or whatnot, but please don't redistribute it without my consent.
~View all of my Artisan Crafts tutorials here~
2007 Taeliac Studio/Samantha Lemieux ~ BeAnime.com
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i did screen printing in art class in highschool.... but this seams ALOT easier and user friendly... 
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User friendly it definitely is! If I can do it, then anyone can 
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This is useful, I shall be trying this!
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Awesome! Let me know how it goes, and if you have any suggestions for modifying the tutorial, or future one's, or anything like that
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Glad to help (and sorry for the late reply!!)
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My only problem with this is the tag of screen printing. It's a contact paper stencil, not anything like screen printing, aside from the ink used. I've had a good amount of experience in both stenciling and silk screening, and if you were doing a long run of any kind of prints, this would probably get tedious. But it's a good technique for single prints.
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Well, I have it on quite good authority that it's just like screen printing, so that's why I used the tag on it. Plus, I figured the "Fakie" in front of it would warn people who do know how to do screen printing that this was the cheating version XP
I agree, however - this would suck for long runs, but most of what people are doing for cosplay work (or costuming in general) is just one or two of them... I was able to reuse the same stencil about 4 times before it died XP
Do you have a tutorial on regular screen printing up? I'd love to learn how to do it at home, but I have no clue where to start...
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oooo Im gonna have to do this taeliac!!!!
I did the screen sqeegee version in highschool and was like "ok... now how can I do this at home?"
SO many thank you's for the tut!!!!
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OOO i will borrow this forever and a day. Thankie for sharing!! i have a lot of trinity blood related cosplay commissions coming up..so this will help!!!
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Oh awesome! I just started looking at the art for that, and it's amazing! I can see how screen printing them would help some of the sanity XP
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Oh thank you so much I may use this in the future!!
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Ha! Not a problem - I'm glad it could be helpful
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Wow that's so much simpler with a tutorial. I've got to use this sometime in my costumes.
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I figured as much ^_^ It was really confusing at first, when she was explaining it to me, but after a trial or two, I got it down, and just had to take pictures
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hey!! good tutorial and cool results!!!
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aw thank you so much! you're helpful in so many ways you have no idea. <3
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Excellent! I'm glad I could help
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good tutorial, its a lot different than the way i do it though. i usually just stretch sheer fabric (like an old curtain) over a frame and paint around the design with mod podge or masking fluid for watercolor. this way seems to have the same results and probably cost a lot less than the way i do it
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Hmm... I've never done it like that! I'll give it a try, definitely! Thank you for the info ~ I think I have some masking fluid floating aorund that's no good for painting any more that I was just going to throw out...
This is really a quick way of doing it, and a lot easier if you're lazy like I can be XP
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Just a question... Do you remove the stencil, then start painting, or paint over the stencil. Painting over it doesn't sound logical, so I'm assuming it's the other way, but I'm not sure.
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Nope! You leave the stencil down, and just paint over the edges of it, to fill in the parts of the fabric. You can also trace the stencil down, and just hand paint in the design, but it's really easy if you just leave the contact paper stencil down, and then paint it in, and then peel it off (I hope that made sense 
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I might have to try this out!
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very nice tutorial!!! i love the picture at the end
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Hehe, thank you very much (sorry for the uber-late reply, too XP)
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