T-shirt Design
This blog discusses how I sold t-shirt design.
T-SHIRT
12/2/20251 min read


I started selling T-shirts circa 2012 simply because I love t-shirts. Back in the 90’s there were lots of hand-drawn graphic shirts which were extremely bold and artistic.
I started selling doodle shirts - a hand drawn cartoon portrait of the owner. I will draw it on an oslo paper, scan it with my phone, vectorize it using Adobe Illustrator then give the file to the printing shop. Indeed I earned money from this, however, the process is tedious with small profit due the cost of shirt and printing.
Another way that I was able to sell t-shirt design is for a linguistic organization. It is as simple as vectoring the existing logo and sending it to the printer. It is an effortless job with lots of returns since I sold more or less 200 shirts. It’s a ratio of 1:200 compared to individual design of 1:1.
There are also Print-on-Demand services like Redbubble where I sold 2 t-shirts with a painting of Anubis and a Skull Daddy Sticker. Print-on-Demad services are useful if you have international clients or fandom. Print-on-demand handles the printing and shipping of your printed products. Print-on-Demand is literally a passive income where you can earn money while you are sleeping.
