Experience Selling T-Shirts/Clothing?
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- Miguex1
Personally I think it's not so much about the design but about the community your are selling to. I have done tshirt designs for existing brands in action sports or big djs, where they sell by the millions probably and I'm sure it had nothing to do with my design in particular. You can bring any monkey with a mouse to an established brand and fans will buy it just because they want to rep it.
What I'm personally after is not creating a tshirt design but a desirable brand, create or find a niche and develop it. It takes time and is deff a labor of love, there are so many things surrounding creating a brand that are super fun, packaging, photoshoots, promo materials, etc.
If you think of it as a t-shirt alone, then it probably won't last long. I think you need a theme and stay consistent, so whatever is your message carries along across multiple designs, some people won't really care for some of those designs, but maybe one will resonate with them.
Of course, all of this I'm exploring myself for being on the process, I def will never sell as many shirts as the ones I did for previous clients on my own, but that's ok with me, I just want this whole thing to sustain itself, its super fun as an escape from work you know?