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lightdarkness
lightdarkness aka Jay MacLean is a 23.74 year old boy, has been a member since September 25, 2006, has scored 3,178 submissions, giving an average score of 1.95, helping 46 designs get printed.
I've been thinking about submitting a design to threadless for quite some time. I'm no graphic designer, and I'm not really all that good at art, but I've had some ideas for t-shirts, that I'd really like to be critiqued.

I've just been second guessing if I should submit my ideas, I sometimes think they are too corny, or too childish.

How do those that have had designs win come up with your ideas? And how would someone like me, who has no design skills, draw it on the computer? I have Photoshop and a tablet PC, but are there any tutorials that you would recommend for fine tuning my design before submission.

Montro
   Montro on Nov 19 '06 at 10:44pm
Doesn't matter if they are corny or childish or even if they are great, sooner or later you'll have to face the average voter's wrath and if you second-guess yourself, how are you going to achieve your goals? Don't get discouraged. Test the waters and see what style works the best for you.



True, some designers here are seasoned professionals and experienced illustrators but there are also designers that have little technical skills, no art education whatsoever or even no design experience at all and yet they are succesfull and have gotten their prints. Why? Because they are cut-throat and they NEVER give up. I suggest the same for you, doesn't matter if you have to submit 50 designs before getting a print, because if you really want it, you'll get it.



Montro
   Montro on Nov 19 '06 at 10:49pm
you should try Adobe illustrator and learn about basic shapes and the pen tool...very basic, very useful
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