Songbirds

First shirt I ever got printed a couple years back. I made 50 of them, had them for sale over Christmas at an art gallery, and I sold... three.

$15 of which 40% was the gallery's cut.

It totally sucked. Over the next year or so I gave them out, sold a few here and there, etc.

I didn't design any more shirts or print any for about a year.

Moral(s) of the Story:

1. Have somewhere to sell your shirts. It's not necessarily that your shirt sucks, it's the market.

2. Don't let the printer convince you into Gildan 6 oz. They feel like frickin cardboard.

3. I had this printed with 5 colors. Now that I have learned separations, I could do it 2.

4. You can do wonderful things with minimal colors.

Here's a redo version using only one color I did a year later on a soft AA ringer. They sold like hotcakes. It was also a seam to seam print too, which sucked to hand press.

http://www.jimiyo.com/songbird07.jpg