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I am just curious if others find that they design for one gender better than the other. Lately it seems I keep starting to a design meant for a man but it somehow ends up being for a women. I dont know if it is like writers block or what but I am just getting no where with mens designs I have on the other hand made some really cool girl designs though. Normally I dont have a preference and can usually design for either gender, but it seems right now it is all about girly. How many others have a preference for designing for one gender or the other.
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Its ok Jerry to show your feminine side hehe, joking I think I am just having a really hard time figuring out what men like on a shirt and I dont want to do the skulls and common stuff like that which I find it easier to design girls stuff because I can make them pretty. My husband is no help either to get input from as he is a firefighter and I am tired of making fire fighter designs, that is all he likes lol, everything else he says yea that looks good and I just dont believe him
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I am just curious if others find that they design for one gender better than the other. Lately it seems I keep starting to a design meant for a man but it somehow ends up being for a women. I dont know if it is like writers block or what but I am just getting no where with mens designs I have on the other hand made some really cool girl designs though. Normally I dont have a preference and can usually design for either gender, but it seems right now it is all about girly. How many others have a preference for designing for one gender or the other.
Bobbie,
I am male, and I really have a hard time trying to do feminine stuff, I can, but it doesn't come that natural to me, and that's O.K.. heh
I have been approached several times in the past to do artwork for children's books, I always just tell them that they'd be better off with someone that can do 'soft', 'cause I'd probably end up making the art look scary. (unintentionally of course. heheh)
I belong to several art forums and the local consensus there is that same problem, 'most' people do their own gender best, as a matter of fact, recently there were threads just about that.
What you might consider doing is to cruise the t-shirt sites and see what the males wear, and you'd have to gauge it by your own personal feelings still though, but it's be a start.
I 'magine thought that you have already done that, but just in case.
Don't get me wrong, I don't mean copy, but to just get a general feel for what's going on out there.
You may also consider SPORTS, not teams, but generic stuff, from fishing to hockey, and golf to hang gliding, there are forums out there that are into each of those, and of course more.
Scuba diving
Fishing
Golf
Hang gliding
Free fall parachuting
Car racing
Horse racing
Football (of course)
Baseball
Tennis
Basketball
Billiards Photography
and on and on and on...
Men like to 'belong', and by being around people or 'stuff' like t-shirts, they can, and if they see a t-shirt that says 'them', then they're alreeady sold, that is, if they have the money.
Just think about making generic looking art that looks more like a logo, maybe with a 'player/sportsman' inside of a circle type thing, with a generic caption about that particular sport or activity.
I have belonged to a lot of activities before, and I know guys that eat that stuff up, so t-shirts that are all about THEIR activity, they'll love.
Of course the spreading of the news is still the same, you'd have to have a good way of presenting that stuff to them, but you know that.
I tend to try and make designs that can cater for both. One thing that I change would be the shirt color of the color of the ink depending on the gender. But there will def. be shirts that are gender specific and if either gender wants to purchase it they can.
How many others have a preference for designing for one gender or the other.
I almost never design for a specific gender, I just design and then decide based on the finished product. Often colourways can make something have mutual appeal anyway, but if not I'll just chalk it up to the one, and try and find something else for the other to balance.
Creating designs for men or women 
I have on the other hand made some really cool girl designs though. Normally I dont have a preference and can usually design for either gender, but it seems right now it is all about girly. How many others have a preference for designing for one gender or the other.
