Hi Gary. Do you have a large niche such as general humor mugs/shirts/hoodies/everything? Or do you have a tighter focus such as cartoon cat humor t-shirts?
I'm going to go for a broad historical/movie inspired/retro style humor so the ideas for me are fairly easy to come by. For example, I'll just look through a stack of cowboy western books, some 1950's advertising books, pop in a DVD, and in no time I have a couple sheets of sketches of ideas. Then I visit my favorite t-shirt websites and I look for the styles and colors I want to use for my ideas. From there, it helps to have some art and/or computer skills, but I don't think you have to be DaVinci. That's how I'm doing it anyway. There's a whole related section on this forum and I'm sure there must be some gems in there on how to come up with designs. (I'm fairly new to this site as well) Good luck to you.
I'm going to go for a broad historical/movie inspired/retro style humor so the ideas for me are fairly easy to come by. For example, I'll just look through a stack of cowboy western books, some 1950's advertising books, pop in a DVD, and in no time I have a couple sheets of sketches of ideas. Then I visit my favorite t-shirt websites and I look for the styles and colors I want to use for my ideas. From there, it helps to have some art and/or computer skills, but I don't think you have to be DaVinci. That's how I'm doing it anyway. There's a whole related section on this forum and I'm sure there must be some gems in there on how to come up with designs. (I'm fairly new to this site as well) Good luck to you.