I've come up with some ideas for t-shirts. I don't think that I showed you the logo I came up with for the motocamping YouTube channel as I was trying to keep these two ventures completely separate, yes I know the blog is all about the other venture, but you know what I mean, right?
Well I decided that I would tie the ventures together, this will still be the blog about me and what I'm doing with more than just motocamping, this will still be my diary, but I just want to be able to share what I'm doing with the motocamping YouTube channel without being all cloak and dagger about it.
So, the YouTube channel is called Motocamp360, you can find it here, but there's not any videos on it yet. Anyway, some time ago I created a logo for the channel and I thought that it would look really cool on a t-shirt. The logo is meant to kind of illustrate the four seasons, as well as being a kind of tiny planet image with the trees all around it and in the centre there is a tent and my bike. The photo was taken earlier in the year when I went camping with a mate out to a place called Wee Jasper, great place but that's a different story.
The last couple of nights I've been playing around with the most recent footage that I took and made a few still images from the video. I then played with the images in GIMP, which is basically a fee program a lot like Photoshop. I've got a few designs now and I really think that people may like them and want to buy them off me. The biggest issue I have with t-shirts is the price if you use one of the commercial t-shirt companies to print them and send them out for you, you're looking at over $30 for a cheap t-shirt and I don't think that is good value. When I ran my booking agency, we bought some silk frames and made our own t-shirts. I'm thinking that I could do the same thing for these designs, three of them are only single colour and the other is four colours but I don't have to start out with that one. I could just do black on light colours and white on dark colours and buy the plain t-shirts from K-Mart for less than $10 each. I could sell them for say $18.95 plus postage and I'll be cheaper than nearly everyone else and I'll actually be making more per t-shirt. I'm going to have to be careful with these designs as I don't want anyone to steal them off me or copyright them out from under me, I know that has happened to one of the YouTubers that I follow, so I'll have to look into trademarks and such like that before I go too far. Hopefully that won't cost too much to do as I think my wife's patience is wearing thin on all my purchases of late.
Here's what I've got so far, I've used another site to put them onto t-shirts for me, just to get a better idea of how they'll look.
Getting creative
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