T-Shirt Designs
About the project
Background
A personal project exploring t-shirt graphic design, inspired by Devil May Cry and Dragon Ball. I experimented with typography, character silhouettes, and placement across different tee layouts — from bold back-prints to minimal front icons — and mocked them up as both 3D renders and lifestyle shots to see how the designs would actually look worn.
Reflection
The idea behind these designs was simple — I wanted to create t-shirts I'd actually want to wear. I was drawn to trendy, catchy streetwear aesthetics, and that's where I started: designs inspired by things I liked, built around bold graphics and typography.
As I made more of them, I found myself wanting to move beyond just recreating a popular style — I started pushing toward something different, something with its own identity rather than blending into existing streetwear trends. That shift is still ongoing; I'm continuing to explore and refine what my own style actually looks like, rather than treating any one design as a finished answer.
This project is less about a polished end result and more about a process I'm still in — learning what makes a design feel personal versus derivative, and getting closer to that with each attempt.
