GF: It’s really stimulating, motivating, and great to receive emails, and feedback from the audience. I’m surprised how people have answered to my work. I haven’t expected it.

Making things your self to resell online can be a huge profit maker if you find your niche. All you pay for is the materials in most cases. The cost is low and you stand to make all profit compared to buying and reselling items.

Some companies offer the design on its own as a heat transfer (iron on transfer) of sparkling rhinestones. Others provide a range of t-shirt options for a finished product. Still others give you a choice between transfer and finished apparel. You can choose the colours and style of the rhinestones, creating a look that is all your own. When you design your own t shirt, it is one hundred percent uniquely yours.

T-shirts are another good money maker. You may not be able to make your own t-shirts at home. But you can go to a local t-shirt company in town or go with a t-shirt design company online. Think of some crazy slogans or current events and make your own tee. Slogans, phrases, and current events will always do you good. You can have 500 t-shirts made for under $2.00 each. Sell them at $5.00 and will double your money and then some. I have done this myself and to this day, sell t-shirts I created. It usually takes about a week and a half to sell 500 t-shirts. Sell more than 2 different t-shirts at the same time and you will easily make over $1000.00 a week or more every week on eBay.

GF: One week and a half or so. Actually, I can’t say something really specific, because I love to have various illustrations on the table at the same time. It also depends on how big the illustration is, or how many details it has.

E-commerce. Yes, it’s fully possible! It will take some setting up though, but I’ve recently realized how I can just pick up the phone and order a set of hoodies, wait four days until they’re on the doorstep, pay for them a month later online, etc. Also, I can call up the fabric company down the road, or one in wellington, get them to send me samples of denim, call them back and order a set amount of denim to be sent to my garment manufacturer, and then call him and Acttee tell him how many of what I want right from my rocking chair at home.

This will allow you to create and design whatever you like, and with CafePress support for example, you can directly load your design onto the products of your choosing. They even have a great design tutorial and Beginners Image Workshop that explains the correct way to design for their products. They will take you step by step learning how to create and design your images to put on clothing and merchandise. Starting with a third party website is perfect for low budget starting companies looking to have someone handle the printing and shipping of the products, as well as the merchant services, and customer services. You wont have to charge one credit card yourself, or handle any returns or problems.

Afterwards, when I was working in the design team of a fashion magazine in Madrid, I was more in contact with illustrators and photographers, and then I realized I was more interested in illustration than in any other thing of the design process.