Aside from that, though, it peaked my interest because I was wondering how exactly one would write a tutorial on design. It seems like an oxymoron to me almost, as you can't really instruct someone how to “design”, in my opinion. I did find the article interesting, but the main problem I see with it is that is somewhat encourages the reader to use the old standards and the cliche imagery so often seen in music tees already. The author does say at one point to avoid the use of “typical dark imagery” but then says that using it will make you money. And in the end, they use the most tired of dark imagery, the skull, blood/paint splatters, and the flourish. While it is important to please the client- and the client may be the one wanting the cliche imagery- I also think it is equally important to try and do something new and different.

That being said, I did find this a useful article, mainly for the vector tutorial. But I don't think that you can really teach someone to “design”. You can give them the tools to do it, but the actual design part is something entirely different. But these are just my opinions, and I am in no way an expert.

I also had a question about fonts in case you want to have text on the shirt? Does that work the same way?

Thanks for helping a newbie.