How to Prepare Hand Drawn Artwork for T-shirt Printing


We regularly have people asking us how they get their hand drawn designs into a format that can be used for t-shirt printing. Here is a quick video showing you the basics.


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Like they did in the video start with a pencil sketch of what the t-shirt design will look like. Then trace over with a black marker. The key is to use solid black lines so that the scanned the image has a lot of contrast which aids in the vectorising process within Adobe Illustrator. Once vectorised you can add your colour fills.


So get stuck in and get some custom designs done and we’ll get your t-shirts printed for you.


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2 Responses to “How to Prepare Hand Drawn Artwork for T-shirt Printing”

  1. Steve Kret Says:

    I have a question. I have some hand drawn art work in chalk & charcoal. I want to get the designs made into batches of t-shirts to sell. Am I right in thinking the only way to do this would be to make photographic type prints? Or is there a way this can be achieved with a screen print?

  2. PSI Says:

    Hey Steve,

    Depending on the amount of colours used in the art it would definitely be best to screen print it.

    Swing us some examples and we will have a look over them for you and give you some feedback. But it shouldn’t be a problem to screen print them.

    Send it to print@psionline.com.au

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What does “convert fonts to outlines” or “embed fonts” mean?

Fonts aren’t automatically transferred with a vector file when it is created in a program like Adobe Illustrator. When using fonts in the program, the text is linked to a font file located on your computer. If that text is not converted to shapes or outlines or “embedded”, in the program, when you send that file to us if we don’t have the font installed on our computer the font you have used will be substituted for a different font that is installed on our system.

To get around this you need to convert fonts to outlines or embed the fonts. To do this in Adobe Illustrator you can right click on the text and choose “Create Outlines” alternatively if you go to Type>Create Outlines or finally you can use the hotkeys Shift+Ctrl+O. This will convert all you type to shapes and it will transport within your file.

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