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So I've been doing graphic art for like twenty loving years. Yeah, I know I'm only 28. I'm not kidding either. My grandmother used to be a district manager at a screen printing ink company and would get free promotional copy's of every graphic design program out there. She'd throw out the Macintosh stuff (this is pre-Ebay) and hand me all the Windows stuff. After messing around with Paintshop for a while, I settled on Adobe Painter. I preferred it. From there I moved up to Photoshop. Incidentally, Something Awful's Photoshop Phridays and photochopping threads on some goofy car forum kept me wanting to get into it, but as I screwed around with all of this stuff I was learning more and more about things like vectors, dpi, registration marks... eventually I was designing the t-shirts for my father's car club and even bootlegging Disney merchandise. Then I went to college! And immediately got kicked the gently caress out after one semester, failing all my classes except English Literature. The counselor told me I should change my major to journalism. I didn't want to do corporate graphic design anymore, but I wanted to make shirts and posters and poo poo. Obviously a degree in graphic design wasn't going to do it for me. By this time I had already started going to science fiction conventions and seeing dealers like Offworld and ThinkGeek selling awesome nerdy shirts and all I could think was I would love to help design shirts with those guys, but they're major companies that have the swing to hire anyone they want. They'd never hire me. Instead I took a lovely low paying job working for a great non profit honing my skills. Eventually I dropped that job to take up a truck driving position and rarely touched my Creative Suite anymore. That is until I discovered RedBubble. Thanks to a Goon I learned that it wasn't a total scam but actually a decent way to make money if your shirts actually sell. But with a million talented artists on there, most way more talented than I am, it was hard to get discovered. Occasionally someone would buy shirt, but it's not enough at this point to really get anything. Mostly I just end up selling stickers. Long story short I lost my current job and while looking for another career I spent more time designing on RedBubble since I had the extra free time without a nine to five. And you know what? It spurred me again to want to be like those nerds I see at the booths selling the shirts. You know, the market is pretty saturated, but... just maybe I could make it if I knew where to start. TLDR version: I'm a struggling t-shirt artist who keeps getting fired from jobs he hates and wants to live a dream. So tell me about
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