RE: Firefly/Serenity/Steampunk - I'm an aspiring graphic artist and decided to make an awesome T-shirt this morning
Cool!
That would be very generous of you to do that. The other thing you could do is put them up for sale on somewhere like RedBubble (my favourite), Threadless, or SpreadShirt.
Here's a RedBubble store: https://www.redbubble.com/people/cryptocanuck
And here's an example of a product page: https://www.redbubble.com/people/cryptocanuck/works/27062362-steem-logo-no-text
I use RedBubble as an overflow kinda thing because they have items I can't get for my own stores. (Although my own stores are cheaper for t-shirts etc).
Threadless creates artist shops for you, but the only problem with these is that your products are not searchable on the main site (unless you enter them into contests and they get printed).
Here's an example of one of those stores: https://transhuman.threadless.com/
Spreadshirt is kind of a mixture of the 2 above, some designs get put into their main store so they're searchable, but you can also have a shop too.
I haven't currently got any stores with them, but they look pretty good.
The other thing you could do is set up your own store using Wordpress and WooCommerce like I have here: https://cryptocanuck.com
(store is currently being re-done, so might not look 100% yet).
You might know some of this already, but hopefully that's been helpful! :-)
Thanks for the info! I've heard of Redbubble, but never actually set up an account. I always thought Threadless was just a company that made their own shirts. I had no idea you could submit your own designs, but I guess I never really looked. I did sign up for Amazon Merch a few months ago and I'm hoping to get accepted because Amazon is just huge. But in the meantime I'm just trying to build up my portfolio and not sure what direction I eventually want to take. :)
No problem!
Yeah RedBubble is probably the best of the bunch, they pay you on the 15th of the month (sometimes up to the 18th, depending on when the day falls) for all commissions earned on items that have shipped (They give you a manufacturing invoice to let you know).
Threadless takes about 6 weeks to get paid I think (can't remember how long exactly, it might even be 60 days) so there's that to consider too.
Amazon merch would be awesome too I imagine. I've applied also but not heard anything from them yet.
Hopefully we both get accepted on there soon! :-D