A perfect example of it is this shirt write here

I can’t find the original that was up for voting a couple weeks ago, but the artist clearly had a vision of a giant overall print, but instead was stuck with having it shrunken down and, at least in my opinion, has now produced a MUCH less awesome shirt. The one that was up for vote was one I voted for, cause it was legitimately an amazing design, as well as placement on the shirt. The one that’s for sale however, feels like it fails to deliver at all.

I’m not trying to be rude here DBH, I’m just giving my honest feedback of what I think. I really wish the artists could place the images on the shirts the way they originally intended, because I have a feeling there would be a TON of them I would buy.

Well maybe I’m biased because I’m one of the artists, but I completely disagree. If you don’t like the shirts, hey to each their own, but the mockups really don’t do the shirts justice. I don’t think they lack the same soul or winning quality of the contest shirts.

Those are just a handful of the samples we were shown and in my opinion they’re just as good as anything that’s won the daily contest. Keep in mind that this initiative is still in it’s beginning stages and things will be improved. These are DTG garments that are printed on demand.

Also, this is a great opportunity for the artists involved, and I can’t speak for the rest of them but I’m already seeing sales. It’s not replacing the contest shirts. It’s a supplementary thing for the artists.

I’ll say a couple of those look cool in the pictures you displayed, but look at this drastic difference from what we’re shown, to what your saying is what really prints:

And that’s causing a very heavy “un-DBH” vibe from them. I really do stand by my point then that the artists should do a mock-up of their design like the already do in the Daily Contest, send it to DBH, DBH prints a copy of the shirt the way it’s supposed to look, and then post up those pictures of it on the page selling it. Again, clearly a stock image of a model with the design just placed on top isn’t cutting it. Since it really does not do any justice at all to the shirts, and for at least me personally, doesn’t do anything in the way of making me want to buy it. Example of this is, in the image I posted, I would more than likely buy the shirt on the left, but definitely not the shirt on the right.

Also, I’d like to point out, unrelated to this topic, I want your Return of the CerBEARus! so incredibly bad and wish it had reprints :P

Like I said, this project is in the beta stages, things will be improved. DBH is well aware of this, it was already brought up and they intend to improve it come phase.

As for having artist do a mock up, send it to DBH, DBH prints a copy of the shirt… that’s just too impractical, probably not even possible, and limits our ability as artists to add products in a quick and timely manner. But they’re smart dudes, and they’re aware of the mock up issue and I’m sure they’re working on an elegant solution. For now this is the best we’ve got though. Let’s try to be a little more positive.

I honestly know very little to nothing about printing shirts, so I had no idea it was impractical. In my head it seemed like a very logical way to go about solving this mock-up problem. What makes it so hard and impractical? Wouldn’t designing something and e-mailing it to DBH take the same amount of time as designing and then uploading to whatever program you guys are using? Sure, your shirts wouldn’t be up ASAP for sale, but I feel if you waited the extra day or two, or even week, for a true print of what it really looks like, you’d have significantly more buyers and that it would be a win for everyone. But I honestly don’t know since I’m not an artist nor work at DBH.

And you’re right, I should be a little more positive. DBH has always done really well so far in my book. I guess I was just kinda hyped out for this event when it was posted at midnight, then again when it was shown it was a store that had multiple different shirts of a bunch of my favourite artists. I was honestly ready to buy a bunch, but after seeing what the mock-ups look like (I honestly, went through virtually every artists shirts to try and find a couple I really liked), I was completely turned away. That really sucked for me. Especially since some of those designs look amazing, but their size/placement on the shirt looks awful.

I really do hope DBH fixes this problem soon so we can all see what a true print would look like,and so I can start getting some awesome shirts being shipped to me.

What makes it impractical is that DBH would have to be constantly print out and photographing shirts every time one of their artists (25 of us for the moment) uploads one, and each one of us for the time being is allowed 12 shirts in our store. That’s about 624 shirts they’d be printing out altogether, and then when they add more artists and allow us more than 12 products it will be even more, and that’s on top of their already existing duties with the shirt of the day winners. I’m guessing it would take many artists more than a week to have their shirts up. It’s a lot to ask, and in my opinion there’s really no need to go that far, all they really need is just a better mockup.

Also, these are DTG shirts, they’re not printed using the usual method, there’s a maximum print area. We can’t photoshop the designs on the shirt “any way we want”. Well we can, but it has to be inside the print area. Which I think is personally fine, it’s actually a pretty big print area as you can see from the actual prints, not every design needs to be all over or bleeding to the edge, if we have those designs we can just submit them to the regular contest, no prob.

In the future though you should probably direct your concerns about the shirts to an e-mail to one of the staff members, I don’t think it does anyone any favors to post this in the forum, artists are trying to create some positive buzz and make their living, so it kinda sucks to have negative buzz in the forum the day it’s launched.

Just surprised with the designs i find it too small is it already printed? or just a mock up starter…

DBH shirts are expensive, and the only reason I continually purchase them is that they are amazing. From the mockups shown the shirts in the new artist stores are a shadow of the shirts we’re used to getting, at the same hefty price.