The heart of your t-shirt design is the image. You can create original artwork from scratch, customize canned clip art, or use ready-made designs and free iron on transfers off the Web. Print creativity software, including
software specifically for t-shirt design, comes with hundreds, even thousands, of ready-made designs you can use or modify.
Free Iron-On Transfers Artwork
- Patriotic Transfers
Created in remembrance of September 11, 2001, these free iron on transfers include a reverse or mirror version of each for download. (Colorize some free patriotic fonts and use them on some red, white, and blue t-shirt designs.)
- Halloween Transfers
These free graphics for iron on transfers are 7 original designs to use alone or mix and match for some scary creations. (Get some free Halloween fonts to use on your Halloween projects too. Add dripping blood fonts or use some of the images in the dingbat fonts for your spooky t-shirt designs.
- Kid's Fashion
Michelle Kouzmine of About.com Kid's Fashion has pointers to some sources of fun, free iron on transfers for do-it-yourself fashions.
Customize Clip Art for Iron On Transfer Artwork
Whether it comes with your software or you're using images you've found online, you can customize that clip art to create even more personalized iron on transfers.
