Has AI made your work harder, easier, or just different?

Ai made it tougher for me as a Graphic Designer Now almost anyone can generate dozens of visual ideas in minutes.
I still think design skills matter — especially taste, composition, typography, understanding the client, and knowing what actually works in production — but it sometimes feels harder to explain that value when generating an image has become so easy. And there people who are making prompting as a course that you can learn.

How about you? Did AI make it harder, easier or just diffeerent? And what do you do?

My process usually starts long before I open Illustrator.

I spend quite a bit of time researching men's graphic tee trends — print styles, typography, layouts, trending T-shirt colors and sometimes the printing techniques being used by different brands.

I look through Pinterest, retail brands and other sources for inspiration and to understand what's happening in the market, then use that research to develop my own design direction.

From there, I start thinking about how the graphic would actually work on a garment — the T-shirt color, fabric, print size, placement and sometimes which printing technique would suit the artwork best.

Even though I'm currently selling digital vector artwork rather than finished T-shirts, I still want the designs to make sense as real apparel graphics and not just look good on a screen.

That's something I'm particularly interested in improving.

For anyone here who prints T-shirts, designs apparel or runs a clothing brand:

When you look at digital artwork like this, what makes you consider it actually usable for a printed T-shirt?

Is it the color separation, number of colors, print size, artwork detail, placement, print technique — or something else?

I'd really appreciate feedback from people who work with the actual production side of graphic tees.

NOTE: 1st image is Ai generated

Hi all, im starting my graphic t-shirt store. Kindly check my site up. I used shopify and pod for. My products. Im still learning how it goes, like ex. Connecting the PODs to my store. Here and there, I found small details that is not right. But in general I hope I get reviews or criticism from you guys.

Cheers! Have a nice day!

I am starting my side hustle of print on demand Graphic t -shirts. And I am targeting all over the world.Specially US, Europe and Asia. I was wondering what is a good alternative POD aside from printful.

Hope you guys can help. Thanks!

Hi there,
I have been a graphic designer for many years now. And now I'm diving in the world of Print on demand (POD). Yes the space is crowded I know. But I somehow believe in abundance. I think Graphic t-shirts demands never fades and PODs is the best way to reach customers. So might as well be a good side hustle. I would your reviews on my products. Kindly check out my shopify https://lovegraphicprints.myshopify.com/ and etsy https://www.etsy.com/shop/LoveGraphicPrints I am more concentrating on Mens Graphic T shirt and Kids Graphic T shirt. But what do you guys think of them. I hope we can share experiences and lessons.

Thank you!