Gaming-Themed Apparel Illustrations Needed
Budget: $750 – $1,500 USD
Draftline Apparel, a US clothing brand based in Austin, Texas, designs shirts and hoodies for tabletop and video game fans. We are looking for an illustrator to create a set of original print designs for our next drop.
The work covers three themed collections of four designs each, twelve in total, aimed at people who play tabletop RPGs, strategy games and retro-style video games. Think dice, dungeons, pixel aesthetics, dragons, spaceships and the in-jokes that community recognizes — but expressed through our own original characters and ideas, not existing ones. We will provide written concept briefs, a moodboard, and our brand style guide.
Here is the firm, non-negotiable requirement, so please read it before applying. Every design must be one hundred percent original. No recognizable characters, logos, names, creatures or artwork from existing games, films, shows or franchises, and no AI-generated art passed off as your own. We sell these commercially and print thousands, so anything derivative is a legal problem for us, not a stylistic one. We check, and one derivative design fails the whole batch.
Technical requirements: artwork built for both screen printing and direct-to-garment printing, which means clean vector or high-resolution work, limited and separable color palettes where a design is intended for screen print, and each design supplied on transparent background sized for placement on garments. We will tell you the print method per collection.
Deliverables are the twelve final designs with editable source files, print-ready exports, and a color-separated version where screen print applies. Full transfer of ownership on final payment, confirmed in writing.
To be considered, please share apparel or illustration work you designed yourself, tell us how you approach making something feel true to a gaming audience without copying existing IP, and confirm your rate and availability. Applications without original illustration samples will not be shortlisted.
The work covers three themed collections of four designs each, twelve in total, aimed at people who play tabletop RPGs, strategy games and retro-style video games. Think dice, dungeons, pixel aesthetics, dragons, spaceships and the in-jokes that community recognizes — but expressed through our own original characters and ideas, not existing ones. We will provide written concept briefs, a moodboard, and our brand style guide.
Here is the firm, non-negotiable requirement, so please read it before applying. Every design must be one hundred percent original. No recognizable characters, logos, names, creatures or artwork from existing games, films, shows or franchises, and no AI-generated art passed off as your own. We sell these commercially and print thousands, so anything derivative is a legal problem for us, not a stylistic one. We check, and one derivative design fails the whole batch.
Technical requirements: artwork built for both screen printing and direct-to-garment printing, which means clean vector or high-resolution work, limited and separable color palettes where a design is intended for screen print, and each design supplied on transparent background sized for placement on garments. We will tell you the print method per collection.
Deliverables are the twelve final designs with editable source files, print-ready exports, and a color-separated version where screen print applies. Full transfer of ownership on final payment, confirmed in writing.
To be considered, please share apparel or illustration work you designed yourself, tell us how you approach making something feel true to a gaming audience without copying existing IP, and confirm your rate and availability. Applications without original illustration samples will not be shortlisted.