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Even more remarkable, he’s still pocketing roughly $3,000 a month today from those years-old designs. That work spurt earned him $120,000-enough to move out of his parents’ house and buy his own home in El Paso. Eventually, Zubia had a 2,800-item catalog of designs, slogans, and illustrations online that people could purchase on T-shirts and hoodies. “I was designing as many as I could spent from seven to midnight every day cranking those out.” Idea, design, upload,” the 32-year-old says of his life in 20. Then, sending up a prayer that they’d sell, he started all over again. On Thursdays he saved his creations in the correct image format-a process that takes longer than you’d think-and on Fridays and Saturdays he uploaded them to Amazon.

On Tuesdays and Wednesdays he designed in Adobe Illustrator. On Mondays he did research, scouring the Internet for funny slogans, like the one where Santa Claus asks, “Where My Ho’s At?” Nearly every night after dinner for eight straight months, Glen Zubia brewed a cup of coffee, turned on heavy metal music, and made T-shirts.

Great shirt design in adobe illustrator for merch by amazon