Put your child’s drawing on a T-shirt
A drawing makes the best kind of shirt: one that exists nowhere else. Here is how to get it from the fridge door onto a shirt, a hoodie or a tote, so it looks like the drawing and not like a photo of a piece of paper.
1. Get a good picture of it
- Lay the drawing flat near a window in daylight. Turn off the lamp overhead: it adds a yellow tint and puts your shadow on the paper.
- Hold the phone straight above the drawing, so the edges of the paper run parallel to the edges of the screen, and let the drawing fill the frame.
- Crop to the drawing. Everything left in the picture prints, the table and the edge of the paper included.
- A scanner is better still. A letter-size page scanned at 300 dpi is about 2,550 by 3,300 pixels, enough for the biggest print we make.
A phone photo is usually 3,000 to 4,000 pixels across. We print a picture well at 150 pixels per inch, so even a crop of a phone photo has room to spare: 1,800 pixels fills a 12 in back print.
2. The paper prints too
We print exactly what is in the picture. On a white shirt, paper that is pure white blends into the shirt. Paper that photographed grey or cream does not: it prints as a pale box around the drawing. On a dark shirt the whole sheet of paper prints, white included.
Two ways round it. Brighten the photo until the paper turns pure white, which works on a white shirt. Or remove the background so only the drawing is left, which works on any colour. Most phone photo apps can lift the subject out of a picture, and so can an AI assistant that edits images: ask it for “the drawing on a transparent background, as a PNG”.
3. Front or back?
- Front: the left chest, about 3.8 in across. Small and neat, like a logo.
- Back: up to 12 in across, centered. Most drawings look best big.
- Both: the same drawing on both sides.
- A tote bag takes the biggest front print we have, 9 in x 12 in, so the whole drawing shows.
4. What it costs
| T-shirt | $22 front or back · $28 both |
|---|---|
| Hoodie | $40 front or back · $45 both |
| Sweatshirt | $40 front or back · $45 both |
| Tote bag | $18 |
Shipping to a US address is included, there is no minimum, and each one is printed after it is ordered. Sizes 2XL and up cost a little more; the page shows the price before you check out.
Making several?
Every design gets its own link. Order several sizes at once, or send the link to the grandparents and let each person pick their own size and pay for it.
Updated October 1, 2026. Prices are live and include shipping to US addresses.