I Asked AI to Make Thanksgiving T-Shirt Designs - You Won't Believe What it Created!

About this video

Note: summarized from the Bengali caption track. The creator explains his full process for researching any holiday or niche and then creating Thanksgiving t-shirt designs with AI. He starts with a Google search for what people actually do and eat at Thanksgiving, listing 11 traditional foods — hot rolls, pecan pie, pumpkin pie, sweet potato, corn, green bean casserole, cranberry sauce, gravy, mashed potatoes, stuffing/dressing and turkey — and suggests also asking AI tools such as Claude and ChatGPT. He reviews a blog of 39 Thanksgiving traditions/ideas, noting stress-free and mental-health angles, passing family recipes to the next generation, leftovers ideas (which he says sell on Amazon, Etsy and Redbubble), Friendsgiving, parades, dog shows and Thanksgiving football. Next he uses the paid tool Merch Informer / Merch Hunter, searching ‘Thanksgiving’ and citing listings with BSRs around 24K and 38K, dabbing turkeys, turkey faces and text designs. He collects elements in a notepad — cute turkey, pumpkin pie, pecan pie, corn, sweet potato, mashed potato bowl, football, autumn leaves/acorns and a monster-truck Thanksgiving idea — to build a small portfolio. In Midjourney he generates items such as a cute turkey sticker, cartoon turkey t-shirt designs, pumpkin pie and corn stickers with bold lines, a pecan pie logo-style design, sweet potato designs, cartoon football stickers (noting a soccer/American football mix-up that had to be corrected), mashed potato bowl, cooked turkey and monster truck concepts, explaining that ‘cute’ plus ‘cartoon’ and the word ‘sticker’ (for its outline) shape the style, and that some generations need regenerating or manual editing. He also mentions Leonardo AI and Ideogram.ai, the latter for designs with text.

Key takeaways

• Research the holiday itself first — traditional foods, activities and traditions — before researching shirts, using Google and AI as idea sources
• Build an element portfolio in notes (turkey, pies, corn, sweet potato, mashed potatoes, football, leaves) and combine elements into original designs
• Use Merch Hunter results and BSRs, e.g. around 24K-38K in the examples shown, to confirm demand for Thanksgiving angles
• Prompt wording matters in Midjourney: ‘cute’ plus ‘cartoon’ for the style, and ‘sticker’ to get a clean outline that is easy to cut/use
• Expect AI errors and iteration: the football prompt mixed soccer and American football, and several food/monster-truck generations needed regenerating or editing

Episode details: published September 14, 2023 · 17:16 long. Summary written by Self Growth Videos from the episode itself. Business results and any income figures mentioned are RJ Martinez’s own claims, shared for education — they are not typical or guaranteed.

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