Creating Pixel Art T-Shirts with ChatGPT: Free Prompts Inside

I have 18 pixelated retro designs you can edit and use. These live on my public profile, and each one includes the exact prompt that generated it. Copy a prompt, tweak the colors, swap the character, change the quote, and make it your own. The pixelated style looks great on a t-shirt and is very popular.

Pixel Art T-Shirt Design: Edit and Remix the Prompts

You can play around with any of these prompts from the designs with a few quick steps.

Step-by-step:

Click a design.

On the right side, find the prompts that generated it.

Click the plus icon to add a prompt to the box at the top.

Change colors, quotes, and characters, then generate your variations.

Many designs show both a magic prompt and the original prompt. Use either and modify as you like.

Pixel Art T-Shirt Design: Free Mini-Course – Prompt Playground

If you like these and want to create a lot more in this retro pixelated style, I also have a free mini-course called Prompt Playground. It shows you how to take any one of my prompts from my Ideogram public profile, plug it into ChatGPT with a helper prompt, and get an unlimited amount of new prompts in the same style.

Modules include:

T-shirt designs

Sticker designs

Clip art designs

Coloring page designs

Pixel Art T-Shirt Design: Favorite Picks and Why They Work

I quickly want to cover a few of my favorites because some of these looked really great.

Glitch happens

– A fun play on words.
– I really like the yellow and the smiley face.
– I would actually wear this on a t-shirt.

Small pixels, big vibes

– My favorite of the set.
– I love the color combination with the blue, the pinks, and the yellows, plus the robot and the sunglasses.
– All in that pixelated design style, which looks awesome.

Lagging in style

– I really like the two different types of fonts used.
– Strong color combinations.
– Another one I absolutely love.

Across the board, these would look amazing on a t-shirt.

Pixel Art T-Shirt Design: How I Created These With a Quote T-Shirt Prompt Generator

I created these using one of my custom-made GPTs, my quote t-shirt prompt generator. Here is the workflow I used.

Seed a style and gather quotes

I uploaded one of my previous designs that says low resolution, high confidence.

I said this is a pixel style shirt design and provided the original prompt.

I asked for a list of 10 quotes that would work well with this style, then asked for more.

Turn a quote into a full concept

I picked a quote, glitched but unbothered, and asked for a full design concept.

It returned:

– Typography style
– Illustration idea
– Color scheme
– Background and layout
– Target audience

Generate a ready-to-use prompt

I said, now give me a prompt, but use a cat.

It used all of the concept details to craft a prompt specifically around that idea.

If there is anything I do not like, I go back and forth to change it until it fits.

I went through lots of different design concepts and prompts, which in turn created all of these designs. They turned out incredibly well. Most of them anyway. There are a few I do not quite like.

Pixel Art T-Shirt Design: Explore and Create

There are 18 designs you can play around with, use the prompts, edit and modify, and have fun creating new designs. You can easily adjust colors, characters, and quotes to match your style or niche.

Final Thoughts

There are 18 editable pixel art t-shirt designs with their prompts included.

You can copy prompts, tweak details, and generate fresh variations in minutes.

The free Prompt Playground mini-course shows how to spin up unlimited prompts in the same style.

My custom GPT workflow scales ideas from a seed design to quotes, concepts, and final prompts.

The pixelated retro look is strong for apparel, and these examples show why.