How to make your own anime or manga character t-shirts?

Gideon Simons

07 Jan 2025 — 4 min read

We are always overwhelmed with the amount of creative ideas people use Generative AI for.

One of the trends we notice on our platform Prrink.com, is people who make anime and manga characters of themselves or their friends as gifts.

If you don't already know, Manga is basically the style of written comic books in Japan while Anime is the style of Japanese animated TV series.

Both are such big industries inside and outside of Japan with lot's of enthusiastic fans, amazing events, cosplay gatherings and of course great anime series. Our team's favourite is One Piece 🤩

So let's begin the tutorial!

First things first, head over to Prrink Panel and create your Prrink Account!

Your new account gets you an initial amount of free credits to generate images which you can top up for a few bucks or generate your own images elsewhere and upload them for free.

The magic prompt

"a manga character of a [your age] year old [your nationality] [your gender] with [describe your facial features], [describe your glasses if you wear them], [describe your hairstyle].."

This should look something like this:

"a manga character of a young 38 year old British man with dark brown eyeglasses, a sharp chin and spiky red hair"

Add some more details

You can add more details about the scene and what your character is doing!

For example: "a manga character of a young 38 year old British man with dark brown eyeglasses, a sharp chin and spiky red hair riding in an old french looking village on a friendly galloping wolf"

Or use our templates like our Japanese Art template with some cool touches: "An old Japanese traditional style ukiyo-e block-print illustration of [a manga character of a young 38 year old British man with dark brown eyeglasses, a sharp chin and spiky red hair riding on a friendly galloping turtle on a bright blue background]"

A more elaborate prompt with our templates

Add some more touches

On Prrink.com you can also remove background and have only your character on your shirt if you like.

You can also use our editor to upload images like logos or other ideas, you can also add texts, effects and position your image anywhere on the shirt.

Adding text like 'you are my best friend' or some funny inside joke quotes can make a really nice gift idea for your friends.

Prrink editor with personal joke idea - "a manga character of a young 38 year old British man with dark brown eyeglasses, a sharp chin and spiky red hair riding on a friendly galloping turtle on a bright blue background"

Make the background transparent?

When you are designing t-shirt ideas, some times people prefer to have just the hero of the image without the background. Although a lot of our customers love the square-ish look especially for photographs and paintings like art ideas.

Just look for the 'remove background' or 'remove bg' option under the images to remove the image background.

Print idea with it's background removed to make this transparent effect for t-shirts

Wrapping it up!

With AI the possibilities are limitless 😎

You can also try different styles like 'painting', 'Japanese art' and make it into a cool coffee mug or a wall painting instead.

Here are some inspiring Prrinksters with their manga character headshots:

So head over to our Prrink Panel and make your own!

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