I live in London http://xtube.in.net tube x I probably spent a thousand hours in that garage before I sold a single T-shirt. (Maybe there’s something to Malcolm Gladwell’s 10,000-Hour Rule. For the rest of my career, the time invested in this garage gave me a massive advantage.) I had a hunch that beach scenes would be popular on T-shirts, and there’s a certain technique that you use to airbrush a palm tree. To create a palm leaf, you start far from the surface, and then you bring the airbrush closer and closer so that the line diffuses from a fat, soft line to a tight, sharp pencil point. I would sit there like a Rain Man doing the same thing over and over, painting palm leaf after palm leaf.