Founding artist program 10 slots

You keep
the art.
You keep 90%.

DrXp puts your work on shirts, hoodies and desk mats, handles printing, shipping and support, and pays you monthly. No inventory. No upfront cost. Your name and your shop page on every piece.

90%
Founding artist cut
$0
Cost to join
Monthly
Payout schedule
Zero
Contracts or exclusives

Before anything else

There is no contract. There never will be.

The thing artists ask us first, so we'll answer it first: nothing here locks you into anything. You are not signing away a term, a territory, or an exclusive.

Nocontract

Nothing to sign away

No term length, no renewal date, no notice period, no non-compete, no clause that quietly converts to something worse in year two. There is no document that traps you here.

Noexclusive

Sell the same art anywhere

UwU Market, Fourthwall, Streamlabs, Redbubble, your own Shopify, con tables, Ko-fi, Gumroad — run all of them at once with the same designs. We are one shelf your work sits on, not the shelf.

Noobligation

Nothing you owe us

No design quota, no drop schedule, no minimum sales, no posting requirement, no fee if you go quiet for six months. Submit once and never again and you still get paid on anything that sells.

The only paperwork is a one-page permission slip saying we may print the specific designs you send us.
You can revoke it in a sentence, any day, for any reason.

The split

Two tiers. The first ten get the better one, permanently.

We take a cut of the profit, not of your sale price and never of your rights. Both tiers pay out on the same schedule, with the same shop page and the same support.

Slots 1–10

Founding artist

90/10

of profit after costs — yours / ours

  • Locked for good. Your rate doesn't drop when we move to 80/20 for everyone after you.
  • Direct line to both founders in a private Discord channel — no ticket queue.
  • First position in the homepage rotation and the launch campaign.
  • You help set the rules. Product picks, drop timing, what the shop page needs.
  • Founding badge on your shop page so buyers know you were here first.

Everyone after

80/20

of profit after costs — yours / ours

  • Same shop page, same product catalog, same monthly payout schedule.
  • Same rights terms — you own your art, you can sell it anywhere else.
  • The extra 10% funds ads, sampling and the artist dashboard we're building.
  • Rolling applications, reviewed as they come in.
What "profit" means here, in plain terms. Profit is what's left after the blank garment, the printing, the shipping label and the card processing fee. It is not revenue and it is not margin after marketing — we pay ads and platform costs out of our 10%, not out of yours. Every line item is shown on the receipt below, and every one of them appears on your monthly statement.

Your cut, line by line

Move the price. Watch what lands in your account.

These are real numbers from our current supplier pricing. Move the slider to see how retail price changes your take, and flip the tier to compare 90/10 against 80/20.

$34 we suggest $34
Off-site channels charge more, so we list a few dollars higher there to protect your cut. Your percentage never changes — only the fee line does.
Unisex tee
DrXp.shop · one unit
90 / 10
Customer pays$34.00
Blank + printing−$11.50
Shipping label−$4.75
Card processing−$1.29
Profit on this sale$16.46
Your payout
per unit sold
$14.82
DrXp keeps (10%)$1.65

Sell 10 of these in a month and your statement reads $148.18.

Figures update with supplier pricing · statement issued monthly

Price sheet

What we recommend listing at, and why.

Priced to sit above generic print-on-demand and below boutique. High enough that the art reads as worth owning, low enough to survive an impulse scroll on TikTok. You can propose a different price on your own designs — we'll tell you honestly what it does to conversion.

Product List price Our cost Ship Fees Profit You @ 90% You @ 80%
Why hoodies matter more than they look. A hoodie pays you roughly twice a tee on a single sale, and buyers who already trust the brand are the ones who buy them. Most artists do best with two or three tee designs to pull people in and one strong hoodie graphic to carry the month. Desk mats are the quiet winner with gaming and VTuber audiences — low return rate, no sizing questions, and they photograph well on a stream setup.

Your page

A shop that looks like you, not like a template.

Every artist gets their own page at drxp.shop with your name in the URL. It carries your colors, your links and your work — not a generic seller profile buried three clicks down.

  • Your own accent colorPick a hex and the whole page re-skins — buttons, price tags, hover states. The site is built on CSS variables, so your page genuinely looks different from the artist next to you.
  • Banner, avatar and bioWide banner art, a square mark, and room to say who you are and what you draw. You send the assets, we place them.
  • Featured video slotDrop in a YouTube, TikTok or Twitch clip — a process reel, a stream highlight, a lore drop. It sits above your product grid so it's the first thing people watch.
  • Every social link you wantInstagram, TikTok, X, Twitch, YouTube, Bluesky, Ko-fi, your portfolio. Traffic runs both ways — buyers who like a shirt go follow you.
  • Your credit on every product pageYour name and a link back to your shop appears on each listing, not just in a footer.
  • Full product gridAll your designs across every blank, in your layout order. You decide what leads.
  • Artist dashboardLive sales, unit counts and payout history in one place. Being built now — until it ships, you get a monthly statement and can ask us for numbers any time in Discord.
  • Self-serve artwork uploadUpload files and generate mockups yourself. For now, you send files to us and we handle the setup.

Division of labor

You make the art. We do everything after that.

Your side

What you bring

  • Print-ready artwork — PNG, transparent background, 300 DPI, 4500 × 5400 px for a full front print, RGB, under 100 MB.
  • Art you actually own. No traced logos, no licensed characters, no AI-generated work passed off as yours.
  • A short bio, your socials, a banner and an avatar for your page.
  • Optional but it helps: post when your drop goes live. Your audience converts far better than cold traffic.
  • A reply within a few days in Discord when we need a decision on placement or color.

Our side

What we handle

  • Product setup, print placement, color checks and mockup photography.
  • Printing and fulfillment through Printify, plus reprints on any misprint at our cost.
  • The storefront, checkout, payment processing and PCI compliance.
  • Customer service, sizing questions, returns and refunds — buyers email us, not you.
  • Marketing: organic content, paid amplification, creator seeding and the campaign around your drop.
  • Listing you across DrXp.shop, TikTok Shop and Etsy from one set of files.
  • Your monthly statement and payout, on time.

Payouts

Paid monthly. No minimums we won't tell you about.

One statement, one payment, every month. If a different method or cadence works better for you, say so — this is the part we most want feedback on while we're small enough to change it easily.

When

Sales close at the end of each calendar month. Statements go out in the first week, payments land by the 10th. The gap covers the return window so nothing has to be clawed back later.

How

Zelle or PayPal are what we can run today, both with no fee taken out of your side. Outside the US, PayPal or Wise. Tell us what you'd rather have and we'll look at adding it.

ZellePayPalWiseDirect deposit — plannedCrypto — ask

The small print, said plainly

Balances under $25 roll into next month so you're not chasing a $4 transfer. Returns and chargebacks come off the month they land in, and we eat the cost of any misprint or lost package. US artists over $600 in a year get a W-9 request and a 1099 — you're an independent contractor, so set aside for taxes. We're not tax advisors.

Tell us what would make this smoother. Weekly instead of monthly? A running balance you can see any time? A payout floor you set yourself? Split payments across collaborators on a joint design? We have ten slots and two founders — the systems we build first are the ones founding artists ask for.

Who we're looking for

Three kinds of people, one setup.

Independent artists

Illustrators, graffiti writers, tattooers, type designers, photographers. If you've been meaning to put your work on a shirt and stalled on the logistics, that's the whole gap we're filling. Bring three to five designs to start.

Studios & collectives

One agreement covering multiple artists, one payout, one contact. We can run a studio-branded shop page with individual artist credits underneath, and split a joint design's payout across contributors.

VTubers & streamers

Chibi drops, emote-based prints, desk mats and lore merch for an audience already trained to buy. Your featured video slot points at a stream clip, and your page carries your Twitch and YouTube links. If your model artist owns the design, we'll structure the split so both of you get paid.

What we can print

The line, drawn clearly, before you spend a week on a piece.

Some of this is our taste. Most of it isn't — it's what our printer's terms of service and our sales channels allow. We'd rather show you the whole map now than reject a finished design later.

Green light

Send it, no conversation needed

  • Original characters, mascots and OCs you designed
  • Anime and manga styles — chibi, shonen, shojo, retro cel, doujin
  • Graffiti, lettering, tags, throwies, stickerbomb
  • Streetwear graphics, mall-goth, Y2K, cyber, vaporwave
  • VTuber models and emote-derived art you own
  • Kemonomimi — cat ears, tails, horns on a human character
  • Horror, gore-lite, skulls, occult imagery, religious iconography as aesthetic
  • Political and social commentary that punches at ideas, not at groups

Ask us first

Usually a yes with an adjustment

  • Light ecchi. Swimwear, bare midriff, cleavage, suggestive pose. Fine on drxp.shop. Won't ship to TikTok Shop — see the channel table below
  • Lingerie, implied nudity, strategic covering
  • Profanity and slurs-as-reclamation — banned outright on blanks with visible manufacturer branding
  • Weapons, blood, drug and alcohol references
  • Parody and reference to existing IP — depends entirely on how transformative it is
  • Real people, including yourself. Needs written permission on file
  • Anthro and furry work. Not our house style, so we're picky, but a strong piece can land

Hard no

No appeal, no exceptions

  • Loli, shota, and any sexualization of a minor — drawn, rendered, or photographed
  • Explicit NSFW. Genitalia, sex acts, full nudity, fetish gear
  • Fan art of characters you don't own — Pokémon, Nintendo, Marvel, anime studio IP, band logos, sports teams
  • Hate symbols, or content attacking people over race, religion, gender, sexuality or disability
  • Traced or heavily referenced work passed off as original
  • Finished AI-generated art submitted as your own
  • Bestiality, non-consent themes, real-world violence against a named person
Why the first one is absolute

Every platform in this chain treats drawn and fictional depictions exactly the same as photographic ones. Printify’s terms of service prohibit content that presents children in a sexual manner and terminate accounts over it. TikTok Shop applies its child sexual abuse material policy to listings that are real, fictional, digitally created or artistic, and reports what it finds to the National Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

So this isn't a taste rule we might bend for a good artist. One piece ends fulfillment for every artist on the platform at once, and potentially involves law enforcement. The "she's canonically 500 years old" argument does not work here, and neither does an art style defense. If a character reads as a child and the piece sexualizes them, it's out — and so is the submission it came in with.

Channel by channel

Spicier work sells in fewer places.

Your art doesn't have to pass the strictest channel to join — it just reaches fewer people if it doesn't. TikTok Shop is the tightest of the three and also our biggest traffic source, so a design that clears it earns a lot more reach.

Contentdrxp.shopEtsyTikTok ShopPrinted on demand
Original / anime / streetwear artYesYesYesYes
Horror, skulls, mild goreYesYesCase by caseYes
Profanity on the graphicYesMaturity flagNoNot on branded blanks
Light ecchi / suggestiveYesMaturity flagNoProvider-dependent
Implied nudityAsk firstMaturity flagNoMost providers refuse
Explicit NSFWNoNoNoNo
Unlicensed fan artNoNoNoNo
Sexualized minorsNeverNeverNeverNever
Yes — lists as-is Ask / flag — needs a conversation or a maturity setting No — can't list there
The practical read. If you draw spicy work, keep a clean variant of your best design. The suggestive version lives on drxp.shop where your existing audience finds it, and the clean version is what we can put behind ads and TikTok video. Artists who do this consistently out-earn artists who submit one version and hope.
On fan art, since it's the most common rejection. We know unlicensed fan art is what moves at conventions. We can't print it — our fulfillment partner's IP policy is enforced by takedown, and a claim against one listing puts every artist here at risk. Original characters in a recognizable style are completely fine. A character someone else owns is not, no matter how transformative it feels.

Rights

Your art stays yours. Fully. Permanently.

What you give us

  • A non-exclusive license to print, list and market the specific designs you submit, on the products we agree on.
  • Permission to use mockups and your artwork in DrXp marketing — social posts, ads, the homepage.
  • Your name and links to display on your page and listings.

What you keep

  • Full copyright. We never claim ownership of anything you make.
  • The right to sell the same design anywhere else at the same time — UwU Market, Fourthwall, your own store, prints, commissions, con tables. Nothing here is exclusive and nothing ever becomes exclusive.
  • The right to pull a design or leave entirely, in one message. We need about 30 days to fulfill orders already placed and delist cleanly. No exit fee, no penalty, no conversation where we try to talk you out of it.

Getting started

Four steps, about a week.

This is the actual sequence, in order. No dashboard to learn and nothing to install — right now it runs through Discord and email because that's what lets us stay close to every artist.

Send us your work

Portfolio link, socials, and two or three pieces you'd want printed. No formal application yet — a Discord DM or an email is enough. We reply to everyone, including no.

Talk it through with us

A short call or a Discord thread. We go through the split, the products that suit your work, what you want to price at, and what you need your page to do. You ask us anything, including the awkward questions about money.

Send files and one permission slip

Not a contract — a single page saying we may print the specific designs you send, revocable any time. Then print files, bio, socials, banner and avatar. We build proofs and you approve every one before anything goes live.

Go live and drop

Your page ships, listings go up across DrXp.shop, TikTok Shop and Etsy, and we run the launch push together. First statement lands the following month.

Questions

The things everyone asks.

Does it cost me anything to join?
No. No signup fee, no listing fee, no monthly fee, no cut taken if nothing sells. We only make money when you do.
Can I sell the same design on UwU Market or another platform at the same time?
Yes, and we mean it without an asterisk. Run UwU Market, Fourthwall, Streamlabs, Redbubble, your own Shopify and a con table with the identical design while it's live here. We don't ask for exclusivity on the design, the product type, the territory or the timing. The one courtesy we appreciate: a heads-up if you're running a steep discount on the same piece the week we're spending money on ads behind it, so we don't bid against your own sale.
Is there really no contract? What am I actually signing?
One page. It says you own the artwork, you're giving us permission to print the specific designs you sent on the specific products we agreed on, and you can withdraw that permission whenever you want. No term, no auto-renewal, no exclusivity, no non-compete, no minimum. It exists so we're legally allowed to reproduce your work and so you have our payout terms in writing — not to bind you. Read it in about two minutes and ask us about anything in it.
Do I have to keep submitting designs to stay active?
No. There's no quota and no schedule. Submit three designs, never send another, and your page stays up and your payouts keep coming as long as things sell. We'd obviously love more work from you, but that's an invitation, never a requirement.
Who handles it when a customer has a problem?
We do. Sizing, shipping delays, wrong item, refunds — all of it comes to us. You'll never get a DM about a lost package. Misprints and lost orders are reprinted at our cost, not deducted from your payout.
How many designs should I start with?
Three to five. Enough that your page looks like a shop rather than a single product, few enough that we can give each one a proper mockup and launch push. We'd rather add more after we see what your audience responds to.
Do I have to make the mockups?
No. You send print-ready files, we handle placement, mockups and product photography. If you want to shoot your own lifestyle photos we'll happily use them — that content usually outperforms ours.
What if I'm not in the US?
You can still join. Payouts go through PayPal or Wise, and we handle the tax paperwork on our end (W-8BEN rather than W-9). Printing and shipping still run out of US and EU facilities, so your buyers aren't waiting on international post.
What happens to my rate if I join as artist #4?
You stay at 90/10 for as long as you're with us. The move to 80/20 applies to artists who join after the founding ten, not retroactively to you.
Can I see my sales before the monthly statement?
Ask in Discord and we'll pull your numbers same day. The live dashboard is what we're building next — until then, one of us checks it by hand, which is workable at ten artists and exactly why we're capping the founding group at ten.
Can I use AI-generated art?
Not as the finished piece. AI in your process — references, backgrounds, ideation — is your business. But the artwork you submit needs to be yours, because the whole pitch to buyers is that a real person made this.
Can I submit ecchi or suggestive work?
Light ecchi is fine — swimwear, suggestive poses, cleavage. Explicit NSFW is not, and no printer in our chain will run it anyway. The catch is reach: suggestive designs can't go on TikTok Shop, which is where most of our traffic comes from. If you draw spicy, keep a clean variant of your strongest piece so we have something to put behind ads.
What counts as fan art, exactly?
A character owned by someone else — Pikachu, a Marvel hero, a specific anime studio's design, a band's logo. Drawing in a recognizable style is fine. Drawing someone else's character is not, even heavily reinterpreted. This is the rejection we give most often and the one artists find most frustrating, so check before you invest the hours.
Why no furry work if you take VTuber art?
It's a house-style call rather than a rule about the subject. Kemonomimi — ears, tails, horns on an otherwise human character — is completely fine and common in the VTuber work we already take. Full anthro is outside the look we're building, so we're selective, but a genuinely strong piece can still land. Ask before you assume no.
What if I want out?
Tell us. We stop new orders immediately, fulfill anything already placed, delist within 30 days, and pay your final balance on the next cycle. No penalty and no argument.

Ten slots · reviewed as they come in

Come talk to us in Discord.

No form to fill out first. Drop your portfolio in the intro channel and one of us — actually us, there are only two — will reply. If you'd rather email, that works too.

No contract, no exclusivity, no obligation. Keep selling everywhere else you already sell.

DrXp is two people. That's the pitch and the limit.
We answer our own messages, approve every proof, and market every drop by hand.