In this video I wanted to talk about how I made 31 designs in 31 days for
October. What I learned from it and what I'm gonna do next. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video. My name Is Juna with Detour Shirts. I've been designing and
selling T-shirts online since 2005 and in this video I wanted to take you through my journey of
Designing 31 t-shirts in 31 days for the whole month of October. If you follow me on any other
social media platform, Instagram, Facebook, Twitter, you know that I've been posting every
day in October, a different t-shirt and I called this Shirtober. I wanted to do something special
for October and one of the reasons why is I wanted to give you all an incentive to make more designs
and I'm going to show you how I did mine but I think in Q4 you're going to have to upload more
and more designs keep uploading and hopefully get more sales Q4 is the time to get a lot of sales
so that was partly a reason why I did this I also wanted to show you how easy it is to do by doing
it myself I have a nine to five I do YouTube and all of this and I was still able to do one design
every day for a whole month so I think it's something that you can do as well so I want to
get into what apps I've used use for it kind of show you some of my designs and then later tell
you what kind of things I've learned from doing this I'm not going to really talk about sales
because sales will come later this is all about just designing and uploading and and things like
that and what I've learned from actually doing the process sales will come later I'm going to
give it about three weeks to two months until the end of the Q4 and see how many sales actually come
from this this will be another video but stay till the end because I'll show you as well of
what the next steps that I will do with all these designs now that I have 31 designs so let's get
to the internet and I'll show you what I've done and how what tools that I used so here we are on
Instagram probably the best place that you can find all my t-shirts are is on Instagram so if
you follow me on Instagram detour shirts I'm going to scroll down to the very beginning of the month
you can see I posted a lot here and we're gonna see the very first post Shirtober so this is what
started it all I decided to do Shirtober for the month you can see every day was a different Niche
different topic here and so I did that because I wanted to give you guys I think this is the best
thing for new designers is if you don't have a design style and you don't know what to post do
a lot of different things so take one of these and try it all out and post it all on there I
would suggest actually to post about 100 designs on Redbubble or wherever you're going to start
with whatever pods that you're going to start with but try different niches and see which one
sticks and then you may find out like golf really works well for you or Outdoors works really well
for you and then do more of those right so this is just and you can use this this is going to be on
Instagram forever if you haven't done shirt over use this list and try different niches you don't
have to do it all in 31 days but I would say this is a really good list of different niches that
actually do sell well on print on Demand right so here we go you can see I started with that and
then day one phishing and so on on day two and all of these so I'm not going to go through each one
but you can see on here I did every single day and most of these were done in canva I'll show
you examples of what I did on canva and as well as I use vexels for this one and I and I used
um Kittle on one of these let me see I'll show you the kettle ones so we don't have to go back but uh
there you go all 31 on there every single day some days I were a little late I posted maybe a day
later than I needed to but I tried to keep up and for the most part I think it was pretty easy to do
especially if you can kind of group them together if you do three or four in a day and kind of batch
them that that really helps but doing one a day wasn't wasn't too hard so let me show you why
it wasn't too hard I did these with apps that were online they were pretty easy to use so first canva
you can see a bunch of these here are in canva this one right here people really liked this one
you can see it's all done in canva with different Graphics right so you just have to search the
different Graphics that's text right there and these all came in through canva and you can see
I did some other ones too on here with canvas so this is my other sloth one you can see text
and everything so the nice thing about canva is you have lots of Graphics that you can pull
in one thing that I really loved about canva 2 was their canva app and it worked really well
so while I was sitting down I could also do t-shirt designs if I was watching a show or
something when during commercials or whatever I could start doing designs or while I was waiting
for trick-or-treaters that's what I did I started doing design so um very cool canva both on the
desktop and on the iPad was really helpful so another thing I used was Kittle you can
see here on my Kittle designs right here I did the stain groovy and this was all done in Kittle I'll
click on it so you can see so kiddo like canva you can start uh typing tags you got graphics
that come in and you'll start coloring different things so this is done all online I don't have
to draw anything and you can make designs really quick and you can use that list that I showed the
shirt Tober list to kind of come up with niches if you're not sure what topic to design use that list
and then so that was really helpful to be like okay so today on kiddo I will be doing the 60s
70s design right and then find things that work for that and you can go in here I have lots of
tutorials on kiddo on how to use Kittle and canva so you can watch those another thing that I used
was vexels so you can see here vexels I think I believe if I go in here and look at my designs
you can see that I use vexels for that explore design right here and try different things so
um vexels as well as canva and kiddo all different things that you can do online some of some of the
things are free some of them are not canva is there is a free version uh kiddo has a paid and
so those vexels have paid versions so once I did those designs I saved them and then put them on
t-shirts on playsets so a place that was what I used for mock-ups and you can see right here all
these and the way that I put the different things on here with the day one day two was in Affinity
designer I should bring that up so let me show you my Affinity designer file after I did all of
these how I how I did those mock-ups all right so here I am in Affinity designer you can see I
have all my posts right here that I made let me show you how I did it so first what I did was I
saved those designs and I put it in this artboard right here so let me zoom in this artboard is the
artboard size for playset you can see if I go to layers it's 750 pixels by 1200 pixels I would put
that in there upload this or download this and then upload it to place it and then I would get
those mock-ups and I would put the mock-ups in here and you can see each one of these is
done in Affinity designer so the mock-ups is just the picture right this this thing is the mock-up
and then I would add those and my logo and things like that this was done in Affinity
photo so you can see I just pushed it put it on there and then I would copy and paste so what
I would do is let me let me see if I would do another one you can see they're all done here
and I would just copy hold down option and drag and then I would just change this if there was
if there were 32 days I would do 32 and then put the name of the thing here right and then take
my design and plop it in here where I would do the next one so that's how we did it in Affinity
designer and if I would make it a square so it would fit Instagram and all the other Social Media
stuff and this was done in uh Affinity designer too I just typed it all out so if you want this
list you can go to uh Instagram I also will do an Instagram post with all of them together so
you don't have to scroll through them you can just swipe through and see see all of them they'll be
mini size but I'll make sure to put all of them in a post so that's the how the next thing is
what I've learned so I want to share with you what I learned through this process so all those things
were the how how to do it on canva how to make the designs and I can do more tutorials for that if
you want I can let me know in the comments which ones of those designs you want to learn how to
do I can definitely make videos for that but next thing I want to share with you is what I learned
on top of that so one of the things that I learned by doing 31 designs in 31 days is that it gave me
more Focus right so if you have a list like that I would suggest you do a list you don't have to
do them every day but having a list of things to do really gives you a focus on what to do for that
day and I think that really helps in kind of get getting you motivated and letting you do the thing
so if you haven't done this before if you need a list you can use that one but just making a list
of things to do during the day will really help your productivity I I think it really helped me
I knew that I had to do that T-shirt design for that day because I needed to post it it kind of
gave me incentive to do it and so one thing about that where you post up against the world like I'm
gonna do this and now you have to be accountable for doing it it really helped give me focus and
motivation on what to do the next thing that it really helped me do is to learn the different apps
it really focused me on trying to make designs really quickly and so I had to learn different
techniques as I went into canva as I went into kiddo as I went into vexels on what can I do
really quickly and what can I do for this specific Niche what's something different that I didn't do
before and there were so many things in canva that I didn't know that they had that I when I looked
and searched like wow if they have this they have cartoons they have kawaii stuff they have you know
definition things they have templates for this and that so another thing that I learned about
canva that I didn't know that I got to try this month because of this was the canva app I showed
this a little earlier but you can do things on your iPad so I did this on my iPad you can see
this one right here was done on the iPad for the last one I did a bunch in the beginning as
well I had no idea that canva had an app on the iPad that I could use and it worked perfect and
it synced with my desktop so once I did on here on my iPad it worked on the desktop I'll put a
tutorial for a canva app if you want to see that let me know in the comments but it's really easy I
just use my fingers and things very intuitive very easy to use and I could do it while sitting down
um while watching something or while being in a group or whatever so great great tool I highly
recommend if you have an iPad and you want to do that there's a bunch of apps on the iPad and
canva is another one that I just recently learned about and tried using because I was kind of in a
time crunch and but it worked it worked really well so canva app on the iPad was pretty cool so
again one thing that you learn by doing lots of these things over and over you got to put in the
time and the practice and by doing so you'll learn and level up your uh what you know you
level up your skills so I think that's another big benefit of doing something like this doing
31 designs in 31 days or whatever you want to do is that it's going to teach you to learn or look
for things to do better right because instead of trying to do the same old thing you're going
to have to try to do things a little bit quicker because you're under a time crunch or maybe you
want to do things a little bit different because you're trying a different style or you're trying a
different Niche right so lesson number two is that you're gonna learn a lot by doing this as well as
getting that Focus which was number one and lesson number three 3 is that it gave me a lot of things
to post right so if you're a content creator and you want to up your Instagram or your Pinterest
or your Twitter or whatever social media you're on by doing 31 designs uh in 31 days you have
something to post every single day right you can post the t-shirt that you made you can post the
things that you learned maybe you can even post like how you did it right so you'd have content
it can give you a lot of content from YouTube I didn't do it that way but you could say I'm
gonna do this and kind of show your work so this will give you a lot of posts as well as a lot of
you so here are some of the views the top views that I had on Instagram just by posting this and
you can see I've also posted it on Twitter and on my Facebook group and on my YouTube channel
if you follow me in any of those spots you can see those had a lot of likes and and Views as well so
not only is it going to give you potential sales in the future but as you're doing it you're going
to get some potential views and get views into your Channel or views into your profile so people
can see the work that you've done and hopefully get some fans and followers that way so finally
what are the next steps to do after creating 31 designs in 31 days so the next steps that I would
do is now to upload them so you're going to want to upload them to all your different pod shots
what I'm going to do is I'm going to upload them to merge by Amazon first and then go to Redbubble
then T public and then all the 10 print-on-demand shops that I have I'll probably also upload them
to my Shopify store and see how that works and we're just going to give it some time now so
we're going to put it on there wait three weeks to the end of the Q4 and then I'll do another video
to see how many of these actually will sell now some of these designs like they say grandma or
grandpa or whatever you could change them out and say nana or Papa or things like that there's some
other ones that you could do reversed right right so if you made it on a black T-shirt you could do
it on a white T-shirt so scale your designs that you have made for this so instead of 31 designs
you could have 60 designs or even more upload all of those and wait and give yourself some times and
also put it on Pinterest and social media if you haven't done that already make sure to get the
word out this is the best time to make some sales so that's what I'm gonna do is I'm gonna upload
everything scale things that I need to as well as I've while doing this and you might have done this
as well if you followed along with the shirt over when you're doing your designs you probably made
more than one for that Niche I know I have I made a couple for the niche and then just picked one to
show so I actually have three or four sometimes for a specific topic and things like that so you
may have a lot more than 31 upload all of those things as fast as you can because we're right in
the middle of Q4 right now and people are going to start buying as we get closer to Black Friday
so all these that I picked were top niches that people buy T-shirts for as gifts right so gifts
for Grandma gifts for mom gifts for people who love dogs or cats or or things like that right
so there was some thought put into these topics for sure Toba so you can use these are mostly
Evergreen designs so these will sell year round but doing two four would get a lot more sales
so keep on the lookout for the next video after this on what I made with my 31 designs in 31 days
how much I made and we'll we'll be surprised together I'm not sure if any of them will so
I'm hopeful I'm crossing my fingers that a lot of them will because they can be gifts but there's no
guarantees for print on demand we'll just see what happens so that's what I would say just
keep designing keep uploading and you never know what's going to sell you'll get a better chance
of course if you have 31 designs over one design right so up your chances make as many designs as
you can and upload them so that's it for this video hopefully this video is really helpful
for you if it was make sure to give it a thumbs up and if you're not subscribed to this channel
already hit that subscribe button right there the question of the day for this video is which of
these 31 designs were your favorite let me know in the in the comments I haven't asked that so
um let me know and maybe I'll make a video on how to make that design in the future thanks again for
watching and if you want to see more videos about print on demand click on these videos
right here and as always guys keep creating and keep learning I'll see you on the next one