In this video I'm gonna do another t-shirt design tutorial. More specifically this one
right here. You can see it's a has a retro vibe. It's got wavy lines and it's got this
cool 70s style. I'm going to show you how to do it all in Affinity Designer. 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'm gonna do another t-shirt design tutorial
and this one's gonna be all in Affinity Designer. I've noticed a lot of retro designs out there
lately on amazon on redbubble everywhere i'm gonna show you how to do this one right here and you can
see it has the wavy lines and some flowers and things like that it's very simple to do
of course you can make it even more detailed if you wanted to but i'm going to keep it really
simple in this video at first i'm going to show you the font the font's very important you're
going to want to get a retro font i'll show you where i get this one this one's a free font
and i'm going to show you how to curve the lines as well as make the flowers in affinity designer
so we're going to do all of that in this video first let's go to the internet and find our fonts
so here we are on the internet i went to dafont.com you can see d-a-f-o-n-t.com
this is where you can get a lot of free fonts there's lots of places to get fonts but this
is one place to get the free ones and you have to find one that says 100 commercial free and you can
see some of these say for personal use only don't do that um if you're going to put it on t-shirts
you can do that for fun for yourself but if you're going to put it on t-shirts you can't do it so
one way that's really easy on the font is to find a 70s font you can see right here it
says groovy so just click on that groovy and you can see some of these are really good and again
for personal use so one way to find out which ones to use is to hit more options and do 100
free so not personal use not donation where not any of these 100 free and then hit submit
and now we can use these you can see all of these say 100 free and then we can just go down here
and use whatever font we want you're gonna have to download it but just look at some of these some
of these are really good i love this prisma one right here disco diva is a great one some of these
i mean you might want to download a bunch of these right but for this uh tutorial let's go ahead and
just download um one of them let's do coaster so right here come to coaster this is the one
i'm going to use there's both um black and shadow so we're not going to use the shadow but that's a
cool one to use as well you could probably color in and have that shadow so just hit download
upload it to your computer and we're going to put it into affinity designer and go from there
all right so here we are in affinity designer the first thing we're going to do is type out
our words i usually like having three words in this case or at least three lines so you can have
multiple words on each line if you want to but just for the sake of this tutorial three lines
would be easy you could do it with four lines you could do with however many lines two lines
but just for this tutorial so let's see i'm going to type in the word just
and make it bigger here and make sure we use the right font remember it was coaster
let me go to my regular all here and
coaster right there just the one we sign i'm going to use all caps so hold down that caps lock just
and then if you use this trick holding down option clicking on here and then dragging
you can see you can make multiple just a copy of it so i'm just gonna do just a stay
groovy all right very easy so far make every one of these uh the size that you
want so i want maybe this one that size and this one that size something like that right
now if you if they're too far apart what you can do is come in here hold down option as
well and click on the left arrow and you can see we can move it in same thing here
move it in i want this one as well so kind of just scooch everything closer together if you want to
all right great and i'll make it as big as you know as we want it to just the right size
i think that's great okay so the very next thing we're going to do is start drawing some lines
some wavy lines and this is going to help us when we want to
make the bottom or the top of the letters curvy so we're just going to do our pen tool right here
and just come in here and just do whatever we want so come in here drag it and go like that
see what i did there so it's just a line and if you go to color
uh i'll make make it black so you can see it now you may not want it that thick it's just to
it's just for guides so come in here um you know make it 1.2 points something like that now you
want to put this right about where you want the bottom of just to be so let's say that's just
you can copy this again hold down option click on the line and then move it down and so this will
be where the top of stay will be you can see how that works and then if you want the same
thing down here you can copy that again but you could make a different one you could do
you know have it come like this and then maybe this one's down like that
that's fine too in fact that i think that's better to give it you know even more so it's not the same
you got more variety here right so come in here and if this isn't curvy enough you can
come back and grab these handles and be like i want that even more curvy right
and then hold down option and then copy it again like that now put this where you want it to be
so if you want it to be kind of like that then that's where you do it so those are going to be
your guidelines to move these and so there's no real easy way to do this we're going to have to
come in here and move the lines i'll show you how to do that there's no like quick button but i'm
going to show you how to do it it takes a little time and patience but it turns out really good
so let me show you the next step all right so i took this this is what i did previously this
these lines they're a little thinner you can see they're just point two they're just really guides
the next thing you're gonna wanna do is convert these to curves so hit this convert to curves and
then hit ungroup you're gonna wanna do this for every one of these so convert to curves ungroup
convert to curves ungroup and then we're just going to move the letters just slightly right now
to fit where they're going to be so you can see the line so this s should be touching this one and
that one right and this j should be touching that one and don't don't move the top here for the just
we want that straight so let's just move these just so they're the same height as kind of where
we want it to be so this isn't perfect yet but this is just going to get us close so move that
and that
and you can see it it's getting us pretty close to where we want to be but not exactly
where we want to be but
because we want it to curve even more and you can see some of these aren't really
following the line so the ones that aren't following the line
we're going to come in here and we're going to get in closer so let's move in
zoom in here and just make sure that it follows the line so now that it's ungrouped or curves
we can come in here and click on these lines here and this is going to follow this
so if we wanted to have it follow the line we can come in here and kind of move it you can see i can
i can move this line here and so on now if some lines dots get in the way you can just delete it
you know make your own line the nice thing about these retro fonts is
they're really nice to manipulate because when you move things around they still kind
of keep their look instead of being just so rigid so you can see when i zoom out here
it still kind of keeps it and maybe you want to not come it right at the angle here maybe you want
to make it just a little bit more soft you know maybe it comes down like that and just touches it
i think so you can you can move things around kind of play with it you're just changing the look of
it so i'm going to go in here and do the same thing the t is like one that you really need to
do so let me show you that first because because it has a long straight edge this is the one
that's going to give the illusion that it's all curving right so if we do that and come in here
anything with a long straight edge this is these are the ones that are going to help give that
look that it's curving so if you come back here you can see that t and and then we're going to
do the bottom here too so that's how you do it in affinity design you can see it didn't take
me that long to do it i'm going to finish all these letters right here and i'll come back and
i'll show you what happens all right so here we we're back now you can see i followed the lines
right here i made the t this t down here now if when you did it this s was further out like this
you can just move it in closer and then make sure that it's back on the line okay so um just eyeball
it you're gonna kind of eyeball all these fonts here and you can see they're just following the
line so of course you're going to move that those lines away before you put it on a t-shirt so let's
just click on it and delete it and you can see right there and if you want to make these closer
you know just they're all independent now so you can you can make it closer if you want or whatever
the next thing i'm going to show you is how to make the flowers now i actually have a video
on how to do all of these so click on this video up top right here if you want to see all of them
i'm just going to show you a real easy one first so click on this right here this is the star tool
it's under your triangle tool click on the star and then there's going to be this box right here
presets so there's a bunch of preset flowers you can just click on here
look at that hold down shift and then you can go to color color it whatever color you want so
um if you want kind of those orange browns i think and blues and then you can put a circle
in between here so let's hold down shift with the circle you know maybe maybe it's pink or something
and then click on both of these and then make sure that they're aligned horizontally and vertically
and then you can group them all right so there's one flower um use that video to show you how to
make a bunch of other flowers there's a bunch of other presets a bunch of other things that you
can do with the with the tool all the tools you need to make the flowers are right here
so you can come in here do the star tool do some of the other tools i think the cog tool
with some of the other ones watch that video and you can see how to do all the
all the flowers that i put in here alright so here we got a bunch of flowers that i picked from that
video and put it on here and the next thing we want to do is color so let's click on the artboard
we want to see what it looks like on a dark shirt first so let me do it just like that it's like a
dark gray make sure that these can be seen so let's just change them to white for now
white
and that right there is is pretty cool too but if you want to follow a 70s color palette you can go
look for a 70s color palette they usually use like muted um colors so let me show you
what i'm thinking like an orange like a red so let me do like a
you know they usually use kind of like that or kind of like a lighter one right maybe
sometimes like a pink you could do that uh and then like a blue like a like a green blue
something like that now um maybe one more color like like a yellow cool
so that's just off the top of my head and of course you want to make everything around it
about the same color so if you come in here you want to pick that same orange right just to have
the same color palette and so this yellow now this light yellow should be this light yellow and so on
um i did one earlier i'll show you just like this where it's all the same color palette now
this looks really cool uh like this with all the different colors and it does look cool on black
but the thing you'll have to remember is if you want to put it on different colors
it may not work so if we change the background of this right here to red you can kind of see that
it kind of gets lost this red right here but if we change the background here to
like green you know kind of it kind of works so it it it's tough to know what green and what blue
and and things are going to be used uh on the background you can use that thing that i did
that i have the free download for the background t-shirts for amazon but it may not work for all
colors for redbubble and all those things too so one thing that i would suggest is
you could do it this way with the cool colors for every letter one thing i would suggest is maybe do
you know one word one color the other word another color and so on and this is a lot easier to read
when you're doing um a background like red or something like that or you come in here and
you know the background is purple or something that's a lot easier to read than trying to do the
different colors it's your choice which way you want to go and then of course i would do a white
background as well so if you just do white just change the color so that they're darker on here
so that's how you do that design one last thing i'm going to show you is how to put the vintage
texture on it and it's super easy so let me show you how to do that right now so we're back in
affinity designer i have a texture right here i have a video on textures on how to do the texture
so if you want to click on that video right here i'll put it in the description as well
a full tutorial on how to do it but i'll show you where in that video i'll show you where to find
this and where to find textures let's just say you have a texture already right here so you can see
this is right there i'm going to click on my artboard you can see this whole thing is
grouped right like that so i'm going to put this above it right here so you can see in my artboard
this group and the texture so i'm going to group both of these right there now you can see in the
group there's the texture and the group so all i need to do on the texture now is come here
and go down to erase and you can see it erased it from the background there's that cool texture
and if i put the different colors of the background let's say that
it's light yellow instead you can see it's getting it's showing through so let me zoom in see that
it's just showing right through so that erase is erasing that texture from the back from the design
from the graphic right there you go really cool so this is our simple very simple um design of
course you can make put the flowers anyway color the flowers use different words curve your thing
a different way right i just curved it this way but you could come in the other way or whatever
and make it different use four lines these three lines use different words use different fonts even
this font is really cool very easy to adjust so you can see it's it has that flow to it if you're
going to use like straight fonts it might be a little harder but this just has a nice look to
it so this is your 70s groovy tutorial have fun with this go and make more designs and hopefully
get more sales so that's it for this tutorial hopefully this tutorial is really helpful for you
and if you don't want to just put flowers in there go search online you can put things like mushrooms
and rainbows and other groovy things and 70 things retro things there's lots of graphics out there i
just did flowers because that's something you can actually do in affinity designer but if you want
to add more graphics to it i think it will really help sell you know the retroness of it so have fun
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question of the day for this video is what other graphics would you put in this besides flowers let
me know that in the comments if you can think of different things it'd be really cool to kind of
upgrade it you know to make it look even better so thanks again for watching hopefully this tutorial
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and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye