In this video I'm going to continue the collaboration I did with Ryan Hogue. If you
haven't seen that video here's a little recap of what we did.... maybe we work together on
launching a like a mega successful print on demand product. What do you think? yeah
we should try it out. yeah dude. So how about I work on this research try to find something that
is uh you know I want to have like big upsides so i'm thinking i'm going to find like a trend
so this is yeah this is ultimately where um i'm thinking it's going to lead is we have kind of
like the groovy mom or the groovy dad to the student you know like the first grader and okay
to the first grader themselves they could just be the groovy first grader so what is that yeah
yeah i like it i like it awesome man so hey this is yours to take it and run with it i can't wait
to see what you come up with all right i will a good challenge i'll i'll do it all in canva
use some good fonts and some and some icon graphics and stuff i think this would be fun
so now that i have all that information i'm going to show you what i did with it
and show you kind of my process of coming up with a design. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video. In this video i'm gonna show you kind
of my process on how I came up eventually came up with the design it took me a while
and this time i wanted to show you not step by step but i wanted to show you all the different
iterations that i did because i think sometimes this happens for us even me sometimes designs come
out easy and sometimes it takes a long time before we actually get to the end product and i want to
show you all the different ways that i tried it out and eventually came up with something so
i know a lot of my videos just show you straightforward step by step and boom it turns
out perfect that doesn't happen every time so i'm going to show you this time how many steps it
actually took me to get there and then stay till the end because we're going to connect back with
ryan hogue and then i'm going to show him in the the design and then we're going to put it together
and hopefully put it up there for sale and see if it actually works so stay tuned for that so first
i'm going to show you kind of my idea that i came up with canva then i eventually go to affinity
designer and finish it up there so let's get into canva right now and kind of show you my first step
or my first try at this design so here we are on canva canva.com you can see i have the pro version
lots of cool stuff on here you can see i really tried on this one groovy let's click in here and
show you what i did so the idea was to say groovy mom of a first grader and then groovy first grader
and i had some really groovy ideas here you can see this one i'm using nectarine if you love that
font it's a really cool groovy 70s font and this one right here margin another groovy font and i
also looked for some you know like 70s design 7x graphics and i found a few right here i just
didn't love this and one of the things i didn't love about it is i really wanted to do the wavy
font stuff and the only thing you can really do on canva is you know you can do this effect where you
curve it but that's not exactly the same thing so i tried and i think it looks okay but it's
not exactly what i wanted and there's there's some limitations to every application one of the
limitations on canva is that but you can see they have tons of graphics which i love so i think this
would still be okay i think it would sell but i just didn't love it so the next thing i did was
i came down here and maybe changed the colors i changed this font um and just used the nectarine
throughout the whole thing and then i thought this one just maybe had too much going on so i kind of
you know took down the colors a little bit uh added these lines here added some different uh
graphics and so this is iteration number two this was number one uh the second one here i i liked it
a little better than this one because this one had some of the brighter colors and i like the
toned down version of this one and kind of these uh these colors were kind of the only colors
but i still i was still wanting to do the um wavy font and so i i didn't do it but you can see i it
i like this one just slightly better and i love the colors on this so i tried different things
different colors on the first one so this is the first one just with different colors on black
and then groovy first grader trying to match this one and again i think it would be okay it does
have that 70s feel but i just wasn't feeling it i did love the graphics though so if you want to do
something like this on canva you definitely can there's lots and lots of cool graphics
just that one limitation of not doing the waviness so you're gonna have to work around that but again
lots of colors lots of cool stuff and lots of ways to color it the way that i colored this was just
going in here into styles and just playing around with some of these colors here which
was really fun so so now that i know that i want to do something with the wavy thing i'm going to
get out of canva and go to affinity designer and show you how i did with the wavy fonts
like i did before i have a video on it when i get to affinity designer i'll point to the video but
my next step so step number three or iteration number three uh four five and six i think i do a
bunch more in affinity designer i'll show you on an affinity designer about that so here i am an
affinity designer now so this is my first crack at it an affinity designer but this is my third
attempt of doing it i have this font here called uh coaster you may have seen the video that i did
for the wavy font i'll put that video up here in affinity designer that's where i did it i'm
gonna follow kind of the same steps that i did there so the first step was to just type it out
so you can see groovy mama the second grader groovy little second grader the idea of this
right here was eventually i was going to put a rainbow up here and then maybe put some flowers
and stuff and you'll see that that's what's gonna happen uh later so i kind of map it out i got some
designs from canva and pulled it in just to see like the colors and would it match and
you know get some ideas i actually didn't end up using those but uh just just kind of to help
me think of where everything was gonna be so this is where i started putting in the line so
i just drew these lines just like i did in that video i did this way and this way and just kind
of made it a little different on each line um just so it had some variety and so from there
i went down here and started playing around with different things so i thought
you know maybe the v can be a hand a peace sign and then this is my rainbow here with all the
different flowers i got these flowers and peace signs from canva as well so i brought those in
and you know it kind of gave the bright color and i i did hear so eventually i came up with
this right here and i like this it kind of made me feel like a lucky charms box if you've ever
seen the lucky charms with the rainbow and all the different things and the colors it kind of
has that feel that 70s feel but when i put it on a t-shirt it felt like too much so i don't know
if that ever happens to you when you put it on a t-shirt i like to go and actually upload it and
put it on a t-shirt this is what it looks like on a t-shirt right here and you can see it just felt
like it was too many things so i thought i would scale it back so this is my third attempt and
i'll show you what i did for white so i thought you know do one on black one on white and that
it still looked okay the next thing i thought well i'm gonna just take out all the graphics
and make it a lot more simple so that's what i did i thought i'd do just a little more drawing since
my design looked like it was hand drawn even though it was a font a lot of these things look
hand drawn so i started drawing some of these things in here you can see i actually did draw
it on paper and then i brought it in i scanned it in and kind of put it in here so just to give it
that more hand-drawn look and i did the same thing here with the little second grader you can see i
drew out on paper i brought it in and i scanned it and then i traced over it so eventually so my
fourth attempt finally i i came up with this and i like this a lot better when i looked on a t-shirt
on the way it looked on a t-shirt this is what it looks like on a t-shirt right here at least
one of them and then you can see the colors it just is not as much so sometimes too much
can be too much right sometimes when you put too many things it's just overloaded so i try to keep
it simple i scaled it down and it kept it a lot more simple and one thing that i did if you notice
i was thinking groovy little second grader groovy mom of a second grader but what if a mom has more
than one kid they might want to do something like this groovy mom of three kids or two kids or four
kids or something like that so another way to scale it not only can you scale the grades here
groovy little first grader second grader third grader you can also skill how many kids a mom or
dad has i i did a dad version here so this is what i ended up going with i i love these colors too it
kind of gives it more of a retro 70s look kind of more muted instead of very bright which what
i had it before you noticed this was super bright with the pink and the and the yellow so i kind
of toned it down i like that a lot better i think it would work more for both dad and mom so having
those those kinds of colors instead of the super bright pink there's still there still is pink here
but um not as bright so a little more toned down and some white here so i think this will work not
sure if a dad would wear it but i think if the whole family's wearing it they probably would
and maybe change the colors too i don't know i i think i don't think i need to change the
color for the dad but maybe maybe he may not like pink but i think it goes together with the overall
package so here's my final i'm gonna send it over to ryan um and we're gonna collab again and
hopefully talk about it and then see what goes on from there i'm not really sure what's gonna happen
uh we didn't record that yet but we're gonna see maybe we're gonna put it online and
actually test it out i hope so uh to see if the research and the design can actually get us a sale
everybody i'm back here with ryan hogue i got him on the lines up ryan let me show you what i did i
i kind of went through it through my whole video but you haven't seen that so i'm going to show
you on my slideshow here kind of what i i kind of went down a rabbit hole i didn't get it right away
but i think the end result is good so let me show you my whoops this is how we do it
so i first started with canva and so this one's all right but it just felt a little too kitty
to me okay and then i did this one in canva the thing about canva it doesn't do the like
we talked about the wavy text and so i couldn't do the wavy text okay so i went into affinity
designer did some wavy texts but then when i did this one i felt like it just had too much
going on i don't know if you're still really good though i love the peace sign too and then
yeah i do love it i i did love it but when i put it on the shirt you can i don't know i just maybe
i was looking at it too much sometimes that happens right we look at it too much and like
is that too much stuff now and so i would have been happy with this for the record
there's my kind of my designs i ended up with this one right here
um and then i talked about um maybe instead of mom of the second grader i thought maybe
mom of three kids because what if they have more than one kid you know they're gonna have
to decide do i wear the second grade shirt or the fifth grade shirt or the first grade search so
yeah no dude i love that man the design is amazing like of course it's amazing you know it's you but
like good color contrast it's like almost like less is more with that design number four right
that's what i was thinking less is more because i went through the slideshow like when you know what
we were looking at that you did with the slideshow and a lot of them were like they weren't that much
stuff right like the trend is kind of like you said less is more the right colors and stuff and
little things but yeah this just seemed way too much from what we saw that was kind of trending so
yeah and i love it it's almost like a little pivot from kind of what i would consider to be
the more obvious sub niches of like picking the grade and you kind of pivoted to hey like we're
going with the theme of you know 60s 70s catering to the parents a little bit and yeah they can have
multiple kids uh so yeah yeah they could have multiple kids i did one for dad here you can see
dad of three kids mom with three kids or if they only have one kid then maybe they'll get mom of a
second grader but they got groovy little second grader we could do groovy little first grade or
third grader kindergarten or whatever it is right so yeah yeah man this is amazing i really think
you did a great job and uh what do you think is it optimized more for the uh like black t-shirts that
we know celso yeah i did it for the black t-shirts in my video i did one for the white t-shirts but
i think we could do both kind of test it out i think what we saw on yours there were a couple if
i remember right there were a few that were like on light t-shirts but for the most part they were
all on dart t-shirts right so yeah optimize this one for dark but i could make one with darker
colors not so muted colors uh maybe a little brighter or something for the light t-shirts right
yeah that's another way like if if anybody really because i mean you can crank out these
amazing designs so quickly but if anybody else like was you know struggling through it
and really spent a long time trying to make a nice uh design template they might even
you know switch up the color schemes and optimize for specific shirt colors
yeah absolutely i'll close this what so what do you think we should do i think the next
step so we did the we did the research we did the design i think the last step for
print on demand is basically the right seo the right title keywords uploading ads possibly and
and that's kind of the full spectrum right that's kind of all the three things that you need to do
yeah man i mean if you're up for it i would love to maybe like split a few of these designs
maybe you take some i take some and we publish them and see if we can crank out some sales man
yeah that'd be a good video so maybe after we'll we'll see how long it takes to get
i think we upload them as soon as possible kind of get there before the back to school like you
said and then kind of check back after the back to school kind of is done see how many sales we
each got maybe maybe we use different keywords we use different ad techniques or things like
that and and see like what kind of test it right we're just testing it now and see if it works so
no i think that's a great idea we know the designs are good right and we know
the niches are pretty validated yeah we did the research we did the design so yeah now
now we put it to the test right amazon we're going to just put it on amazon right and see
i'm thinking amazon yeah yeah okay sweet sweet cool excited and i will be using ads for the
record so if you're going to take them uh and you want to run ads too because maybe you can
do sponsored ads and i'll do just the regular ads because you talked about doing the sponsored ads i
think that's a great idea to have the sponsor yeah yeah yeah okay yeah no i was definitely because i
you know if we're gonna do this openly i'm gonna try to impress everybody too so i'm gonna be
i might run a couple sponsored ads too just just cause yeah double coverage but i'll definitely
try a yeah it's a great test because we could do we like you said we could do some with sponsored
ads some without ads some with you know just kind of test all around and we'll show what works yeah
yeah and see what works yeah cool yeah that's awesome i i like this idea kind of full spectrum
from beginning to end so this would be cool so everybody make a video a video and like
you said and come back in a few months and do another collab right for sure man yeah let's do
it make sure everybody subscribes and hits that bell so that you get the notification when we
bring this back together i don't know maybe we'll go live or we'll just pre-record whatever works
yeah sounds like a great idea thanks ryan this is great awesome junior i'm excited man
me too me too oh see you tonight i'll see you in a week well how long i see you in a month and a half
maybe or something yeah i'll see you at the end of august august great okay it's a deal all right man