In this video I'm going to take you step by step on how I created this llama design
in Canva and how you can make one yourself that's similar in Canva for free. 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 going to show you step by step on how
I created one of my designs that I've used for Shirtober. That's hard to say the designs that
I made in October all those 31 designs I have a video for that right here if you haven't seen all
those 31 designs this one's going to be the Llama design that I did where it has four squares so
it's really easy to do we're going to use shapes we're going to use cropping tools and I'm going
to show you what fonts I'm using and I'm going to show you different styles that you can use
with this not just the llamas you want to stay till the end because I'm going to show you all
the different ways that you can kind of change this up and scale it and use it for different
things so let's get into canva right now and I'll show you exactly how to do it so here we are on
canva canva.com you can see I have the pro account don't worry if you don't have the pro account you
can still do this design you're just gonna have to use different photos or pictures I'm going to
show you how to find that so first let's create a design hit create design right here and you
can do custom size and if you don't have this already 4500 by 5400 you can type this in 4500
height 5400 and then create new design and it's going to start you with an artboard here and then
we're going to get right away and color it black because we're going to do it on a black T-shirt
click on the artboard like this you'll see the colors click on the background color and you
pick black and then we're going to go to elements and then start adding some squares so when you
do click on elements let's do that right now you should see lines and shapes here but if you don't
see one that says lines and shapes you could still come in here and click Square so let me show you
both here lines and shapes I just click Square here and it'll have a square if you don't have
lines and shapes just type in the word square and you can pick this one right here so there's
two now right I picked that one and that one and then you can just make it the right size so let's
put these two together I'm going to select both of them and kind of drag it holding down shift
and dragging the corner here you can see they're the same size and you can kind of Center them you
can see that Center Line that's coming up right there see so that's centered and we're gonna hit
option or click on hold down option button and shift and while holding both of these together
we're going to drag it down just like that so there you go you have the four squares now now
we're going to color them so let's click on here and you can make them any color you want
um I'm going to go to color right here and you can see I have a ton of colors that I used I
kind of did a switch while you're looking this is my llama design right here that we're gonna
do and so you can see I have all the colors that I use for some of the other stuff that I'm going to
show you later but if you don't have colors here when you scroll down you can choose some of these
colors so I'll show you how easy it is so let's go here and let's just like pick some colors here
so we can do that and you know pick these colors and you can actually pick colors from here too
so if you go here and you want to pick some colors you can do that too so let's say I want
um more pink or whatever right I can come in here and do that like that right but just so I'm
matching these I'm going to pick the same colors as these so this one is that green the top corner
so I'm going to pick that green one and this red right here you see that third one I'll pick that
and this one's using that pink right there so I'll use that and then this one's using that blue sole
you see that second one just so it's matching what I have here so there you go of course you
can pick any colors and this is free putting on squares on a background totally free doesn't
matter the next thing we're going to do is look for those llamas so I'm going to type in llamas
now this is where it will be different so you can see here this one is a pro version but some
of them aren't Pro so you can use some of these that aren't Pro and let me go graphic so it's not
pictures you can see this one's not a pro version that one is a pro version so you're just gonna
have to look which one's Pro and which one's not I'm going to use the pro version because that's
what I use for the example but I'll show you some other ones that don't use pro version so here's
this and you could just do it like that you see right there but what I did is I cropped it because
I made it bigger so I'm going to make it a little bigger like this and do it like that and then
we'll crop it later let's just make sure we have all the different ones so um I'm gonna hit see all
so this is really good so that you can match your designs together so you have all the same kinds of
looking designs so magic recommendations will do that so hit see all I think I use this one
right here let's make it the same size and I used let's see I'm pretty sure I used this one
so you can see it's not just a head sometimes you can just make it make sure that it's the same size
because we're going to crop it anyway right and then I believe I used
let me see what I did oh yeah so one with the eyes open so let's see I think it's this one yeah
and just make it the same size right so there we go all right so I'm going to move these down here
and then let's see what order did I do I did glasses and this here and then pink okay so
glasses this here pink and that one right yeah all right so what I'm going to do is I'm going to just
put it in the Square here but you see where it goes below the square I'm going to use the crop
feature so right here crop click on it and you can see I can grab this and just crop it to the square
right so it looks like it's inside of the square and I can do the same thing with this one too
so hit crop even though this is has a whole body to it I can crop out just the head right
boom right and so we're going to do the same with all of these I'll put this here and this here
kind of Center it you see how those lines kind of snapping
to Center on this one we're going to crop this one
and this one too so crop same thing come in here
crop and that's how easy it is to put the llamas in the squares right and you could have used any
different llamas these are Pros but again like I said you can look for ones you could do hippos
you could do whatever you want right monkeys would have been fun too let me show you the text that I
use right here this is no drama llamas I'm going to copy these and just put in here so you can
see the text using command C and command V for copy and then paste but let's look at this this
is using Art Nouveau so real easy and this one is using bellaboo and those are free I believe
so bellaboo Art Nouveau those are free fonts so you could use those as well there are some paid
fonts as well so you can see this one's introverse this is a paid font canva Pro user this is a canva
pro user but there's a ton of fonts on uh canva that you can use for free so I forgot to show
you exactly how to do this but with scratch by scratch so let me just delete these for now
and I'm going to hit select them and then delete and then if you want to just start from scratch
and not copy and paste so let's just hit T like that so you can see right there and then no drama
you can't see it because it's black let me change it to White here and white there we're going to
make it bigger drag it like that right and then make sure we pick the Art Nouveau boom I had it
on all caps so you can do all caps here uppercase no drama all right and then just stretch it
all right like that and then I say no drama llamas so let me do llamas I can just hit T again the
button you can see there's the text right there it's in white now I'll put it down here and then
select the right one bellaboo and I believe it was just all lowercase llamas and I'm gonna get bigger
yep you can see right there and I chose to do yellow so one of these will do let's do that one
there no drama llamas is that what I did oh I had a capital l whoops so come in here
select the first one hold down shift oh there we go so if you wanted to do it from scratch
there it is no drama llamas using the text tool so there you go really easy now you can change
up what you put in the squares the colors of the squares the fonts and I'm going to show you some
examples of what I did there so this is the one we just did you can see I made it in a matter
of minutes right so easy so you can do a ton of these you can scale these so look at this
one I'm using cats I use the same thing where I cropped it right and change the colors and
I'm using a different font that matches so you don't have to follow these but these are all in
the same drawing style right so do that again when you do the magic recommendations and then
just pick colors to match you can see I changed the colors of the squares to kind of match what
was the color for the cats all right so we know we can do animals what about side view animals right
the the first ones are front view these are side view animals I think those look really cool so so
this is a totally different way that you can do it again all the same style right facing the same way
and I'm using a different font here okay one more or a few more so what about instead of animals you
could do something for the holiday so this is all Thanksgiving related we got turkey mashed potatoes
cranberry pumpkin pie right using the Thanksgiving colors right fall colors like orange and green and
red and things like that and then this I didn't even type this I just typed in Happy Thanksgiving
so you can find on canvas some really cool um texts here some fonts and I could have
just done you know maybe I take this and do this instead and color it white
right that would work too so think of lots of different ways that you can do this I'm gonna just
go back here undo if you want to undo command Z
and put that back I like this one just because it's square but you can do whatever one you want
here right just matches and then you could do a Christmas one or you could do a New Year's one
or whatever it is just make sure these related I could have put a turkey like a real turkey in here
and some leaves and some pumpkin pie this kind of stuff right all right how about all of these
these are all the same design style these are just cups with whipped cream again using the same color
palette but now I'm using this one I just did Sweater Weather there's so many things in here
look I didn't even have to type it this is just and you can change the colors to match right
look at that so and they have a ton of them if you do magic recommendations look at that
do a t-shirt for each one of these right do a July one on April one uh whatever summer one
you can have fun with that all right here's more lots to see on here what about sports
this is a vintage style one this one doesn't have color but you could still use like just
the two colors right like if I did instead of black one if I did a blue or something Isn't
that cool that could be really really strong right you could just take this
the color of your background like this and then just make it a little darker
and that a cool effect and do football like that so same thing come in here this one has two colors
but you could come in here click on the eye drop tool and this one and then just go down kind of
diagonal like this and make it a little darker right same thing with this come here and let's see
what one was this what was that first one okay so then we just picked that first one see that really
cool style kind of a monochromatic style I think that that could do really well on a t-shirt too
I think I got one more or two more here so this one's fruits so this has a different style as well
with different colors I'm using a different font here's this last one I kind of went outside of
the box now you can use things that are not just squares I went here and I typed in the word Mexico
right and I looked for the word Mexico there it is there and then I use these colors so let's
do that there's that Mexico and then when I did Magic recommendations look what I found I found
these things they're Square shaped right and then I put them in here and then I just covered
them with these um designs here so I just typed in Mexico again clicked on this there's there's
your hat it's free guys this one's free you can go in here and all of these are free right so you
could you could totally make this for free I think that Mexico one was free as well right oh no this
is Pro so sorry you might have to type in Mexico I want let me see are these Pro whoops okay so the
graphics are free but these other ones are pro but you can find a lot of these free free stuff
on here I believe I believe these are free oh I don't I know what I wanted to tell you about this
so let's go back and let's go take this out so if you're looking for things that match as well not
only do you have magic recommendations on canva but if you scroll down you have these collections
here and what these are are from the collection uh you can see that there's a ton so cool you could
do leaves you could do graphics um this one is from fruit let me see well I can't find them again
but let's use one of these let's do the flowers uh United Arab Emirates this is pretty cool
wow and I believe these are all free so let's just I'm gonna duplicate this
and I'm gonna take these out and look now I can just use flowers
look at that these are all cool right watercolor flowers how cool is that and they all have kind
of that same square shape so it's perfect and they all have the same style right let's pick
another one here and then just change the colors to match you know sometimes you don't have to
crop it sometimes it can just come out a little bit use that as a border there and then just do
something flowers right I don't know figure out what what text you want to use but you can see
um really cool right and then of course you don't have to use that square like I said if you did
um Square here
there may be some other ones that you like using maybe it's not a straight Square maybe it's you
know kind of a rough square like this one or maybe it's a I don't know you can use all kinds
of shapes right it doesn't have to be just a square shape so just like this one it can be
different so have fun with this like I said this can be scalable you can do this for different
um different sports right different seasons um different types four types of things
you could even do the Four Seasons think of things in four right you got
um winter spring summer fall those are things in four you could you could definitely do that you
can just do four of a kind different things right so what I like about this is it keeps everything
in the tall rectangle you can put the text here in the middle you can put it on the bottom you
can put it on the top very versatile and it just gives you that right shape and everything
just looks nice in here so have fun with this I'm calling this the four square technique but
you can call it whatever you want but you can see how easy it is to do in canva and there's tons of
resources on canvas so you can scale this and make hundreds of different designs using this technique
so that is it for this video hopefully this video is super helpful for you if it was make
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hit that subscribe button right there the question of the day for this video is what will be in your
four squares what are you thinking of putting in there is it cats is it dogs is it llamas is
it something else let me know in the comments I'm sure canva has a lot of those designs that you may
be thinking of uh they just have tons of Graphics so use canva for that or use whatever you want I
think you can still do this in stuff like Affinity designer and Kittle and things I'm just showing
you how to do it in canva but squares is really easy to make in almost any graphic design so
thanks again for watching if you want to see more tutorials like this using canva make sure to click
on these right here and as always keep creating and keep learning I'll see you on the next one