In this video, I'm going to show you how to level up a t-shirt design on Redbubble. I'm
going to do this all in Canva. I'm going to show you some of the techniques that I use
and hopefully you can learn these to help you get some sales on print on demand. 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 my hope with this video is that you will learn some things
as I update or level up some of these designs on canva. So this is a tutorial on canva but this
also is going to be something to help you know, those that are struggling with design or maybe
new to design, what kinds of things you need to do to make a good design for a t-shirt. So I'm
going to pick a Redbubble shop I DM this person on Instagram so it's okay and we're gonna see
some of the things that they're doing in this shop that are good and then some other things
that you can do to level up and make it just a little bit better and help you get some sales
so let's get into Redbubble right now let's take a look at this shop and then we're gonna go into
canva and I'm going to show you some of the different techniques that I would use to make
this design just a little bit better and hopefully get more sales so here we are on Redbubble this is
the shop that I'm talking about this person has 773 designs which is great um keep adding those
design this gives you the best chance of getting some sales I have selected best selling here so
you can see their top sellers and I think they're doing okay they definitely do the tall rectangle
like I say and they're definitely doing you know the big and small uh text to make it interesting
I'm going to create some interest but I think they need to step it up just another level more so I'm
going to show you how to do that but you can see I think this is what most people start off with once
they know you know kind of the basics of t-shirt design they're okay t-shirt designs most of them
are text designs which I think is part of the problem you're going to have to start adding more
Graphics now and things like that text designs do sell but uh you know it's better to do text
and Graphics if you can I'm going to take one of these and another thing I would say is put your
top designs over here you know this doesn't really show like t-shirt design this shows patterns and
you don't have a lot of patterns here so I would take some of your t-shirts and put it up here in
the banner this shop info I would also categorize it like you could probably categorize it in
different categories and things like that and put it up here as well because you have so many
products so think of that and and another thing is it's very random right so now now that you have
so many designs now you can start niching down and figure out what selling built best for you
and kind of make those niches it just seems like they're trying so many different kinds of things
here you know I don't know where you're getting your design inspiration from but they all kind of
just look you know similar so I would start doing more graphic stuff More Design stuff now that you
kind of you get a feel for it this probably took a long time 700 designs right so now that you
kind of get the feel for Redbubble all now it's time to step it up to the next level and get more
stuff so I'm going to show you how to do one I'm going to pick this one right here this fall vibes
because it's fall and it's it's a nice design it's a nice start it has the Fall colors I'm going to
show you how to step it up even more I know this was done in canva I'm pretty sure I've seen this
font before so I'm going to go into canva and show you what I would do in canva on how to do this and
kind of step it up just a little bit better so here I am on canva I knew I saw these uh fonts
before so I I've found them and I did just kind of the same thing that we saw on Redbubble this
right here I kind of recreated it in canva with the same fonts and the same colors uh so if we
go here this is the exact same thing that they're using uh I didn't Design This that's not my shop
but I found this it was really easy to find right so that's one of the things that you want to do
when you have a red bubble shop now is try to do stuff that people can't find or do better people
know that this took very short to do and so you might want to do step it up a little bit and the
next thing you want to look at is who is this for right so fall Vibes definitely people who love the
fall it's nice that you're representing fall with the Fall colors but it's also and that nurse life
so a nurse is going to be using this t-shirt what kinds of things do they want to see on a t-shirt
to make them buy it what kind of things do they want to see on a t-shirt that makes them want to
wear it and people know that they're a nurse right so you got to get into that mindset what would a
nurse want to buy what would a nurse want to wear if you're going to do this and before you do all
of that make sure that you're researching uh what's doing well on the site right so if you're
just going and just copying what other people are doing I don't know if this is or not but if you're
just copying sayings that other people are doing you know there's going to be a lot of competition
what's better is to come up with your own phrase in that Niche you know maybe in the fall Niche
maybe in the nurse Niche but come up with your own phrase that's totally different so that you
have the only thing that's on there and that will help you get some sales so all of that on
the way let's make pretend that this is you've done your research and this is something that
you came up with yourself and you want to make it just a little bit better and stand out so let me
show you what I did um I just did this this is the same font this is the same thing what I did was I
found some graphics and these are free Graphics so if I did go in here and just typed in fall
you can see I picked the first leaves right here these are the same leaves they kind of
match the Fall colors right I'll just put them in here and kind of rotate it and put it here
um about nurse that nurse life so I just typed in nurse and I found some things in here let's
do graphics you got this Band-Aid that I put right here I found some another one of the stethoscope
I did some things down here with stethoscope I think I just typed in nurse stethoscope that's
hard to say and then heart right I think I did stethoscope no I did heartbeat let's see
if I can find it yeah so you can see this heartbeat right here and then there was a there's
this stethoscope maybe I just did a stethoscope anyway these are all free images I typed in free
and you can see here this is a free one right here so you could totally do this for free I changed
this text because it's smaller text which is harder to read with all the colors we already have
lots of colors so I made this one to stand out now you could do this also in white I think that
would make it stand out too if we did that you know and I underlined it and nurse life together
and give that emphasis so now you can see it's a tall rectangle it's just a little bit better
um than what we had before which was this one right here and very easy to do
in canva you still can do it for free in canva now what about standing out
um for the pro version now so if you have the canva pro version there's several other things
that you can do to make it stand out and I did several other things this one went actually
really hard to do because I'm I was starting from scratch and trying to do something so let me show
you some things that I came up with so first I did fall Vibes this is on a white T-shirt I did
some of those fall leaves and again using the stethoscope and I did some different different
uh fonts here not my favorite but you could do something like this which is really different
here again same thing fall Vibes and that nurse life you can see how I'm combining the different
Graphics in here so these all have kind of the same weight or same kind of maybe not the same
weight but they're all doing like that outline design and this one has a thicker weight which
kind of falls into the fall Vibes of nurse life so you can see um kind of want to make
it all work together right this is a mashup of fall and nurses here's another one cute drawing
not free not on canva free but on canva Pro so link with canva Pro you have lots more options
for graphics so you can see this Graphics really stand out with this kind of thing and this is on
a white T-shirt and I found this here just putting this and these together these two
um made that and my last one here which I'll show you how to do is this one fall Vibes and this is
very popular with the bun and everything and I got the leaves and that nurse knife I got the
heartbeat I did another one instead of heartbeat I got this nurse cap and then to make it work on
black I've used this idea with the spray and I'll show you how to do that so let's do this let's
just do another ad page here and I'll show you how to do this first so the first thing I did was do
try and find a mom bun or a woman bun so um here and with canva Pro there's a ton of them so I'm
going to pick this one right here and first let's change this to White so you can see what I'm doing
so there it is this is the same one that this is right here and you notice the other one
had glasses so when I go here and I scroll down you'll find the one that has glasses
this one right here and there ident almost identical except for the glasses so what I'm
going to do is I'm going to crop one and make it kind of match so
here they are same size right and this is one way that you can do it so that you don't have
the exact same thing as somebody else is that you can crop this one hit crop
and maybe just the glasses right and then do this
one so it's cropped and doesn't have the glasses right you see how I'm doing that
and you can kind of make it work there I know I will have to zoom in
I'm just going to copy the one that I have that made it work but you can see
they're the same thing so that's this one right here where I I put the two together
I'll put that here command C command V copy and paste right so the next
thing I'm going to do is color this blue just so we have a background so
you can see how to I do the spray border I'm going to type in white spray border
have stuff like this so this comes in black but I'm going to make it white and we're just
going to put this behind so let me put right click and send it back and this is a nice way
so that if you have a black T-shirt you can see this this works on white but on black I kind of
need something back there so I'm going to do this I'm gonna turn it make it bigger turn it around
right here and then kind of copy it and paste it you know I'm going to hold down option and
make another one here and kind of turn it and do the same thing for the bottom so that's how you
do that kind of border on here so let's just do a quick one now you can play with it and stuff but
I'm just going to do a quick fast one here just so it works all right now we can make this black
it's not exact of course but you can play with it you can see I've played with it and and you
can try different ones too so if we have here and go magic recommendations there's other ones
here there's some and we go to Graphics there's these here they're pro versions
and other other quick ones right here there's the drip ones and things like
that but this is the one I used here and you can make them bigger or smaller so
you can see right there and then I took some of the leaves here so if I did fall
you know you have some other leaves right here
you can take this leave and put it here and so on and then maybe
do some magic recommendations and grab some other leaves and so on
real easy to do and then the last one right here are these
nurses hats so I can type in nurse icons or nurse
right there boom Oh wrong one let's put it on this one here right and then change that to White
boom right you see where I'm going really easy and then the last thing would be the
text so this text right here is Sergio trendy and Sergio trendy and this last one is intro
script so the way to make this rounded is let's type it in here so we just type in t
from fall fives and let's make this white
and then let's go to effects and do this and then see how fast it is on canva you can do that right
and again you're going to play with the white space behind there but let's copy this
white fall vibes and then make this one straight and this is going to be
nurse life whoops not nice to live nurse life right and the way to scale these is to grab
that corner pull this here now if you need a bigger then grab the corner and go edge to edge
all right there hold down option and you can do that and then the last one here is
and that and and that is intro script right so I'll just type t on here T and and that
and that's just to give it some variety right um I'm gonna do intro script there and I can
make it bold I don't know if you knew that you can make some some of these can go bold
there and the only thing I need is to you know add more leaves here turn it around find a different
one if I wanted to and you can see it's pretty similar to this one I took some time and found
the right right spray paint and kind of put it together so I'm going to show you this on
a shirt next to the other one and let's see the difference how it stands out so here I am on my
fake Redbubble page I just made this in Affinity designer but you can see here this is the original
fall Vibes it's it stands out because of color but look at this one it stands out a lot more
and I hope that more people who love to be nurses would want to wear this shirt right we're thinking
about the subject now instead of just you know putting up words on a shirt we have to think
about who's going to wear it would they wear this shirt hopefully this is nice enough for them to
wear right so this will give you a better chance of making a sale it doesn't guarantee a sale but
if you're starting to think of a customer of what they would like to wear so so use these
techniques and and use these kinds of things you don't have to do it exactly like this design you
saw that I had so many different other designs we're just trying to give it a better chance of
getting a seal we're not only trying to make it stand out but we're trying to make it something
that people want to buy as well right if I'm a nurse maybe this is something I would want to
buy or if I'm someone that loves coffee would I want to buy this right things like that so also
make sure that there's some kind of design in it I think it really helps so this is on black
you can see we could have done it in white or whatever it is but lots of different things so
go on here go on Redbubble figure out where you would search for your designs kind of look at
the competition and does this stand out over the competition I think it does for for this context
for fall Vibes and nurse life I think it does over these things so you're gonna have to put
it to the test and do that so hopefully this video is really helpful for you and use some
of those techniques that I show you on there on canva you can do it all in canva you can I
showed you you how to do it canva free but you can also do it in canva Pro which gives you so
many more possibilities so that is it for this video hopefully this video is really helpful for
you and you learn some tips and tricks on how to make your designs just a little bit better
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