In this video I'm going to talk about 5 super simple layouts that you can use
when you're designing t-shirts. Let's go!!
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And so that's what i'm doing. In this video I'm going to show you 5 simple layouts that you can
use when designing t-shirts. I created another video like this a while ago. I'll put a link up
here. A lot of you liked that video. So I decided to do another one. I also decided to
put this pop filter in front of my mic. A lot of you said that I need one of these so i got
one. So the best way to show you these 5 layouts is an Affinity Designer. That's the application
that I use. It's a lot like Illustrator. So let's get into Affinity Designer right now.
So here we are on Affinity Designer. Here's the first of the 5 simple layouts. I'm calling it
"Repeating Words". All it is, is repeating the same words over and over. I found this picture
on the internet to show you what I mean. This one says, "Be You and Be You and Be You again".
You can do it with some other ones. I'm gonna do St Patrick's Day designs,
since that's coming up. So in all these 5 layouts, you're gonna see I'm gonna just gear them towards
St Patrick's Day designs. So I'm using the word "Lucky". So I'm just doing "Lucky" 4 times here.
You're gonna wanna do it with the same font. So you can see the example here. The same font
and of course it needs to be taller than it is wide. So you can see here, this kind of
fits the t-shirt. Taller than it is wide. So you can see kind of a taller rectangle here.
So all I'm doing is doing, "Lucky Lucky Lucky". If you want to put it on a green shirt you can. Kind
of do a different color so you can see. Here all i'm doing is doing white and kind of this
light green. And it gets darker green and darker green since green is the color for St Patrick's
Day. That's what i'm using. You can do vintage colors. You can do rainbow colors. Whatever you
want. But the layout is repeating words, so you're just doing the same word four times,
three times, depending on how big the word is and what font you're using. So just like this one,
you can also put in graphics. So you can see here, this one has happy faces. I'm alternating
clovers here, since it's for St Patrick's. And you're probably wondering what font this is that
i'm using? I'm using this font called Brawls Typeface Rough. If you've seen any of my other
videos you might have seen this font already. I like this font because it's nice and bold. And it
also has this distressed rough look. So you can see right here you don't have to add that in.
So that's how I did this, "Lucky Lucky Lucky" layout. I'm calling it "Repeating Words". It's
super simple. If you can type a word, you can type it four times or three times. So the other
caveat for this layout is, it needs to be a short word. So you can see here. "Be You" only has five
letters. "Lucky" also has five letters. Try to keep the words short. Three to five letters,
maybe six depending on what font you use. But you don't want long words in here. So that's
why I chose the word "Lucky". It's a shorter word for St Patrick's Day. So think of some short three
to five six letter words and use that and just repeat it. And that is your layout number 1.
So for layout number 2, let's go over here. I have it in another artboard. I'm calling it,
"This and This and That" and the reason why I'm calling it, "This and This and That" is because
it's similar to the layout we had before but all i'm doing is adding an and in here. These can be
longer words now, so they don't have to be shorter words. So you can see here I took this picture at
target. They have this one, bright leaves and apple picking and corn mazes and hoodies and
pumpkin everything. So you can see it's just a list of words with "and" in between so for
St Patrick's Day I decided to do this. Irish and clovers and magic and drinking and shenanigans.
So i just made that up, it's not a trending thing. But I thought those are some of the
words that go along with St Patrick's Day. You can do a list of words that go along with any holiday,
anything really. If you want to do like sandwich toppings, you could do like
bread and bacon and lettuce and tomato and cheese and you know something like that. So just think of
different groupings that you can do. What I like to do is at least five things. So one, two, three,
four, five I have here. You can see this one did one, two, three, four, five, as well. And then
this little graphic here I showed you one, two, three, four, five. So you can remember that at
least five. Three just seems too little. So five is kind of the magic number. Six might work,
so four to six could work but you don't want to go more than that because it's just gonna
look too long. It really depends on the words that you choose so... again you want to make that nice
rectangle shape that tall rectangle shape. Where it's taller than wider. So that's what I'm going
for here. You can see as well here, that's what you're going for. And then change the colors too.
You're going to want to change the colors that match the word that you're talking about. So
in here... I mean there's not always a color that matches the word but if you can.
You can see I'm using green for St Patrick's Day. Corn mazes are yellow here. Pumpkin has
orange here. So kind of that idea. You don't have to do that but it helps. So you can see
if it's on a green background, a green t-shirt, I would change the colors so that it would work.
Irish is white now and I'm using different shades of green and orange here, just so that it works
with the colors of St Patrick's Day. And you may be wondering what font I'm using? I am using
Helvetica Bold, right here. So you're just going to want to use a nice sans-serif font and this is
probably the one that most people have, Helvetica. Ariel would work as well. Any of these. It's got
to be kind of bold so you can see it, so you can read it. You can see here, it's a nice bold
sans-serif font as well. I'm not exactly sure what this one is but you can see it's nice as well.
So this layout, I am calling "This and This and That". Have fun with this one. Think of different
groupings that you can pair together. It's really easy to do. This is your layout number 2.
So for layout number 3, let's move this over here. Here we go. This is a really simple one too. I'm
calling it, "Athletic Arc". So all it is, is putting text on an arc. So you can see here,
I'm clicking here. I just use this oval tool here, to make this oval. And then I typed text on it.
So the way you do that is... I'll show you right here. There's our oval. You get your text tool
and you'll see it change here, to this "T" with a squiggly line under it. You can see that. And
just click it and then start typing letters, like that. So the font that I used here..
you will want to use an athletic looking font, with big thick serifs. You can see here, big
thick serifs in this example that I took a picture of at target, on this hoodie. This one says, "Wine
Night" and what I am choosing for St Patrick's Day is, "Hooligan". So you can see here, "Hooligan"
and this would be on green. Just nice and simple. I'm using the font, "Superstar M54".
I love this one. It's a nice thick college looking font and it works well. That's all. That's all I
did was type it in here and center that on this oval. Here you can see this one as well. Centered
on the oval. Super simple layout. So there's two things you're going to want to remember
when using this layout. The first is you want to use an athletic font and the second is
the length of the word needs to be around seven letters. You can see here this one,
"Wine Night" has about nine letters. "Hooligan" has about eight letters. So somewhere between
seven and nine letters is kind of your sweet spot. So just think of that. You don't want words that
are too long because then the word is going to be too small and you don't want words that are
too short because then it won't stretch across the t-shirt. So just think of words somewhere around
seven to nine letters. So there's so many words that fit that description. And think
of the different holidays, different things that will work on here. You might even want to do puns
for different things. That works really well too. So, "Athletic Arc". This is your layout number 3.
So for layout number 4 let's move along here this is a little tougher to do. We're still doing kind
of an arc but I'm calling this "Wrap Around Arc". So I found this t-shirt here online, as
an example. You can see the arc kind of just wraps around up and around. So it's not just at the top.
It starts here, at the bottom left and goes all the way up and around to the bottom right. And
the picture is in the middle. And there's another word or phrase down here. You can kind of just
fill in the space. So what I'm using here is this rounded rectangle. So all you need to do is click
this rounded rectangle tool and you can see, you just build it here. So you can change the corner
radius by clicking here. Right now I have it at 50 but you can see I can make it a square or a
rectangle. Kind of just bring it all the way in like that. So that's what I did. Then again,
same thing like before, you're going to click on here on the text tool and just type it in. You're
going to start typing in and move this triangle part right down here to the bottom left and
then just start typing. You can see I did the same thing right here. This one is another St Patrick's
Day idea. It says, "Shut Up Liver You're Fine Ale Yeah" and I have a couple of clovers here. This
graphic of a beer is a free graphic from Merch Informer. If you don't have Merch Informer, I have
a link in the description to Merch Informer. It's free if you have the Merch Informer subscription.
It's simple, I just looked for beer and they had it right here. So I took the colors from here. You
know, I'm using gray and this kind of this amber looking orange thing. So you may be wondering,
what font I'm using? I'm using the "Foregen Rough One". I've mentioned this font before. It's
a really cool font. I love how rough it is and it's thin but also very legible. So I can read it
really well. So one thing you have to think about when doing this is, you need a longer phrase here.
So that's why I used, "Shut Up Liver You're Fine" and you can use a shorter phrase, two words or
one long word right here at the bottom. So think of things that work. You're gonna have to kind of
type things out and see if they fit but once they fit it works out really nicely. You can
see it works out really nicely here because it kind of fills in that space that you need.
That tall rectangle space, that I'm talking about all the time, to fit in your t-shirts. This just
kind of takes up that space for you. So think of different graphics that are kind of tall. That's
why this beer kind of works here. That's why this squirrel works here. Because they're kind
of taller than longer. So that's my layout number 4. I'm calling it, "Wrap Around Arc". So use this
one. Have fun with this one. This would be a good layout for you to try and design some t-shirts.
All right so for the last layout let's look at it here. I have it on another artboard. I'm calling
this, "Words and 2 Circles". So you can see here I have this graphic here. I took a picture of this
t-shirt at target. You can see it says, "St Patrick's Day 2021". It has two circles and
the text is inside those two circles. So that's what I mean when I say, "Words and 2 circles".
It's really simple. All you need to draw is two circles. So you got two circles here. Just use
the circle tool or the ellipse tool it's called. And you can see that's all they are right here
and here. All I did is copy this circle, paste it on top and type text in it. So of course, let me
do this.. copy on top of it...type in your text like this. And now you can start typing letters.
So to help you get it in the right spot you just move the baseline, right here. So look right
here and move it up or down just so it fits right there. So that's what I did. Right here, you can
see I typed in, "Kiss Me I'm Irish". I drew a nice big clover here. Kind of like that one but my own.
And I put another couple clovers here. Really simple right? Just two circles and text inside.
You can do this with anything. It's not going to be a super long phrase. You can see I'm using one,
two, three, four words in this one. There's one, two, three, four words. So think about four or
five words would kind of fit in here, depending on what font you're using. The font I'm using in this
one is called, "Cooper Black". "Cooper Black" is what I'm using right here. So it's really
easy. You can use any font of course. You can fit more words if you use a thinner font or a
condensed font. This font is pretty wide so I was only able to fit four words here. Think of
different phrases and different graphics you can put right here. Not very hard. This is another
simple layout that works really well because it, again, it takes up a lot of that space. This works
really well for stickers too. So people love these round stickers. So it's kind of a two-for-one.
If you can make a t-shirt with this you can make a sticker easily as well. Make it for RedBubble
or wherever you want to sell your stickers. This is a great one. It's a classic. You'll
see it everywhere now. I'm calling it "Words and 2 Circles". This is your layout number 5.
So there you are. Those are the 5 simple layouts. Let me show you all of them here
together. So you may want to take a screenshot. "Repeating Words" is the first one. "This
and This and That" is the second one. "Athletic Arc" the third one. "Wrap Around Arc" I'm calling
the fourth one. "Words and 2 Circles" last. Those are the five simple layouts that you can do using
affinity designer or illustrator or whatever graphics program you have. These layouts are
super simple and they sell. You saw examples of t-shirts out in the wild as well as online,
that i took pictures of and you can do the same. So hopefully this video was helpful for you,
so that you can start designing more and more t-shirts. If you ever feel stuck on
how to design something, use one of these layouts and they'll get you out of that bind. Thanks so
much for staying till the end of this video and your reward is another edition of Trend Credits
Thanks for staying till the end for this edition of trend credits. Here is your trend,
"Hug Me I'm Vaccinated". So here it is on Amazon. You can see some of the lower BSRs.
484,000 & 464,000 & 180,000. So as more and more people are getting vaccinated,
this is becoming more popular. 438,000 and so on. Let's check Merch Informer. It is getting an "A"
in Merch Informer so you know it's good. Again if you don't have Merch Informer I have a link
in the description. Here's the graphics that i'm talking about. Merch Informer Graphics. If
you have a subscription to merchant former you can get all of these. This is where i got that
beer for my design, here. So they keep adding new ones every month. It's really worth it. So you can
see here, anyway, so the whole vaccinated thing is a trend. Not just, "Hug Me I'm Vaccinated".
So just think of other ways that you can design t-shirts for the vaccination or being vaccinated.
This is your trend, "Hug Me I'm Vaccinated". Thanks so much for staying all the way to the
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