In this video i'm going to share with you 10 different t-shirt design styles. Let's go!!
Thanks for joining me on this video my name is Juna with Detour Shirts the channel all about
helping you design and sell t-shirts online. If that's something you like to do don't forget to
hit that subscribe button right there. So in this video I'm going to share with you 10 different
design styles that you can do on t-shirts. So if you're trying to build your brand one of
the things that you'd want to do is try and find your own art style your own t-shirt design style
and if you look at some of the best-selling people on redbubble and other pod shops you'll notice
that they have their own style and just by looking at their artwork you can say that this one is this
person's style this is another person's style just by looking at it because they've defined their
style their brand around a certain style so why that's important for you when you're building your
brand is if you're known for a particular style the next time you do something people will want to
buy that too so the way i'm going to help you with that is i'm going to show you 10 different styles
and the hope is that by sharing these styles with you you'll kind of figure out what your style is
it doesn't have to be exactly one of these styles it could be a mashup with two or three of these
styles together but you'll find your own style that resonates with you and start building your
brand start building your style your t-shirt design style that people will recognize you
for and want to buy more of you're going to want to stay till the end so that you can see all 10
styles as well as another edition of trend credits so let's get started so one of the places you
can go to find different t-shirt styles is this place designedbyhumans.com designedbyhumans.com
is another print on demand shop that i use to sell my artwork on here you can see
lots of really cool artwork designers and artists love to come here they got some fan artwork as
well so you can see just some cool designs here so when you're on here and you add a design designed
by humans ask you what art style you're doing and so i'm going to show you some of the categories
that you can pick so here i am on the edit screen uh the last screen when you upload your design and
you can see here when you add a category one of the things you can pick is art styles right here
the second one and when you click on art styles you'll see all the different art styles right
there so as you can see there's 21 different styles i don't have time to share all 21 but i
picked the 10 that i think are most important to learn some different ones if you want me to make
another video to show the other 11 let me know in the comments but we're going to go and look at
some of these 10 so that you can see the different styles for each one and maybe pick your favorite
one or two of them and start there and then create your style from that so let's get started so the
first style is 8-bit you can see i typed in 8-bit here in the search and these are the results
for 8-bit you can see they look very similar right a lot of them have to do with video games
that old style video game looking with the pixel that's very pixelated made out of squares you can
see right here uh if i do a search on google for 8-bit t-shirts you can see kind of the same thing
just this pixelated version of people or objects that kind of thing old video games right right
here so look for these characteristics for a 8-bit t-shirt they're usually video game related but not
always and the designs are made with tiny little squares or pixels you can see right here little
squares that make up the design so the audience of people that love to wear these kinds of shirts
are usually people who grew up in the 80s or just love 80s culture that pop culture those old video
games that kind of things so that is your t-shirt art style number one 8-bit so art style number two
that i wanted to share is abstract so abstract can just represent anything it doesn't actually
have to represent mountains and bears like you see here but it can you can see these mountains
don't look exactly like mountains they're kind of an abstract version of mountains but
you can just have shapes you can just have lines abstract really doesn't have to mean anything or
look like anything so here's some ideas from google when you look up abstract design t-shirts
you can see here lots of different shapes and colors you know right here so here's an example of
abstract art right designs that don't exactly look like anything they can they can represent stuff
but they don't have to so think shapes lines and colors there really are no rules for abstract art
so the audience are i think are people who like nice abstract art usually there's no words on here
it's just an art piece so people that love to go to museums and like to look at abstract art
they're probably the same people that want to wear abstract designs on their t-shirt so that is your
art style number two abstract so art style number three is collage so you can see these are some of
the results for collage on designed by humans usually when people think of collage they think
of cutting out different pictures in a magazine and kind of putting them all together to make
a nice design that's kind of what this is you can see different pieces of artwork here is different
pieces of the face different photographs different things art pieces put together in google when you
search collage t-shirts you can see here this is a great one think of your own version of things that
you want to put together maybe you're drawing different animals and putting them all together
maybe you're drawing different plants lots of different ways to do this see right here these
are different animals put together in the collage the nest they kind of just all work together right
so here are the characteristics of a collage if you want to do this art style it's usually
a mashup of different pictures and or styles you can see right here is a good example and it's nice
if it has a theme but it doesn't have to have a theme you can just put things randomly together
and the audience i think it depends on what your collage is about so you saw the collage about
different animals of course those are going to be for people who love animals if you did a collage
of you know unicorns and rainbows of course those are that so try different topics maybe outdoors
political pop culture those do well animals again like we saw in and different ones so this is a
great one if you want to try and kind of mash up things this is art style number three collage
so art style number four is geometric you can kind of see a crossover between
geometric and abstract but geometric definitely has more lines in the corners so think polygons
you know triangles those kinds of things it doesn't necessarily have to have a lot of straight
lines but more often than not they do have lots of straight lines let's look in google so geometric
again shapes squares lots of triangles these kinds of shapes together which you know
is is still geometric in nature so a lot of times they are just shapes but sometimes
they're shapes that make an object so you can see here shapes that make a mountain
shapes again making a mountain so here are the characteristics of geometric style you can see
using different shapes to create a design shapes can represent other things but they don't have to
in this case these shapes are representing mountains and bears and a sun but like you
saw in some of the other examples they can be more abstract and not represent anything so
kind of a crossover between geometric and abstract but they're not exactly the same
so the audience of people that would love to wear geometric things i think they're usually people
who love math or technology or art uh that's just my in my opinion but usually those go
together trying to make things with polygons and and shapes like that usually people who love that
are people who love these kinds of things as well so if you like making geometric shapes and doing
those kinds of artwork maybe this style is for you so this is art style number four geometric
so art style number is minimalist so you can see right here
these are different types of minimalist designs so usually solid shapes lines
lots of lines so a lot more white space right here you can see making designs with lines but overall
there's not a lot of fill so that lots more white space in these designs you can see here
this is a minimalist face let me show you some other examples on google for minimalist designs
uh it can contain text as well but you can see way more white space than the actual design so
very minimal so minimalist is the simplest way to kind of get that idea across so for harry
potter just the eyeglasses and the lightning scar right here that's all you need is very minimal
so these are some of the characteristics for a minimalist design usually uses lines and or
shapes to create a design simple designs but with a lot of white space you can see not a lot of fill
just lines and lines usually represent other things but they don't need to so the audience
for this is people who either love the outdoors or abstract art pieces or both this is really
popular with outdoor t-shirts for some reason you can see a lot of the designs that i showed you had
mountains and water and just outdoor themes and this is really trendy right now really popular
right now so if you want to do some of this kind of designs or if you love just drawing simple
shapes to represent other things then maybe your style is minimalist you can try that out
it does really well especially on designed by humans but other places too so could make great
stickers you've probably seen these kinds of things so your style number five is minimalist
so art style number six is dark art so you can see right here usually a lot of skulls skeletons um
just witchcraft that kind of thing um witches demons you can see here a lot of horror kind of
vibes you're gonna get here so you can see here on google as well usually a black t-shirt or
white t-shirt so again lots of skulls here cards you know think of uh just scary stuff
may not be scary to some but uh usually you know witchcraft that kind of thing so here are
some of the characteristics for a dark art style usually the designs have skeletons or witchcraft
or horror base that kind of thing usually black on white or white on black but sometimes they use
colors and if they do they're not bright colors they're usually muted colors you can see here
kind of this muted red and the audience are i think are people who love witches or demons
or magic and that kind of horror movies that kind of thing so this is art style number six
dark art so this style is patterned so you can see i search for patterns a lot of times you may think
patterns that fill up the whole t-shirt but it doesn't have to you can see this pattern fills up
the whole iphone case but in this case the pattern is inside of the design so right here these are
really cool and popular right now too so you can see the shape is filled with the pattern right and
the pattern right here and different patterns have different feelings you can see so this one has
multiple patterns in one design you can see other ideas of patterns so let's look at pattern design
on google you can see kind of filling this shirt there's some other kinds of patterns depending on
what kind of patterns you use there's some tribal patterns right you can see
here definitely different genre of patterns so these are some of the characteristics you might
be looking for if you're deciding to do patterns as your t-shirt style patterns can be the entire
design of the t-shirt the full t-shirt or it can just be inside the shapes of your design
the types of patterns you use can change the feel of the design right so if this had a different
pattern in here it may appeal to a different type of audience so that's why the audience
depends on the types of patterns you use so tribal patterns can appeal to a certain group
and other patterns could appeal to different groups so think about that when doing this
design style this can be really powerful so if there's certain patterns that you're known for you
can really create a strong brand with this style so so patterns this is your art style number seven
so an art style you may not be familiar with is pinup so basically these are vintage illustrations
of girls that people would pin up on the wall so that's how the name became
pinup so you can see here very vintage looking designs mainly from the like 40s and 50s
so that's where these this comes from so these are the characteristics of a pinup
design so pinup art is a style from the 1940s so it refers to illustrations of glamour models
that would be pin-upped on the wall that's kind of where the name came from and it should kind
of have that vintage feel so you can see here is very vintage like it was made in the 40s and 50s
so the audience for this i think are people who like this specific type of vintage art so
topics usually include cars military planes gambling tattoos that kind of thing
so very niche very vintage retro kind of feel so that is your art style number eight
so the next art style is called street art and it's just like it says it's art that you would
find on the streets maybe painted on the wall or somewhere like that you can see a lot of times it
uses like spray paint brushes that kind of things a lot of graffiti and stuff so you can see some of
them can be abstract it depends so here are some ideas from google when you do street art design
t-shirts you can see graffiti bright colors that kind of thing hand-drawn lettering so a lot of
this spray paint dripping that kind of thing some of the characteristics you'd want to look for when
you're doing street art so they're usually created with visual elements of graffiti and other urban
themes and usually has a spray paint splatter you can see here on the boards spray paint splatter
and custom lettering so that kind of graffiti lettering kind of bubble lettering sometimes
the audience are mainly those who love that big city street art that kind of culture so
there's definitely a culture around this if you really know this culture
this could be a really good one for you to do this is art style number nine street art
so the last art style i wanted to share with you in this video is tattoo so you can see here
really cool designs i think this one's kind of trending right now too
usually black on white so you can see some of these tattoos basically tattoos that you would
want to put on your body just put it on a shirt so you can see here just really cool ideas flowers
you know dragons that kind of thing skulls let's look on google here these are some other tattoo
very cool tattoo art so i think if you can draw this kind of tattoo art these could be really
cool on t-shirts right now so here are some of the characteristics for that tattoo art style
designs that people would want to wear as tattoos so this could make a great tattoo but it's also on
a t-shirt so there's usually detailed line art you know mainly black on white or white on black but
sometimes you can have color and fill it in with color just like a tattoo would and the audience
are people who love tattoo art right people who love like these kind of styles with hearts and
daggers and flowers and those kinds of things so uh just study if you love tattoos this might be
a good style for you uh because you already know that kind of culture and that kind of art style so
i would study this and look into making different things on here for tattoo this could be your style
that stands out so this is art style number 10 tattoo so here's the recap of all the 10 art
styles that i shared with you today you can see right here taken from the 21 again if you want to
learn more about the other 11 let me know in the comments and i can do another video like this but
these are the 10 that we talked about today you can mix and match these too if you find
a couple that you like maybe come up with your own style that's a mashup of a couple of these so
you could mash up tattoo with geometric you know maybe put a pattern in a tattoo thing like
this could be really cool for you so take a look at these styles figure out which one
like calls to you or feels good to you and look at some of the other ones too you can just do a
google search on on some of those and come up with your own style that's unique to you
and when you start doing that and get better and better at it you're gonna start doing stuff that
is your own style and when people look for you they're gonna know that that is your style and
you can stand out with that and when people when you make more things people are gonna wanna get
those new things so that's one way to build brand is to come up with your own style
that's uniquely you and um and that people like to buy so that is it for this video
hopefully these art styles are really helpful for you let me know in the comments if it was
let me know what your favorite art style was in this video and leave that in the comments as
well so thanks so much for watching and your reward is another edition of trend credits
Thanks for staying till then for this trend credit. Here is your trend,
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bad moms club think of different ways you can do this you can see it's not always just saying bad
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different ways you can do this think of your own way and your own style to make this trend
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so good luck with this one have fun with this one bad moms club is your trend for this video
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