In this video we're going to talk about the golden ratio. What it is, how it's used in
art and I'm going to attempt to do a t-shirt design using the golden ratio. 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 gonna do something new. I'm gonna try
and design a t-shirt using the golden ratio. So, if you're like me and you go on youtube a lot you
see different videos and one that popped up for me because i look at design so much is the golden
ratio so i saw this video right here i'm gonna put a link right there it actually tells you what the
golden ratio is and how to make one how to make that spiral you see it all the time on videos i'm
not gonna make one myself i'm actually gonna just take one from the internet i'm gonna go to google
look up golden ratio kind of cheap that way but if you watch that video it shows you how you can make
your own and you could do it in affinity designer in fact we're going to use affinity designer to
create my t-shirt design now the golden ratio kind of helps you with placement and it's we're
not going to follow all the curves and stuff the golden ratio actually is just a mathematical
expression in art so if you look at that video it's kind of like the fibonacci sequence but
with blocks and circles and spirals and things like that so what we're gonna do right now is go
into affinity designer look at some of the artwork first kind of ancient artwork and modern artwork
with the gold inspire overlaid over so you can see how it works in modern art and also on t-shirts
i'm going to show you some examples on t-shirts that i found with the golden spiral and then we're
going to try and build something using some of the golden spiral overlays just for positioning
and stuff and see what kind of design that comes out of that so let's get into affinity designer
right now so here we are in affinity designer you can see i just took the golden spiro i didn't
build it it's just a png transparent png so i can overlay it and so this is called the golden spyro
and inspired by the golden ratio you may have seen this a lot of times they use it interchangeably
when you say when people talk about the golden ratio they you see this thing right here and if
you've seen those videos or haven't um you might have seen this in art so you can see
the golden spiral is in everything a lot of it in nature but sometimes in art as well so you
can see the mona lisa here kind of where the eyes are and the nose and just everything's in
proportion right kind of it's pleasing to the eye and that's why it works so if we go to like um
this right here in architecture you can see um the lines here kind of inspire where things should be
and pretty interesting how that how that all works out in art like this of course it looks like a
wave so of course the wave makes sense here has that golden spiral one more in modern art sonic
the hedgehog check this out i didn't even know this was the thing look of his head is actually
like the golden ratio isn't that crazy so i'm like um does this apply to t-shirt design t-shirt
design is designed as modern art can i see the golden ratio used in t-shirt design what i found
was pretty incredible so check this out this is just a t-shirt that i like uh on merch by amazon
look at this i they probably did this without even knowing it but i love the design of this shirt
and look at that the lines intersect with this right here the curve look at the toe and where the
it curves right here but watch what happens when i turn it the other way so let's flip it and go
this way and move this here to the edge look at that it kind of just follows that as well
toe and everything and that interesting so sometimes it just it just works without
you knowing it now you don't have to follow that line but you can see it intersects here that
curve intersects here these lines intersect there and just kind of works the leg right
here is on that line and that crazy okay here's another one cinco de mayo right coming up look
at this this person didn't know what they probably didn't overlay the golden ratio but look at this
the line intersects here intersects there comes up here this is where kind of intersects
look the flower is right there on the line this kind of comes down on the curve look at
the curvature of this flower isn't that crazy what's this we're going to turn it this way now
and kind of move it towards here look at the look at the curve of the hat and touch is there
and it kind of just you know ends there now it may be coincidence but it definitely helps you
know with the line see look at that it's pleasing to the eye right lastly this is one of mine moab i
i didn't put an overlay on the golden ratio over my designs but you can see look at that the arc
right here this is kind of where it ends the sun kind of touches right here and you
can see the lines just all work and the b i had no idea it just ends right there i just
felt it looked natural there and what's interesting is if i flip this one too
and kind of move it to where it edges
where this touches here that's where the m begins
isn't that interesting so i'm sure all these designs were unintentional they didn't
overlay a um golden spiral over it but we're gonna try and do it the opposite way we're gonna try
and design something using the golden spiral so let's go in here here's our golden spiral let's
see if we can do anything with it so i'm gonna start with drawing some triangles let's just do
some triangles here so of course you could draw things out but i'm going to try and
make it really simple using the shapes that we already have in affinity designer so if
i'm following the golden ratio i would want to try and go you know maybe like this and
like this maybe out to the edge
that could be that could be something um maybe the next triangle is up like this
you know see using it as a guide and then maybe my next triangle which is out this way and
cool that could help so you can see it's over i'm going to put this on top of fact so we can see it
how it interacts but i'm going to lock it down all right cool now um yeah this could work
now let's put a circle one thing we could use with the golden ratio or
golden spiral is use some of this shape so i'm gonna do a circle the size of this right here
uh make it yellow or whatever and then where do we put it well we can put it right there on that line
isn't that cool all right uh let's see let's make a tree i'm gonna do triangles with trees so um
two three something like that and let's see
maybe we make it why don't we make it touch this these lines
all right
and then uh maybe a rectangle here now again we're just using that for guidelines
it doesn't have to follow all the curves we're just using it as guides you notice on
on a lot of those none of those had the curve i mean the the dinosaur kind of had a curve but
it doesn't have to right and for a tree i want each one to be a little bigger so let's do this
maybe we do that like that oh this is cool we can use those two touching
let's see so these should all be holding down shift i'm gonna
make it like that and this will have to be there too that's cool it doesn't have
to touch but we can see the tree works there i think this should be a little smaller than
something like that oh yeah it's a tree now we can turn these on and off so that's
of course so there there's my tree isn't that cool so you can see it it
is using elements of the golden ratio um let's see what else could we do on here
um let's let's move this back to the top actually all right so now that the
golden spiral is on top one thing i'm gonna do let's do a circle let's try something out here
what if we did the circle here you can kind of see it helps let me make it bigger
let's put this in the back
that's kind of neat i'm gonna take all of this let's make the circle a different
color so we can see it all right we're not doing color right now we're just doing um
shapes so let's take that i'm gonna move what if we did this smaller
yeah that kind of helps i know we're going outside of the lines now but we
we made it with the lines and now we just shrunk it down so i think that's
that's still fine if we shrink down this you you'll see that
it's still there um next thing we're going to do is add words so let's do something like the
that's kind of cool um mountains let's do i love veneer so let's just do veneer
so one thing about um one thing about the golden spiral is it kind of comes
in like this so let's do let's make this just as wide
but the next one kind of comes in so let's let's try this the mountains
are calling
that's too big so let's uh you know it's kind of follow this curve so it kind of comes in
kind of curving in like that right calling
i must go
so you can see here this this if we move this here let's unlock it if we move this here
we're trying to follow that right so maybe a little smaller
this one is just a little smaller let's try that again
there that works yeah so let's move that to center again too all right this is working out uh
the mountains are calling and i must go let's use some shapes here i'm gonna do a rectangle but with
this size you see what i'm doing i'm just using it as guides so we could do this size too this
rectangle yeah that works so let's put that here let's butt it up against that there and
good and we could do maybe use that line right there but i feel like that's too far
but you know maybe we do that space so this is lining up with that line right here and
maybe we use that little space you know there's always like spatial things that we can use so
see what i'm doing here it's that it's not exact but you can see let's use that as a guide
um and then this little space here
see what that is
that's kind of right so let's do
let's
move all of these up just a little bit there and so we'll just use that same space
in everything here whoops
just for spacing so you don't have to just use the
the spiral but it does help to use kind of the spacing and things like that so
there you go um let's move these things out i'm going to color these just um black for now of
course you can you can go in there i'll turn this off this golden ratio let's make sure we
put it above everything first there we go and then i'll i'll turn it off here you can see the
mountains are calling and i must go of course we can make this different colors let's do a
do this black and do this green let's group that actually
and do a green now of course the golden ratio doesn't tell you what colors to use but
um we're just going to play around with this here cool so there's a design using the golden
ratio let's turn that back on again you can see how it kind of connects and everything and if we
move this around you can see it does that and if we move this down here and make it bigger
you see that that that works on this this level too right how we made that so have fun with that
i wouldn't suggest every design to use the golden ratio but i would make your design first and then
overlay the golden ratio and maybe be able to move stuff around like if that is better there
because of the golden ratio or here because of the golden ratio then you know that that kind of works
but you can see this is a nice pleasing design we use kind of the elements of the golden ratio
i'm gonna color it up and put it on a t-shirt and see how well it does so that is it for this video
hopefully it was really helpful for you like i said in the video you don't have to use the golden
ratio for every single design but i think it would help at the end when you finished your design to
put it over the top to kind of see if everything aligns right now it doesn't have to have a curve
like you saw i didn't put the words in a curve or draw a line with the curve but they're just ways
to kind of measure just have the right feeling the right measurement the right spacing and
things like that positioning and things like that so you saw on the t-shirt examples that i showed
you before not all of them had that curve in it right so but it did have the elements and it did
touch in in some of those places on the lines and things so use them as guides but don't use it
as actual ways to draw stuff so i think that's one way you can use it so it's pleasing to the eye
with the golden ratio so the spacing and things like that so hopefully that makes sense
with the golden ratio if this was really helpful for you or if you want me to do another one make
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have you heard of the golden ratio before the golden spire let me know about that
in the comments i'd love to hear your thoughts on it and how this worked out
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