In this video I'm going to show you how to create a simple design with heartbeat lines
like this one right here. Let's go!
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So in this video I'm doing it again. I'm doing another trend from this video right here on this
time i'm going to show you how to do the dirt bike heartbeat design so it's going to look a lot like
this t-shirt right here and i'm going to show you very simple steps on how you can do it in affinity
designer so hopefully this video is really helpful for you you're going to want to stay till the end
so that you can see how to do it from start to finish stay to the end for that as well as another
edition of trend credits at the end of this video where i show you a different trend that you can
use for merch by amazon and possibly redbubble as well so stay tuned for that lots to see in
this video so i'm gonna go mostly into affinity designer so let's get into affinity designer right
now so here we are in affinity designer and i'm going to show you how to make this heartbeat right
here and it's going to be really simple all we're going to use is the pen tool and the node tool so
pen tool right here and node tool this white arrow right here so first the pen tool let's click on
the pen tool here and do a line so just click here and then hold down shift and click somewhere down
here so just making a straight line you may not have any color on it you can see mine is fills
none and stroke none so click on the stroke right here of the color and make sure that it's black
and your stroke may be thinner than this and a way you can change that is to go to stroke
right here and adjust your width so you can make it thin you can make it thick i'm
gonna make mine just right here like that so mine is at five points yours may be different
okay so next thing you're gonna do is click on the node tool right here nod e
and we're gonna make seven points so that's what this is showing you seven points
i already have two here so i'm gonna do seven more just clicking them in the middle here
just randomly one after the other so one two three four five six and seven and they don't
have to be spaced out um at any length or any we're going to move them so it doesn't matter
they can be anything we can just move them later so first the first one right here the
first of the seven that you did on the left starting on the left don't move it we're gonna
pick the second one and we're gonna move that up so what we're gonna do is just like this one
up then down then up then down then up and down okay so the first one's gonna be up like this
and the second one or the third one here is gonna go down so you're just going to move it
down like this there's no real scientific way to do it you're just eyeballing it you know you can
move it like this or you can move it like that whatever it is the fourth one is going to be
higher than the rest so just like that the fifth one right here you're gonna go down a little bit
and then the sixth one is you're gonna go up just a little bit and again you can move these in if
you wanna move them across on this line these last two the first and the last hold down shift while
you're doing it so you can make sure that they're straight so you don't put it up like this so it
will kind of lock there it won't specifically lock but it will help you make sure that it's straight
so if you want to come in a little bit uh push it in here hold down shift while you move it in
and you can kind of just move these around right it there's no like
wrong or right this one this one's definitely higher the middle one so the first two are lower
and then these two can come down and up so you can see this one's slightly different than this one
and that's okay they don't have to be perfect they just have to be you know up down up down up down
okay so move it to you how you want it and that's it just a heartbeat and you can see it here so
we're gonna do three heartbeats so you're gonna copy this we're gonna copy this three times
and the way you're gonna do that is bring in the points here with your node tool
at the end of it so you can hold down shift again to make sure that it's straight
bring it in bring it in and then we're just gonna hold down this one and hold down option and shift
and drag so while you hold down option shift and drag it's copy actually option and drag
is copy shift is just to make sure that it's on a straight line okay so let's do that again i'm
going to zoom out actually so command minus zooms it out once and let's move this here
here so just move these where you want them if you see this if you see this happen right here
where this one is further along and it kind of cuts into the other one just double click on it
double click on it and click that last one hold down shift and you can move it okay so
that they're closer so they're just three separate ones you can see one two and three so once we have
this we're gonna put our design right here our motorcycle our dirt bike or whatever we're gonna
use we're gonna put it right here and that's our next step so let's go and find a motorcycle and
i'll show you what to do next so one place i like to look for art is merchant former since i already
have a subscription to merchant former um there's merch informer graphics right here and you can
see there's tons of graphics if you're already subscribed to this you might as well use this
and i really wish they had like a search on here so you can actually search for
it and then just download that instead of downloading all of it i downloaded all of it
but it is in june 2020 it doesn't show it here i'll show you later in the video you can see um
there's a motorcycle like this there's also a dirt bike if you don't have merch informer
uh and you want it i do have a link in the description for it you can click on that but if
you don't have that i would suggest go to creative fabrica and type in dirt bike let's look at that
and you can see there's several door bikes here there's actually a dirt bike with the heartbeat
here that you can buy for 1.99 so you don't even have to do the heartbeat but there's also some a
lot of different png bundles dirt bikes and things like that so i would go there the one we are going
to use for merchant former is just a dirt bike it looks very similar to this one right here
so you could use that too but you can see dirt bikes are a thing on here so if you want to
get that dirt bike i'm not going to teach you how to draw a dirt bike in affinity designer that is
going to be really tough to do there's not a real simple way to do that it's kind of more of an
advanced uh technique to to draw that in there so unless you're a really good illustrator i wouldn't
uh tell you to draw your own dirt bike it's just going to take way too long a lot of details in a
dirt bike so get your dirt bike from here get your dirt bike from merchant former or wherever you
want and then i'm going to go back into affinity designer and show you how to use those assets
so here's the dirt bike i got from the june 2020 vectors on merchant former you can see
it has some color and we don't need all that color so we're just going to make it a silhouette and
one way you can do that is to select it all here and then go into your layers palette and this is
all of them right here the curves and i'm going to turn all the colors to black so come here
and just turn it all to black and you can see it's pretty much does that so you're going to see some
gray outlines here and that's just because there's different shapes so one way to do it is to make it
one shape so select all of them again and i'm going to hit down add here so you can see here
it's adding all the shapes together and that's just going to make it easier it's going to take
some time to do it so i may speed this up but i'm going to hit this now to see how long it takes
so now that you see that it added everything there's not amount a lot of um gray spots
and if you want to clean it up you can just draw in with the pen tool or your pencil tool
and just kind of fill it in so i'm going to fill these in right here
just so there's not any other white spots and put black on there and make sure that it's black
and i can merge that with everything else too again so let's do that anyway that's close enough
so the thing i wish was on here was a person riding the bike and we can fake that so i'm
gonna try and fake it for you really quick here um let's move this down i'll show you what i did
here's my fake version of it so let's put this down and let's see if we can do it again
so i'm going to make this smaller just holding down shift so i keep the proportion the same and
you can see i just lifted the bike so all i have to do is turn it a little bit like this right
and the person i drew here is really simple so let me show you how i did it so we want the head
which is a round shape kind of so i'm taking the round circle here just making a circle
right there so really simple so i'm going to put it right about there we also need a body
and leg and some arms so i'm just going to use this ellipse just to give us a shape right
and let's turn it the body's going to be you know kind of bent like that and the legs let's do
another ellipse like this kind of a leg this isn't going to be perfect so let's just do like that
and then copy that leg and make it the arm that's a really big arm we're going to make it skinnier
and kind of turn it kind of near the handlebars so it has to be grabbing the handlebars
right there so it kind of looks like it right it almost looks like just one of those
line drawings so let's let's make it just a little bit better maybe the head's a little
too big let's make it down like that okay so the person needs to be wearing a helmet
and the arms need to be having a shape and we need a more butt and legs here so
let's just use this as guides i'm going to select all these change it to mind and take the stroke
down just so it's guides here right like that so those are my guides to draw and i'm just going
to group that so we have that later now here's the real thing that i'm going to do with the
pen tool i have the pen tool selected i'm gonna go here and draw my helmet just around like that
right i'm gonna just fake it i hope i'm holding down um control right here to
lock it and let me zoom in so you can see what i'm doing with the helmet so um zoom command plus
and just bring this down here so helmet kind of comes down like this right and goes in
and then comes down like that and then we have kind of that mouthpiece like this so
hold down ctrl on this one mouthpiece out like that and come here and then the arms
let's just come down here and we have to have him grabbing it so let's put like a hand
here really simple and then the arms will come up like this right and the body will come in so
he's not has doesn't have a stomach let's come in a little bit more the legs will come in like this
let's just you won't see that so come out and we're gonna need like his butt to come out so
let's do that right like he's sitting up and just follow this line and curve it up like this
and there so now that we've filled that in let's fill that in with color and we can kind of adjust
it if you want the helmet to be a little bit better again we're just faking it this is just
a silhouette it's going to be really small we can move that down and up however you want to like
move it around so you can see it's kind of like the hands are grabbing it here
right and his arm so we just use that as a guide and move things around if you want
uh maybe his butt's not this saggy maybe it's up like that
but his legs are coming in like this right good now we can get rid of the guides that we had
so that guide and there we go there's a person really simple person on the on a bike
right and it's a little different than this one if you wanna you know his back to arch
you can kind of come up here and take his back out and arch it a little bit more if you want
stuff like that you can have his chest come out whatever it is but you can see it it really is
just a shadow so it doesn't have to be anything too complex you have the bike that looks like
a bike this person can just be really simple and we you saw that i just did that with the
pen tool kind of eyeballing it so that's how you can do that let's take this shape and put it on
our heartbeat and i'll show you how to do that so here we have both things that we made earlier so
the heartbeat we have this right here remember there's a three of these so one one two and
three and then we have the dirt bike let's just group these together now so i'm hitting command g
so this is one thing and we're just gonna size it down so we just have to grab the corner here and
shrink it down just a little bit so we want the tire here and the tire there so let's just do that
kind of eyeballing it you'll notice the line again on this heartbeat is over that so let's
zoom in i'm going to command plus i'll show you what i'm doing so double click on this
and you're going to use that node tool right here and just hold down shift and bring it in right
where the tire is so you can see right there same thing with this side bring it in to the tire so
you can see that it's just doing that so that's all there is to it so you're done right here there
it is heartbeat with dirt bike so simple and i showed you i showed you this but i also wanted
to show you can do it with other um things in my other video i'm going to put another video right
here i show you how to do these balls baseball soccer ball you can do that as well put that in
there and the thing you might want to do as well is to make it white so here's a black background
i'm just turning these white just you can see that this one is white so let me show you how to do
that i'm going to take our thing that we just made right here i'm going to drag it or copy it command
c and put it on this black background command v over here so you can't see it because it's um
black so because the background is black i'm going to turn this gray so you can see what i'm doing
so here these two three it's a stroke right now so you can make that white stroke instead of a
black stroke so this one is a shape so let's just take this one and it's the fill and turn it white
and there it is you just turn that to white and save this export this as your file make sure that
it's the right size and then you can use it on merch by amazon or redbubble or wherever you want
so i'd still keep this black version as a sticker so these may be really good stickers
on redbubble but if you want a t-shirt on a black t-shirt we saw a lot of the t-shirts were black
converted to white here so that is it that's all you need to do i showed you how to make the
heartbeat lines as well as the dirt bike you can use this for anything any sport any hobby
be creative with this all you need is a silhouette here or some kind of black and white drawing and
you can do it have your own different niches on this so hopefully this video is really
helpful for you let me know in the comments if it was thanks so much for staying till the end
and your reward for staying all the way to the end is another edition of trend credits
Thanks for joining me on this trend. Here is your trend "Violates community standards". Take a look
at these. Not sure why this is trending. Let me know in the comments if you know why this
is trending. I'm guessing facebook community standards? or some other community standards?
Look at these low BSRs. Take a look at these. This one's even getting low BSRs and it's really
hard to see so not sure why um low bsr here i mean not all of them are selling like some of
these they may be new maybe they didn't get any sales yet so but there's still some with some
low bsrs. Let's take a look at Merch Inforrmer. It's getting an A... so you know it's good. If
you don't have Merch Informer I have a link in the description for Merch Informer. It's where you can
check competition like this and get your Merch Informer graphics like we used in this video.
So take a look at this trend again "Violates community standards". I think you can break
into this one pretty easy like the competition is mostly text so if you undo something that gets
people's attention i think you can get more sales than the ones that are already here so
this is your trend for this video have fun with this one violates community standards so that
is it for this video thanks so much for watching hopefully this video was super helpful for you now
you know how to make those heartbeat designs and if it was really helpful for you and it brought
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right here in all my videos so you can make sure to click on those and before i leave i wanted to
leave with a question of the day and the question of the day is related to this video what would you
put in your heartbeat design instead of a dirt bike maybe you're going to put a soccer ball
or a golf person or you know swimming what what hobby do you like what things do you really love
let me know in the comments what would you put in your heartbeat design
put that in the comments thanks again for watching
and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye