In this video iIm gonna do another level up design this is where I take a
design like this one right here and make it just a little bit better. 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 since 2005 and my channel is all about helping you
to learn how to design and sell t-shirts online. If that's something you want to learn how to do,
don't forget to hit that subscribe button. So in this video I'm doing it again, I'm doing another
level up design. A lot of you have said in the comments that you love these tutorials. These
videos that I take a design uh just a basic design and try and level it up and make it
just a little bit better to get some sales. So in this video i'm doing a thanksgiving themed design
i know thanksgiving is just around the corner and this one probably won't sell for thanksgiving
because it's too late and i did that on purpose just so you don't do a copycat version of this
you i want you to do your own version for the next holiday or something else
in the future maybe a next hobby or something like that so think about that when you're looking
at this video don't think about oh this is a thanksgiving design use the principles in this
tutorial to do your own design for something else so i'm gonna do all of this in affinity designer
and hopefully you can learn some tips and tricks in there as well to do another design for this
so let's get started right away i'm going to open up affinity designer and show you what the design
is and how i'm going to make it better all right so here we are in affinity designer i got this
thing that i made this design thanksgiving agenda you can see i'm using a pretty cool font this font
is spood brush sans so you can see right here it's a sans serif font kind of looks handwritten
or it has that texture on it and then i just i'm using some thanksgiving colors right you got this
brown green orange kind of thing and then i got some graphics here it's okay i think there's some
good things about this you know it's real easy to read we got some iconography or we've got some
silhouettes here and we got some colors to make it stand out i'm gonna try and make it just a little
bit better hopefully it's better we'll see you let me know in the at the end so i'm gonna zoom out
here just a little bit and one of the things that i want to change first is this thanksgiving agenda
words they're okay it's it's a sans-serif font but i think what would stand out is a
script font a lot of these uh for thanksgiving you know thankful grateful all those you might
have seen all of those are in like a handwritten font a script font so i'm going to change that
to this just because it gives the feeling of fall it gives the feeling of thanksgiving so
i'm going to change this food brush also makes a script so i'm gonna go down here and
i'm gonna look at my favorites and there we go spood brush bold and just gonna do that make it
fit in yeah that's feeling a lot better to me um i don't know what do you guys think this is
right there one of the things about this script font though is that there's no capital letters
and i really want a capital t right here so one way you can do that is change this convert this
to curves ungroup take this out this t out and then maybe look for another letter or
something in here that would be the place of a t so i'm going to type in the number one whoops
make sure that it's the right color let's see it's probably not even the right font
yeah let's go back and do this again smooth brush bold see one kind of has that look of a t right
so we're gonna oh it's not the right color yet one there and then i'm gonna need a thing going across
there so let's do another one i'm going to copy hold this and copy and then use this so i'm going
to go to my glyphs palette and see what kinds of things are in here and this is a good way to see
you know what you have what you can use and let's see i didn't see anything maybe this one
yeah that one works and this could be your top of the t here and then just stretch it out
thanksgiving so we're going to have to zoom in and
take care of some of these problems here so let's zoom in
and we want to change this to curves as well so let's change that and now i can manipulate the
the dots here or the points and just take those out
zoom in and even more
there that kind of looks like a t cool and we're gonna manipulate this one too
convert that to curves you know maybe stretch this out a little bit
and then this h we need to move some of this down just so it's like that there we go
so there thanksgiving with the t and you can move this tv that's kind of slanted there so let's
do that thanksgiving agenda so now that we got thanksgiving there one the next thing i'm gonna
change is this word agenda now agenda's okay uh and it looks like you know these are the
things that i'm going to do today but when i think of that i think of a checklist and
having a check mark i think that visual is a little better so instead of agenda i'm
going to use the word checklist so just type in checklist now you don't have to do this this is
just one thought that i was going through in my mind how to make this better right
instead of uh turkeys here i could do check marks there and let's change this font just to make it
different i'm gonna look at what i got of course you're gonna have to look at what you got and
i like this one the foreign rough one for origin rough one and let's see do it like this
maybe turn it a little bit just to you know give it some visual difference here
and just fit it right there kind of in the center so thanksgiving checklist of course
we're going to have to make a checklist now so let's take these turkeys out of here
and i'll show you how to make a checklist so let's make a simple checklist all i'm going to do is do
the rounded rectangle right here click on that and hold down shift make sure that it's like a square
and then we're going to do the outline of it so come back here to the color
you know make that clear make this black here white
and the stroke we can make just a little thicker you know you're gonna have to eyeball it so
there that looks looks cool okay and we're just gonna make one and then copy it for the other
one so i'm gonna zoom in here so we can see what we're doing you notice on my font here it has like
a rounded look just a little bit so we're going to take that rounded rectangle again and fill it
and make sure that it kind of matches that so we can come in here
and you know make it just a little bit less round
and what we're going to do is we're going to use this for our check marks so
if we want to turn this like this and we want to turn the other one hold down option
and shift and drag and turn this other one here on its side kind of matching
like that
let's do that and then move this one down and this one up
look at that that looks like a check mark right
and if you want to get more in here and just zoom in
and make sure that it kind of touches here i can make this like that
boom right now when we zoom out it looks like a check mark and you can make this as big as
or as small as you want now that they're rectangles so you could do it like that
put it right in the middle whatever checkbox okay so select these now right here i would group them
just so we have the checkbox and we can do three like that boom now you're seeing it
it's looking like a checklist and the next thing we're gonna do i'm gonna change these right here
and i'm gonna make them into icons i think a lot of these agendas these checklists have words and
one way that i'm gonna stand out is to make mine pictures instead and they're really easy
to understand instead of having to read right away people can look at the pictures and i think just
it gives that visual feel it's a little bit better and it's going to stand out because it's different
so let's get and drawing these things so before i draw any of these things i want to put it in
a different order and that's because i think nap is actually last so when you do a checklist
on thanksgiving you're going to eat first and then watch football i think
you know and then take a nap because once you're napping that's it right so you're down for the
count so i'm going to do eat football nap just to you know have that right progression that
is going to happen on thanksgiving so let's do eat first i'm going to zoom in and for eat
i think i'll just do a drumstick real easy i'm going to show you how to do it just with shapes
so we have this oval here right and then that could be the drumstick and then we got this
rectangle here click on your rectangle boom and then we got two circles right
so or ovals let's do that and take this right here and just kind of turn it
and then we'll do another one option shift drag and turn it right and that may be too thick now
look at that that looks like a drumstick right just shapes now it may come in like this and like
this so we can adjust this right here so click on this hit curves and you know click on here
so if you hold down control you can manipulate both of the sides at the same time so hold down
control and move this you can see it's moving together so you want it bigger on this side
and thinner on the other side control like that right and then you can move these down like this
and this just to give it a little you know it's it's always bigger on this side and thinner on
this side as it gets closer to the bone and you may want this to come in here too just
you don't have to but let me show you how this makes a difference so we just click here and then
here and then kind of bring it in like that and then we come back and do the same thing down here
and click here and just kind of curve it you see how i'm pulling the curves hold down control and
click on this so it doesn't move and then you can connect the two and then make sure that
they're all white so you can see now it kind of gives the illusion that it's coming in right like
that so the next thing i want to do is just maybe take a bite out of this so let's just use circles
here so i'm going to make it black so you can see the difference
and then hold down option and drag and make a few bites like this and the middle bite
is going to be a little bigger there so i'm going to knock this out first i'm going to
combine these by adding them together and then i'm going to knock this out of the other shape right
here by subtracting and there you go so there's your drumstick so we don't need the word eat
we can just have the drumstick i'm gonna group all of these and put it right there so the next
thing we're going to do is a football i actually have a tutorial on how to do a
football i'll put the link to the video up here i'm not going to show you how to do the football
in this video but i'm going to do the football offline and then i'm going to come back and do nap
all right so i'm back i did the football here offline like i said on the that tutorial you
can watch it it's pretty easy it's mainly shapes again and lines the last thing i'm going to do is
nap i think this is funny to have at the end because most people take a nap
and just having it at the end just makes the joke complete right this is the checklist you know i'm
gonna take a nap so let's remove the word nap and i'm gonna zoom in here just so we have it
so just like these we're gonna use the rounded rectangle so click on rounded rectangle
put it here make sure it's in the front oh make sure it's white
here so you can see it i think the last thing i did was a black thing so just remember
so we're gonna make a bed so let's do this first here and maybe the other one is
you know out here somewhere and it's lower and then the bottom half of the bed is like this
real simple guys we're just using shapes see that bed super simple and then we need a head
so that's going to be a circle hold down shift and draw a circle
nothing nothing hard here right and then we're gonna do a shape so
let's do this pen tool it's just gonna be the blanket so click on here go up here
right across maybe right there and then connect it to this one we're gonna pull down like that
and then hold down control click and come across boom and we'll kind of color that white too
and you know if you want to get closer just click on these and whoops just click on both of these
and kind of bring it closer like that and then you can adjust this too
right so maybe that's tall like this maybe it's like that and then adjust this to fit
you know there so the last thing i think to make it funny is to put z's here to
give that uh notion that this person is knocked out they're zing so
click on the text tool type the letter z um you might want to use a fatter one
let's see what we got here um nexo sans let's use that you can use whatever font you want
so i want a nice thick one here you know maybe a big z first and then little z
and small z here something like that maybe just play with it
and you can make all of these bigger too if you want just so when you back out
there you go thanksgiving checklist eating football and sleeping or napping right here and
you can play around with the space so now that you have both of these group them then you make grab
these right here and group these group make sure they're in the right group and then this last one
grab this and group and so you got some space down here let's move them
there kind of space it out thanksgiving checklist eat football and naps and i think this will stand
out because they're icons now instead of text let's take a look at both of them together
so here they are together there's a lot of things here that stick out uh you notice that i didn't do
color you could do color here let's make sure this is all one thing uh and then you know make this
stand out with like maybe an orange and maybe the maybe this right here is orange let's see we can
copy the same color you know make a checklist like that and stand out all of these could do the same
see
so that's one way we could have it have color the reason why i don't want too many colors on
here is it could work on different color t-shirts so right now we have the black but let's see you
know on gray it still looks good wait let's do red you know it's kind of getting washed out we
may be doing the dark red like that that could do really well so i don't want to use too many colors
because it may look good on black but not might not look good on the other things so have fun
with this let me know your thoughts on these again i'm just trying to make it stand out from what's
already out there right so if people are using text that's already out there you can switch it
up and do icons if people are doing lots and lots of color you can switch it up by doing less color
if people are doing lots of sans serif then maybe throw in a script font just to give it some
variety and i think this will stand out too just because it's a little bit different now when lots
of people are starting to use icons you might want to go back to using text instead but i think for
right now more people are doing text just because it's easier to type right instead of trying to
find icons that match but you can see how easy it was to do icons in affinity designer with some
shapes and just the pen tool so have fun with this one again don't use this for thanksgiving because
it's too late to do thanksgiving things make maybe do a christmas one maybe do a new year's one maybe
do a valentine's maybe do some other hobbies you know or watching football or or something like
that so have fun with this technique hopefully is really helpful for you in this and don't forget
to watch that football one because i didn't uh do it in here i'll make sure to leave a link
in the description so so go and make your t-shirts better and hopefully get more sales so that is it
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i wanted to leave with a question of the day and the question of the day is this what would you put
on your checklist so i had eat nap watch football maybe watch tv or something let me know what you
do on thanksgiving or the other holidays and what would you make on your checklist what kind
of things would you put on there to make it funny there's lots of different ways i only did three
words there but you know there could be maybe drinking or something like that that would be
that would be hilarious too so leave those in the comments thanks again for watching and if
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right here and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye