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I got a lot more videos coming in the future and I got a lot already in the past so you can take a
look at some of those. In this video I'm going to teach you another t-shirt design this is another
t-shirt design tutorial in affinity designer if you have that you can follow along with that i'm
going to teach you something in this video that i haven't shown before and i think this will be
something that's really helpful for you to create nice design t-shirts t-shirt designs that sell i'm
going to show you some examples of where you can see some of these this is something you can use on
so many different ideas so many different niches and you can scale it too so something that
you you're going to want to stay till you're going to want to stay till the end to see the
final product and how to put it all together as well as another edition of trend credits so
let's get started let's get into affinity designer right now so here we are in affinity designer i
wanted to show you this first since the title of this video is called t-shirt designs that sell
take a look at these bsrs they're super low these are designs that sell and in this video i'm going
to teach you this technique you can see all of these have this warped text right you can see
right here at the top this retired kind of has that arc text this arc text right here and this
arc you can call it a warp text or art arc text but you can see they're all used in different ways
it doesn't have to say usa it can say whatever it doesn't have to say a country this one says
retired but you can see just having that kind of create some interest and you can scale these
things right um this could be 2022 2024 this could be germany france whatever you know it doesn't
have to say usa it doesn't even have to say any of these words you can do something it just has that
athletic look that vintage look that people like on t-shirts and so it helps sell the t-shirt right
so i just wanted to show you that use this technique you don't have to do this exact
t-shirt design that i'm showing use the skills that i'm showing you how to do to make other
designs for your t-shirt portfolio or your t-shirt shop okay so i wanted to show you the difference
between the two so this one right here you can see it's on a path so if i'm just typing it out
i'm using a font right here this is just a font and i'm typing it on a path
so you'll notice that when you do text on a path the letters are kind of angled right you can see
this one has this angle i'm putting these guidelines here just so you can see the angles on
it at the end but when you have an arc shape this right here the ones that we were showing before
on those t-shirts everything straight up and down so that's the difference you can't get this
this arc shape just by typing it on a path you have to do something different and i'm going to
show you how to do it it takes a little bit of time if you have illustrator there's a plug-in
for this as far as i know there's no plug-in on affinity designer to do this quickly so i'm going
to show you how to do it manually hopefully in the future with some updates on affinity designer if
you're listening we would really love this in the t-shirt community and i think just in the graphic
community as well graphic design community if you can just click on a word and then have it do this
arc shape or different kind of warping tools it would be so nice but i can show you how to do it
manually and that's part of what i'm going to show you in this tutorial this t-shirt tutorial today
so the first step that you want to do in designing this t-shirt is you want to find
a slab serif font and you can see there's a ton of slab serif fonts online i'm going to use this one
for our tutorial this is bose b-e-a-u-s varsity so i'm going to use that you see i have the font
installed right here but these are some other ones let me show you where you can find these fonts
so if you go to my fonts right here you can see they have a section already for slab serif and
let me just click on that and it will tell you what a slab serif font is so here a slab
serif font is a serif font where the serifs are squared off they have those big ones instead of
just really thin like times roman you'll see some of these are thicker this this right here
this bottom that's the serif and they're usually thicker and one thing you're going to want to do
when you want to do a search for slab serif fonts on my fonts is they have this where the weight so
weight is thick and thin so let's just take this weight all the way up to 75 right there and you'll
notice now we have thicker ones we have thick slab serif fonts you can see i want the weight thicker
because thicker fonts just read better on t-shirts and here's hudson here's that bose varsity
here's that museo slab undergrad you can see there's just a ton of them right so i just picked
one you can download or buy any of these some are free you can see right here but some this one's
probably 19.99 usually the thick ones are not the free ones they usually give the thin ones for free
but uh yeah take a look at these i just went and picked the top one one of the top ones here
so i just picked this one bose varsity right here i downloaded it it was just 4.99 five dollars and
change plus tax you know with the tax in it so not very expensive font but you can see just
it looks really cool for athletic uh designs right so let's get back into affinity designer
so the next step that you want to do is just pick a word in this case this
isn't a word it's usa it's a acronym but you want to pick one with at least three letters
this is probably the smallest you want to go and up to eight letters we had the example of houston
houston before right you can see that's seven letters any more than eight letters it's
gonna kind of get too long so if you did something like philadelphia here you can see that would be
too long to be on a t-shirt right unless you had a lot of stuff below it so i would just stick
to something really short we're gonna use usa here in this example but uh that's the reason
for three to eight letters just because you wanna make sure that it's gonna fit nicely on a t-shirt
anywhere else any anything longer will probably look too small and you're gonna have to condense
it a little bit so pick a word the next thing is let me go over here is convert it to curves
so this is how easy it is to convert it to curves you can see it's um bose varsity right
here and all you have to do is look for this convert to curves and the reason we're going
to convert to curves is because we're going to move some points so convert to curves and then
ungroup and then you're going to see now i can click on it and then we have these points right
so that's very important we're going to need that as we change how it's gonna look so
convert it to curves next thing we're gonna do is make some guides so you can see i have these
guides here and these are gonna be really helpful so let me show you how to do that
pretty easy so let's do this let's click on the pen tool click here hold down shift and click
and then we're going to want to find the middle of this so let's click on here you can see it
does the middle right there affinity designer so i'm going to take a guide and just drag this
here to the middle right there and then use your node tool to click to the middle of it
right there so now you have a middle point and then just move it up just drag it up
like there you can kind of eyeball this part and then convert this point to this curve so you can
see i'm clicking this smooth curve right there and then you can just bring that out just a little bit
so i'm eyeballing it holding down shift so that it's straight and do the same on this
side and there you go you can make this curve however tall or long you want you can see i
kind of did it a little less here so just by doing that you can make it taller or shorter
just that easy right okay so once you make that you're going to want to do this i'm going to
do the center so take whatever word you have the center letter or middle two there might be
two center letters there might be one centered letter i'm gonna zoom in here
and take your guides once you have them and put it all the way to the top so you can see right here
the top of that s you can just hit the down arrow right there and then take your let's say you did
this one first so i'm going to remove this guide because this guide isn't the center well you could
do the center of this one let's see there and then this hold down shift to select all of these
make sure that's the center that's the center okay so now we got the center
and do option shift drag and make sure that's the center so everything's aligned here and if
you have these slab serifs the reason why i love to do the slab serifs is you can also take this
and align it to this right here you can see that line and that line so you're gonna have these four
um guides just to help you out and i'll show you why we need that um just in a little bit so once
you have your guides here the next thing you're gonna wanna do is move some points on the letter
so you can see i did the u here i moved the points to the guides you can see right here they're
right on the guides let me show you how easy it is for the a i'm gonna do the a right here live
i'm gonna zoom in and then just pick a point so just double click on there click on one of these
and you can do two things you can either click on the point hold down shift and just drag it down to
get to the guide or you can click on the point and just use your arrow tool down just hold it down
until you reach the point it's just that simple so i'm going to do the other ones here and i'm
going to do it in a fast mode speed so we'll just zip by it and then you can see the final result
alright so i got to this point where i connected all the lines to the guides or the points to the
guides right but you may be wondering what do i do with this this is still straight so you're gonna
have to eyeball that you can see the curves on it so just take this point right here and just hit
down until it kind of matches this curve right see right there it doesn't have to be perfect
it just has to have that illusion that it's still following that right there so now that looks good
i can take out the guides and you'll see what i'm left with so let's just click on these
and delete and there you go just a nice curve now i have this it's all straight up and down
it took a little bit of time for longer words it's going to take a lot more time but then you
have this and you can use this for other things right so this is something that you can use on
on many different designs in the future so this is first part of it now that you have
this let me show you what to do next so the next step to do is just to add a flag you can just
add a simple flag like this or you could put the flag in a shape like this let me show you if you
don't have flags already let me show you a good place to get these flags and shapes and that is
on my website detour shirts if you go here to my home page and then to downloads i have these flags
25 flags that you can use four dollars here ten shapes four dollars it's not that expensive but
you could draw them yourself an affinity designer if you want but this will just save you some time
and you can have all these flags right there so i know you can get flags on for svg for free on the
internet but these are all vector so the good thing about it is let's go back to affinity
designer and i can show you these are vectors so you can change the colors of these really easy
change the shape take things out and do things a lot easier than just a svg right so svg would be
all together which is still scalable but you may not be able to click on each individual
path they might be all together so that's one benefit of having it as a vector let me show you
how to put it inside of this so let me get the two shapes here first so let me show you how these two
work together so this one is the flag here's the shape that i have i'm gonna move this to the front
i think it already is on the top and then this one is next to it you can see both
so i'm going to move this behind it so i can get it in the right spot once you get
it in the right spot move the flag to the front now it's covering it but you can see
the flag is all together it's a group and i'm gonna put this group inside of the curve so
i'm just dragging it down and putting it inside you can see right there and it just does it real
easy simple like that right and then you're just gonna make sure that it's centered with that usa
super simple all right and then you can do other things like this and mask the flag inside of usa
let me show you it's the same thing let me grab usa here let me grab flag this one here
okay so we're going to do the same thing make sure the flag is bigger than usa
make sure usa is at the top so i'm going to put that at the top and flag is near the top
i'm going to close it okay so the next thing you have to do is not have this as a group
it has to be one single piece so i'm going to ungroup this
ungroup it and then i'm going to combine it right here using add okay so now it's one piece and if i
move the flag in front of it and then drag it down and in you can see right there and one good thing
about that is if you don't want the that blue so you can just click on the flag and move it so
if the flag was like that and you want it just on the u for example just click it to the left there
you go and then of course it looks nicer on a black background there it is so lots of different
ways you can do use the flags and the shield and stuff so i think it's a great deal and this is
the final design i just changed these things to white right here white text white outline and
save it put it on a t-shirt and that's how you do the design that i'm i'm showing on my thumbnail
and that i showed you how to do so you can see you can scale this so many ways you can
do this with a different country different flags different sayings let's go back to the
let's go back to the whole thing right here look at all the different ways you're going to notice
these a lot now when you're searching on amazon i mean states countries different words even just
athletic stuff so that is it for this video and hopefully this will teach you how to do this
architects and and use it throughout different types of design styles so um thank you so much
for watching let me know in the comments if this was really helpful for you or hopefully i didn't
go too fast for you can slow it down and watch it over and over again but something that you can do
manually again i really wish affinity designer has a plug-in for it if it does let me know and then
we can skip this whole manual stuff and just hit hit a button and make it um quickly but there is a
way around it and you can do it manually so i just wanted to show you that you can do that thanks
so much for staying all the way to the end and your reward is another edition of trend credits
Thanks for staying with me to the end for this trend credit. Here is your trend,
"Let the fun be gin" t-shirt. So take a look at this. Some very low um BSRs on
these not all of them but some of them you can see they they have some good sales here
um not a lot of uh results either 161 results pretty low it's a pun which makes it funny for
people who love puns and drinking gin in this case let's take a look at Merch Informer it's getting
an A so you know it's good. Good competition. If you don't have Merch Informer I have a link in the
description for Merch Informer that's where you can get that and you can check on competition,
get some graphics all this good stuff on Merch Informer. You may be wondering
is this trademarked. I looked it up. Here you can see the trademark is dead so uh it's free to
go. You can use this. I guess it was live at one point but now it's dead so um it's something that
you can use and it doesn't have to be um so you don't have to have this exact phrase as long as
you come up with a phrase that says something with begin in it that that could be really fun
let the adventure begin or begin see i'm already doing it that's why it's funny so um there you go
that is your trend for this video let the fun begin 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 warp text how
to use that arc text in affinity designer if this was helpful for you make sure to give it a thumbs
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one right here in the in the corner that works too um before i leave the question of the day is
do you use warp text in your t-shirt design i know i'm showing this one with an arc but there's
sometimes that you use different ones maybe where the top is flat and the bottom is arced or vice
versa maybe the bottom is the top is arced and the bottom is straight there's some other warp text
features in illustrator that they do that i've used to use before when i had illustrator are you
using those kinds of things in your t-shirt design if they if you do let me know in the comments
which ones and hopefully i can show you how to do it in affinity designer as well so that is it for
this video thanks so much for watching if you want to see other t-shirt design videos click
these right here and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see on the next one bye