In this video i'm going to teach you to design a t-shirt like this
which is one of the hottest trends for 2021 the 90s japanese kawaii trend. 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. So in this video i'm going to teach you about one of the hottest trends
going on right now in 2021 and i kind of predicted it so if you look back at that video right here
you're gonna see that number eight was 90s theme and number 10 was asian inspired what i didn't
know is that they were both be mashed together and do their own theme which is a 90s japanese
kawaii theme that you're seeing a lot on amazon as well as red bubble so if you want to learn how
to design for this new hot trend this is the video for you i'm going to show you step by step on what
you should do and this is going to be all done in affinity designer and i'm also going to show you
places on the internet where you can get assets for this you're going to want to stay to the
end to see how it all comes together as well as another edition of trend credits let's get into it
so before i show you how to build it i wanted to show you what it is so if you go in here on amazon
type in 90s japanese kawaii t-shirt you can see some of the examples here it's really hot right
now look at these low low bsrs right it started with the strawberry milk of course but take a
look now we have cats and look at the bsrs as i scroll down there's a little girl low bsrs mostly
strawberry melchior look a cat again cute cat cute stuff um scroll down it's it's still going right
uh but look at this um a spam musubi right look at the low bsrs we got uh a cat again cat so kawaii
actually means cute so anything cute with japanese and then that 90s style right so
take a look at this one this is a cassette tape with a little bit of japanese and that 90s
look right and look at the low bsrs so this is something that's trending right now this
is current if you want to look on amazon right now you can see this banana milk right low bsrs
as well as on red bubble so this is red bubble i typed in 90s japanese kawaii you can see a little
bit different not a lot of the strawberry milk but a lot of the same kind of thing the japanese text
you got that 90s look and it's cute right so here it is again that same one from amazon let's see
so here you can see 90s background japanese cute idea right let's see
right here again i think that's one we saw so you can see this theme is something that's
on both redbubble and merch by amazon so i'm going to teach you how to do your own 90s
japanese kawaii themed t-shirts so let's get into affinity designer and let me show you what i mean
so what makes this t-shirt design so popular is the layers and it looks
really tough so we're going to break it down into three layers so first layer 90s right
you're going to have to make your t-shirt design look like it's in the 90s and one way to do that
is with colors so i just took this color palette from the internet you can just search 90s colors
on google and find one and then pick one and i just picked this one it's just colors uh 90s
colors are usually really bright or kind of muted but you can see both bright and muted
kind of colors here i'm taking some some of those pinks the orange yellow kind of blue teal
those kind of colors really stood out back in the 90s 90s was also known for shapes so
if you use these kinds of backgrounds kind of this online background or you know this
gradient background with the colors that i picked from here with the lines kind of this
checkerboard line here you also see these kind of perspective lines in the 90s right kind of this
graphical look so that's another design theme for the 90s you can also put that in a circle
so i see here in a circle as well as different vintage sunsets right you got these kinds of
circles or this kind of circle and you can also look on the internet for 90s themes backgrounds
as well if you go to creative market or vexels and just search in there for 90s backgrounds you
can look for that if you don't want to make your own but these are all made inside of
affinity designer so these are just lines right these are just lines right here that you space
out and then this is just a background so you can make your own background but if you don't want to
you can get some from those those sites i'm going to zoom in here so you can see these are just
circles within a square so each one of this is a circle and i group them and i space them out right
with this so something you can do if you have affinity designer plus signs you know jagged lines
this is just paths right you can draw that with your pen tool these these are just paths too right
and then i just created them in a pattern ways so these are the background designs
used in the 90s we also had lots of different shapes right and remember i'm still using the
colors from the color palette so pick you know two or three four colors that you want to use
here are some other shapes you got the donut shape the plus shape this zigzag shape hexagon triangles
so 90s were all about patterns and shapes so look for those while searching on the internet and
you know maybe have a collection of these kinds of backgrounds for you to use and
this is going to be your start your very first layer of doing this 90s japanese kawaii theme
so the next part of this trend is kawaii i know that the title is 90s japanese kawaii but i wanted
to do kawaii first and the reason for that is we need to know what we're talking about before we go
into the japanese text so first kawaii remember kawaii just means cute in japanese so it just
has to look cute a cute drawing it doesn't have to have a face but that kind of helps
make it cute but if you just draw it in a nice way that it is cute then you then that
counts here are some that i drew so this is my food pack from detour shirts.com
it's a digital download you can get this for four dollars for affinity designer um and this
is drawn in a cute way you're gonna have to draw your own eyes like this and in these shapes but
this kind of helps with the cuteness right but if you don't want to draw or don't want to get these
from detour shirts here are some other places that you can get cute kawaii designs so here i am on
vexels all i typed in was kawaii you can see 655 kawaii graphics and designs take a look at this
now it doesn't have to be food it can be a cat right there's some some other animals here these
would be really cool too um let's see these are some really good ones um you know food again
cute uh what do we got here animals so it looks like animals and food are on the top
for for kawaii stuff but just take a look what you want you can hit next here page two
so you can see here more more fun stuff so this is kind of the idea that we're going for anyway
right here so some of these are almost done you can see some really cool ideas right so kawaii
um designs just just pick one that you think is best uh someone animal eating too so
some really good ones on vexels let's go creative market same thing type in kawaii and you can see
here dinosaurs was one that we didn't see on the other one that would be cool kawaii animals these
are some cute cats so any of these unicorns would be great so think of what you what the theme that
you want to build around and get that design okay so we're looking for a specific picture so
one picture you know either a cupcake or a food or or something like that an animal would do well so
think of that so here's some other ones too right so one of the reasons i like this trend is because
there's so many different ways that you can do it and depending on what you put in the middle
what your center piece is so that's step number two is find something that is kawaii
so the part three that you're going to want to do for this trend is the japanese part so once
you have what you're doing let's say it's a pineapple you're gonna wanna know how to
write that in japanese right if i'm doing a cupcake you gotta write that in japanese so
let's say we're gonna do pancake this is actually easier than you might think you may think i don't
know how to write this in japanese well that's why there's google so let's go to google and i just
typed in how to write pancake in japanese so right here google just does it for you english japanese
pankiki right all you have to do is click on here and hit command c command c and go back
to affinity designer and i'm gonna just copy this put this down here and hit command v look
there's pankiki right so you don't even have to know how to write it you just have to trust
google that google's right this is how you say pancake in japanese so that's how easy
it is to get the japanese text just use google paste it right into affinity designer and this
just gives you the basic font so you don't have to have a japanese font it just does it for you
if you click right here and hit v it just does it right it's not not a particular font it's just uh
affinities designer just remembering what it was on google and using that text so pretty
cool you may not have known that it's that easy but it is and then you can just convert these
to curves if you want it thicker or thinner just add a stroke on it something like that change the
color whatever you need to do so that's how easy it is to find the japanese text so the last thing
you want to do is just put it all together so remember the colors from before make sure you pick
two or three colors from here and then i just put it all together so here's the japanese text
here are some backgrounds the 90s backgrounds that i picked
and i decided to pick one of the cupcakes with one of those faces remember the diamond shape um
and this is all of it together so i layered the 90s background first behind this is just a black
background so to represent a black t-shirt i picked a couple of those 90s backgrounds
from the beginning put them there as well as some of these shapes you can see they're just shapes
made together and then my kawaii art is at the very front of everything so layer all
your backgrounds in the back put your kawaii in the front your japanese text in the front
as well you can outline it or not outline it whatever you wish and you can have one like that
and you can see the possibilities are endless so just switch out kind of the same thing but
i changed the colors i changed the background i could have changed the kawaii design too but
i just left it just to show you that you don't have to but you can make it you know i could have
put a pancake in here and change the the pancake name right here right same thing over here if
you want it on a white background i usually pick just three colors so you can see here i went with
this color this color black and white count so that's actually five so you got black white pink
uh this kind of teal color right so that's four uh here black white pink and i added this color
so that's five so so one tip about colors is try to keep it within three to five colors
including black and white make sure those are included so you don't want to get too many
colors i know 90s is a lot about these colors but a little color goes a long way so you can see here
this probably is getting too many colors because of the gradient and stuff so you might want to
take that out or or just make sure you don't have a lot of color so that might be pushing it this
one right here but you can see right here there's two or three colors kind of make it so that's it
that's how easy it is to make something for the 90s japanese kawaii trend that's really hot right
now go ahead and make some more of your own you can use different kawaii designs in the middle
remember animals food we saw a lot of those things on on vexils and on creative market i'm excited
for you guys to see what you come up with this is a cool trend that's very popular right now
and it will continue to be popular i believe in 2021 especially in the japanese market if
you have that on merch by amazon as well as just on redbubble and merch by amazon in general so
i think it turns out really cool and can make a really cool sticker in other products as well
on redbubble so have fun with this one thanks so much for watching this video let me know in the
comments if this was really helpful or if you're gonna start doing this trend and what would you
put in the middle here um would you put an animal would you put a food let me know in the comments
and as a reward for staying all the way to the end here is another edition of trend credits
Thanks for staying till then for this trend credit here is your trend
it's test day and you got this so take a look at these low bsrs right low bsrs low bsrs that means
it's selling and let's check merch informer it's also getting an a so you know it's good it's good
competition if you don't have merch informer i have a link in the description for merch informer
this is where you can check competition to make sure that it's good and it is so let's take a look
at the trend again it's test day and you got this of course this is referencing finals and all the
tests that you have to take before either graduating or just completing the next grade
so this is a good one right now very trendy and you can see lots of sales going on by the
low bsr so hopefully you like this trend so if you don't like this exact phrase
think of other things that people would want to wear at the end of school because it's kind of
getting that time where people are taking finals and graduating and things like that so that's a
very uh on trend right now so that is your trend for this video it's test day and you got this
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