In this video I'm going to show you how to do a simple repeating pattern
in Affinity Designer and you can use this pattern, this technique and this pattern
to make multiple products on RedBubble like duvet covers
and shower curtains and backpacks and things like that. You don't want to miss this. 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 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 right here. So in this video you could use this technique for t-shirts but it's
mainly used for bigger things like duvet covers shower curtains backpacks and a whole bunch of
things that use patterns. Patterns are a huge thing on RedBubble. You can use it on Merch by
Amazon as well for phone cases and pop sockets and things like that. So it's very versatile
and you can use this technique for all kinds of different patterns. You're just gonna have
to follow the steps. I'm going to use just shapes but of course you can use pictures or whatever you
have. I'm going to do it really simple in Affinity Designer. I'm going to make a 90s pattern but
again you can use these techniques to do any pattern once you learn this secret on how to
do it in affinity designer and then you can put it on multiple products on RedBubble. So
i'm going to show you how to make this pattern the colors i use all in affinity designer and then i'm
going to show you at the end all the different products that you can put it on very easily
with redbubble so let's get to affinity designer right now all right so here we are in affinity
designer i got an artboard here this artboard is 1000 pixels by 1000 pixels you can see right here
1000 pixels by 1000 pixels so create your artboard that size that's going to be very important to do
so when you start your artboard or you start your affinity designer make sure to start it with an
artboard by 1000 by one thousand or you can start at any size and just make sure to come back here
and change it to one thousand by one thousand and um in your document setup if you don't have
it already it needs to be by pixels right one thousand by 1000 pixels okay all right the next
thing i did was i just found some 90s colors you can use whatever colors you want i did a search on
google for 90s color palette and this was one of them you know i'm just taking these colors here so
that's all they're there for this just for color so next thing i'm going to do is i'm going to
change the background of the artboard to this dark color right here just use my swatches do this and
then hit that so i'm just on artboard on my layer artboard you can see and i colored the background
the next thing we're going to do is draw some shapes i'm just going to do four or five shapes so
first very simple a circle hold down shift and draw your circle like that and color your
circle whatever one of these colors don't put a stroke on it and do you know yellow just pick one
all right the next one we're gonna do is triangle triangle and hold down shift you
don't have to hold down shift you can make it any size triangle you want right there and then color
it real simple guys we're going to keep it simple there you go and let's see a square you know
why not hold down shift you want a um perfect square and then pick the color
and then the next shape we're going to do is just a line shape so let's use the pen tool
click here hold down shift right here and then go 90 degrees and then back up
about there down again up again like that and then let's make this stroke a little bigger like that
and let's do the capped ends and corner you can see that and then we're going to color this
this is the stroke now so color it this pink color boom and then we're going to make sure to hit
layers and expand stroke so that it's an object all right last one here let's do a circle but
an outline circle hold down shift like that take away the fill and let's do the stroke
a little smaller maybe like that and let's color this one i don't know do we do this color
yeah there we go cool that's it those are the five shapes maybe make this a little
bigger let's do that five shapes one two three four five we use the all the six colors here
perfect so we don't need this anymore boom oh make sure to outline this one too just
like we did the other one so go to layers expand stroke good so now they're all shapes
and then now we're going to move them in place so let's start with the circle since we started
the circle i want to move it right here and then make sure it's on the other side so i don't know
if you knew this but affinity designer does math right so this is your x axis going this way from
left to right your y axis goes down from top to bottom right here okay so to move it we're gonna
have to continue it over here so let's click on here you see i have the ellipse right here
i'm gonna do a command j which just copies it right here you see i have two now we're going
to move the copy 1000 pixels all the way over here so go to your transform right here you can see the
x-axis says 54.4 right after that hit space and then the plus sign so hold down shift to hit the
plus sign which is above the equal sign and then just type in plus one zero zero zero which is one
thousand and hit enter and you can see it made it over here so if you want to move these now
if you click this and this one we can move it around just hold it whatever is on this side
is the mirror on this side okay so that's very important to know so let's just keep it right
there all right the next thing we're going to do is we're going to do the opposite we're going
to do the y with this triangle so let's move this triangle here kind of turn it like this
okay and we're gonna move this down which is the y-axis so click on this you can see again on the
layers triangle click on it and then hit command j boom you can see there's another triangle there
and that triangle we're going to move down 1000 pixels so go back to the transform
right here and hit plus 1000 boom and then you can see if you click on both of these right here
you can move them along like that so this is very important whatever you do on the top if it breaks
the top it needs to come in through the bottom and whatever you break through the left needs to
come in on the right okay so we're gonna do that over and over again i'm gonna speed up this video
so you can see how i'm doing each one but now that you know that secret technique that's what you're
gonna need to know for everything so whatever this right here if it breaks the left it needs to come
in on the right if it breaks the top it needs to come in from the bottom okay after this you're
gonna see i'm gonna do all of these and then i'm gonna come back with this pattern laid out
all right so that didn't take too long you can see if you followed along a little bit you saw that i
moved things around we just got to space it or space it around you can turn these things
just to see the spacing right so it doesn't have to be perfect but around this kind of same space
right and again if you're going to move this and this you have to move it together
so if you need to move that there move this there you can't do that all right
it looks pretty good to me one way to test this out is to save it as a png so let's do that
right now we're gonna click on artboard right here and we're gonna save it as a png click artboard
and then click up here file and export right there and then png and then hit
export that's all you need to do and then we're going to call this 90s patterns 90s
pattern save it to the desktop or wherever you want to save it and click done so now that we
save that as a png let's see what it looks like as a pattern so i'm going to click zoom out here and
then i'm going to create another artboard that's a little bigger so you can see what it looks like
this doesn't have to be a thousand by a thousand in fact you want it bigger so let's just do
you know something like this let's think that's a duvet cover or something like that let's just
imagine so the next thing you want to do this is really cool is click on this right here click on
this fill tool right here this is what it looks like and we're going to fill it with
click on this next and then we're going to fill it with a bitmap that png is going to be a bitmap
so click on this and then we're going to go 90s pattern the one we saved to our desktop and click
on it and open and you'll see now that the pattern saved and we can shrink and grow the pattern that
we did if we did it correctly this is what it could look like on different products now we
don't need to save this artboard we already have what we need as the png this is just to show you
what it could look like when it tiles and if you see right here that it doesn't look like how you
want it then go back and change these things you know maybe there's too much space right here find
this spot where this triangle is and this thing is it's right here you can see too much space
right here right so maybe we want to move this up a little and this in a little something like that
or whatever it is so i think it's fine but if you think it's too much space if you think this
square is touching this circle too much maybe you want to move it a little bit but you can do that
up front anyway so and then re-save it as the png and this trial and error okay but once you've got
it really well let's say oh this is great i love this pattern right here once you find it that it's
where you want it to be after messing this let's go into red bubble and i'll show you
how to use this little pattern that we made to put it on multiple products
so here we are on redbubble let's take that 90s pattern that i saved on my desktop and i'm
going to just drag it right in here upload new work so i have it on my desktop boom
we're not going to mess with the title and tags right now i mean you can but i'm just going to
show you how it works on multiple products so we're not going to put it on the t-shirts that's
going to look crazy we could put it on this t-shirt actually so the all over t-shirts the
thing you want to look for is anything that says choose pattern so right here when we hit regular
grid look at that pretty cool right let's do it on some other things let's see oh the phone case
so we click on this choose it and then choose regular grid pretty cool right
it's just like that so we're just taking the thing that we did and then we're gridding it
we can make it smaller or bigger just like that i kind of like it big here uh let's see
so desk mats we can do the same thing choose pattern regular grid this one same thing choose
pattern regular grid so i'm going to put it on multiple products and i'll come back and then
show you what it looks like so you don't have to see me put it on everyone with regular grid all
right so here i am i back on redbubble i enabled all the things that i think it would look good on
in red bubble and you can see it's quite a few things so the a-line dress i think would be great
stickers actually no that wouldn't be good but phone cases i think would do really well these
these mats right here would do really well these mouse pads the pillows and totes i think do really
well of course pouches sleeves shower curtains mat mugs both of these mugs skirts scarves you know
anything with that would look good with a pattern bags books spiral notebooks look at all these
products that me you may not usually use with your t-shirt designs but with patterns they work really
well blankets mounted prints no i wouldn't do that but the blankets yes coasters mats i would buttons
and masks perfect these dresses aprons pillows and these high ticket items right here backpacks looks
great leggings looks great socks these duffel bags all of those products with patterns do really
well so or at least look really well right so depending on the pattern that you're going to use
now i did it with shapes but you can do with flowers and other things let me show you on red
bubble what kind of things do well what people are doing with patterns so let's go to redbubble i'm
going to leave this let's do patterns and phone cases since that's the first thing that came up
so some of these are repeated that's a repeatable pattern right there you could have done that
this one right here look at that really cool this right here these repeatable patterns
let's see some other ones some flowers like this right you could do that let's see another one
this right here you could do i think flowers would do really well you can see lots of flower
patterns let's look for some more here hexagon patterns do really well let's see oh sharks
right you could do that same thing with pictures of sharks in affinity designers or butterflies
flowers again look at this the teapot thing where it repeats and everything so use that
same technique that i showed you in affinity designer and use different shapes or different
designs flowers artwork anything like that different colors you could even do something crazy
like that hexagons flower patterns and things like that and make patterns in red bubble and do it on
multiple products and of course we do phone cases and a lot of other pods like merch by amazon and t
public so you can do it as well so have fun with this technique hopefully you can create your
own kinds of things you don't have to do the 90s pattern but you can make sure to do that thousand
by thousand pixels and move things a thousand uh to the right or a thousand up and down and you'll
get it so my hope with this is that you can put this on lots of different products make tons of
patterns and put it on lots of different products on all these print-on-demand sites thanks so much
for watching hopefully this video gave you lots of value and you learned something new this time
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sure to hit that subscribe button right there before i leave i have a question of the day
and the question of the day is this what kinds of patterns would you like to learn how to do
let me know in the comments there's lots of different patterns out there this is just
a 90s patterns but there's lots of repeatable patterns there's kind of material patterns you
know you got the houndstooth and you got the gingham and the all these different kinds of
stuff let me know in the comments which ones you want to learn how to do if you see one out there
maybe i can teach you how to do that pattern as well so thanks again for watching this video and
if you want to see more videos on how to design different things click on these videos right here
and as always guys keep creating and keep learning i'll see you on the next one bye