Learn the step-by-step process on how to make custom design patterns on Animal Crossing: New Horizons (ACNH). For information on how to make custom designs as well as top custom design patterns, read on!
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| 1 | Open the app on your NookPhone. |
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| 2 | Select a slot to save your design to. |
| 3 | Use the Custom Designs Editor to start drawing. |
| 4 | Add a name, and the design is complete! |
You can create custom designs using the Custom Designs app on your NookPhone. This app is available from the start of the game.
The design will look better if you specifically create it for an item: is it for a shirt, or face paint?
| Top | Face Paint | Canvas | Floor* |
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You can preview what it looks like on the specific item by selecting Swap Preview on the toolbar.
If you use the Custom Design Pro Editor, you will select a type of clothing to create a design for.
*Floor preview added on the ver 1.4.0 update.
Use the available tools on the editor to start creating your design!
How to Use the Custom Design Pro Editor
| Miles Required | 2000 |
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The Custom Design Pro Editor+ is a new redeemable upgrade to the Custom Designs app introduced in the March 18 Update!
After downloaing the update, head to the Nook Stop to redeem the upgrade!
The upgrade comes with an additional +50 slots for both the regular custom designs and pro custom designs.
By redeeming the upgrade, you'll now have a total of 200 slots for all your custom designs needs!
You will also unlock new patterns for your custom design!
You can now turn your custom designs into umbrellas, Uchiwa fans, handheld flags, and face-cutout standees!
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| Miles Required | 2000 |
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You can now access the Custom Designs Portal from your NookPhone! Redeem the upgrade from the Nook Stop together with the Custom Design Pro Editor+.
Access the portal from the Custom Designs app on your NookPhone!
We have guides for custom designs that you can use as paths and more! Check out these pages to learn more!
Our hand-picked custom design patterns will definitely knock you socks off!
You can also submit your custom designs to our page!
For the first time in the game, you can wear a custom design as face paint! The design's canvas will be distributed to the character's forehead and cheeks.
You can even do facial features such as eyebrows, beauty marks, and freckles!
How to Use and Erase Face Paint
You can put your designs on display as a painting or put it over a mannequin for others to see!
You can display your designs on the ground, or use it as a path after unlocking the Island Designer app.
You can also spread it in the room as a flooring or lay it down as a tile mat at your house.
On the walls of your house, you can spread your design as a wallpaper, or you can display it on a canvas or on a hanger as a shirt.
You can share custom designs online after unlocking the Able Sisters tailor shop or through the Custom Designs app.
You can also save other players' custom designs and designs from previous Animal Crossing games by scanning QR codes!
Custom Designs Portal - How to Share Custom Designs Online
Check out some how some player brilliantly use custom design with these Dream Addresses!
| Inspirational Dream Towns | |
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How to Create Custom Designs | Custom Design Examples and Dream Towns
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Theres a couple I use on etsy. I recommend this one. Shes pretty good at portraits and such. She did a really cute one of my daughter. https://www.etsy.com/ca/listing/776062048/custom-photo-qr-code-for-animal-crossing