How to Draw Graffiti Letters

In this tutorial you will learn how to get started writing graffiti. You see it everywhere you go, but for some reason you just cant seem to be able to illustrate similar wild style letters some graffiti writers are able to form.

Difficulty: Moderate

Instructions

Things You'll Need:

• pen
• paper
• markers
• pencil
• spraypaint

1. 
   Not very good, but you get the idea. Very simple.

   First you need to start by learning letter structure. For a while you can put down the pen and markers. First try sketching just normal keyboard letters. Use bars by keeping and keep standard widths throughout the letters.

2. 
   Now you can start to bend the bars a little bit.

   After you learn letter structure a little bit by doing extremely simple keyboard style letters. You can begin to mess around with your bars a little bit. Try making bars that bend different way, bars that get bigger or smaller. But notice that the letter structure stays the same.

3. 
   The lines go to the vanishing point.

   Once you are comfortable doing that. You can add 3d to your piece. This is done with a vanishing point where all the lines point to.

4. 
   Adding Extensions

   You can also try adding extensions to your letters to make them look cooler. This takes time to get a feel for where they can go to still look good.

5. 

   Last you can color your piece. Its nice to add some type of a halo or forcefield type thing around it so it stands out.

6. See Also check out the bubble "throwie" style letters which are a little easier and a lot faster to do. http://www.ehow.com/how_2098120_draw-graffiti-throwies.html

Tips & Warnings

• Keep things simple at first.
• A lot of people will start trying to do wild style pieces and things with a ton of arrows and extensions. You need to start simple to really get a feel for letter structure and where extensions go to compliment your actual letters. So stay simple.

[11zeros]

on 12/25/2008 for more graffiti tutorials check out : WWW.PUREGRAFFITI.COM

[robertsloan2]

on 10/8/2007 Nice article. I liked your step by step examples. Well thought out and well illustrated.