Summary: Drawing graffiti letters can be done in hundreds of different ways, but drawing on graph paper helps the letters stay to scale, and using a brush pen creates a flared effect. Draw a few different types of graffiti letters with a demonstration from an experienced artist and art supply store employee in this free video on drawing.
The staff at Asel Art in Austin, Texas, has more than 90 years of combined experience creating art in a variety of mediums. Lisa Wright, David Lamplugh, Laura Pace and Tres Hoyt have...read more
"Hi, my name is Tres Hoyt. I'm here at Asel Art Supply in Austin, Texas. I'm going to talk today about Graffiti lettering. Graffiti lettering is a pretty broad topic. There are probably, literally hundreds of different styles of Graffiti hand style. You go around the world and it will change. You can go around the country and it will change. But I have here, three examples of three different basic alphabets. And these are really, really basic form alphabet letters. So I'm going to go ahead and do this third one for you all. So you can see the strokes that I make. One of the easiest ways to hand style, is to just practice. You can find different fonts and copy them. Or you can take your basic, basic alphabet. And just start tweaking the letters as you see fit to little positions that you like. I like to work on graph paper. So I try to keep most of my letters in a consistent size. And I don't start drifting at angles when I write. But you can use either a brush type pen for flared effects. Or just regular graphic pens or pretty much any kind of marker you want. But here we go, I'm just going to go ahead and start with the bottom alphabet here. And show you all the stroke making. And just like that. The easiest way, like I said to learn a lot of these alphabets. Is just practice, practice, practice many of these. Get your flared style and all that. But, yeah, that's essentially that's Graffiti lettering right there."
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