How to Write Graffiti Letters

Series Summary

Pablo Picasso once wrote, “The artist is a receptacle for emotions that come from all over the place: from the sky, from the earth, from a scrap of paper, from a passing shape.” To be a great artist you need to start by having great thoughts. You must be fearless with your imagination, and courageous with that imaginative expression. Becoming a self-made artist is easier than one would think. Besides developing yourself into a genius, you have to hone your motor skills and writing skills into a unique and exceptional medium that will stand out against a sea of wannabe artists and sycophants. In this free video series on the life and skills of an artist, a professional illustrator discusses a wide range of artistic endeavors, such as how to write in a graffiti style, how to make a living as an artist and how to understand color and pigments. Also learn how to draw anime clothes and find out about the Bauhaus art movement in this free video on art techniques and styles.

Video Transcript

"Alright folks. In this clip I'm going to teach you how to draw graffiti letters. Alright, so graffiti is essentially, basically and only thinking outside the box when it comes to creating anything really. What do they do most of the time? What they're trying to do with their art, anyone who works in graffiti, is trying to kind of make a statement. They're trying to stand out and be different. So if you're going to be designing graffiti, it's best to think a little outside the box. I'm going to give you just a few little examples of ways to do that. I mean I'm just going to do it with like an A,B,C, sort of illustration. What I'm going to do is create sort of a unique looking way of doing the ABC's a couple of different ways, and hopefully from this, you'll see what I mean when I say there's like a bajillion different ways to do this. There you have your ABC's done in sort of a style that makes it a little more, you know, it just pops off the page a little bit. That's what graffiti is. Try and think a little bit differently in terms of shapes, designs. Like if you want, you don't have to do it so bubbly like I just did. You can go a little bit more jagged. Kind of look for odd ways to make odd shapes, ones that really stand out though and make a statement. Graffiti ought to ultimately call attention to the work itself. It ought to be bold, it ought to be interesting, ought to be very expressive, and it should definitely not be something you're used to seeing. So when you're drawing your graffiti, make sure you really kind of think about what is the intention I guess of this graffiti art? What am I trying to say? What kind of an attitude am I trying to convey? It's supposed to be more bubble gum, jagged, basically the options are endless. But basically think outside the box, don't be afraid to experiment and yeah, just basically think in terms of the unusual. And that is how you draw graffiti letters."