Graffiti art has become, over time, a form of artistic drawing. In another article, I captured the main features of fine art in more detail, but let’s do a quick review here.
We know that graffiti art is often loud (meaning brightly colored), 3D-looking, and mostly looks fancy. Graffiti art could even be classified as contemporary art. Everything in graffiti is an expression of the culture of some group or country.
Although graffiti art is better known as art drawn by vandals on public walls with aerosol cans, the same term can be extended to represent art with similar characteristics to those mentioned above.
You might be attracted to drawing graffiti names because graffiti art looks stylish with its bright and attractive colors and that also applies to graffiti texts.
To start drawing graffiti names, you need to prepare the following drawing tools. You need a light pencil, preferably HB, and a set of permanent magic markers with a variety of colors.
Next, you need to decide the style of the texts. There are literally thousands of styles to choose from. Just take a look at the thousands of font types freely available on the internet for download. You may want to visit one of these websites and choose a font design that you really like. You will be using this as your reference. Some websites even allow you to create a preview image with the selected font type. Just save the image to your computer for reference.
Start drawing with your pencil on the surface. Draw lightly at first so you can erase any mistakes you make. Sometimes your texts can be too big or too small and you can easily correct this by using a dust free eraser.
Once you’re happy with how the graffiti name looks, trace the outline with a fine magic marker. The shapes will start to emerge now. Then start filling the different letters with colors. Be bold and creative here. After all, these are graffiti texts, so you want them to look attractive, bold and stylish.
Use a different color to create some shades just inside the outlines. This will create the illusion that the texts are 3D. If you’re familiar with using Photoshop or any image-editing software, this is similar to creating the emboss effect.
Drawing the drop shadow is optional, but if you want your graffiti name to look more vivid and realistic, give your graffiti name a light shadow underneath.