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- Hi, again.
Mr. G here with LOL, Love Of Letters.
And today is a DSG assignment, Drawing Simple Graffiti.
So I'm gonna take you guys through steps
of drawing simple graffiti today
and then we're gonna embellish that a little bit
and add some color to it.
First of all, I wanna tell you about the materials
that we're gonna need for today.
We are going to need a ruler again.
We are going to need a pencil again.
We will need an eraser.
We will use colored pencils this time,
and we will use our trusted friends, Mr. Sharpie.
I'm going to draw on a full piece of paper, two lines.
These are gonna be my registration lines
and these will help me start to make my letter form.
So we're gonna get started.
I wanted to ask you guys to either pick your name,
a word that means something to you.
I picked the word "determined,"
and I'm gonna start blocking that out for you right now.
And again, we're gonna start off the same way
that we started off in the last lesson plan that we did,
and we're just going to write out our letter forms.
And we're gonna do that in single line style
to start off with.
So I'm just getting an idea
of where my letter forms are gonna be
and start to map them out.
And you're not gonna worry
about weight of lines so much now
or how big the letters are.
You're gonna get a chance to go back
and do that later.
So I'm going to...
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And now I'm gonna start to block them out a little bit.
Okay, so then once we start
to get our forms built up like this,
and we started to make them 3D, we are going to
start to darken them in.
Okay, and I'm gonna stop for a minute,
to bring up a really good tip for y'all.
Okay, so when making graffiti form letters here,
you want to try to have them cross more at the top.
It just makes the letters be able to read better,
and they just register a lot better.
I mean, it's just a rule of thumb.
It doesn't always work.
There will be some things where you're gonna have
to have your letters join at the bottom of the letter
just because of the way that the letter forms.
We'll go over some of those things in the next examples
that I'll give you in the next lesson.
I don't have some of the letters joining at the top,
but we'll show you how that works out.
But remember to try to have them cross at the top.
And you can see that all these cross pretty well
at the top with the graffiti.
It's just a really good tip for you guys to remember,
and it'll make it go a little bit better.
Okay, so let's say
that you have your letter forms all figured out,
and I'm gonna start shading these in
so that you can see this one more time.
And I'm gonna do this fairly quick
so that I don't worry you with you just shading in letters.
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And then another rule for graffiti too.
Instead of making a dot for my I,
I gave it a little pizza slice or something like that,
just a little bit of embellishment
to add a little bit of love to the piece.
And remember to take your time
with forming your letters.
This is super important.
You wouldn't do a painting without brushes.
Well, maybe you would
but the simple fact of the matter is,
is the more time that you take,
the better your piece is gonna be
and the more that you're gonna be proud of it.
So don't rush like I am right now.
Okay, so once you've got your outline pieces,
you might want to embellish,
you might want to give a little bit more weight
to your lines, you can figure that out.
Then you're gonna start to add color.
So I have one here that I started to add color to,
and I chose colored pencils to do my color with.
Like here with the red, I added a little bit of highlight
just to bring it out there.
My feeling would be is
if you're looking at shading for graffiti
and you're not feeling super comfortable with it,
and you have access to the internet
or you're able to walk down the street
and see some nice steads in your neighborhood,
take a look at them and take and see how the colors blend.
So I definitely tried to blend
and give some highlights to my colors.
And I chose a color scheme that I liked.
We can talk a little bit more about psychology of color,
but just pick colors that you like.
That would be the best answer I could give you.
And here I have one
that I worked up a little bit this for time saving,
but here you can see that I'm starting to develop drips.
And I'll hold this up for you guys too.
Add little tricks, drips, you might look at arrows,
so I'm gonna add a couple more things
to this piece right now just to start to make it pop.
So, one thing that I might start
to do is just increase weight
on a few lines here,
just to give them a little bit more polar
and to also set across the color.
Another thing I might add a little bit more of a cast shadow
to my drips.
You guys might have some things
that you like to put on there,
typically things that are always added to graffiti,
it might be, you might add cut-out, you might do
some little balls, you might do a cloud.
And then also one really important tip is to always remember
that, here you can see the two registration lines
that I made up top, erase them
when you're done
so that they don't show up in your final piece.
And again, I challenge you guys to come up
with a word that you guys like
or your own name
and try to develop a style for it and have some fun.
Again, I really wanna thank you for your time today.
This was Mr. G's LOL, Love of Lettering.
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