How to Draw Graffiti Letters - Write Mom in Bubble Letters - MAT
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How to Draw Graffiti Letters - http://www.drawingteachers.com - Write Mom in Bubble Letters. In this step-by-step lesson, You will learn how to draw simple letters and turn them into Bubble letters. You will give the letters a drop shadow. You will outline the letters with multiple outlines and create a background cloud for your graffiti bubble letters. Draw this for your Mom on her birthday card, for mother's day, or for any time you want to make her feel special. You can also use the techniques in this lesson to write your name in graffiti. Have fun and keep drawing!
Michael Thoenes
drawingteachers.com, How to Draw and Paint Smart
Hey there, this is Michael with DrawingTeachers.com.
Let's draw the word mom in graffiti letters.
We'll start with just drawing a straight set of line letters,
right out the word mom.
So go ahead and get that step done,
and then let's go ahead and turn these into bubble letters.
We'll do that by drawing large ovals around the sticks
or the parts, the straight parts of our line letters.
And just keep working each one.
Now for the O, I'll just make a slightly bigger O,
and then fill in a center.
And draw this lightly, because we'll
go back over this with pen.
So you'll want to erase these lines once we're done.
So now we're done with this part.
And if you need to, go ahead and pause the video
while we get ready for the next step.
And that will be to refine our outlines.
So I'm going to come back in here and just carefully choose
which line I want.
And next, we're going to come in with a pen.
I'm using a brush style pen.
It's made by Prismacolor, and it is a brush tip marker.
But any black marker will probably work.
The brush tip marker is fairly soft,
and it allows a little bit of a thick and thin in your stroke.
Now, it's good to always turn the paper so that you're
pulling the line towards you.
And you can build in small segments.
Just keep pulling towards you and turn the paper
in an orientation where you can keep doing that.
And once we get the M here, we'll
go ahead and speed up and get through the other letters.
OK, we're in high speed mode now.
As you can see, we're going to finish up this M.
And kick in the middle of the O.
Continue to turn that paper to orient it in a way
that you can pull that stroke right towards you
with the marker.
Helps you to get a nice, smooth line.
And you can see this paper is just going around and around.
We're just about done with the M,
and then we're going to slow back down.
And you can pause the video and go ahead and get
your word mom outlined.
OK, now it's time to clean up.
I've got an eraser here.
It's a pink pearl eraser.
And I prefer a large eraser like this.
You can pick that up probably at the school supply
section in your grocery store or definitely at your art store.
You could also use a white eraser.
So let's go ahead and speed through the rest of the erasing.
OK, and now for the cleanup, I like to use a paintbrush.
It keeps you from smearing the surface.
And so any paintbrush really, a nice soft paintbrush
that you might paint the house with is fine.
And go ahead and clean up that way.
And I've got a few more little bit of lines
that I want to get erased.
And in just a moment here, we'll finish this all up.
OK, now we're going to add a drop shadow.
And to do a drop shadow, you need
to copy the curves of your letters off to one side.
And we're kicking off the left here.
And so you kind of imagine that this
is casting a shadow onto the paper.
It'll really be the shape of the letter right behind and off
to one side.
It's going to be a little off to the left and below.
And you just need to mimic that curve.
And we'll continue on here.
And we'll speed through this part to get to the end.
And then you can go ahead and match that.
Well, before we do that, let's see, the inside of the O
here can be a little tricky.
I want to catch that like that.
I think this needs a little correction down here.
Curve that up there.
And we're almost done here with the M, with the second M.
Take your time.
Get the curve right.
Don't forget the tops.
And that's cheating up just a little bit there.
It wouldn't probably be quite that high.
But I want to show it around the backside there.
So I'm going to go ahead and pencil that in.
And you can pause the video here and get yourself
caught up to this step before we start
using the marker again to fill it in.
OK, now take your marker.
And let's come back in.
And we'll go over these pencil lines.
Again, turning that paper in a way
that helps you pull that line towards yourself.
All right, go ahead and pause the video
and get caught up to this stage.
Now let's start coloring our graffiti letter, Mom.
I've chosen a bright pink marker.
And I'm going to draw a line on the right-hand side
of the letters, just inset from the edge.
And this will mark off the highlight area, which
will be just to the right of this,
and help serve as a guide for coloring in the letters.
So I like to go ahead and put this mark in.
And if you are painting letters or using markers,
you have to use slightly different techniques.
With paint, especially with spray paints or airbrush
paints, you can go back in and you
can put in white highlights.
But with the case of markers, you pretty much
have to block out your white highlights to begin with.
Now I'm going to come back in here
and go ahead and color in the base of your letters.
And I like to use a sweeping upward motion.
Again, turn the paper in a way that
will help me to draw these lines in a consistent way.
I think one of the neat things about graffiti letters
is to make cool marks with them, have fun with them.
I don't feel like they have to be ultra perfect, because to me
they're about expression and energy.
And so I don't mind seeing some lines in there.
You can color them to suit your taste, though.
Make them nice and smooth or make marks like this.
So go ahead and get caught up to this stage.
And we'll get another pink.
And we'll come in and shade the middle in with a lighter color
pink.
Of course, you can make your letters any color you want.
I just chose pink because I think it sort of suits a mom.
Probably wouldn't do pink dad letters.
We'll do a set of dad letters hopefully in the future
and maybe make those blue and green or something.
OK, we'll shift now to high speed coloring
and go ahead and fill in the inside of those letters.
And then come back around to the top part
and fill in a little bit on the top headed down,
but leaving a sort of a white part there in the middle.
And then I'm going to come in with another set of markers.
But go ahead and get caught up to this.
And now we'll come in with another set of markers.
I'm using sort of a peachy, fleshy color
to come in here and fill in this white part.
OK, now I'm going to come in with a purple
and just hit the bottom of the letters to emphasize them.
You can use a little stroke there
to define the bottom of that O.
And just color in a little bit of dark purple down there.
OK, now I'm coming back in with the medium pink.
And I'm just going to come in right inside the outline
of these letters.
And as I come around here, I'm going
to leave part of that highlight and then
stroke in here a little bit.
This is a shadow, a little bit of a shadow
from the one letter overlapping the other.
And coming in and leaving that highlight on the right side,
not so worried about the left side.
Coming around that letter, I need
to move that paper back in the middle.
Under the camera, it'll come over in just a second.
There it goes.
Excellent.
And now we're almost done with these.
And you can go ahead and pause the video
and get caught up to that step.
And now we're going to come in with a purple.
And we're going to just hatch here in the drop shadow area.
I like to try to keep my strokes all very
consistent in the drop shadow.
It gives it a nice look when you can see the texture
of the marker strokes.
Now for a little high-speed coloring.
We'll get that filled in very quickly.
Take your time getting it done nice and neatly, though.
And there's the step.
Then we're going to come back in now with a darker purple.
And I'm just going to hatch in some spaced lines here,
maybe do little clusters of three and four lines,
and then jump and do a couple more.
And I just like the way this gives an extra texture
look to the drop shadow.
It's probably more of an effect you would use in a 3D letter.
But I like the energy of it.
So just come in here and hatch away at that.
OK, now we're going to get some outlines
around our graffiti letters.
And I'll come in with a sort of medium pink marker here.
And we'll just go ahead and pull a stroke
around the entire set, including the drop shadow.
And if this graffiti were on a wall or something,
this would help set it off in the background.
We'll also be adding a background cloud,
some other effects.
So go ahead and pause and get caught up here.
Now we'll come in with a purple next.
And we'll go ahead and outline it again with this purple.
So we have a double outline.
We'll go into high speed mode and get this finished up.
And when we're done here, go ahead and pause
and get caught up.
All right, now we're going to come in and do
some stars or sparkles.
And for that, you just draw some quick straight lines.
And it probably helps best if you pull those lines out
from the center.
If you feel like you have good control over the pen,
you can pull them straight.
We're going in high speed mode here now.
And now we're going to add a cloud next.
The trick with the cloud is to stop now and then
and then pull your hump off of the side of a previous hump.
And there, we've got the cloud done.
Now I'm going to come in and do a little bit with the sparkles
with a little darker pink and just draw some bursting lines
out from the center.
And there we have our sparkles.
And now come in with a light blue color
to fill in the cloud background.
And here, I'm not coming up all the way
to the edge of the outline.
I'm leaving a little white.
That'll serve sort of as a highlight area.
You could color this in solid, but I'm
going to just be coloring it in with a lot of curves
and little lines and hatching.
So we'll get into high speed mode here in a second.
A little shading underneath the letters, a little bit
of a shadow effect there.
Do a little outline of the letters
again with this blue now.
And then come back in and draw some just curves and lines
into the background.
And there we have our finished piece.
The only thing I forgot to do was fill
in the middle of that O. And you can get that done,
and you'll have yours finished too.
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