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Arts & CraftsHow to Do Graffiti Art

3 Tips on Sketching a Graffiti Mural

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Hey, this is Paes 164 and here’s some tips and advice on sketching your graffiti mural. Picking a black or a darker wall, obviously a lighter color to sketch with. Try not to use too many colors and get yourself super confused, whether it’s a wild style 3D or any type of lettering style that you’re going to do. If you’re getting into multiple letters, but you might want to change up different characteristics of the letter you can always just switch the color then.

So just the sketching alone, it ain’t nothing but the rough lay out of your piece. You know as you go through and get it all laid out, you can come back and start coloring different sections to really make it pop. So once you’ve got your whole sketched out, picking one letter that you want to switch up, might be better to go ahead and get a brighter color. That way you don’t get lost in the whole wild-style color scheme of your design.

So with my E, I’ve already dropped the 3D off of it, but I’m just going to go ahead and re-outline the outer outline of the E. So when I come in and put all the colors of my fill-in, this is still going to be really easy to seem and really easy for me to do something a little bit different with it, than what I’ve done with the rest of the piece.

Now if you’re dealing with a lighter colored background, maybe light pastel colors like purple, like fuchsia colors are going to be easier to work with. Don’t go too dark, because you still might find yourself needing to come back with a second color to make that letter stand or shine out from the rest of the group. And that’s a real quick approach on how to do some easy sketching techniques, to get your piece ready for a full color disaster.


Lessons in this Guide

How to Tag

How to Draw a Graffiti Monster

How to Shadow & Shade a Wildstyle Graffiti Piece

How to Create a Wildstyle Piece of Graffiti

How to Do Cartoon-Style Graffiti

How to Do Block-Style Graffiti

How to Do Billboard-Style Graffiti

3 Tips on Sketching a Graffiti Mural

3 Tips for Creating a Large Graffiti Mural

How to Do Graffiti Symbols

How to Do Abstract Lettering

How to Apply Drips in Graffiti

How to Do Shadowing in 3D Graffiti

How to Do 3D Graffiti

How to Sharpen Your Graffiti Design

5 Graffiti Painting Tips

How to Flare Your Colors in Graffiti

Graffiti Coloring Tips

How to Increase Depth in Graffiti Art with Color

How to Clean & Fix Graffiti Mistakes

How to Balance Letters in a Graffiti Name

4 Graffiti Letter Spacing Tips

3 Graffiti Letter Structuring Tips

4 Tips on Creating Fine Lines in Graffiti

How to Do Sharp Lettering in Your Graffiti

How to Do a Graffiti Background

5 Best Graffiti Tips

How to Clean a Graffiti Cap

How to Use a Fat Cap to Draw Graffiti

How to Use Graffiti Caps

4 Tips for Beginner Graffiti Artists

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