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Arts & CraftsHow to Do Graffiti Art

How to Do a Graffiti Background

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Hey this is Pays164, and now I’m going to give you some tips in graffiti background. Sometimes it doesn’t have to be too complex if you’re running out of wall space, but picking good colors to fade around your piece so that you can silhouette images such as city building, subway cars and whatnot.

First are purple, and then I’m going to lead to some other colors. So, again this is just a simple effect and including a background to your graffiti mural. I went through with some purples, to reds, to orange, to yellow creating a consistent fade kind of giving it a sunset effect. Now I’m going to come back with my black, again a darker color to go with the contrast of the back of the wall is silhouetting, shadows, city buildings.

I’ll go through and build little groupings of buildings throughout the background over the fade edges created. Really cool little city background you all. If you have more space really the background can be anything. Mountains, characters, any kind of scheme you want to create. More space might also allow you to do thing much bigger. Creating more color inside your background as a fill.


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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