HandPickedGod

Did this for my homegirl Che

Me 10 months ago. Overall, I was pretty shitty not too long ago. Most of you guys posting here have the ability to improve dramatically in less than a year. The best motivation you can ever get is looking at dope sketches in person. It helps out times 1000 than the internet can. Actually, it dosn't take much at all to know letter form. Best advice I can give. UNDERSTAND the letter form, don't just do it. Sooner or later you'll start drawing letters that are going to be even in length, width, and height. Soon you'll start knowing which letters look good which way, and which dont. Try every single bit of coloring schemes you can think of. Study the color wheel, trust me, it HELPS. Learn to use Color pencils, markers, gel pens. Learn how to use ball point pens, they are going to help you develop alot. Learn what kind of effects you can achieve on how hard you press down, or the pressure you apply. Learn how to stroke with pens and markers properly. Study the principals of art. Contrast, Repetition, flow, balance, etc. Best wishes. The Pivot

Decent style. Now if you give us a sketch that isn't three years old, i'll check ti out.

I still need time to refine my skill.

Mostly I roll with markers, but its always good to expiriment. I like doing characters with Pencil, mainly because of that grainy look. For instance, the 3D I did on the full page was done purely from pencils. Alot of pencil work depends on technique.

I used to post my shit here, when I started out whack.

Hey guys, I'm Pivot, Remember me?

The Pivots.

Yep, Micheals won't have em. Check your local art store that actually have ART SUPPLIES!!! and chances are, you'll find them. Over in Ft. lauderdale, theres a place called Pearls where they sell Letraset markers, which act just like Copics.

Just curious, but can you cut over your piece so that you could spraypaint/airbrush a background?

I think GOOGLE ONER knows the deal.

Tryin' some of the newer series prismas

*Dead from all the laughter*

Anyone have a clue what kind of pens give you DARK lines, and are precise? I know the pigma microns, but they're lines aren't the darkest out there. Buah!

It still deals with techniques graffers use to make good looking pieces. But lets just stick to the cool little effects we can do with the paper. Then again, telling someoneyourtechniques is kinda telling them how they graff... In a way..

Along with that, it really does help a piece jump out. for instance, You could color any piece with green and red, And It will pop out under any circumstances. When it comes to color schemes, contrast is the key. Take a look at this cantwo piece, notice the darker blues form a color contrast with the white, which will make it more noticable... Thats one of the key elements to understanding how graff letters interact.

Hmm... Did not know that. Thats definitly gonna come in handy. One technique that i used for filling is to use strokes when you are coloring with prismas, this helps out with blending alot, and it leaves for central fills to be added to more layering.I'll post up pics soon enough.

Then thats just your preference.

Go simple.

Gelly roll pens sound suggestive

Post em if you got em. heres a few... Layering Layering is the most commonly used colored technique. Layering with colored pencils creates transparent tones when lightly overlapped colors form dark to light hues. Using light pressure, a sharp point, and small circular or linear strokes, colors are layered one on top of another, starting with the darkest colors first. Eventually the layers will form complex hues, values and gradations. Layering reduces the “flatness” of a single color pigment, allows for the creation of new color variations, add dimension, complexity and richness to artwork as well as adds the appearance of texture. Using India Ink pens, you can outline your pieces before coloring, and your colors won't smudge the ink. If you want you're letters to have more depth, get a darker color, a dark colored pencil, or a darker marker, and color below, ontop, or beside the sides where the letters are going to overlap. If you want to blend two colors, start off by stroking with the darker color first, then right beside it, stroke the lighter color into where you want the darker and brighter color to meet, afterwards, go over the whole part with the lighter color, do this a few times if you aren't satisfied with the coloring. Color schemes are a great way to bring out your drawings, If using a certain color along with its complementary colors, you can make the piece pop out really nice if you use a certain combination of colors and its complements. If your piece seems too flat, you should probably add more to it, such as highlights, different layers and such. Peace/

Can someone aid in my cry for a better coloring technique?

its obvious for a writer like me not to use paint markers on paper like that, so no, its not paint markers, its real prismacolor markers... and I hate that >_< Quoted post wut kind paper u using Quoted post [/b] Computer paper, its not the type of mediums i'm using, its the technique that I'm trying to figure out. Any other writer out there is capable of doing anything crazy with computer paper... I just cant cut out the way they do it..

If you noticed on the top left, I used the quick stroke technique, but at the end, it leaves some dark lines and unwanted light spots in some portions of my filling... bleh

In two years, your gonna look back at this and laugh.