what is up YouTube Sciz One here in this graffiti tutorial I'm gonna be
showing you the best ways to make your graffiti stand out. I would like to say I
have been doing graffiti on and off the walls for about 10 years now so I have
had to go through the trial and error process of figuring out what works a lot
of what doesn't work as well so I should have a bit of good advice to give you
Let's get started. The two most important concepts you need to consider when
you're trying to make your graffiti stand out are colour and contrast. You
need to be able to work with these two concepts well if you're going to
effectively make your graffiti stand out. Now I'm gonna connect these two
concepts to different elements of graffiti and try and help show you how
they can be used. The first thing I want to talk to you guys about is using colour
in the fill-in of your piece. Using different shades or values of the
specific color in the filling of your piece can really help draw the eye; for
example I drew up a nice simple sketch here. Just letters SC right now. It just has
one color in the fill-in, not bad. One colour isn't great. I'm gonna show you something
that's a little better. So as you can see here just by adding one other shade of
the same color I can bring the piece to life a lot more. It works a lot better
than just one matte blue colour. I just threw a couple little creative dots in
here, small things like that. Just get creative with your fill it'll really
help you out. The second thing I want to talk to you
about is using highlights in your fill-ins. So very similar to using
different colours in your fill-ins, you can also use very simple highlights just to
brighten the piece up and give it a bit more life. So again with the same example,
here this does not have any highlights on it right now and this is what it
might look like if we were to put some highlights on it. You can see here
just with adding simple white lines like that again it's brightening the piece up.
This really helps a lot more if there is a darker fill-in colour. This is obviously
a lighter blue so you don't notice it as much but you can still definitely see a
big difference from when it didn't have the highlights.
The third thing I want to talk to you about is how you can use colour AND
contrast in the background of your pieces to really make a difference and a
lot of times, even finish your pieces up. Contrasting colours are said to
complement each other and are located on opposite sides of a color wheel. Here's a
tip- if you're ever stuck for a colour scheme, looking at a colour wheel is
probably gonna help you out a little bit. But this is where you need to be careful.
Contrasting colours only look good together if they're used in unequal
amounts. Drawing the eye is different than pleasing the eye. Using the two
contrasting colors will draw the eye but if they're used in equal amounts what it
does is it stops your eyes from knowing where to focus and it'll create a very
aggressive looking piece that your brain doesn't like. The example I'm putting
on screen right now is objectively not very good. As you can see
the background, there's just so much of it. The problem with that is the yellow
in the background is just overpowering the blue and then since they're in equal
amounts you don't know where to look anymore. So if I were to show you
something like this- something like this has enough yellow so that it contrasts
nicely with the blue and draws the eye, but there's not enough yellow to
overpower the blue so the blue still looks like it's the main focus of the
piece; which in this case it is, so that's what you want. Those are the three
easiest tips I have for you in this graffiti tutorial that will help your
graffiti stand out. If you found it helpful please consider looking at the
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tutorials on screen. Thanks for watching, til my next video, peace.