My Entry To Graffiti Lettering Contest #13 (DELAY)

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Hello community and hello to all the graffiti and street art enthusiasts, I am happy to participate once again in the Graffiti Lettering Contest of @trippymane and show you what I had made as my entry to this contest. If you had been following the contest you may already know that we are to work on a given word and for this round it is DELAY. So that explains why you are seeing that on my graffiti art. If you want to know more about the contest please read all the details on this contest post

Take a look at my entry below:

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I tried to do my best to create my own style. That is the beauty of this kind of art or contest. You can express your creativity and discover more about what you can create as an artist. I will give more details about the thought and the process as you read along.

Here is how I made my entry:
I had some sketches of the first letter of the word which is D. Getting it right is very crucial as this would determine the whole look of my graffiti later on. I must say this is very challenging for me and I was holding my breath until the desired style came out.

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I was thinking about sharp edges or corners and some unexpected cut here and there and a bit of asymmetry if possible. These three images above do not quite reflect my vision so I had to edit and rethink. Now, the look below is the one that best represents my ideas.
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To highlight those cuts and details I had to find the right angle of the letter by twisting it turning it up and down. This is the final angle and size of the image. This is going to be my guide for the rest of the letters moving forward. It is now tilted a bit to show those nice details and color.
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Designing the next letter which is E is now easier because I already had set my guide. Those sharp edges and cuts must be consistent with all the remaining letters if possible. The tool I am using is very helpful as you can see here. You can click on those points to move it forward and back, twist, turn and so on.

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Can you tell that this letter is the L? I had to turn the image around going to the right to give it some interesting view as the previous two letters are starting to bore me. The image takes on different light and shadow as you turn it around. It is a matter of selecting which ones give the most impact.

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The smallest and easiest letter for me to create is the letter A. Cute and making a statement on its own.
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Finally to tie everything together, the Letter Y has to make it happen. It has to extend its long tail to give the graffiti some cohesion. On my final edit all the letters must avoid looking flat.

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This is how the letters look together to complete the word DELAY
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Choosing the background color is another struggle. Tried a few and the light colors are not my best choice. I just realized how tricky it is to work with the violet color.
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My choice is deep blue to contrast well with the lighter shade of violet. I then added a black shadow behind all the letters using the spray paint brush effect. I think there should be some light source or highlights on my drawing and so I added some as my finishing touches.

Hope you enjoyed reading and like my graffiti art. Thank you for your support and for dropping by.

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Looks great thank you for sharing and goodluck

Thank you dear

Lovely to see this on the Community thank you @theithei 😍

it is my pleasure

I love the color violet and how it pops on my screen. Good job @theithei

thank you my friend

Yay! 🤗
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This post definitely deserves some love 🙌

Wow, pretty cool this lettering, and I really enjoyed thoroughly your explanation behind the process, I like the sharp edges and cuts you applied on the D and E, the E must be my favourite letter in this work!
But all the letters really look great and tie together in a very nice way!

I can see you have been thinking about this with a Graffiti Artist mind and kudos for doing this, you really expressed in a great way how is the process to make a lettering for a graffiti artist! Wonderful!
It's exactly like you say, we try to keep the effects on the letters consistent and use the "legs" of those letters to tie with the others and make it look like something that came out from the same "box" (hope this makes sense lol)

This for some it may look simple, but let me tell you something, the 3D graffiti style is one of the hardest and if I had seen something like that on the wall I would say "Daaamn, look at that smooth 3D!!!" I had a friend that did 3d as his style and OMG how difficult and timeconsuming that is!!! And to put in on a wall?!?!? I honestly don't know how people can do 3D on walls, it amazes me everytime!

Also you represented the letters how you saw them in your mind in a digital way, which in my opinion is even more difficult than on paper, on paper you can do whatever you want, on a software it's a completely different thing, but I am a noobie in that so maybe you find it much easier than on paper 😅

Thank you for your participation and for sharing this contest in your community, really appreciated and happy to have you on board! And remember that this is a safe space that you can use as you like, come and go, participate or not, I like even when you just drop a comment to let us know that we're doing a good thing here on the chain and you're having fun, a place to get creative without pressure where you can have fun in the while is the best IMHO!

Kudos and best of luck for this week! 🙌🙏😎

Wow this is the longest comment that I had ever seen here on Hive and could be longer than my main post hahaha. I really do appreciate your time and your kind and encouraging words. I can see that the contest is gaining some attention week after week and I am happy to be a participant. Best of luck and thank you for providing this kind of activity.

Thank you for your words! And I really appreciate your feedback! 🙏

Ehehe sometimes I lose track and just write whatever comes to my mind, I really appreciated your post and hence why the long reply 🙌

True, the contest is gaining traction and this week we had a lot of participants, I wasn't expecting it to be honest! 😎