The beginnings
I am a web developer and I love arts – especially graffiti and streetart. All began when I had the aim to create my own graffiti on canvas to put it in my living room – you can see the result below – so I started to sketch graffiti. At the same time I wanted to create a new web project besides my job to learn on it – “Graffiti Empire” was born.
Graffiti letters database
Automating repetitive tasks is a big part of my job. After drawing my first graffiti tags, handstyles and graffiti sketches, I soon realized that I forget how I designed letters before. To easily find the required letters of previously created sketches for inspiration, I have sorted them alphabetically. Additionally I searched for inspiration online and was not quite happy with the search results. Thus, I started to create my own database of graffiti letters and decided to provide it to a public audience.
Graffiti Empire – development of the project
Sprayed graffiti will always be a source of inspiration for me. So I take pictures of streetart and well painted graffiti I like. However, the design of graffiti is not necessarily connected to spraying.
By showing my own creation process of graffiti sketches I want to help you to create your own graffiti style and may give you new insights on how to draw them.
At the same time it is a documentation of my evolution in drawing.
While creating several step-by-step graffiti drawing tutorials, the limitation of this approach became clear. It is limited to the given word and letters. That’s why we decided to create a graffiti generator app, which allows the users to create their on name or words in graffiti, to explore color combinations by changing the colors of the graffiti layers and to make the structure of letters clear by toggling the layers on the virtual canvas.
As a matter of fact, the media has played a crucial role in spreading the graffiti movement by documenting it, which has also contributed to its development.
With the graffiti generator app we want to provide the possibility to create fonts in graffiti style for people who do not create graffiti on their own on the one hand. On the other hand we want to help graffiti beginners to approach graffiti design in a playful way by having the possibility to choose many styles, easily change color combinations and sizes of letters, creating different compositions and generally having an easy start with less hurdles and faster results. Art teachers can use the app as a tool to encourage student engagement in lessons, encourage motivation, creativity and passion for art. It is more easy to handle larger class sizes effectively and the varying skill levels among students, dealing with their fear of failure while drawing and prevent them from becoming discouraged and giving up. The basics concepts and techniques can be understood more easily, students can develop technical skills and confidence in their ability to draw and ultimately also can quicker reach the level of developing their own style and personal expression.
By providing this approach we hope to highlight the design aspect of graffiti and therefore promoting the wider acceptance of graffiti as a form of art in society.
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If you have questions or feedback, drop me a message (support@graffiti-empire.com) or leave a comment below 😀!
Tada
Graffiti generator really helped along with also confusing my brain