How to Make Your Name in Graffiti Style

Handstyle Tag

1). Examine examples of hand styles, a graffiti artist's signature on the streets, in books and online. Hand styles can differ between countries and even cities. Once you find a style you like, practice replicating the entire alphabet in that style.
2). Use a black marker to write out your name based on the alphabet of your chosen hand style. A marker with a sharp, angled tip usually works best.
3). Add your own touch to your hand style tag. For instance, you could make the first and last letters bigger, underscore the name, give each letter some flare or top the tag off with a crown.

1). Write you name out in pencil. Keep plenty of space between the letters.
2). Outline each letter, using a rounded edge on every corner and at the end of every line. Create multiple outlines, each one slightly bigger than the last, until the letters begin to overlap each other.
3). Place a sheet of tracing paper over the page that you're working on and use a pencil to trace the biggest outline of each letter. The letters should look like they are overlapping each other, so don't include the part of the outline that lies under the letter before it.
4). Darken the outline with a black marker.

1). Use a pencil to draw a set of rectangular boxes, one box for each letter in your name, that stand side-by-side.
2). Chisel each box into a letter by shading in the small sections of negative space that make up each letter form. For example: an "O" would have a small rectangle or oval shape shaded out of the middle and an "X" would have triangles that cut into the middle of the box from each of the four sides.
3). Place a sheet of tracing paper over the page that you're working on and use a pencil to trace the block letters. Trace around the edges of the shaded-in parts.
4). Darken the outline with a black marker.