Anyone willing to help?

[jkblaze]

I am not one of the biggest artists, i do tend to draw the odd thing, the reason i never post or anything is because only objects i can deal with and not very strong on my shading skills. I came here to see the work of others and also to mayeb learn a few things.

One thing i wouldnt mind looking into is being creative on fonts, I know you can express thigns within anythign you draw, wether it be colours or sharpness. I am looking how to do this in fonts, how to give your fotns a smooth or jagged look but keeping the fluidity in your work.

If anyone can help me please do so, i wouldnt mind examples of work, it may be yours it may not be. Taggers are soemthign to look at, some do it for graffiti some actually do it as an art.

[corky]

hey, jkb. I just finished a class in Typography, gotta say not my favourite thing, but i might have some ideas for you.
If you do the fonts in Illustrator, there's a tool called Punk & Bloat, as well as Free Distort, and Roughen, a couple of others (under the effects menu). Select the text, then go to Effects and select whatever effect you want to try. If you want to learn how to draw the graffiti fonts by hand, check out a site called www.graffiti.org
There's tons of artists featured, fonts you can try, and tips as well. (I hope I have that address right, it's been a while since I visited). If you can't find graffiti.org, then keyword search "street artists" or "graffiti fonts". What I like to do is pick a font, play with it Illustrator, print out in black and white, and then I can add colour, exaggerate shapes, etc, to get that hand-drawn look. Hope that helps!

[jkblaze]

thx, looks a bit too heavy of what i saw but when my comps fixed ill have a decent look through, just at the moment its at a high risk of crashing.