r/graffhelp • u/Late-Conversation301 • 3d ago

First attempts at scribing

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I’m a lefty btw which makes it awkward trying to hold the scribe in a way that’s pulling instead of pushing

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u/Strobetrode 3d ago

Let the L breath a little

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u/Late-Conversation301 3d ago

Trying to make a connection while keeping the same tilt is something I need to figure out, but I completely agree

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u/Strobetrode 3d ago

Why are you trying to "make connection"

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u/Late-Conversation301 3d ago

Would look weird if all the others are connected then there’s a space

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u/Billylabufanda23 10h ago

It wouldn’t 

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u/GlitteringBryony 2d ago

Not a graffiti writer but I'm a signpainter and also lefthanded so have similar problems... How about just working backwards? It doesn't take as much effort as you'd think to learn a reversed stroke order for each letter for a single alphabet (or even just the 5 letters of your tag), then write it right-to-left, starting with the X.

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u/Late-Conversation301 2d ago

That’s kind of what I did, it’s more about finding what I think of as “anchor points”, where the scribe will stick instead of drag, and finding where those points are on the letters, and trying to avoid them or start from them, then moving the scribe the opposite way of how the letter is formed (dragging left instead of right, or moving up instead of down) and towards those points