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Hello everyone, Tamai here, I've been in this community for a while now, and I thought lemme make my indigenous art which is calligraphy using graffiti-style letters to draw out alien art hive. This is the first community I'm doing this for, i honesty hope its recognized as i put my heart and effort into this one, because i was really short of equipments to make it really beautiful, but i hope you like it.

I want to also say, I'm happy i found this community ☺

Here is a detailed process of how it went

🎨 CREATIVE PROCESS

started with a black ballpoint pen, to draw the letters - A L I E N A R T H I V E, giving space after each word, this took time because i had to position the words well, to avoid mistakes as i am using a pen that can't be erased, if i make mistakes, some pictures to walk you through

Now, i added a shadow to the letters to add a little realistic look to the letters, this took time because the ballpoint pen was quite small for the shading, if it was a marker now, or bigger pen it would have been easier, anyways I'm not here to rant about me, just check out the pics below

After the shading, i had to get a little more creative, so i added a look where by the letters are looking like scraped metals, but I'm not sure i was able to show this effect well, I'm still learning so, on my next art work similar to this, I'll do better definitely, check it out

Now, i added something again with an orange ballpoint pen, i outlined the words to give it feeling, a playful one though, with a green ballpoint pen added strokes to the word ALIEN, with a purple ballpoint pen added same kind of strokes to the word ART, and finally with a blue ballpoint pen added same strokes to the word HIVE, below

Okay, so far its looking 👌, now it still looks simple, so i decided to add another effect or effects, because i added a kind of shadow to show its like a block, 3d effect, then i proceeded to adding little tiny dots with the black pen around all words
Finally added the dripping effect, using the same black pen, along with using my normal handwriting to write the word COMMUNITY, i did this to show originality, and design too. Pics below

A PiC with my TOOLS 🖌🖌

A black ballpoint pen
A green ballpoint pen
An orange ballpoint pen
A purple ballpoint pen
A blue ballpoint pen

To conclude i want to say, it took me a total of 5 hours to complete this piece, would honestly love your votes, likes and comments and to my other artist out there in the @alienarthive community 😀, please i need your comments, and advice on how to make more better art, and i am also open for commissions on digital art, character design and graphics too, you can check out my twitter (X) page