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Decided to contribute some more to the thread.
There are two key aspects to your tag- Letter structure and Flow.
Your letter structure should be considered the foundation of your style. The important concepts to keep in mind are the quality of your letters, their consistency, and their uniformity. The only way to achieve good letter structure is practice, and lots of it. Remember those books you had in grade 1 that had the dashed line right in the middle? Use the same principle with lined paper to achieve good letter structure. It takes a lot of boring practice and work, but it's what separates great handstyles from the crap.
Second is form. It's how your letters join together, and how to avoid wasted lines and terminations. When you get it right, curves from one letter will be significant in the next letter. Straight lines will make a statement that fits in with the rest of your word. They will all combine together to create an underlying theme, a flow, through your word; whether it be sharp, round, smooth, exaggerated, or whatever you can think up. This is the creative; the part where you alter the letter structures you've learned into something new and different yet still somehow recognizable and right. To me, this is the "art" in graffiti. It's the unique and special you put in to make it your own.
hope this helps
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