Is Your Graffiti Tag TOY?! - AVOID DOING THIS In Graffiti!
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Plenty of new graffiti artists want to know if their tag name is bad, in today's video I'm going to share a little secret with you about graffiti and tag names! The secret is........ yes, your tag name is bad but not because of the letters that make the name, rather instead its because you're bad! Dont freak out, this is ok and expected so let me explain. Since you're still new to graffiti, any and all names are going to be bad in your hands because you don't know how to use them just yet. luckily for you, with a little practice that name of yours could be amazing!
Graffiti is one of those artforms shrouded in mystery. people simply don't know when it is they stop being toy. so when are you no longer a toy in graffiti? well put simply, you're no longer toy when you learn the basics. with that said, there is a few more that goes into being a toy, stuff like, how much do you know the history, how much do you follow the ethics as well as your over all skill. all of this factors into if you're a toy or not in graffiti.
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I always cringe a bit when people say like "I've been doing this for 6 months and I'm not improving, what gives?"
It'd be like picking up an instrument and teaching yourself off youtube for the same amount of time, then wondering why you're not getting accepted into a world class orchestra.
Graff/letters isn't something you just "get" or learn within a year or two. It's a lifelong challenge to keep improving your skills. But that's OK because for creative pursuits, you shouldnt do it because you want to be cool or more popular or whatever, you do it because you want to and you enjoy it.
Not only did you hit the nail on the head, you dropped a nuke point blank on it
Haha thanks my guy 😄
People that don’t get better after 6 months aren’t learning they’re just trying. Don’t try to do graffiti, learn the fundamentals like any other skill. Most art is more of a craft than just pure expression.
im 38 yo now write from i was 14...the evolution never stops you right my friend
yeah in wildstyle one of the guys says you need to keep it in the book for 2 years before you think about touching the walls.
You know you're getting better when you start to notice exactly what you're doing wrong.
Or when people better than you start pointing out what you're doing right
You know you are straight with it when any time you get hit up & say your name..respect & awe is shown towards the name, then get to know the person behind the name & call him a legend.
The feeling when u Look at ur old pics that u just loved even if u draw them just a week ago and then u just think like "bro, this looks shit"
finally some good news for me
That's progress
My cousin got me into graffiti and breakdancing when I was a kid. My names Isaac and he always used to call me izer. I’ve stuck with it ever since. I’ve been writing izer for 16 years now.
Thats a sick tag 🙏
@@Sxra37 thanks yo!
This is so Awesome bro!!
@@IzerOne careful bro revealing your tag can get you into trouble especially on the internet
@@bootykraken7177 good looking out bro but I think I’m alright. I don’t do a whole lot of illegal street art. I just throw up a slap here and there.
i never knew how deep the ethics of graffiti was. I just started tagging and im awful but I have a great time doing it. After this video i have a new found respect for it.
Been making my own typefaces and fonts, since I was in grade school. I’m in my 50s now, and the way I write is still changing and evolving.
Lol that's good to hear! As they say, we never stop learning. Many artists stagnate thinking they've learned all there is to learn.
@@Theartistblock I hope you don't mind me asking but what do you mean by toy I'm new to this and I see it in alot of you're video titles.
@@drw9438 long story short it just means amature graffiti artist.
@@Theartistblock ok thanks.
I've been doing graff for almost 8 years now, and ONLY now am I getting invited to meetings, to paint, to hang out. All the respectable writers praise my tag throw and piece, so I can know for sure I'm no longer a toy.
But damn, there's still a loooot to learn
Nah u toy fosho still
@@two9s649 only toys call others toys online
Congrats on the invitations and meeting from the other writers man, keep smashing it ! 👊🏻
Been on it for like 2 years now, only just gotten a decent style together in the last few months. Even then there’s still shit I’m struggling with.
@@2pac1411 that's an oxymoron brother
I started tagging the moment after watching Wild Style in 6th grade. After I met my first fellow tagger/writer in my high school art class. I tagged whenever I could. Fast forward to my first year of college, I was getting comfortable enough to do throwies day or night. I just started doing pieces seven years ago.
I am 40 and a professional artist with an obsession for lettering and anything that is art. I love five letter names, because anyone can do four letter names. Being from a mountain town I was never taught the ins and outs of the culture, I went by what I saw and heard in Wild Style after I bought it. The biggest influences are the writers I have met and now call friends. This is a fun and trying scene. Stay fresh and watch your six.
6 letter names are where it's @......
my tag is ykm1. I've been writing it for about half a year. I came up with that tag when my father told his friends that I paint, after which everyone in our small neighborhood knew that I paint. ykm is an abbreviation of the words you know me. Now when someone sees ykm1 painted on a wall they allways come congratulate me for another successful mission.
I always love the question of "When am I not a toy or noob any more?" I always say "That's the wrong question. The right one is when can you finish a work and be happy with it? If you step back and get that feeling of 'Oh this it dope.' What does it matter if you've been doing it for 10months or 10years?" I personally think it's better to try and keep that attitude you had when you were new. That way you don't get stuck into one style. You can always have "your style", but it's super fun seeing something on a train or back alley, and going "That looks cool AF. Gonna go home and come up with something in that style for my next piece."
btw., if you want to level up in let's say 30 minutes try this:
take you writing hand, do a quick sketch, take the pen from the writing hand, pass it to your non-writing hand, do a sketch (take your time), pass the pen to strong hand, make a sketch - and feel the level uppness while foaming from your mouth of amazsement
Oh my god
@@IndigoDAvalon level up sound
What if youre ambidextrous
Until both hands get gud
i’m ambidextrous lol
About 4-5 months ago, I did my first piece since the 90's, I'm 44, it was kind of wack, I only had 2 rusty, half empty cans, (B&W), that I found while doing a waste removal job, it was 4am, I was shitting my pants, under a train bridge and it's the best thing on the wall 😁😁
I DID scribble "Toy", over somebody else's piece, and immediately felt like a dickhead, I didn't take ANYTHING into consideration, not age, how long they'd been painting, and the fact that they may not have had an experienced writer in their corner, I'd forgotten how toy I was in the early 90's (silver letters, luminous orange outline 😳😳), encouragement can make a Toy great, insults can make a possible great quit....I prefer the encouragement!!!!
Been writing since 12-13 I’m 28 now. Started with SOX, was told by older writers that 3 letter names are reserved for crews, 4 or more for your name. Changed to DONER1/ENOD1
Was on a quest for a character after I got comfortable with my straight letters and throw ups. That quest took a lot longer then I thought it would. Anyways there’s my testimony
There is doner in my town and he is fckng amazing
3 letter names are a bit tricky. I started with LoX. I didn't really like the name that much, and I very quickly realized how hard it is to make it look good. I changed it NoVA, and it got a helluva lot easier to design a good tag and throwup.
It's basically the first advice I'd give to someone starting out. Basically just, don't use a 3 letter name.
@@hyp3r459 oh wow mines is Lix ive been writing lix for 2 years
yea, my character took forever to think of, but i settled with a ghost with one eye and a beanie.
I chose TIKC as it was bestowed upon me by another writer honestly at just the right time. It's fitting as well as I have Tourettes syndrome which I hadn't fully accepted and tried to hide. Which also highlighted why illegal graffiti wasn't right for me. I initially started trying to piece from the get go. Which was insane! As It was trying to run before I could even sit up as my basic print font handwriting was chicken scratch or looked as if a spider had jumped in a pot of ink and ran across the page somehow forming something that resembled letters. I used to put it down to dyslexia which was just an excuse. I've spent the last month or so learning how to control lines and practicing basic print font. If I was to show you a comparison it would be night and day yet its still sloppy and inconsistent and that's okay Improvement takes time and dedication. I've always said make mistakes and learn from them and that's what I did. Recently purchased your beginner bundle. To get a better grasp of the graffiti specific fundamentals. Progress takes time and patience thats just the way it is. Thanks man!
Don't let inability or difficulty stop you from doing the things you want to do as that time you spend putting it off is going to pass regardless so if it's something you want to do and you know your doing it for the right reasons just do it "Time spent wishing is time spent wasted"
TIKC
"You have to learn the rules before you can break them."
Jon Grim
One thing I’ve noticed is that you can have the most basic letter structure what matters is the execution. And color selection which comes with years and experience
yup straight letter killerz is what they call em'
I actually prefer the word style you can read. A lot of graffiti words are next to impossible to read. The more basic ones with bright colours stand out more to me.
I’ve been writing for a year and a half and got my name passed down from my dad one of the biggest honors I’ve received from someone who’s been writing for longer than I’ve been alive
I've been practicing tags and throwups for 4 years now, I have so much shit to still figure out. I've barely even touched upon straightleters and I'm terrible at them, not even gonna comment on pieces xD
Lol the honesty and humility tells me you're probably much better than you give yourself credit for buddy
Throwies suck for me. Straight letters are much easier. I do throwies and it looks like I was getting punched I'm the face while doing it lol
@@ricolaw2571 practice practice practice
@@ricolaw2571 hahaha that's why there called throwies, keep at it tho you'll get if
I have been sketching and painting pieces for more than 2 years now and just like a month ago i realized that any of my work isnt fundementally correct. I just thought it was correct and looked good because my toy friend said so. No i only do straight letters and im progressing much faster now. Im just tryna say that start doing graff correctly because only then you will become better
Lol you and I had the same rough start. I was fooled into thinking I was awesome at graffiti and this lasted 6 years before I realised I was actually toy. What a wake up call that was lol
@@Theartistblock how do yk u stopped being a toy
@@YearOfTheCoconut_ because knowledge and skill of the fundamentals is quantifiable
@@Theartistblock thnx for the knowledge man, i fw ur channel
I just went outside to do my first tag/throwup. Never touched a can, never sprayed on the walls. Except for doing lots of sketches and hella much YT vids… the feeling of creating something on the wall was so addictive and pleasant! Loving the adrenaline rush. Finally I managed to touch a spray can.. i will practice and practice until the spray flow is under control. And understand the technics 💪💪
now hit a heaven or a interstate 15 spot my boy.
I've been practicing my tag name for about 2/2,5 years now and I can really see myself improving. I can't say I'm good yet but i can say I'm getting better
I had a very difficult time trying to choose a name when I first started graffiti. Even though simple, "TINY26" has a lot of meaning to me. My biggest motivations in life are my wife and my son. My wife is pretty small at 5'4 and 100 pounds (hence the tiny) and my son was born on the 26th day of the month (hence the 26). My biggest piece of advice for picking a name isn't to try and find the coolest one you can, it's looking at the things that inspire you so as you're creating your sketch/piece or whatever it may be, you have that inspiration in your mind the entire time
i love this
I been writing the same name for 7 years and still feel like a toy. Just goes to show how you can't just go out and be good.
Give or take I have about 3-4 years of experience, so my word doesn't really weigh as much as Grimms.
But to every beginner out there I recommend that you take every word in this video as genuine advice, and that you follow these words as a religious person follows their faith. Don't be afraid to start at the beginning with the basics, the knowledge of straight letters are absolute crucial to ever get better. When I started, I went to the hardware store every damn friday to buy a few stacks of normal white A4 printing papers, 500 in each. Goal was to cover every paper in alphabets, A-Z until next friday arrives, then repeat the procedure. If I were to save every paper I ever covered in just alphabets my apartment would be stacked to the damn ceiling. It might suck at first, but it helps and it makes you better. Just repeating the progress over and over your brain will start to register the mistakes you make and over time you will notice HUGE difference.
I've been on and off for a few years and just recently became real obsessed with it. This actually sounds like the perfect way for me to go about it, thanks for this!
Oh dude your experience is a great example and lesson for people! Thanks for Sharing it because no joke, as a kid, this comment of yours could have saved me years of frustration of not making any progress. It's awesome to see you were so head strong and disciplined in your practice
@@secko7250 Im glad I could help! Using this method also works for style developing. Start with straight letters until you’re so sick of it that you want to throw up, and when that happens you add one new rule to your letters and you just repeat the process over and over
@@Theartistblock Thank you!
Its all about making it routine, just like working out and going to the gym. Just get up and get the shit done cause aint noone else is going to do it for you, no excuses (:
Dude, you are concise and bring understanding to your explanations and don't leave me guessing when I'm done listening. You are helping me tons on my journey thank you! Subscribed
That bit of advice is great for any art form. For example, I’m a music producer. A couple years ago, I thought I was the absolute best of my skill and then two years of practice have past. I am better than I was those two years ago. If someone is legitimately interested and invested in their art, no matter the form, they will get better. They will improve with time and understanding that at an early stage is important for building artistic confidence. Another thing to understand is that your style or whatever you end up making isn’t for everyone. I understand that wild shit I end up doing in my music isn’t for everyone. That’s just how it is.
Back in the day when I was in high school , i was low key , few knew my tag name, I had the whole school bombed with mean streaks, and pilot markers. The one time I got caught is because I went back to darken the middle line of a capital E. This one gym teacher caught me. One side of my brain said " RUN!! " they other side of the brain said " u can't out run a gym teacher " .. I froze, gym teacher took me to the deans office, they rattled me out to my parents and I got suspended 🙄🤦♂️🤷♂️
the place i grew up in graffiti was everywhere so naturally me and my friends got into it. We weren't vey good but as kids we were just having fun. I went by alot of different names over the years but they never stuck because they never fit who I really was. Some were cool, some were hard sounding but that wasn't me.
Now the name i have i feel fits alot more, its weird; just like me.
Im into graffiti because of a place thats full of graffiti and i regularly go there, many tags and a throw up.
I was an artist in high school. I started doing black books, hats, backpacks.. because it was fun. I got into a "tagging crew" but didn't do any of the work for it. It was just fun to draw on the slap on stickers and give them to the rest of them. Fast forward 17 years, and I'm meeting husbands of wives I've known (since back then) that knew about me 😂 I was the only girl tagger from HIGH SCHOOL. Crazy where art is recognized years later 😊
Brainz
I've been doing graffiti related art for 2 years now and I have improved a lot since when I first started, I could only imagine how good I will be in 5 years
Passed a clean ass church in a very popular painted area of town- I remember that being a rule that was passed down back in the internet of old and I'm glad it's the first thing you said/people still uphold it ethics wise.
Stay up y'all, stay blessed
Felt called out when he mentioned multiple names as of rn I use Envy Ask Rvng Wixked Scurg & Hope but am honestly getting such a better understanding of lettering and hand styles one of my favorite methods is asking my Alexa to for a random word and tagging it multiple times until I’m happy with the letter playing with it line by line and am defenitly just coming up with things daily
I chose my name as epy phytz because in school I used to have an illness epilepsy which makes a person prone to seizures and fits. From there I chose my first name by converting fits into phytz and since I was epileptic I converted into epy ( sounds a bit like epic too 🤭).
It's some kind of converting my weakness into my art or something like that 😂.
Truly inspiring. I applaud you!
Fire tag though!
i’ve been tagging for over a year now and when i look back at my tags and graffiti overall that shit is the toyest toy i’ve ever seen i know a year is not much but the progress of a year is crazy and i’m so excited at when it will be 2 years 3, 5, 10 it is just magical
I had a few names in the beginning that didn't stick, but I was given my name, by others , based on my youthful aggressive manner..lol
But I ran with a couple of names , with different styles, handies included, like I was different people, but the same person. So I wouldn't get laced up, on the same name, if I was caught.
Absolutely right. Respect is a massive thing and has a massive impact on whether you're a toy or not. Tag - Semo - How i got it - i abbreviated see more. Where im from - Anglesey, North Wales.
A lot of people will start tagging and think they can do what they want with no consequence, or reaction from other more serious artists. It's also annoying when you get a load of toys making an area hot so nobody can bomb.
So true, a few cats in my area are bombing on houses and stuff which makes the area way too hot to bomb...
About 2 years ago I got really into learning cursive writing because it looks nice. Now I'm super fascinated by graffiti and had no idea how much more there is to it.
Only been painting for a year, but recently Ive had alot of good people in the scene giving me tips on what to do & not to do. People have told me I have really good hands for a dude who just started painting within the year. All I can say is, practice practice practice. Be coachable if u have someone is trynna teach u the right & wrongs. Try new things. I have alot I want to type out, but you new new cats gotta figure that out for yourselves like the rest of us. Goodluck. Stay up! 💪🏽🤙🏼
Edit: Watched most of your videos throughout the year & it's helped me alot. Thanks GRIM, you're the man. Keep the videos coming. 🤙🏼
Not sure if graffiti is for me but love the artwork. I'm fascinated by it. I was scribbling in my sketchbook and I thought of a name..iDEA I like my basic sketches
hey dude thats all that matters man, as long as you enjoy it you're all set. this channel for sure focuses on teaching and most of my audience is here to learn but that doesn't mean that's all there is to graffiti or any hobby for that matter. if you're in it for just a good time and just in it for the fun then by all means have at it man. if you want to learn then the info is always here for you, do things at your own pace and do what you enjoy dude :D graffiti is for everyone to love and enjoy
I chose VEXES in 2013 after several name changes. I love and hate it, It's a good balanced name, I just dont like the double E's and trying to make them flow with the X, but keeping them similar, but this is my final name for good. I only thought about changing it once.. and that was to ZEXES, cause a lot of times i angle my V's to mirror the S and they end up looking like Z's anyway.
I finally decided to change mine to DSM415 which means “da snake monsta 415” 415 is the area code for San Francisco 👌🏻
I HATE having 2 E's in my name. No matter what they are never the same
Nah that name is heat you'll get it down just keep practicing
Been actively writing since 2006. I honestly feel like I didnt have a real grasp on everything until 9-10 years in the game. And even then I still wanna be waaaay better than I am right now. Its all about growth.
i was born in that year and am just starting out, crazy huh
ADMIRE, or ADMR, because in my opinion that’s what it’s about, i admire the art, i chose it because when i started (only a few weeks ago) i started to see a new artist pop up in my city “notice”, and my interpretation was they do it to be noticed, so i chose the reason i enjoy it
Started writing as astro, and came up with my new name after a few years when I learned of the other ASTROs out there. New name I can't find any work of (other than mine) online, and it uses letters that aren't used often
There's no legend named astro so there is no need to drop that name
@@Theartistblock didn't say a legend but there's a dude who's been using it for at least 10 years and he's pretty nasty lol, just felt off keeping it
Best advice I've always told up and coming graffiti artists when your sketching don't just write your name. Peice your favourite artists and random words to master letters
Been in the game since the age of 14..& am 32 yrs old now..every word spoken in this vid is true to true..keep up the good work & Beat The Heat from an 89er.
When I started my first tag was “weckr” until I found out wekman existed then I had a phase abt just random tags until I found the right name which is soar and then I chose 812 cuz it was my lucky number
I’ve been using the tags “cigs”, “jooks”, “snap” and “meek” consistently. I can barely decide
Been writing on and off and like 13 years. My brother got me into it when I was super young and I've only recently gotten into it seriously. My handstyles are clean af, but my throws and everything beyond that are awful lmao
I've been going at the art form for around 5 years now, and i can say to the newer people, it takes far more than just 6 months to be even half-decent. Just don't give up. keep it simple and practice the basics.
Well.. i started with the name "zen" just because it was cool after that i got a really rough time finding a proper tag and it changed out to "stone" a name that pretty much suits me in a way.. still practicing a better tag with that name but i think i got the patience to learn more i just dont have enough time XD
Your channel is absolutely fantastic. Thank you so much for all your vids. big up sir 🔥🔥🔥🙏🙏🙏
I'm super new to this art form, and I'm loving this whole learning process and just jamming out to music and painting. I go by 'upswing'
A tip...don't listen to music rather listen to your surroundings if you don't like fines and jail.
Im 41 years old an OG still in the game ur absolutely right my cuzin is far from a toy he one day for no reason other than the fact of getting up hit a car with the crew that parked to close to us I was .like dammmm foo ur crazy ...
Tried to do my first tag a couple nights ago, cops showed up when I was barely done with my first letter lol. Was able to avoid getting busted but I’m going to try again, probably a different spot lol.
god your good at being a teacher! your amazing grim such an inspiration!
I just started graff a couple months ago and I'm still practising my tag but I just wanted to know if my name is even good at all. My graff name is "Dat Foo" which is just a short easy tag to practice that I enjoy. I do also rep my cousins graff store "Cold Krush" which was easy to do because the name is already set.
TLDW:
You are no longer a toy when you don't have to ask if you are a toy.
Bugz76(bugs was given to me when i was 5 by my older brother & 76 has personal significance)
Kid irish(given to me ehen i was 13-14 by brother in law)
Kid76(a short combo of both
This is how I chose the name:
I started writing probably 10 years ago, and for the first couple years I went from Deku, to Stee. Dont remember how I came about using them or whatever. But I was a bum, a loser, and I was dating a dime, like a bombshell 10/10, and she gave me a cute little pet name. Its 4 letters, sounds cool and best of all its no where close to a word or name people already write... Well when she broke up with me I changed my graff name to that name, just cause I wanted her to see it all over her city. I dont wanna say what it is cause Im still pretty active.
My tag is "skoz" and I got it , because I was intrigued by all the local graff like on billboards and shit, so I started messing around with other peoples tags to see where it could go, and once I was pretty deep in - I decided it was time to actually decide on my own tag, I knew that the letter "s" is just kinda fun to write in tags and also super easy to piece, "k" because it was a space filler and "o" because, its easy , "z" because again a space filler.
Overall summary: experience with other tags to find which letters are more suitable to my writing style, and the end result was "skoz", occasionally skozman or skozone , etc etc
Ive been doing graff for like 7 months now. Im still toy i must admit but ive came a long way and some artists in my city started to take notice of me :) my tag is Bandito
How I came up with mine is a practiced other peoples tags and put them into a alphabet and chose the letters that were easy
I chose PORKY cuz i was fat asl as a kid so the people on my block call me porky so it stuck
Lol ya know, it's kinda a dope tag name though. That RKY does wonders for your name
What movie is that intro from?
I write Lamar as a memorial name
Legit JUST started today.
decided to give it a shot, because i have been facinated by gravity/tags since i was a child.
So as a 16 year old i decided to try it.
I am pretty happy with the way my tag is coming along for my first day :) really really simple letering. Tried some stuff out. Simple to crazy and figured that simple just works best. I am a beginner afterall, but i realized that my drawing experience (about 7/8 years) have helped me a lot already lol
I, for now, decided to go for the name "PÜNKT" from the german word Punkt (--> Point) because it holds a big meaning to me in multiple ways. It reminds me of myself because of my birthmarks, a friend of mine always called them "Punkte" (points) and it reminds me of my dog becuase she also has "points"/dots on her skin :) and some other stuff i wont discuss here lol
I have a lot to learn and i am ready for the journey that is in my fututre.
and another one bites da dust
Oha bin auch 16 und hab gestern mit tagging angefangen
@@Power-FN wdym?
There is a lot of bad influence in tagging.@@lefrrr
Being toy is more of a mindset as well
Always remember that kids
been hugely interested im graffiti and after learning abt the meaning and culture of names i like to think i've had it for a while. been repping the name Deetle9 since i was 8 lol. Was initially just my username for those kids browser games but i have kept it and really gotten attached to it as part of my identity the last 12yrs. hoping to create a livlier community thru art
i just started iv been haveing fun and practicing alot i cant wait to see my progress in a couple of years
""Omnii"" is my DJ name and my tag name. Pronounced "Om-knee-eye". I like the opportunities for playing with the lettering and the meaning behind it is that "I" and "we" are all connected. We are one species, one family, and that identity and separation in general, are just culturally constructed illusions.
But you can read it as a fun play on words if you're not into all the pseudo-intellectual bs. It can be read on many levels. And its just a fun and silly weird word to just say outloud. So yeah, sticking with it for the foreseeable future.
👍👍🔥🔥💥💥. Best channel for learning fundamentals of Graff , painting ,artistry , ect!!!!!! Looking forward to the next one G. 👍👍🔥🔥💥💥
S.O.A.R. it was the first thing in mind😂😭😂😂😂
i started graffiti a week ago i can admit im shit. but i love to do it i dont think its cool or popular i do it because it gives me joy and hope when there doesn't seem like there is any
Not revealing what it is, but I just combined two things that I liked.
you know your getting better when your uncle finally hires you to paint houses for his company
I had this one nickname that my classmates gave me and I planned to turn it into a tag but I didn’t know how, it was too hard, so created an easier one but now ima try the first one again
"SOE" is getting up. This talented graffiti artist has a nice style. He loves slapping up Hello My Name Is stickers.
i basically started thinking about taking part when I saw some (to me) beautiful pieces on my train rides to and from uni and then a video from Wekman landed in my recommended. I found myself agreeing with the sentiment that if it's an ugly, gray, rundown wall, why not paint over it, give some color to an otherwise depressing looking spot. I tag in my sketchbook, try some designs that will never see the light of day and sometimes slap some stickers on the back of road signs. I don't consider myself "the real deal" since i can't write for crap, but i try to make the world we live in a bit more than a combination of concrete, steel and glass
Not a graffiti artist, but an artist in general: practice doesn't make perfect, practice out of your comfort zone does. You have to do things you wouldn't normally do and perfect it. You have to study the rules before you break them.
this makes me shiver
I'm pretty young and started to practice graffiti for a month now. My tag is Jirk, and I have no reason on why I picked it other than that it sounds cool to me. Thanks to this video a now know the hard work and dedication that needs to be inputted into graffiti. Although I'm fairly young and new I'm practicing on sketchbooks and stuff like that but mostly with pencil since I don't know what paint and alcohol markers to buy, but after seeing this video, I know that I want to work my ass off doing graffiti.
did you get "jirk" from II SIVE II? because i watched that video and it had jirk...
i live in Stockholm the person who grounded Stockholm is called Birger Jarl. Jarl also means king or emperer in swedish. so jarl it is
I’ve been writing for about a year.
And I just finally started doing a thowie that I think doesn’t look like complete trash.
There is still a lot of room to improve. If I’m being honest with myself, it’s still pretty bad.
I’m just a toy enjoying myself🤷♂️
I'm practicing for 4 months and my tag is KRAB because I like the letters and because sounds cool, but I have a lot of stuff to learn
EDIT: I'm going to switch to the name KIB because is shorter 4 letters are too much
That's a dope name dogg..a lot of potential in those letters & how the flow with each other..
In my town..there is a dude that writes DARIO & he hitts the walls hard...jus a thought.
I go by Feesh - I’m middle aged now but served in the Navy when I was younger. Grim is an awesome teacher! 😎⚓️
With an approach like this ... I gotta subscribe. Well done.
For my tag name I just choose the name I always use.
Ghost Child.
If I'm in a rush or just too lazy I shorten it to G . C.
still vvv new to graff, but my name is VENDETTA and ive already seen myself improve so much since my first time writing (that piece is still up and i still go visit it and cringe a little because it looks SO unfinished since i got nervous and rushed through it). my first love was definitely less lettering and more crazy art pieces, which i still do all the time, but i'm also now working on improving my throwies and handstyle. definitely still a toy lol. but im having fun and getting better while staying in my lane until im good
VENDETTA came from the name of my punk zine where i do a lot of the same art style as my graffiti but i shorten it to "VTTA" for my tag and then do the full word for more time consuming throwups and hopefully pieces soon
i chose YDA13... i love yoda and lucky # is 13
I'm really new to graffiti like literally 2 days, and I have two names in mind TSAR, ALIK, MAGMA and SPACE. They all feel toy-ish but I dont know which one to go with.
I'd work on your counting skills before you go out vandalizing. That's 4 since you don't know how to count.
i went by CASP in 2008-10 i was 15 at the time. i stopped until recently and im having so much fun relearning. i was never good but i was better than i had remembered, and i cant wait to keep improving and get some can control.
You know your getting better when you start getting people's names up next to yours
I haven"t got any recent ups, but I write Disdain for a couple of reasons, 1) i used to write TANK, because of Tank Girl, but it's way too cliche and overused, and 2) disdain sums up how a lot of people feel about the socioeconomic structures in place and constant rat race that capitalist society has forced upon us, so I felt like disdain has a message behind it. I've been a TOY for so loong, but the guys at the graf shop always supported me and I never step on anyone's shit or bite anyone's ideas so Imma carry on painting.
also, my can control suck so if anyone has any tips i'd really appreciate it, for now I'm sticking to hand styles
I was fortunate enough to be given my name 12 or 13 years ago. It's because my friends and I were all into music and they were all messing around and saying all my groupies wanted more hahahaha. So I tool that and rode with it which is enkor pronounced "encore", after painting that for a while I ended up having a graffiti task force looking for me and my house. So I would say to people that just wondered why I wrote enkor, "because the cops want more, the people want more the streets want more so I gotta give the people what they want. It's an enkor. Plus I enjoy 5 letters cuz I can use the K and a center for centering and balancing my name
I like the graffiti name *"TOY".*
i like a name that has a three digit number after it, and in my opinion the best three digit number is 129. i don't know why but theres just something about it that makes it cool.
Not finna lie thought he was going to be very opinionated and on a soap box but it was a pretty honest and down to earth vid, might watch some grim vids again
okay so... I've been wondering this since the blackbook walkthrus but what do you mean by straight letter study? just like practicing straight letters to get fundamentals down and seeing what works thru trial and error? this is deffs something i wanna try out and i dont wanna go down the wrong path if im missing something big that'll save me a lotta time
Hit me up on insta and let me know it's you so I can be sure to open the message. I want to give you tons of info on this topic but in short you never and I mean NEVER want to leave learning to only trial and error. You instead want to do straight letters and you want to literally go down the list of fundamentals and triple check each one to make sure its right. From here as you get better, you can go down that same list and tweak different fundamentals to see the letters limits. For example, what happens when I make the weight of the top of the R much much larger, and what happens to an A if I decrease the close counters negative space too much.
@@Theartistblock id say you would get a P not an R and an H not an A 🤷♂️, i really like your point, and i may be wrong lol 😎.
I've been wondering the same thing, been trying to go back and relearn basic letter structuring but haven't been sure where to even begin.
@@salsashark8876 salsa hit me up on insta. Let me know it's you and ask what's been confusing you. Let's get you started
I did a painting once of a horned guy and I named him beast. So I've used that name for the past couple years.
My man writes "Zhero". Hero 2 Zero, zhero fuks given, zhero %, zhero to 100, zhero expectations, zhero respect, zhero class... And after 30+ years, ZHERO times caught!!
I’ve been doing graffiti since i was a kid in school. i have several pieces laying around but they all look the same and i can’t seem to improve. how do i practice to get better? i don’t tag on walls either i draw on paper or digital art because at the end of the day graffiti is vandalism and i would only be able to tag on legal walls or abandoned places... but even then, I’m still kind of scared to do it in public and i feel like my artwork would be horrible if i tried with an actual spray can...
Not trying due to fear of being bad will only keep you stagnant. Go practice and make those mistakes! That way you know what not to do next time
Also, do you ever try new things? Or you re draw what's comfortable/what you know you can already do
Also as someone who used to not use cans much, I suggest starting. For me at least, it gave me a completely different feeling and freed my mind in ways that I can't seem to find on paper/digitally
@@boogie8586 i don’t really have the time to go out and find a wall unfortunately since i work a 40 hour job i do live in San Francisco so i guess that could be easy? idk tho haha
I started the tag NOOK not to long ago and I’m interested in why you guys think about it
mines wisk, ngl i was going through an old blackbook and thought hmm lemme see whats up with this LOL