@@sinixdesign sinix, can you explain what you mean by making sure that one letter doesnt "cross through the angle" of a previous one? i dont really get it.
你好! (For those who are wondering, it means hello/greetings) It's awesome that you wrote Chinese (I was so sure you were going for Japanese at first). Fun fact: I live in Taiwan and normally graffiti is still done in English here, because Chinese has its own direction for each stroke etc etc and thus distorting the strokes in perspective makes it not aesthetically pleasing. I jumped back to this video because you mentioned it in your interview with Sycra. I really appreciate all of you guys who are putting out these incredibly informative videos that together give me a comprehensive Art education. Don't know if you will see this, but thank you Sinix!
I love looking at all the graffiti when I'm traveling. It is so cool looking at all the stories behind the art. A lot of people look down in it because if the language, but it honestly adds so much to it. There is a tunnel by my grandmother's house that has so much graffiti in it. I have seen "love is love", "creativity is dead", "world peace" and a boy with headphones and a tear running down his face. It isn't very complex, like you can tell that they did it in a rush, but their is so much story. I would love to travel and document graffiti and put it on a tumblr blog or in a book.
If you're interested in the real terminology, the "SNX" at the beginning and "Bloodshed" were the only tags. The bubble letters and simple 3D stuff are throw-ups, or "throwies." Any really intricate, specially designed graffiti works are called pieces. There were no pieces in this video, and if you look at people's black books here on youtube, you'll get an idea of what it takes to create a piece.
You are tremendously right. Some friends of mine are graffiti artists but they never really studied anything about drawing. The fact that they exercised themselves into graffiti has improved their perception of the shapes and perspective to a level where they can draw at a significantly good level. (I'm sorry if my english isn't really good)
To improve your graffiti lettering, you should try to do basic letters and the deform them, avoid adding lots of arrows and things, stay simple. Plus, graffiti have strong roots in graphic design, color, balance, center of gravity, negative spaces, all this things are important. you can add as well line of action in letters or general motion of the piece. And don't forget that tags are simplified versions of graffiti, they will help you a lot do do better pieces, it's kinda like gesture for figure drawing. There is also a way to see letters, calligraphers have the same.
Sinix, I gotta say, this video helped me so much, It's the first time I ever was able to grasp the idea of tangents, and it really helped me with my lineweight. Thank you for putting this up.
lol as a graffiti / fin artists this is gold. It's really cool to see you do some graffiti. Graffiti overlays and shares so much with other artforms it's crazy lol
Honestly man this is great. I remembered doing stuff like this as a kid - on the back of textbooks and whatnot - and at some point I stopped. I really appreciate this video.
Oh man, I think your videos have helped me more than any other on youtube. For some reason the way you approach things just really clicks with me. Thanks Sinix!
This dude is the best, thanks for always reminding me how much I love drawing and thanks for nudging me out of frame construct style with this one it does feel really limited and can be a handicap to certain types of people I guess
i think part of the reason tangents are "bad" is because they're avoided so much throughout most all composition, but maybe if tangents where used a recurring element in a drawing, the they could look fine, it would probobly be easyest to pull off in a line/contour drawing, or something in the style of a zentangle. ... you said it flattens a piece, perhaps if you gave two objects that are supposed to be in the same plane a parrallel tagent, then it might reinforce where they are in the scene, as long as it didnt detract from the rest/look out of place.
You can pretty much say that for any art principle though. You can't willy nilly say that because every art principle could follow this rule. However if you notice the exercise the reason you try your best to avoid them is because you want to improve your work. Most of the people here I know want to create like fantasy illustrations, game art, concept art, and so on. So most of these illustrations require a good knowledge of the rules but breaking the rules smartly. You have to create a sense depth and so some of these rules have to apply. Tangents are part of this because it constitutes depth and overlapping. Overlapping is part of what makes your pictures in perspective and what is in front to increase depth. Read more about tangents. emptyeasel.com/2008/11/18/avoiding-tangents-9-visual-blunders-every-artist-should-watch-out-for/
Hi Sinix, Being watching your tutorials for a while. Thanks a big bunch! First time saw this one. At 14:25, I stopped to type "你好“ (You good= How are you....). Will continue to see if I'm right. :)
Good video, but i think you missed style as a category. Becasue in europe every good writer has his own style. I think style is what really matters. Style is a group of rules, elements, details, turnings in your letter. With these rules you can draw every letter, nut just your name. But good video btw
this one was totally unexpected but still an interesting one. I often walked past some grafitis admiring their techniques and perspectives as well as their graphicness. PS: wnated to leave a comment on facebook but couldn't find this post on your profile :P PS2: what's it say in chinese!??! :D
great video i laughed so much when i saw that wash me sign on the van, but that seems kind of weird now, since its supposed to be in china. Damn Tourists !!
I love this channel man great work. But listening you from earphones is hard can you EQ high frequencies of your voice ? It has crispy edges becomes hard when listening with earphones (You can make a better post production to your voice recording)
well youre definetly a toy but youd make for an awesome writer what you did were pieces. a tag is the basic fundamentals of every graffiti...its your identity, your signature a throw up is an enlarged tag and a very simplified piece...mostly its simple bubble letters in one color with a simple black outline you definetly have potential but you often times broke the letters by adding unnecessary things n stuff but thats irrelevant because you said yourself that youre a toy so good job
one thing I don't agree with: graffiti actually LIVES from not necessary complications! otherwise everybody would write in comic sans, or times new roman.
Arghya Das Usually just Robert now. I had that website years ago, but artist websites really became irrelevant once social media starting taking over. I don't do anything notable for a living now, but I have dabbled in a bit of everything as it comes to art related jobs. I'm happier doing my own thing in the end.
nice video, ive been drawing since the womb and doing graff for 5 years and everything from characters to landscapes bounce off the same fundamentals graffiti has, except its more abstract. if youd like to get better at letters, simply study other peoples work and adapt it, also calligraphy is very closely related. check out heavyartillerys.com/ they are one of my favorite crews, have a nice day everyone :)
I take Chinese but our class sucks. I have no idea what that says. I might not know the word. Edit: someone commented the term. I know I saw the 好 but idk about the 你。。。 like I actually can't see it ;u; OHHH I SEE IT NOW ok
Ex-graffiter turned concept artist here. This video is beyond legit
Cheers, friend. I appreciate it.
Is good to see Portuguese people in these industries! I am on my way, still bettering my craft
@@sinixdesign sinix, can you explain what you mean by making sure that one letter doesnt "cross through the angle" of a previous one? i dont really get it.
你好! (For those who are wondering, it means hello/greetings)
It's awesome that you wrote Chinese (I was so sure you were going for Japanese at first). Fun fact: I live in Taiwan and normally graffiti is still done in English here, because Chinese has its own direction for each stroke etc etc and thus distorting the strokes in perspective makes it not aesthetically pleasing. I jumped back to this video because you mentioned it in your interview with Sycra. I really appreciate all of you guys who are putting out these incredibly informative videos that together give me a comprehensive Art education. Don't know if you will see this, but thank you Sinix!
I thought it was japanese YA in katakana for a second.
Distorting the characters doesn't make them aesthetically unappealing as much as it goes against strongly held beliefs about what is "correct."
I love looking at all the graffiti when I'm traveling. It is so cool looking at all the stories behind the art. A lot of people look down in it because if the language, but it honestly adds so much to it. There is a tunnel by my grandmother's house that has so much graffiti in it. I have seen "love is love", "creativity is dead", "world peace" and a boy with headphones and a tear running down his face. It isn't very complex, like you can tell that they did it in a rush, but their is so much story. I would love to travel and document graffiti and put it on a tumblr blog or in a book.
You would LOVE São Paulo brazil
If you're interested in the real terminology, the "SNX" at the beginning and "Bloodshed" were the only tags. The bubble letters and simple 3D stuff are throw-ups, or "throwies." Any really intricate, specially designed graffiti works are called pieces. There were no pieces in this video, and if you look at people's black books here on youtube, you'll get an idea of what it takes to create a piece.
I'm always interested in learning new things. Thanks for the info!
+Patrick any suggestions for specific people to look at?
You are tremendously right.
Some friends of mine are graffiti artists but they never really studied anything about drawing. The fact that they exercised themselves into graffiti has improved their perception of the shapes and perspective to a level where they can draw at a significantly good level.
(I'm sorry if my english isn't really good)
To improve your graffiti lettering, you should try to do basic letters and the deform them, avoid adding lots of arrows and things, stay simple.
Plus, graffiti have strong roots in graphic design, color, balance, center of gravity, negative spaces, all this things are important. you can add as well line of action in letters or general motion of the piece. And don't forget that tags are simplified versions of graffiti, they will help you a lot do do better pieces, it's kinda like gesture for figure drawing. There is also a way to see letters, calligraphers have the same.
i actually learned quite a bit in this video XD , good job
I love that you grab inspiration from "odd" sources like graffiti and modern art!
Sinix, I gotta say, this video helped me so much, It's the first time I ever was able to grasp the idea of tangents, and it really helped me with my lineweight. Thank you for putting this up.
lol as a graffiti / fin artists this is gold. It's really cool to see you do some graffiti. Graffiti overlays and shares so much with other artforms it's crazy lol
I love that you made this. I've been practicing graffiti for a while now and it helps with fundamentals so much.
Honestly man this is great. I remembered doing stuff like this as a kid - on the back of textbooks and whatnot - and at some point I stopped. I really appreciate this video.
Oh man, I think your videos have helped me more than any other on youtube. For some reason the way you approach things just really clicks with me. Thanks Sinix!
This dude is the best, thanks for always reminding me how much I love drawing and thanks for nudging me out of frame construct style with this one it does feel really limited and can be a handicap to certain types of people I guess
i think part of the reason tangents are "bad" is because they're avoided so much throughout most all composition, but maybe if tangents where used a recurring element in a drawing, the they could look fine, it would probobly be easyest to pull off in a line/contour drawing, or something in the style of a zentangle.
... you said it flattens a piece, perhaps if you gave two objects that are supposed to be in the same plane a parrallel tagent, then it might reinforce where they are in the scene, as long as it didnt detract from the rest/look out of place.
Tangents are bad only because its make its confusing which of the objects are in front.
You can pretty much say that for any art principle though. You can't willy nilly say that because every art principle could follow this rule. However if you notice the exercise the reason you try your best to avoid them is because you want to improve your work. Most of the people here I know want to create like fantasy illustrations, game art, concept art, and so on. So most of these illustrations require a good knowledge of the rules but breaking the rules smartly. You have to create a sense depth and so some of these rules have to apply. Tangents are part of this because it constitutes depth and overlapping. Overlapping is part of what makes your pictures in perspective and what is in front to increase depth.
Read more about tangents.
emptyeasel.com/2008/11/18/avoiding-tangents-9-visual-blunders-every-artist-should-watch-out-for/
Great, now I'm going to have to do master studies of Graffiti art too.
I love how you comunicate the information and the basic.
Your videos are very informative and enjoyable.
Keep them comming~
hugs.
Hi Sinix, Being watching your tutorials for a while. Thanks a big bunch! First time saw this one. At 14:25, I stopped to type "你好“ (You good= How are you....). Will continue to see if I'm right. :)
this video really put me in my place. I got a lot to learn
Your channel is one of the most complete ones, i love it
i actually learned perspective with graffiti (: now its one of my biggest strenghts.
I always learn something interesting from your videos. Great variety and useful commentary. Thanks Sinix!
This was such an innovative approach at common illustration criteria, thanks a lot for sharing
Learned a lot from this and will be happy to add it to my list of warm-ups thanks again sinix!
awesome! I love that you're back, your videos are great!
Good video, but i think you missed style as a category. Becasue in europe every good writer has his own style. I think style is what really matters. Style is a group of rules, elements, details, turnings in your letter. With these rules you can draw every letter, nut just your name. But good video btw
This really comes in handy, thank youu
even as a graffer i learned quite a bit o-o
Thanks for uploading this Sinix, you RULE!
So wait, what does it say in Chinese?
The wrist was so coooooooooollll 🤩🤩🤩🤩
this one was totally unexpected but still an interesting one. I often walked past some grafitis admiring their techniques and perspectives as well as their graphicness. PS: wnated to leave a comment on facebook but couldn't find this post on your profile :P PS2: what's it say in chinese!??! :D
You are amazing 0.0 Thanks for the video!!
great video i laughed so much when i saw that wash me sign on the van, but that seems kind of weird now, since its supposed to be in china. Damn Tourists !!
Merry Christmas Sinix, and a happy new year
12:00 this is why there is no "E" in sinix.
14:06 it says "thumb this comment up". trust me, im a profesional chineneser
Leo Indahouse yeah nice try.
Great, informative video! Many thanks :)
isn't that Frank's RV from Life is Strange there at the end?
love that game!
its a terrible game
@@vranhurst632 truth
I love this channel man great work. But listening you from earphones is hard can you EQ high frequencies of your voice ? It has crispy edges becomes hard when listening with earphones (You can make a better post production to your voice recording)
late upload sinix. thanks! i was sitting here and didn't know what to practice.
Yay! My "mecha" word is in the video!
Very good!
Nice job on the chinese! Totally readable.
thing at the end was dopes
well youre definetly a toy but youd make for an awesome writer
what you did were pieces. a tag is the basic fundamentals of every graffiti...its your identity, your signature
a throw up is an enlarged tag and a very simplified piece...mostly its simple bubble letters in one color with a simple black outline
you definetly have potential but you often times broke the letters by adding unnecessary things n stuff but thats irrelevant because you said yourself that youre a toy so good job
Thanks for sharing some knowledge on the subject.
one thing I don't agree with:
graffiti actually LIVES from not necessary complications!
otherwise everybody would write in comic sans, or times new roman.
WHY DID YOU STOP MAKING VIDEOS AGAIN ;((((((
eres un capo compare!
Hey Sinix, great channel, but why you don't have anything about texture? Thank you
I actually started out from graffiti..
YES I CAN READ IT! Nice one :D I actually recognised it before you said it was chinese.
Well post it! No one has got it yet!
"你好"
*****
Hello?
Thank you
What brush is this? I'm going crazy to try to get the same effect.
Love ❤️
Looks like 你好 to me...
How do I colour without overpassing the line art ? I always had problems with... jeez
Like any other art u need reference
shittt yahhhh!!
amazing! =)
what about landscapes :P
thx snx
HI MR SINIX!! :D
I COULD RECOGNISE 你好 and thought it was a coincidence
Thanks for sharing the video. I was wondering what do you do for living? & what is your real name? Please keep posting videos as you did before.
his real name is roberto stacy-crazy not kidding. look it up.
As far as I can see his name is Rob Stacy. Seems he had a website too. Thanks for the reply.
Arghya Das
Usually just Robert now. I had that website years ago, but artist websites really became irrelevant once social media starting taking over. I don't do anything notable for a living now, but I have dabbled in a bit of everything as it comes to art related jobs. I'm happier doing my own thing in the end.
nice video, ive been drawing since the womb and doing graff for 5 years and everything from characters to landscapes bounce off the same fundamentals graffiti has, except its more abstract. if youd like to get better at letters, simply study other peoples work and adapt it, also calligraphy is very closely related. check out heavyartillerys.com/ they are one of my favorite crews, have a nice day everyone :)
Cool link. Thanks.
no problem!
16:48 AMOGUS📮📮📮📮
I take Chinese but our class sucks. I have no idea what that says. I might not know the word.
Edit: someone commented the term. I know I saw the 好 but idk about the 你。。。 like I actually can't see it ;u;
OHHH I SEE IT NOW ok
hahah cool study
Does anyone know his twitter so i can fallow him? By the way cool video big fan :)
I love you.
Ok
21:14 *Discord Server
And now you're gone again. Sweet...
Arrows are lame ... Any writer can tell if an artist actually wrote graff or not.... It takes a long time to get good...
你好!
“快好”？？？😅
U dont do Graffiti why u are so good at it lol xD
look up the graffiti artist Daim
14:50 你好?
ewww the flab one grosses me out
Looks like 你好 to me...