"We take years to do something that looks as if you dashed it off in five minutes" This is the best quote of this whole thing to me. A friend and I were talking about this the other day. Graff is a process of refinement. It is all about making the complex look ordinary in a way. Thank you for all your videos! Less than a year in and you have helped me tremendously.
@@AdrianElliott-tb6xn yes mate, it takes years to master anything and the process is both painful and enjoyable. I was talking to Icon tonight about my favourite time in graffiti which was actually when I first started and used to go out at night with him back in 1987/88. I was hopeless but I loved it. I improved over the years.
Always glad to read that mate. Very satisfying to see writers that I schooled from 20 years back go on to be tuff writers pumping out burners on the regular.
As a billboard sign painter for many years; it was my job to paint letters on the advertising; and many of the characteristics of this lettering are very similar. Sadly, it was also my job to cover or remove the graffiti on the signs; I always thought that the graffiti looked better and much more artistic than the advertisement. Interesting work, sir!
I can't tell you how helpful this is! What a phenomenal approach to creating and building awareness to the process of letter manipulation. Thank you very much for creating this and sharing it with us!
So many things you said about practicing years and years to.make it look so easy,but it isn't.so true.nice video.always enjoy watching you sketching and listen to you.learned so much on your channel.thank you for that!
@@CUTEMKUltras yep i've seen legends do pieces on 30-50? meter long Pre primed black "wood"walls, covering fences or dividers for crowd control, and absolutely smashing it!! 🤙☢️❤️😎
This is a really great advice video! ❤ -When i do my tag i often wonder if i should do it fat or skinny. Big or small, wild or simple..nasty or clean, hard to read or easy.. but mostly i look at the surface/spot and think what do it need.. what would "fit" here, and what do i want to do.. soo i have alot of variations of my tagname besides the "original" i do. 😎 I find it got me out of my mental rut of what to do with the letters, when out and around.. so i dont just stamp the exact same tag everywhere.. also its harder to track whats written, you know; legally.. 😁🤙 Hi Mr. Cute i love your tag, and you are right it looks simple but hard to do 😎 -when young i dreamt about doing wildstyle, when grown up i dream about doing the perfect simple oneliner tag! 😂😊✌️🫶👌 Peace out to everyone ❤
Haha yes mate, I too dreamt of being able to wildstyle and my stuf back in the 90s was super tekky. Now I much prefer to rock some great straight letters but I mostly do characters now.We eventually find our place of ultimate artistic fulfillment.
Thanks for the nice tutorial 👍 Could you do something on the joining of letters with a few examples? E.g two curved letters creating negative space as they sit against each other. Also e.g. join lines when two straight letters sit against each other. Hope the question makes sense. These are things I am struggling with when connecting letters. Keep the good content flowing!
Always had the your letters need to stand solo before you go wild joining them ethos, i used to cut mine out & spend hours or days/weeks using our lounge window as a light box as that was all i had. HB pencil a black biro pen & a 500 wad of printing paper, WHSMITH has a lot to answer for back in my days of learning outlines & structure.....great video
The old school methods were the best mate. I miss those simpler days before graf was everywhere.WHSMITH was like church back then! We headed there religiously.
@@CUTEMKUltras I'm just glad i was there iin the UK scene back then & still alive mate lol When the only way of getting printed was getting in your local paper labelled as a vandal & your a paper round boy....loving them new canvas.
I’m fairly new to ur channel and I’m just gonna dive into it really… so I had an accident & really hit my head & in result some of my “ memories “ or recollections just vanished… for example ; I used to drive everyday a cross enduro motorcycle & I have to relearn all together how to drive one as if I had never driven a clutch 2 stroke prior…. Many many weird things that would drop ur jaw really … I’m using my mums tablet at the moment so lemme introduce myself my graffiti name is “RUSTY” or in tribute to a mate that died back in school all taggers.. friends,we all add a “69” at the end of our pieces in his memory as his name was “LEVEL 69” but that is just a detail BUT EXACTLY LIKE THE MOTORCYCLE I tag with ease & my throw ups aren’t at the level I used to be BUT WHILST I WAS IN HAWAII RECUPERATING WITH MY BFF MY PARENTS MOVED FOR FINANCIAL REASONS AND I HAVE NO MORE BLACK BOOKS 📕 MY DD JUST SHOVED IN IN STORAGE NOT CARING AND I GOT NOTHING TO EVEN SLIGHTLY REMEMBER HOW I WOULD MAKE MY CLASSIC 2 - 3 tone graffiti and I’m stuck like no other trying to make a logo (as I am and graduated with bachelors in graphic design and free hand drawing ✍🏼 with all medias…. I CANNOT DRAW ANYMORE CHARACTERS AS I WAS GOUNG FOR ANIMATION ( I had mad skills) but now I’m just a regular starter…!!! I would really appreciate if you could help me out using UR OWN STYLE AND HELPING ME BY SEEING WHAT U COME UP WITH IF U DONT MIND THAT IS… drawing me my name just the “RUSTY” cuz I want to print my own tshirts as I used to….. if u can help me out it would be amazing !!!
Love these! How do you mount your phone over the drawing? I’ve tried to do something similar for my Instagram but I stack my phone on books and it falls off. 😂
I don't have the set up for it mate. I might try to do something the next time we all paint but I don't have any professional gear, tripod etc to do it with.
"We take years to do something that looks as if you dashed it off in five minutes" This is the best quote of this whole thing to me. A friend and I were talking about this the other day. Graff is a process of refinement. It is all about making the complex look ordinary in a way. Thank you for all your videos! Less than a year in and you have helped me tremendously.
@@AdrianElliott-tb6xn yes mate, it takes years to master anything and the process is both painful and enjoyable. I was talking to Icon tonight about my favourite time in graffiti which was actually when I first started and used to go out at night with him back in 1987/88. I was hopeless but I loved it. I improved over the years.
You & Smoe Nova helped me level up my graffiti so much . I'm like a different writer now.
Me to man! These two guys have taught me so much.
@@newbietubie some of the most humble people in this culture & community.
Always glad to read that mate. Very satisfying to see writers that I schooled from 20 years back go on to be tuff writers pumping out burners on the regular.
Still a toy 🧸
I think you might have some Smoe Nova stories from way back . Probably good story to tell .@@CUTEMKUltras
As a billboard sign painter for many years; it was my job to paint letters on the advertising; and many of the characteristics of this lettering are very similar. Sadly, it was also my job to cover or remove the graffiti on the signs; I always thought that the graffiti looked better and much more artistic than the advertisement. Interesting work, sir!
Thanks mate, always nice to get the view of a pro on here, thanks for dropping by!
I can't tell you how helpful this is! What a phenomenal approach to creating and building awareness to the process of letter manipulation. Thank you very much for creating this and sharing it with us!
No problem mate, hope it helps you out!
So many things you said about practicing years and years to.make it look so easy,but it isn't.so true.nice video.always enjoy watching you sketching and listen to you.learned so much on your channel.thank you for that!
Thanks mate, always glad to have you in the comments spreading the love!
Boogie piece from 2015 Roskilde Festival is pretty nice ❤
Roskilde produces some of the best graf on the planet imo. It's turned into one of the toughest graf jams on the planet.
@@CUTEMKUltras yep i've seen legends do pieces on 30-50? meter long Pre primed black "wood"walls, covering fences or dividers for crowd control, and absolutely smashing it!! 🤙☢️❤️😎
Thank you so much for these videos!
Hope they help out bro!
This is a really great advice video! ❤
-When i do my tag i often wonder if i should do it fat or skinny. Big or small, wild or simple..nasty or clean, hard to read or easy.. but mostly i look at the surface/spot and think what do it need.. what would "fit" here, and what do i want to do.. soo i have alot of variations of my tagname besides the "original" i do. 😎
I find it got me out of my mental rut of what to do with the letters, when out and around.. so i dont just stamp the exact same tag everywhere.. also its harder to track whats written, you know; legally.. 😁🤙
Hi Mr. Cute i love your tag, and you are right it looks simple but hard to do 😎 -when young i dreamt about doing wildstyle, when grown up i dream about doing the perfect simple oneliner tag! 😂😊✌️🫶👌
Peace out to everyone ❤
Haha yes mate, I too dreamt of being able to wildstyle and my stuf back in the 90s was super tekky. Now I much prefer to rock some great straight letters but I mostly do characters now.We eventually find our place of ultimate artistic fulfillment.
Awesome just what I was looking for thank you sir.
Always my pleasure to help out mate!
Nice - Great tutorial 🙌
Thanks mate!
Thanks for the nice tutorial 👍
Could you do something on the joining of letters with a few examples?
E.g two curved letters creating negative space as they sit against each other. Also e.g. join lines when two straight letters sit against each other.
Hope the question makes sense. These are things I am struggling with when connecting letters.
Keep the good content flowing!
Okay mate, I think I got that. Good request, I'll do my best to get on it asap!
This is amazing & I have one question, do you have any more of these tips previously recorded that you can point us towards?
Yes mate, loads of stuff right here ruclips.net/video/hDAltB-l4_I/видео.html
@@CUTEMKUltras WOW!!!!! That's insane! Thank you soooo much!
Always had the your letters need to stand solo before you go wild joining them ethos, i used to cut mine out & spend hours or days/weeks using our lounge window as a light box as that was all i had. HB pencil a black biro pen & a 500 wad of printing paper, WHSMITH has a lot to answer for back in my days of learning outlines & structure.....great video
The old school methods were the best mate. I miss those simpler days before graf was everywhere.WHSMITH was like church back then! We headed there religiously.
@@CUTEMKUltras I'm just glad i was there iin the UK scene back then & still alive mate lol When the only way of getting printed was getting in your local paper labelled as a vandal & your a paper round boy....loving them new canvas.
I’m fairly new to ur channel and I’m just gonna dive into it really… so I had an accident & really hit my head & in result some of my “ memories “ or recollections just vanished… for example ; I used to drive everyday a cross enduro motorcycle & I have to relearn all together how to drive one as if I had never driven a clutch 2 stroke prior…. Many many weird things that would drop ur jaw really … I’m using my mums tablet at the moment so lemme introduce myself my graffiti name is “RUSTY” or in tribute to a mate that died back in school all taggers.. friends,we all add a “69” at the end of our pieces in his memory as his name was “LEVEL 69” but that is just a detail BUT EXACTLY LIKE THE MOTORCYCLE I tag with ease & my throw ups aren’t at the level I used to be BUT WHILST I WAS IN HAWAII RECUPERATING WITH MY BFF MY PARENTS MOVED FOR FINANCIAL REASONS AND I HAVE NO MORE BLACK BOOKS 📕 MY DD JUST SHOVED IN IN STORAGE NOT CARING AND I GOT NOTHING TO EVEN SLIGHTLY REMEMBER HOW I WOULD MAKE MY CLASSIC 2 - 3 tone graffiti and I’m stuck like no other trying to make a logo (as I am and graduated with bachelors in graphic design and free hand drawing ✍🏼 with all medias…. I CANNOT DRAW ANYMORE CHARACTERS AS I WAS GOUNG FOR ANIMATION ( I had mad skills) but now I’m just a regular starter…!!! I would really appreciate if you could help me out using UR OWN STYLE AND HELPING ME BY SEEING WHAT U COME UP WITH IF U DONT MIND THAT IS… drawing me my name just the “RUSTY” cuz I want to print my own tshirts as I used to….. if u can help me out it would be amazing !!!
Well, that's cute!
I'll see myself out...
*salute
Love these! How do you mount your phone over the drawing? I’ve tried to do something similar for my Instagram but I stack my phone on books and it falls off. 😂
I use a swan neck stand mate, very cheap to pick up on Amazon. Try one out!
@@CUTEMKUltras thank you! Definitely ordering one. Have a great day!
What pencil do you use to sketch
I use a Rotring 0.5 mechanical pencil
Just was in the store, i really want a hoodie with the wildstyle pile on it -but on a grey or black hoodie.. i dont do well in white clothes 😂
Haha I really need to revamp that store, I haven't had the time to fill it properly. I'll get to it eventually mate....
@@CUTEMKUltras niiice 😎 👍
Yo cute why do u never do some walls videos
I don't have the set up for it mate. I might try to do something the next time we all paint but I don't have any professional gear, tripod etc to do it with.
@@CUTEMKUltras shit man i feel u but if u will it would be so cool mabye even w a head gopro
@@CUTEMKUltrascome do one at my studio mate 🤙
🌤
pretty boring to look at a blank page for so long, I'm off. bye
See ya 🖐
You know that you could skip Forward do ya ?
@@AnoooNym really??? wait.. what?
@@mykdubz128 Yeah just found out myself. This Internet Stuff is Mind blowing..