Excellent advice on spacing. I struggled with that for so long. For straight letters, I always shoot for a cans width and a cans width on both sides for a good drop shadow. If that makes sense haha. That's my best spacing tip.
I've been painting for a good 7+ years and I still find this pretty informational, if anything I'm definitely going to show a few of my mates who are newer at writing might help them understand sizing of letters a little more might even help myself out every once in a while I write Lime by the way if you want to do a hit up for name exchange
@@Theartistblock The LI gives me the most problems generally it’s the I that I struggle with, over years I’ve slowly managed to figure out some ways of helping them work together
This just became my favorite video you’ve posted. Super helpful. The best part is just watching you paint. Wait, maybe it’s the stories. Real question though: are you treating descenders (none in this word) as if they travel the same distance as your x height to cap height? I’m assuming ascenders go to cap height. Do you have any special character sets or ligatures that you love to write?
If you would of told me 10+ years ago I would be at work watching my boy do a RUclips video tutorial I would of called you a liar. My fucking boy I’m so proud of you man. ACS ALL DAY
Love these videos! Thanks so much for helping people like myself starting out. One question - do you have any recommendations of materials to spray onto that doesn't require an illegal wall? I'm considering putting a mock wall up somewhere to work on and paint over. Cheers.
Something you did that I think snuck under the radar but is pretty clever - you didn't take your fill layer all the way up to certain overlapping lines and left a thin strip of unpainted wall basically to keep a reference of where your letter structure was when it overlapped other letters (as it'd get lost otherwise cause you were using the same colour). Eg 3:50 around the EA merge and the SE merge Ps: I loved the little sit down yarn in the middle- this must be what having proper mentors must feel like 😊 PPS: cold weather RULES PPPS: not my name, but if you do me a 'SOOTHE' I'll do you a Grim on my closest legal and post the result to insta - let me know!
yoooo amazing vid and it helped a lot, full process vids would be awesome if you go thru your thought process while going in && always love random storytimes 😎 ~soul
Lol when I sat down to edit this and saw that all the painting footage combined was only 14 min ( with paint shaking, instagram breaks and such) I figured full paint alongside may not be bad
Absolutely sick. I'm not good enough yet to dare attempt a name exchange but seeing how you would do "numb" or "hokage" would give some great tips for me.
My name is hrod, I haven't drawn so much complicated pieces since I'm a beginner writer, so that would be interesting. Thanks man, you content is awesome
Not even a full can if I remember right. Maybe 1 full blue. As far as sketching it, I only sketched it twice just for fun because I liked the cap I was using but there was no need for the second sketch
Ease?? That may or may not be my name as well 😂 but jokes aside its sick to see how you rocked those letters compared to someone less experienced like myself. I definitely would like to see full piecing videos!
can you do a video break down on how asoter from kog an sauuteezy do there art work they seem to both have a different inverter technique , i dont think you done a video of that style graff .. dope vids
Great tips that even I can use I've never painted before but I do draw graffiti and recently posted a vid with some of my work would love to see how you drop my name it "dumbo" it's an old family name that I didn't pick and I struggle writing it some times
Thanks dude I really appreciate that! Also, the right side if your name is heeeeeeeeavy dude lol. Lucky for you you have a D and M on the left to balance. Idk if my wall is large enough for this name but I wouldnt mind trying it one day
What are some techniques I can use to stop the paint from dripping? I’d imagine it’s like most other things,the only way I learn is by actually doing something
Name is "jusayn" if you a blocked type letter ive messed around with the concept of the S and the A being larger while other letters taper down. I have gotten alot of fundamental knowledge while doing other medias you have gave much insight in how i go about things in graffit. Mucho beuno bruh!👉🤛
I'm not implying, I've already proven it. anything can be taught, just requires that the person teaching actually knows what they're talking about. People who don't think something can be taught simply don't know enough to teach, being why they think the topic is unteachable. I've been teaching graffiti for almost 20, I get results with the teaching, meaning it can factually be taught. Also, never went to art school, did a vid on that too but it's a total waste of money so looks like your whole assessment of me is not only wrong but tells us more about you than anything. good job.
I see a lot of RUclips writers using doodle grid. As someone who’s been doing this for years how do you feel about that? I do see it as being easier, but also feel it’s cheating somewhat. ?
Your body is a very good ruler for graffiti & murals, Leonardo Divinci difined those proportions of the human body in his Vitruvian Man image, and once you're an adult those proportions of your limbs/body never change so you consistently get the same proportions if you use your body to size & space your letters or image
found ur channel the other week been binging since. Great solid info, love that how u talk about the fundamentals transfers over from fundamentals i learned from comics n concept. Have learned heaps about lettering and have been able to apply ur tips. Tag is "Grillah", do we shoot a name exchange to ur email? Much love from Western Sydney 🤙🏾🤙🏾
I just had a graffiti fail. I used a dabber and wrote under bloms but my word went up into his tags space with a stupid curve from writing at home on paper. I've had really bad fails before but this really annoyed me because I'm trying not to be toy.
If only you was around or at least knew you exited back when I was in highschool, I would have been way better now that I'm 25, but never too late to learn.
I go by "shadow" I've been struggling on how to figure out how to make a good tag from it I have the bubble letters for my piece all figured out but can't make it work for a clean tag
I want to speak out about something that bothers me that I see people do a lot of times. Do NOT paint with your arm paint with your body, learn to do that and everything becomes easier and better. Tldr; dont drag your arm across the piece, keep your arm steady, move those hips baby.
Love how the shines weren't white n was more of a periwinkle. All 1 color, just different shades. Coincidence cuz thats the type of color scheme i been playin with
Pretty much. I had tried out particle board and tbh I think that's better but it's also more dense and as a result its unreasonably heavy at 4ft by 8ft . Each panel was like 100 or 120 lbs for particle board. Plywood was much easier but the surface wasnt as nice. With that said ply wood is more than great for a fake wall inside the house. It's a bit flimsy and not weather proof so it's a little less good outside if you don't prep it and take care of it
i feel a step back is always a good idea. sometimes looking at it from a different distance helps a ton. im sure for you it certainly is muscle memory by now, after experience kicks in it tends to be something you dont think about much
@@tamax229 I mean I'm at the very least competent. I would like to say im not a toy, but at the same time I feel like I'll always be a toy. Where im living atm having a mentor is outta the question. There aren't really any writers in my city and surrounding area. And definitely no kings. Im asking Grim bc he said to write our names in the comment section, and I was mentioning what I tend tto struggle with lol. Im very confident in my handstyle with both hands and backwards, and my throwies arent that bad either. I just feel stuck with my peices and dont know how else to evolve other than asking online writers like grim
one thing im learning from these videos is plenty of you guys have really unique names. i love the name yetzu, definitely a high style threshold name, not something you see too often.
lol no one is sitting there measuring when bombing, but its more something you get the muscle memory for. many peoples throw ups end up being roughly the sizes mentioned.
lol is it bad my titles have caught me a few times while watching YT on families profiles lol. my vid will get recommended and ill see the title and be like oh wait whats this!? *click*
If you need to do this you need stay in your books and work on your straights more then only spray straights until you’re comfortable with your weight and try spraying other funky shit after that
I have to disagree, the books and walls are a whole different ball game. No amount of practice in the books will prepare you for walls. Sure books will help your elements of art and artform specific fundamentals, those being the two major determining factors of skill but books dont teach you techniques on walls and that's exactly the issue this video is about, technique on walls. Iv seen it myself, if you take 2 people, a day 1 graffiti artist and a 5 year graffiti artist who've only rocked books, they're both going to struggle equally with technique on walls. Sure the 5 year dude will have a better understanding of letters and how that works but his lines will be sloppy, and his letters may not be scaled or placed well, once again showing the unfamiliarity with walls. Dude, I appreciate the comment and I appreciate what you added to the conversation, I hope you dont mind my responses. Have a wonderful holiday if you celebrate
Yooo my boy your the man love the videos homie was wondering if you could help me out and think of a simple easy throw up ma G would be he'll appreciated get back to me is so and I'll hit you with the name haven't seen it around much trynna keep it away from the haters you feel me lol get back at me.... stay up ma boy
Great video, for me proportions is the most difficult part when painting on the wall, so its really useful information for me.
Never a problem buddy I'm glad it was useful. Seems plenty of people struggle on this topic
Definitely need more of these! It’s really hard to find mentors these days. Especially in my city. Your videos have helped me so much man. Stay up!
yessss full piece vids pleaseeeeee
Excellent advice on spacing. I struggled with that for so long. For straight letters, I always shoot for a cans width and a cans width on both sides for a good drop shadow. If that makes sense haha. That's my best spacing tip.
Its actually better than his tips.
I've been painting for a good 7+ years and I still find this pretty informational, if anything I'm definitely going to show a few of my mates who are newer at writing might help them understand sizing of letters a little more might even help myself out every once in a while
I write Lime by the way if you want to do a hit up for name exchange
Lime is a dope name, love the ME combo at the end. I know that LI has to be a pain to work with some times huh lol. also, glad i could help dude
@@Theartistblock The LI gives me the most problems generally it’s the I that I struggle with, over years I’ve slowly managed to figure out some ways of helping them work together
Unna
This just became my favorite video you’ve posted. Super helpful. The best part is just watching you paint. Wait, maybe it’s the stories.
Real question though: are you treating descenders (none in this word) as if they travel the same distance as your x height to cap height? I’m assuming ascenders go to cap height.
Do you have any special character sets or ligatures that you love to write?
My favorite part of this is the demonstration with perfect narration 😩 10/10 editing 💚
you're too kind apple thankyou. i legit tried to focus on editing on this one because the footage of painting was only 14 min long lol
I watch your videos everyday !!!! I love every single one !! Congrats on what u do !! Keep on keeping on !!! Thank u !! 🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤❤
I go by “Jark” but Thanks man as a beginner this is helping since I’ve been struggling with keeping my letters consistent
If you would of told me 10+ years ago I would be at work watching my boy do a RUclips video tutorial I would of called you a liar. My fucking boy I’m so proud of you man. ACS ALL DAY
Love these videos! Thanks so much for helping people like myself starting out. One question - do you have any recommendations of materials to spray onto that doesn't require an illegal wall? I'm considering putting a mock wall up somewhere to work on and paint over. Cheers.
Something you did that I think snuck under the radar but is pretty clever - you didn't take your fill layer all the way up to certain overlapping lines and left a thin strip of unpainted wall basically to keep a reference of where your letter structure was when it overlapped other letters (as it'd get lost otherwise cause you were using the same colour).
Eg 3:50 around the EA merge and the SE merge
Ps: I loved the little sit down yarn in the middle- this must be what having proper mentors must feel like 😊
PPS: cold weather RULES
PPPS: not my name, but if you do me a 'SOOTHE' I'll do you a Grim on my closest legal and post the result to insta - let me know!
LOVE THESE TYPES OF VIDEOS! And i gotta say man I LOVE your cloth style you’ve got drip man💧
It always nice to hear words of wisdom from someone who is credible!
Much appreciated man thankyou
yoooo amazing vid and it helped a lot, full process vids would be awesome if you go thru your thought process while going in && always love random storytimes 😎
~soul
Lol when I sat down to edit this and saw that all the painting footage combined was only 14 min ( with paint shaking, instagram breaks and such) I figured full paint alongside may not be bad
Grim always bringing the fire, thanks my bro! from New Zealand
Always appreciated man thanks a million
Absolutely sick. I'm not good enough yet to dare attempt a name exchange but seeing how you would do "numb" or "hokage" would give some great tips for me.
Hey man is it possible if you can do a video on coloring in graffiti letters like different techniques as well? thanks bro
as in fades and blending, highlights, key lines? that sort of thing, or are you talking about color schemes
That pencil throw Ease at 8:36 is so dope. I've got 2 Es in the name I'm fw, I'm gonna mess with this style, bless!
Yes pleeeaassse more full piece videos
Metak, im from croatia and i really enjoy Ur Videos
My name is hrod, I haven't drawn so much complicated pieces since I'm a beginner writer, so that would be interesting. Thanks man, you content is awesome
Thats the homie, congrats Ease🙌
ease is a really sweet dude, really appreciate his friendship
how many cans did u use to draw this?
Not even a full can if I remember right. Maybe 1 full blue. As far as sketching it, I only sketched it twice just for fun because I liked the cap I was using but there was no need for the second sketch
@@Theartistblock Was it 300ml can?
Ease?? That may or may not be my name as well 😂 but jokes aside its sick to see how you rocked those letters compared to someone less experienced like myself. I definitely would like to see full piecing videos!
Nice vid very cool and simple, what tool are you using to draw on your wall?
I write OCTANE, Love your videos, always looking forward to your videos!
Great video i find proportions hard so the video defintle helps and i write STUD.
Great video man , love the way you explain the process,wish this was around when I started writing..I tag CERS, KRYPTIC or KRYPTIC CERS
ehy man love your videos from italy, my name's rafe do you think you can try a throw up with it?
Yo GRIM! Can you compile all of ur on-wall videos into a playlist?
Full piece vids would be sick
can you do a video break down on how asoter from kog an sauuteezy do there art work they seem to both have a different inverter technique , i dont think you done a video of that style graff .. dope vids
would you mind linking me to their instagram?
Where should we have submitted the exchange pieces? Sick straight letter btw, i love your painting vids -"Plebs"
Also I like the format of this video.
Great tips that even I can use I've never painted before but I do draw graffiti and recently posted a vid with some of my work would love to see how you drop my name it "dumbo" it's an old family name that I didn't pick and I struggle writing it some times
🔥appreciate tips... New subscriber with a whole lotta montana cans and late night early mornings... Tips on the space between L & Y? Name is SLY... 1
‘Suber’ or ‘rebus’ here. Dope letters, clean and nice. Im always down for a collab 🤜✨🤛
Yo Grim, I would love to see how you balance my name (DAMASH). Love this piece. SImple, yet great flow!
Thanks dude I really appreciate that! Also, the right side if your name is heeeeeeeeavy dude lol. Lucky for you you have a D and M on the left to balance. Idk if my wall is large enough for this name but I wouldnt mind trying it one day
What are some techniques I can use to stop the paint from dripping? I’d imagine it’s like most other things,the only way I learn is by actually doing something
Name is "jusayn" if you a blocked type letter ive messed around with the concept of the S and the A being larger while other letters taper down. I have gotten alot of fundamental knowledge while doing other medias you have gave much insight in how i go about things in graffit. Mucho beuno bruh!👉🤛
is looking easy but so ultra fat hot and the blue is super nice
You're like the ultimate hipster dad right out of art school implying graffiti can be taught like school 😭
I'm not implying, I've already proven it. anything can be taught, just requires that the person teaching actually knows what they're talking about. People who don't think something can be taught simply don't know enough to teach, being why they think the topic is unteachable. I've been teaching graffiti for almost 20, I get results with the teaching, meaning it can factually be taught. Also, never went to art school, did a vid on that too but it's a total waste of money so looks like your whole assessment of me is not only wrong but tells us more about you than anything. good job.
More videos of you painting brother!
id love to, certainly intend to keep it up no doubt :D
I see a lot of RUclips writers using doodle grid. As someone who’s been doing this for years how do you feel about that? I do see it as being easier, but also feel it’s cheating somewhat. ?
Your body is a very good ruler for graffiti & murals, Leonardo Divinci difined those proportions of the human body in his Vitruvian Man image, and once you're an adult those proportions of your limbs/body never change so you consistently get the same proportions if you use your body to size & space your letters or image
The human body really works amazingly for that sort of thing. It just works lol
found ur channel the other week been binging since. Great solid info, love that how u talk about the fundamentals transfers over from fundamentals i learned from comics n concept. Have learned heaps about lettering and have been able to apply ur tips. Tag is "Grillah", do we shoot a name exchange to ur email? Much love from Western Sydney 🤙🏾🤙🏾
peace that was a pretty dope video ... this is Sun 7
Nice as hell! My name is actually an acronym. "KON." it means "kid/ king of nocturne."
And as of right now, I only know how to do it in a throw up.
please make more videos of you painting and doing peices
Oh I for sure want to no doubt about that
@@Theartistblock do it!! id love to see you painting some wild styles
Yes I Wanna see u do graffiti
i would love piece videos
my tag is SUGAR
Where do you get you’re marker??
Thanks,one of main problems to me 🧠
would love to see how you would rock KIN
I just had a graffiti fail. I used a dabber and wrote under bloms but my word went up into his tags space with a stupid curve from writing at home on paper. I've had really bad fails before but this really annoyed me because I'm trying not to be toy.
My tag is kiryu and I don’t know how to make the y and u go with the rest is there anything I can do?
QWOTEZ. still trying those one liners.
Yes brudda iv tried to get you to notice my tag b4 for some pointers. It's Saint, bless if u can rock that for me in one of your videos. Safe bro
If only you was around or at least knew you exited back when I was in highschool, I would have been way better now that I'm 25, but never too late to learn.
I go by "shadow" I've been struggling on how to figure out how to make a good tag from it I have the bubble letters for my piece all figured out but can't make it work for a clean tag
@ ya never thought of that thanks man
Should try rook, for the double os
Oh man what a weird coincidence. I used to want to write rook, I passed the name to a friend and I did a few pieces with it. Love the name
does ur hand not get tired?
during longer - more detailed pieces it does but this piece took me around 10 min to do total so my hand wasnt working that long.
Bro I would love if you did mine
Wise
I want to speak out about something that bothers me that I see people do a lot of times. Do NOT paint with your arm paint with your body, learn to do that and everything becomes easier and better. Tldr; dont drag your arm across the piece, keep your arm steady, move those hips baby.
That's the exact reason I say painting is different than sketching, the different motions make your mind go down different paths
It's all in the hips...it's all in the hips
THIS is some real advice. 👌
Do you have a discord?
Love how the shines weren't white n was more of a periwinkle. All 1 color, just different shades. Coincidence cuz thats the type of color scheme i been playin with
Would love to see you hit up Hurtz
Plywood at Home Depot?
Pretty much. I had tried out particle board and tbh I think that's better but it's also more dense and as a result its unreasonably heavy at 4ft by 8ft . Each panel was like 100 or 120 lbs for particle board. Plywood was much easier but the surface wasnt as nice. With that said ply wood is more than great for a fake wall inside the house. It's a bit flimsy and not weather proof so it's a little less good outside if you don't prep it and take care of it
Been watching for years. You sounded like if youre running low on paint ?
i certainly am, im going to need a reup soon. im rocking straight letters till i get some more
Would be cool to see what you come up with for my name I write Ohno. Appreciate the videos always I learned a lot from watching you
oh dude H, i rarely see that around, i might end up doing this one! also thanks dude i appreciate the love and support
I just take a step back 👊 must be on that muscle memory lol
i feel a step back is always a good idea. sometimes looking at it from a different distance helps a ton. im sure for you it certainly is muscle memory by now, after experience kicks in it tends to be something you dont think about much
Could you graf SirReal I'm getting into graffiti I'm still practiceing tags
Pancake when I have time. Cake when I don’t have much time. 😂
Lol love the name. Very unique and fun name for sure 😃
@@Theartistblock thanks!
nice video and great piece . I write "hogs" hope you do a new wall video soon
I need help with sizing chacteers
you're going to want to base that around not only the size of the wall and your piece but also anatomy. learn anatomy and you'll be set
Make a Poker one if u can :p , i never seen probaly that word . :D
"Kone" is my name, and im still struggling getting my "K" and "O" to flow nicely. And im always putting my N and E top close to each other 😪
Get some help
@@tamax229 I mean I'm at the very least competent. I would like to say im not a toy, but at the same time I feel like I'll always be a toy. Where im living atm having a mentor is outta the question. There aren't really any writers in my city and surrounding area. And definitely no kings.
Im asking Grim bc he said to write our names in the comment section, and I was mentioning what I tend tto struggle with lol. Im very confident in my handstyle with both hands and backwards, and my throwies arent that bad either. I just feel stuck with my peices and dont know how else to evolve other than asking online writers like grim
Always bringing the heat 🔥, also my name is Yetzu, it's a long story but the name means a lot to me!
one thing im learning from these videos is plenty of you guys have really unique names. i love the name yetzu, definitely a high style threshold name, not something you see too often.
I’ve honestly never in my life have seen someone measure there bomb with there arms hahahah I just see how much space the wall has and blast all of it
lol no one is sitting there measuring when bombing, but its more something you get the muscle memory for. many peoples throw ups end up being roughly the sizes mentioned.
More of that
I struggle with my name too sometimes esorc
Literally my problem I just make it looks like I styled it small to big 🤣
Missed a great opportunity for a “size matters” on the thumbnail 😂😂😂
ooh you know what I just might do that lol
I mess with the style wars intro but I write “ALOW”
Toys better put the black book down and pull out the note book for this one.
Tag UPMOE my boy
Why after all these years of following your videos am I still clicking on "toys don't know about this tip" ?
lol is it bad my titles have caught me a few times while watching YT on families profiles lol. my vid will get recommended and ill see the title and be like oh wait whats this!? *click*
@@Theartistblock hahaha didn't expect this one 🤣
BUZZAR is my tag, out of VA
Hey bro please do BRiZ
Thank for the vids man they really help me a lot! I write goner
If you need to do this you need stay in your books and work on your straights more then only spray straights until you’re comfortable with your weight and try spraying other funky shit after that
I have to disagree, the books and walls are a whole different ball game. No amount of practice in the books will prepare you for walls. Sure books will help your elements of art and artform specific fundamentals, those being the two major determining factors of skill but books dont teach you techniques on walls and that's exactly the issue this video is about, technique on walls. Iv seen it myself, if you take 2 people, a day 1 graffiti artist and a 5 year graffiti artist who've only rocked books, they're both going to struggle equally with technique on walls. Sure the 5 year dude will have a better understanding of letters and how that works but his lines will be sloppy, and his letters may not be scaled or placed well, once again showing the unfamiliarity with walls. Dude, I appreciate the comment and I appreciate what you added to the conversation, I hope you dont mind my responses. Have a wonderful holiday if you celebrate
I write pink not to get it backwards I used to tag pinksnowshogun but that shit was mad long
Normally I rock solo I know I am late to this video just stared a few months ago my name rn tho is zap ⚡️
I cant meet my crew because i live in sweden and they live in the usa
I write "Nett"
TBK
Yooo my boy your the man love the videos homie was wondering if you could help me out and think of a simple easy throw up ma G would be he'll appreciated get back to me is so and I'll hit you with the name haven't seen it around much trynna keep it away from the haters you feel me lol get back at me.... stay up ma boy
Kung
Do the name KAPZ💥👊