Personally I don't like it... at all. what do yall think? took me about 5-10mins'ish to sketch it up, dunno outlining. Colored it in real quick about 15 mins or so I'd say, like 3 songs went by, I'm really diggin my color scheme, gonna be using it on my new pieces: Red orange to Orange-Yellow to Pink to Light Orange to Golden Yellow (edit) This the first time I drew this piece, but it's kinda the style I been runnin' with for the last 3 days. Def gonna be going with this style, but changing the whole thing up a bit, not diggin' it at all, just diggin' the style... Edit 2 Did this one Last night, it's original, first time I've sketched it up. Took about 15 mins to sketch up? Maybe 15... about 25mins total to finish Outlining/3d perspective. I've just been outlining/coloring in all my recent sketches, no matter If I don't personally Dig it 100%... I have almost no finished pieces at all in my Art Collection... And sick of that... I'm diggin' this one the most outta the shit I've done recently... But I gotta go wit it more, atm I don't like it, but I'm gonna finish it up, and move onto Version 2.0... This piece is my inspiration for the next piece. Sketches from Today while watch Ice Road Truckers in India... Shit is fuckin crazy btw... Goddamn. I really like having my shit connected together for some reason... I need to break out of that you know what I'm saying? IDK I just really dig it being one whole connected piece, but what ever. Meh, to me... This = my Favorite outta the ones I did at my Pop's house. Meh to me... Here is some old shit from, giver or take, two years ago or a year and a half: SPACEDout! Dope CaB Cab Divine CAB CAB CAB (3rd Eye) This just a dope ass "C" I like a lot CABRERA (Fuckin sharpie bled like a motha fucka... an ruined this one Just did these two, Kinda wish i kept the C & B white instead of pink, looked better prior, imo: AFRO MAN He's some character I did back in High School, the Original is better, I gotta find it, I'll post it, later. CalienB Personally don't like it, it's too simple, the B looks too much like a 3, was an instant sketch like 1 minute flat, and i was diggin it, so outlined it. It's good for the time invested I feel.
that's great man... wish I could draw, but I don't think I'd trade my musical art for visual art Rep man
Pretty ok, but too many details for a sketch... How long have u been writing? or sketching if you've never taken your sketches to a wall. Anyhow, props.
What you mean "too many details for a sketch..." They're sketches, not sure what that means. I sketched em real quick in my sketch pad. No planning other then it being CAB. I do complex sketches, it's my style, if you will. The effort I put into that shit, I wouldn't call it anything but a Sketch, it's just doodling for me. Not like a well thought out planned piece just that it's gonna be CAB I been fuckin' around with writing maybe four years'ish, spent like a year doing shitty bubble letters or my favorite hip hop artists/line work, then did more line work to develop a style. After the first year I've gotten very creative with it, but Now I'm taking it seriously, I was depressed, smoking mad pot, had no motivation, was just getting high, for like 3 years. But now I want to get enough work for a gallery and shit like that... So I'm getting my write on. I just recently like 6 months or so been writing like a mo fucka... Last two Months I've writing every day for the most part. Comming up with new concepts every night, and using them as inspiration for my next piece, etc. My problem is I sketch something up in about 5 minutes, then spend 10 minutes detailing it, then outline it, see all the flaws and hate it, and then start over. To me it's a sketch because I don't think about it, I'm just doodling and fuckin around with CAB. I've never finished my work, so that's kinda why I outline it and start coloring it, developing self discipline, it just takes mad time... to do that on pieces I feel are doo-doo. But to other people are dope. I've never thrown anything up on a Wall. Once I get my tag down, and my style Imma start with spray paint on canvas. Make a stencil and shit. My next thing is to make a character for my Tag. I got my style down pretty much, just need to find a Tag I like and master it.
I don't paint... I really need to start, and no not really mess around with straight letter styles, I'm going to start though, I need to broaden my horizons If you will.. I've just been doing my own thang. Not looking at any graf at all, other that what I see in my area. I like influencing my self vs influenced by others, when I first got into Graf thats when I was looking at a fuck ton of pieces, etc. edit: Even thought I took a 3 year hiatus of not doing any hard ass grinding in my black books, I kinda gain skills just by going through Time, if that makes any sense... It's like when I don't write rhymes for a month, and go back to writing, my skills increased even though I havn't written shit for a month... same goes for graf, it's weird... Upsetting as well, because the amount of skill increase I gain daily from sketching is ridiculous, and pissed off I've been a fuckin retard wasting my potential for the last 3 years... At least I've had a realization... so that's good, time to get my hustle on. edit2: The problem I got with straight letter style is it's not complex enough... I like my shit to make your mind work, I like creating mind fucks... Complex shit, is my steeeeeez.
its toy but w.e do ur thing i guess. you cant just jump into complex graffiti it doesnt work like that and everyone who knows graffiti knows ur just imitating a style that takes years to devolop. more of this less of the wack complex stuff it doesnt look right.
yeah i feel that, I've been doing a bit less complex shit cuz i gotta work on my letter structure, then go with complex shit. I need my foundation first before I do complexer shit. edit: Personally I wouldn't say I'm trying to imitate a style at all, I'd say more that I'm in the process of developing my own style. I haven't looked at Graf in quite some time, because I want to inspire my self vs be inspired by others, when I was first gettin into graf, is when I was like studying shit (other peoples work).
I wish i could do this. but you showed me how to make one. Start with a basic shape. then extand and redefine the shape even more. ...Kinda true in all drawings i guess. Evil
Okay. I'm just going to say that from your drawings I could already tell that you don't paint. These pieces would never translate to a wall. You need to work on doing basic lettering. You say that you don't like creating straight letter compositions because they aren't complex enough. Straight letter styles are simple, this is true, but one thing that they do have over your pieces is that they have style. Once you start doing straight letter pieces you will see that you don't have to do "complex" pieces to make your shit look good. With straight letter pieces, style comes from subtle touches to the composition and STRONG lettering - that's it really. What you're doing now is making your pieces "complex" in order to hide the fact that your letters don't have structure. You've been training yourself in bad habits. It's time to erase your previous knowledge of piecing and start simple. Just be simple. I'm not trying to sound like a hard-ass, but this is the kind of work that I was doing in 8th grade. If you want to start advancing and picking up the pace then take my advice. Start paying attention to other people's stuff as well and checkout a lot of oldschool graff, that oldschool stuff was ridiculously simple and complex at the same time. You can't just jump past fundamentals. Also, when you start painting, just buy cheap domestic paints, don't go for Montanas or Ironlak....
THIS. You can't start with complex shit, it just doesn't work that way, you're trying to run before you even know how to walk, you can do that another 4 years, and it's going to be 4 lost years, since you don't know the basic letters structure.
Thanks holmes, I dig that... That's something I began realizing is that I gotta go simple... I see simple ass shit on a wall, and it's dope as fuck you know? It's just my Art style, has always been complex shit, and been trying to do that with Graf, and like you said, you can't. It's like to me I'm not making progress because it's not complex, I feel like it's undermining my self you know(because I've always done complex shit)? But you gotta learn to crawl before you walk, as they say. I've noticed all my pieces are different... I never had any that are the same, you know? And I can't really have that, I need my foundation first, need something solid to build off of, before I start doing wild shit.