btw thank you so much grim i really appreciate all the help you have given me even though we dont really know eachother much thank you for mentoring me it really means alot to me man so thank you!
I’m serious when I say to everyone watching this video that this is ALL you need to get better at graffiti. Watch carefully, practice diligently and with purpose and you WILL improve. Letter structure, name weight, negative space management, staying on your mean line... this dictates how good your work will be, whether it be a tag or a wildstyle. Grim is a world-class teacher of this subject and it’d be a disservice to yourself if you ignored the basics he lays out here.
This is absolute genius. I’m pushing 50 and grew up around guys bombing NYC cars and whatnot and always tried to apply my own talents to the can but never could. I’m a graphic designer by trade and never heard of graf described like this and always thought of it as a free for all with zero rules. Makes so much sense. Thanks!
One thing that impacted the most is, "Style is the exaggeration of the fundamentals'" I've been trying to figure out how artists do really cool things with their letters for a while. Thanks!
Thank you for approaching this from an angle of legitimate theory, 90% of tutorials are either artists that don't know real graffiti or writers who don't know how to articulate the rules.
This was extremely helpful. I do graphic design full time and sometimes we're asked to emulate certain aesthetics. Amazing how there's overlap between the professions.
Big props to this dude. Helped me out ALOT a few years back when I had I had no contacts in the graff world. Don't know WHERE I would be if it wasn't for Grim Thanks for keeping it real,
Thank you Grim! Although I wouldn't say that I am a Beginner Writer, I am super hyped about this week and can't wait to see the next one!! Now it's clear- I AM ADDICTED to the tutorial series😂😁😊
This right here is that dope shit. Thank you so much for packing in a tremendous amount of helpful info into such a concise video. You're a natural teacher, my man!
this should be the first video that new people watch. tagging is the most important. you need a good tag before anything else. study this and if u come from a city with regional handstyles (sf, baltimore, sao paulo, philly, L.A.) , study the letter structure. then u learn how to do throwups and then block letters. keep it simple and put your name up everywhere real legible for years.
Youre such a great TH-camr. The information and tips you provide. The techniques you provide. Theres none other like it on TH-cam. You were a major step for me in getting into Graffiti. I was "doing" it on paper in art class since I was 13. But it had no form. No basic boxes. Found your channel when I was 17 and it helped guide me tremendously. Im 19 now and one of the main 10 artists in my city. I would absolutely love and appreciate more videos on Pieces. Ive tried and tried again. But nothings great. I got a really basic semi stylized straight letter that I got an outline for and its been sitting on the shelf for months because I dont feel like its worthy of being a piece. Have no clue where to go or what to do with a piece.
I started practicing at least 10 minutes every night for the past week and i keep rewatching this video to try and help, I'll watch tag machine to get inspiration
all i do is practice my pieces and occasionally throwups so this is a huge help i haven't been in the game for a long time but what i do know is that a handstyle shows the overall skill level of a graff artist
im so glad i found this video, been doing calligraphy for years and it never clicked in my head that graffiti is calligraphy by definition and its strikingly similar to traditional styles. ive always wanted to do graffiti and now i will
Hey Grim. Love your channel. You are a very good teacher from what I see. I have been blessed to have spent many many years in many art forms. I just wanted to help elaborate on the explanation you gave about character space management. Kerning is individual letter space management. Tracking is overall word space management. Overall negative space management, deals with the combined management of space and how the letters/characters become balanced art. The overall negative space management takes into consideration the relationship between characters and the included surrounding objects and or background. Thank you for all your efforts. God Bless.
something i love to do that looks good in a blackbook nd is just all around fun, do a tag with a highlighter and outline and add some 3d or drop shadow to give it some depth, looks really sick if you’re not very good at piecing or just starting off
hey fam the 2nd var style he showed off do u know any website i could goto to see how the other letters look in that style of writing. looks clean as fck.
I have re-learned a lot of stuff from you Grim. When I was growing up in the A(Atlanta) I never knew anybody my age back then doing graffiti. I got my lessons from graffiti documentaries on GPTV, the first time I saw style wars and always looked for more. I started looking up stuff back in 2013-14 on the art and none of it seemed to be as informative as your channel and a few others, but your channel has helped me see I was doing a lot of things wrong and some things right. Im re-doing it all and thank you bruh. I mean it.✊
The whole "x" representing a "y" axis is hella messin with me. But as a new artist I can confirm the validity of your statements at the beginning of the vid. I learned alot, thank you. You earned my sub for sure!
Been awhile since ive honestly enjoyed a video of yours. Not only was this longer than 5 mins, but it captivated me from beginning to end. Great job man well done. Thank you.
I think I'm really lucky because my graphic designer dad taught me some basics of calligraphy from a young age. If im not mistaken the romans had specific rules for their letters which we still reference today right? (keep in mind i was like 7 or 8 when i learned this). Not to claim that it is the key to gitting gud at graff, but i really feel like it helped
Learning Calligraphy is more than enough to being great at graffiti. Calligraphy is much harder than graffiti AND has most of the basic fundamentals that govern them both.
Yesss! Thank you! This kinda helps! Was only asking about this in most recent clip! Scroll through your list, BOOM! This beauty pops up! Now to get more confident! Thank you legend
As robert welsh, my fave makeup youtuber, says, "there are no rules to creativity in make up, but there is a theory!" and i think that applies to graffiti as well.
Hey Grim, I just stumbeld upon your tutorial series and I'm excited to go through all of it. One Question about this video. Can you see all Variant Structures for the letters somewhere? Because you said, theres a finite amout of possible variations. Thanks for your work man. Appreciate it
Dude I’ve watched every video he has teaching/breaking shit down I when I tell yu that I thought I knew everything about graff until I seen his shit...ohh boyyy! He’s the shit tho man
hey fam the 2nd var style he showed off do u know any website i could goto to see how the other letters look in that style of writing. looks clean as fck.
I just started graffiti and thougt it wad just basic lettering and now that i am a little more deep into it i realised its WAYYY more than just that. Anyways nice tutorial it really helped me out and keep going like this!
not really. At type class in the DesignUniversity we need to do this lines to understand the shapes and components of typography, like lowcase letters heigh and all of that. Pretty cool they use it in graffitti actually
When I first found this channel I had mixed feelings. I’m kinda old and I’ve been raised in graffiti culture so at first I resented the idea if someone “teaching” graffiti .. after watching a lot of your tutorials however I’ve come to respect your analysis and breakdowns of the art form .. the initial resentment was probably just because there was nothing like this when I came up - we had to learn from older writers, lots of practice - and if you were lucky someone skilled would break down the concepts and origins of different styles for you. I still somewhat resent how social media has affected graff but it’s not all bad. .. the internet has made the world small. Back in the day each boro had a distinguishable handstyle . That’s no longer the case. Now people can bite from around the world .. but on a positive note : social media has brought graff culture to the entire world and it will never die. .. ✌️
Grim. As a fan of Graf. Love your knowledge. As a teacher, I have a few pointers. Add some more structure to your lessons with title cards and lists of important info. Given that your teaching writing you can use the cards to highlight and give examples of what your talking about. Regardless, the like has been smashed. I Appreciate your content.
I wouldn't worry about them just yet if you're starting out as they'll cause more issues than anything in the early stages. i purposefully didn't include them in this video for that reason, only mentioned it because it was necessary. There currently exists no list anywhere. I have made a list and I'm still working on publishing the book that the list will be in.
yes I’ll admit when I started about a year ago I kinda thought that that’s why I had a weird looking hand style but then I practiced and learned from my errors and by watching this channel I’ve learned so many ways on how to improve
Back when I started and we're talkin in the 90s, I was taught that your tag had to be done in 4 seconds or less. as I progressed I learned that there is a time to have to be quick, and then there is a time where it's not as critical
Rico Law yeah for sure I have a mix of tags quick simple ones, one liners, and ofc stuff that I wanna take my time with while using a fat cap or something
Super appreciate your approach to creating a legit teaching style . As far as that R being toy...if the letters are all basic and looking a certain way than that r doesnt make sense. Look at crazy mexican writers like BUSTER [ best tagger imo ...all subjective] Have created alphabets based on Cartoon style letters ...that zig zag in the r is common but works with every other letter. Might not be conventional but there is no denying he is amazing
Heya! In the video you talk about Basic St and Variant St and the need to memorize these finite structures. Where do we find these things to memorize? Bought the tutorial book, but it wasn't in there. Thanks for the vidz!
its just the basic print fonts we all learned in elementary school. Im going to cover this in its own e book and in the book I'm publishing but ya this is all stuff we already know from penmanship class.
@@Maassive I'll be sure to put out a full comprehensive list once i wrap up the perspective tutorial I'm working on.Till then a variant structure essentially is an alternate print font. some letters have many and some have none. an example would be normally you have a 3 Box R but the 4 box R would be a variant. the 4 box could be the R that has the two box leg or the two box Bowl R
@@Theartistblock That's great. I look forward to the list. I've been mostly just playing around with Kingspray Graffiti VR during shelter at home, which means I can do a lot of large scale practice.
You said we should practice and learn the basic and variant structures before changing them up and adding our own style. But how do we learn these? I get basic print font, thats pretty easy, but where do I find the variants? You said there is a certain number of them, but where do I find a "list" or smth like that?
we gettin out of the toybox wit this one boys ✊✊✊✊ [fr though this is an awesome video, I hope to learn the correct way the first time I try graffiti and not be stuck doing stupid shit for years LOL.]
I been writing nyc gaffitti over 30 years, I never seen any one complicate the art of tags more than you? There’s no way to start tagging the right way or learn from a tutorial.. you get influenced by better writers style, you start as as toy and try to copy that style until you develop your own. Some people get it and some people never get it!!
If basic print font and the topics in this video was overcomplicated for you then I'm sorry for your sake, thats sad especially for someone 30 years in. Fundamentals are factual and used regardless if you realize it or not.
The Artist Block maybe your missing the point here... all I’m saying is you really can’t teach any one how to “write graffiti”, you usually get influenced by other people styles, keep practicing until your good and then create your own style.. the internet def ruined graffiti for people as far as going out meeting people bombing painting etc.. everyone is an overnight expert these days with out putting in the work!! If you still feel sorry for me then You wanna view my work.. check me on Instagram @tomrocs
@@JConnor-z9h you hit the nail right on the head!! If you didn’t live in New York City or the surrounding burrows you weren’t up on the graffiti scene in the early 80s. These guys today are TH-cam graffiti experts and never put no work in the streets, then have an opinion on how graffiti was or should be.. lmao you can’t make this shit up!!
I appreciate ur "product knowledge" very clear and inteligable. Big words. . I grew up in East San Diego inner city schools... Don't let the smooth taste fool ya. I know grimey but I SPEAK more proper being mixed... I caught A LOT of $#!+ but 8ts like being bilingual... And I can hear ur "accent" too bruh lol. Good content
Lol grew up in norther jersey with a hard jersey accent and tons of slang not to mention growing up around tons of Spanish speakers on my moms side. My dad always put a focus on speaking properly and being well spoken. It's something I held onto and as an adult I'm glad. Thanks for the love man
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btw thank you so much grim i really appreciate all the help you have given me even though we dont really know eachother much thank you for mentoring me it really means alot to me man so thank you!
no problem man I'm glad I can help so many people including you and you're right, it really is a mentorship and im glad i can be that for people
@@Theartistblock it really is! You just have that magic Bro, people wanna learn from you and you wanna teach :) it's a beautiful thing! Thank you!!
@@Theartistblock a few weeks over uh-huh o iu here 😂😂😂😂😂💀
Jesus Christ is King of all things and He is Lord of Lords ! ! ! He loves us so much that he did die on the cross for us, for our sins ! ! ! ❤️✝️❤️
@@Theartistblockwhere can I find proper variant charts?
I’m serious when I say to everyone watching this video that this is ALL you need to get better at graffiti. Watch carefully, practice diligently and with purpose and you WILL improve. Letter structure, name weight, negative space management, staying on your mean line... this dictates how good your work will be, whether it be a tag or a wildstyle. Grim is a world-class teacher of this subject and it’d be a disservice to yourself if you ignored the basics he lays out here.
lmao thanks man that was very sweet and kind of you, i really appreciate it man! Thanks truly lol
This is absolute genius. I’m pushing 50 and grew up around guys bombing NYC cars and whatnot and always tried to apply my own talents to the can but never could. I’m a graphic designer by trade and never heard of graf described like this and always thought of it as a free for all with zero rules. Makes so much sense. Thanks!
You’re seriously next level as a teacher and an artist. It’s stuff like this that makes TH-cam life-changing. Thanks mate
One thing that impacted the most is, "Style is the exaggeration of the fundamentals'"
I've been trying to figure out how artists do really cool things with their letters for a while. Thanks!
This one was long awaited!!
I'm sure alot of people been waiting for this tutorial
I have
Go out and practice graffiti while you "wait" u better take over yiur nearest billboard >=]
Tags are shit and the little destruction bombs of respect towards street art, reason for graffiti is notorious
@@jaqummhlmao thats because graff aint street art
@@3low232 true, tags are like dog shit 😅
Thank you for approaching this from an angle of legitimate theory, 90% of tutorials are either artists that don't know real graffiti or writers who don't know how to articulate the rules.
This was extremely helpful. I do graphic design full time and sometimes we're asked to emulate certain aesthetics. Amazing how there's overlap between the professions.
Big props to this dude.
Helped me out ALOT a few years back when I had I had no contacts in the graff world.
Don't know WHERE I would be if it wasn't for Grim
Thanks for keeping it real,
I’m like dat rn, any tips u got?
@@YearOfTheCoconut_ keep it up
@@YearOfTheCoconut_ you'll find them
Facts
Thank you Grim!
Although I wouldn't say that I am a Beginner Writer, I am super hyped about this week and can't wait to see the next one!!
Now it's clear- I AM ADDICTED to the tutorial series😂😁😊
This right here is that dope shit. Thank you so much for packing in a tremendous amount of helpful info into such a concise video. You're a natural teacher, my man!
for the past couple months i’ve been re watching these videos again and again every couple weeks or so and i think it helps a lot
“you need to know the rules before you can break them” nice quote
this should be the first video that new people watch.
tagging is the most important. you need a good tag before anything else. study this and if u come from a city with regional handstyles (sf, baltimore, sao paulo, philly, L.A.) , study the letter structure. then u learn how to do throwups and then block letters. keep it simple and put your name up everywhere real legible for years.
Youre such a great TH-camr.
The information and tips you provide.
The techniques you provide.
Theres none other like it on TH-cam.
You were a major step for me in getting into Graffiti.
I was "doing" it on paper in art class since I was 13.
But it had no form.
No basic boxes.
Found your channel when I was 17 and it helped guide me tremendously.
Im 19 now and one of the main 10 artists in my city.
I would absolutely love and appreciate more videos on Pieces.
Ive tried and tried again.
But nothings great.
I got a really basic semi stylized straight letter that I got an outline for and its been sitting on the shelf for months because I dont feel like its worthy of being a piece.
Have no clue where to go or what to do with a piece.
i really appreciate it man that is crazy flattering :D . i have a video on pieces coming out today actually, it should help clear some stuff up
i cant stand watching alot of the artist on youtube, they're such dorks. i can watch you no problem... nice tutorial man!
lmao thanks man but im afraid i just might be a huuuuge dork myself lol
@@Theartistblock well at least you know what youre talking about
Dorks or dokes? ;)
@@cit2braine haha nice one!
@@cit2braine I see you're a Doke fan as well :D
I started practicing at least 10 minutes every night for the past week and i keep rewatching this video to try and help, I'll watch tag machine to get inspiration
Did you keep at it?
@@adevore1971 for the most part tho i branched out to other forms of spray paint art
i always come back to this video it’s nostalgic been following for 2 years already
I’ve been following you for many years and I appreciate all the hard work you’ve done for us who want to learn.
all i do is practice my pieces and occasionally throwups so this is a huge help
i haven't been in the game for a long time but what i do know is that a handstyle shows the overall skill level of a graff artist
this man keeps me running through out the day and the only reason i want to get my lazy self up and do something with my life. thanks grim!!!!
im so glad i found this video, been doing calligraphy for years and it never clicked in my head that graffiti is calligraphy by definition and its strikingly similar to traditional styles. ive always wanted to do graffiti and now i will
How is it flowing?
Hey Grim. Love your channel. You are a very good teacher from what I see. I have been blessed to have spent many many years in many art forms. I just wanted to help elaborate on the explanation you gave about character space management. Kerning is individual letter space management. Tracking is overall word space management. Overall negative space management, deals with the combined management of space and how the letters/characters become balanced art. The overall negative space management takes into consideration the relationship between characters and the included surrounding objects and or background. Thank you for all your efforts. God Bless.
Lol thanks you hit the nail on the head
something i love to do that looks good in a blackbook nd is just all around fun, do a tag with a highlighter and outline and add some 3d or drop shadow to give it some depth, looks really sick if you’re not very good at piecing or just starting off
You are like the Marc Brunet of the graffiti yt, ur content is super educational
So incredibly useful! Also, all the typography theory stuff was super interesting. I'm definitely about to go into a rabbit hole.
This is exactly what I needed
hey fam the 2nd var style he showed off do u know any website i could goto to see how the other letters look in that style of writing. looks clean as fck.
i’ve picked up on throwies and pieces faster than handstyles so thanks for making something that can help
brother this is an excellent starting point for everyone. thank you for uploading
I have re-learned a lot of stuff from you Grim. When I was growing up in the A(Atlanta) I never knew anybody my age back then doing graffiti. I got my lessons from graffiti documentaries on GPTV, the first time I saw style wars and always looked for more. I started looking up stuff back in 2013-14 on the art and none of it seemed to be as informative as your channel and a few others, but your channel has helped me see I was doing a lot of things wrong and some things right. Im re-doing it all and thank you bruh. I mean it.✊
Dope shit as alwaysss
Bro I can watch u all day ur awesome bro, I wish I lived around u so we can do something big but keep up the good work bro God bless
The whole "x" representing a "y" axis is hella messin with me. But as a new artist I can confirm the validity of your statements at the beginning of the vid. I learned alot, thank you. You earned my sub for sure!
Been awhile since ive honestly enjoyed a video of yours. Not only was this longer than 5 mins, but it captivated me from beginning to end. Great job man well done. Thank you.
lol im glad to hear that man thanks a ton!!!
I think I'm really lucky because my graphic designer dad taught me some basics of calligraphy from a young age. If im not mistaken the romans had specific rules for their letters which we still reference today right? (keep in mind i was like 7 or 8 when i learned this). Not to claim that it is the key to gitting gud at graff, but i really feel like it helped
Learning Calligraphy is more than enough to being great at graffiti. Calligraphy is much harder than graffiti AND has most of the basic fundamentals that govern them both.
Spencer Geller also i should clarify. I dont actually know know calligraphy. I only learned enough to get a feel for it and that really helped
Yesss! Thank you! This kinda helps! Was only asking about this in most recent clip! Scroll through your list, BOOM! This beauty pops up! Now to get more confident! Thank you legend
Chino occasionally comes to London in England. He writes with oker and dels ykk crew. Oker has done quite alot in NY
omg loved the video! i actually learned the basics two years ago with ur channel!!!!! keep up the good work playa
Thanks for helping me out with tags, now I’ve watched this I can write tags 👍
As robert welsh, my fave makeup youtuber, says, "there are no rules to creativity in make up, but there is a theory!" and i think that applies to graffiti as well.
Yo Grim, where did you get the variant structures from? I need to learn them
I just studied font lol, I'll put out a list of all variant structures that exist. It will take some time but keep an eye out
@@Theartistblock Thanks
Would you recommend buying a font book to learn them?
YES please give those variant structures lol
As someone who's almost 50 learning cursive allowed us to do a lot of one liners and different freedoms.
thanks grim😆
I Can't Believe How Far I've Come Just From Watching This Video A Million Times. Thanx Grim
Hey Grim, I just stumbeld upon your tutorial series and I'm excited to go through all of it. One Question about this video.
Can you see all Variant Structures for the letters somewhere? Because you said, theres a finite amout of possible variations. Thanks for your work man. Appreciate it
Please continue this !!
next video drops tomorrow 3:30 pm est homie! I'm excited to share it with you guys
@@Theartistblock im still waiting.
Jk your work is awesome 😂😂
Dude I’ve watched every video he has teaching/breaking shit down I when I tell yu that I thought I knew everything about graff until I seen his shit...ohh boyyy! He’s the shit tho man
This was dope. I’m excited
very well done for sure going to be sending this to anyone who hits me up looking to get into it
hey fam the 2nd var style he showed off do u know any website i could goto to see how the other letters look in that style of writing. looks clean as fck.
its just different print fonts is all, nothing fancy or hard to find.
I just started graffiti and thougt it wad just basic lettering and now that i am a little more deep into it i realised its WAYYY more than just that. Anyways nice tutorial it really helped me out and keep going like this!
This guys videos have helped me A LOT thank you bro ❤
Oh man been waiting for this series excellent
thanks so much for doing this bro, much respect! cant wait for the series!
It feels like he's teaching us how to write....just as a kindergarten
That's exactly his point, too. You gotta perfect the fundamental, elementary letterwork before you can exaggerate it.
not really. At type class in the DesignUniversity we need to do this lines to understand the shapes and components of typography, like lowcase letters heigh and all of that. Pretty cool they use it in graffitti actually
When I first found this channel I had mixed feelings. I’m kinda old and I’ve been raised in graffiti culture so at first I resented the idea if someone “teaching” graffiti .. after watching a lot of your tutorials however I’ve come to respect your analysis and breakdowns of the art form .. the initial resentment was probably just because there was nothing like this when I came up - we had to learn from older writers, lots of practice - and if you were lucky someone skilled would break down the concepts and origins of different styles for you. I still somewhat resent how social media has affected graff but it’s not all bad. .. the internet has made the world small. Back in the day each boro had a distinguishable handstyle . That’s no longer the case. Now people can bite from around the world .. but on a positive note : social media has brought graff culture to the entire world and it will never die. .. ✌️
May I ask how "old" you are? :)
God even just a simple line with a chisel tip looks great
Grim. As a fan of Graf. Love your knowledge. As a teacher, I have a few pointers. Add some more structure to your lessons with title cards and lists of important info. Given that your teaching writing you can use the cards to highlight and give examples of what your talking about. Regardless, the like has been smashed. I Appreciate your content.
Thanks man I'll try to do better with sectioning off important info and all that for sure. thanks
The rest of the series has been great! Keep up the hard work. Love the hands on demo segments!
Yo thank you so much for this tutorial. I’m a high school sociology teacher and gonna use this for one of my lesson activities on graffiti.
The 'R' looks like a guy that would be on an Operation Ivy album cover.
it is always good to go back to basics and refine my knowledge, i guess i have seen it more than 10 times
I'm still trying to figure out all the variant structures, how do I learn all of them?
I wouldn't worry about them just yet if you're starting out as they'll cause more issues than anything in the early stages. i purposefully didn't include them in this video for that reason, only mentioned it because it was necessary. There currently exists no list anywhere. I have made a list and I'm still working on publishing the book that the list will be in.
Another reason many new graff artist have weird tags is the idea that it has got to be super fast... which isnt the case
TRUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUTH
Oath to that and they try to make the whole letter one line when it can be done in multiple
yes I’ll admit when I started about a year ago I kinda thought that that’s why I had a weird looking hand style but then I practiced and learned from my errors and by watching this channel I’ve learned so many ways on how to improve
Back when I started and we're talkin in the 90s, I was taught that your tag had to be done in 4 seconds or less. as I progressed I learned that there is a time to have to be quick, and then there is a time where it's not as critical
Rico Law yeah for sure I have a mix of tags quick simple ones, one liners, and ofc stuff that I wanna take my time with while using a fat cap or something
Where can I find all the basic/variant structures? I looked online but I can find anything substantial
Could every name have a *clean* one line tag? Or are some names/letter combinations just impossible to do that?
@@Asian_Kid all names can do whatever you need them to do including oneline tags, throwies and pieces
When you're too early and don't know what to say
Super appreciate your approach to creating a legit teaching style .
As far as that R being toy...if the letters are all basic and looking a certain way than that r doesnt make sense. Look at crazy mexican writers like BUSTER [ best tagger imo ...all subjective] Have created alphabets based on Cartoon style letters ...that zig zag in the r is common but works with every other letter. Might not be conventional but there is no denying he is amazing
Thanks so much all of this advice was super helpful!
this is super helpful!! you're great at explaining and relating ideas
Heya! In the video you talk about Basic St and Variant St and the need to memorize these finite structures. Where do we find these things to memorize? Bought the tutorial book, but it wasn't in there. Thanks for the vidz!
its just the basic print fonts we all learned in elementary school. Im going to cover this in its own e book and in the book I'm publishing but ya this is all stuff we already know from penmanship class.
@@Theartistblock Thanks. I looked at some of those, but I wasn't able to find one with the variants.
@@Maassive I'll be sure to put out a full comprehensive list once i wrap up the perspective tutorial I'm working on.Till then a variant structure essentially is an alternate print font. some letters have many and some have none. an example would be normally you have a 3 Box R but the 4 box R would be a variant. the 4 box could be the R that has the two box leg or the two box Bowl R
@@Theartistblock That's great. I look forward to the list. I've been mostly just playing around with Kingspray Graffiti VR during shelter at home, which means I can do a lot of large scale practice.
@@Theartistblock Excellent! Also, please let us know if you set up a patreon. I'd subscribe.
Excellent video, it really changed the way I view tags and lettering.
thank you for sharing your knowledge for free like that 💪🏻💪🏻💪🏻❤️❤️
Is ok to have a 2nd graff name beacuse your commenly known for your first?
i remember watching this video when i first started and my tag was absolute shit 😭, now my tag is actually quite nice ! tysm
This is awesome. Will you do a video on all the variants. That would be amazing
Finally - some good graffiti tutorials! Thank you so much for the great videos
the funny thing is that a writer by the name "Resk12" actually uses a similar crazy R in one of his tags
My dad use to do graffiti so this is very helpful 😊👍🏿
Is there an overview about variant structure letters?
great video homie, and very helpful tutorial
Where can i find more about the different variant letters? I try searching everywhere but cant find anything
some of the maddest piecers out there have some of the most basic tag styles
Dropping in after a year of doing graff to brush back on those fundamentals!
Really good stuff man,can't wait for more!
next one is tomorrow 3:30pm est. i believe it's straight letters tomorrow seeing as i already have 2 really good videos on throw ups
@@Theartistblock hyyyyype! also I wouldn't mind even more videos on throws hahah
You said we should practice and learn the basic and variant structures before changing them up and adding our own style. But how do we learn these? I get basic print font, thats pretty easy, but where do I find the variants? You said there is a certain number of them, but where do I find a "list" or smth like that?
Dope thats what i was looking out for
Great frikkin tut. Negates all the BS straight up. You're one hella teach
So were do I find a list of the different variant structures to learn em??? Help!
we gettin out of the toybox wit this one boys ✊✊✊✊
[fr though this is an awesome video, I hope to learn the correct way the first time I try graffiti and not be stuck doing stupid shit for years LOL.]
I been writing nyc gaffitti over 30 years, I never seen any one complicate the art of tags more than you? There’s no way to start tagging the right way or learn from a tutorial.. you get influenced by better writers style, you start as as toy and try to copy that style until you develop your own. Some people get it and some people never get it!!
If basic print font and the topics in this video was overcomplicated for you then I'm sorry for your sake, thats sad especially for someone 30 years in. Fundamentals are factual and used regardless if you realize it or not.
The Artist Block maybe your missing the point here... all I’m saying is you really can’t teach any one how to “write graffiti”, you usually get influenced by other people styles, keep practicing until your good and then create your own style.. the internet def ruined graffiti for people as far as going out meeting people bombing painting etc.. everyone is an overnight expert these days with out putting in the work!! If you still feel sorry for me then You wanna view my work.. check me on Instagram @tomrocs
@@JConnor-z9h you hit the nail right on the head!! If you didn’t live in New York City or the surrounding burrows you weren’t up on the graffiti scene in the early 80s. These guys today are TH-cam graffiti experts and never put no work in the streets, then have an opinion on how graffiti was or should be.. lmao you can’t make this shit up!!
Years ago I watched a documentary on graffiti and SEEN was shown a lot. I've waited to see it and hope I will someday.
style wars my friend, i believe thats the movie you're talking about. its also where my intro comes from
Back to the basics.
i just want to comment something , by the way good video man i really appriciated it!!!..
Used to have to learn all of this out in the cold. Thanks!
if I want a tag that says 'king', for example, how should I go about making it?
@The Artist Block can u do a tutorial on the variant styles with tag style?
I appreciate ur "product knowledge" very clear and inteligable. Big words.
. I grew up in East San Diego inner city schools... Don't let the smooth taste fool ya. I know grimey but I SPEAK more proper being mixed... I caught A LOT of $#!+ but 8ts like being bilingual... And I can hear ur "accent" too bruh lol.
Good content
Lol grew up in norther jersey with a hard jersey accent and tons of slang not to mention growing up around tons of Spanish speakers on my moms side. My dad always put a focus on speaking properly and being well spoken. It's something I held onto and as an adult I'm glad. Thanks for the love man
I'm starting graffiti today and gonna do tags will you guide which book and marker should i buy to do practice and which tags style should i practice?
great to know all this homs , love the content!
If I was doing a tag how many letters should I use. I one that I can shorten it down to 3 or expand it to 5 (MTE, MTER, MATER