First off, lemme say as a graff writer who has been writing for a good 7 or 8 years, I love your work and style, and would appreciate seeing more of it.
Secondly to
cool graffitti stuff...
I remember one episode in The Apprentice, where Donald Trump assigned
the contestant task about grafitti.
The game company want to use it as the advertising. I don't remember
what is the company and the game...
somebody can refresh me up?
I'm pretty sure Lady Pink (one of the few female NYC writers) was involved. I might be wrong. But hers won.
Absofuckinlutely awesome. The canvas work is simply jaw dropping. My jaw literally fell down and hit my desk..and it hurt. But I didn't care, the graffiti was still bad ass. I'm really not a big fan of paint, but some of the stuff you've done is very inspiring. Keep it coming.
Your style is amazingly inspiring. I just love how original your concepts and styles are...I mean, I can't say anything about anatomy, but all the things you need to know for what it is you do, you seem to have them down. Your lines are great, your color sense is great, and I love the masks you have for the faces. Overall, great stuff, not anything negative to say.
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BRO LET ME GET REAL WITH YOU AND SAY THAT MY FINGERS ARE PREPPED AND HOT LIKE THE SURFACE OF THE SUN TO BRING RADICAL BEATS SO SMOOTH THE SHIT WILL BE MEDICINAL-GRADE TRIPNASTY MAKING ALL BRAINWAVES ROLL ON THE SURFACE OF A BALLS-FEISTY NEURAL RAINBOW CRACKA-LACKIN' YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE HERE-NOW SPACE-TIME SITUATION THAT ALL OF LIFE BE JAMMED UP IN THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL FLOW BEATS
Ha. I can still post. Amusing.
Here.
The last one is from the other day, my mate and I did a wall.
I did the Rubik piece on the left and the character in the middle
Yeah, I really love your stuff. I like the paintings and drawings more, but only cause I'm really white and can't read the other stuff. When you spray a canvas, do you have to prep it with anything? I'm actually looking to do one myself but don't know where to start.
Nah, don't need to prep it at all. It's really easy.
Note that the linework in my canvases is usually black marker, though.
If you want to do detailed work on canvas, I recommend getting some paint pens, like poscas.
[edit] while I'm here....
Here are a couple of errrrr sorta more realistic style of drawings
that's a bit dark, don't really expect people to like that much
this was done kinda as a thanks to some friends in europe who let me stay with them for a few weeks. Done with the pencils they bought me for the plane trip back.
I don't really excel at either of these styles and have never studied anatomy so can anyone tell me what things I have messed up proportion wise? So far I'm going on instinct and memory.
I think I have problems with shoulders.
I don't know why you would go back to realism when your other peices are so strong and abstract.
If you REALLY want to go "back" to realism, you'll just have to rethink the shaping. Someone told you (or you told yourself) that shoulders are round. Instead of drawing the specific curve, you drew a generic curve. The bicep curve appears "thrown in" instead of looking like the overlap of muscle. The clavicle is deep and the sternomastoid (neck muscle) is contracting like he has his head turned, but he doesn't. On the plus side, the hand is fine.
As for the second peice, I suppose it's... I dunno, maybe manga or anime styled? It looks fine, as many males are elongated "Jack Skellington" like figures in anime. It reads well and captures the attitude of relaxed.
OH no no dude I'm not changing style, I just like to do different things every so often. It never hurts to leanr how to draw people realistically, you'd be surpriused what you can learn from learning something that appears to have little to do with your main aim and so on and so on
i like that pastie on the first page (second pic of OP, im guessing its a pasteup) its got some very good line work, in fact all of your work has fairly good line thickness and flow. i like it a lot, nice work.
wow just remembered this.
here is a large bunch of images!
aerosol on cardboard - teaching my mate to paint
same night as above - attempt at the smallest piece in the world. Vertical.
muckaround door painting
Skeletor. Local graff comp thin I entered for fun
sketch
bad sketch
massive drawing
badly coloured
watercolour crap
ditto
ditto
ditto
ditto
sketch
skate park with my crew. I did the yellow and pink throwup thing, the character and the red 3la piece at the top
friends room
I did the dude on the left in the cell shading and the 3la piece you can see 2/3 of adjacent to it
Honestly, this stuff is amazing. Would you mind if I use as a concept for a tattoo piece? I've been looking for a few graffiti pieces to get put on me, and this one is just about perfect for the intent I'm going for.
Those water color pictures aren't crap, they're freaking great. I like that you can cross your talent into many mediums, especially with how the watercolor pictures look like a completely different (darker) style of art. All this is awesome, keep it up.
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BRO LET ME GET REAL WITH YOU AND SAY THAT MY FINGERS ARE PREPPED AND HOT LIKE THE SURFACE OF THE SUN TO BRING RADICAL BEATS SO SMOOTH THE SHIT WILL BE MEDICINAL-GRADE TRIPNASTY MAKING ALL BRAINWAVES ROLL ON THE SURFACE OF A BALLS-FEISTY NEURAL RAINBOW CRACKA-LACKIN' YOUR PERCEPTION OF THE HERE-NOW SPACE-TIME SITUATION THAT ALL OF LIFE BE JAMMED UP IN THROUGH THE UNIVERSAL FLOW BEATS
hahah ive only been writing for a year. the oldest stuff i have really is in my deviant art. Just keep going pack pages
But yeah dude, plenty of time
Just to add to this; the hardest part is getting your style down, that takes ages. Physically learning to paint isn't that hard at all once you get a few fundamentals. Have fun mate!
Do you feel that painting helps you with your style or do you just sketch a ton? I've been writing for a while, maybe a year and a half, but im still just okay, but I never paint, just a few throws, 2 color. I have no really good writers to talk to in real life, most of the kids in my school who write are really bad and all talk, but the people ive spoken to online say that if I painted it would help me out a lot.
Sorry to jack your thread, I just love your shit so much, its really fantstic. Seriously, definatly one of my favorite artists here.
Sketching is THE way to work on your style. The painted versions don't usually come out as well as the sketches. It's sometime hard to map out the sketch proportion-wise on a wall coz it's so much bigger etc.
So to develop the style, work on sketches heaps.
I was in the same boat, man. None of my regular mates like graffiti. I just decided to pick it up so I started putting stuff up on deviant art and got in touch with a few people from my town who had been in the game a little while ands they helped me out and took me out painting a few times.
Oh yeah, to learn how to do pieces and shit, I think the best advice I can give is to go on the net and find a few artists you really like. Save images of their pieces and study them. Every letter isn't so much a blob, one singular shape but rather several lines connected together to form a letter.
Watch how your fave piecers connect the lines, how they construct a flow and just learn from there.
(the second photo was a commission i got paid for. we cleaned up the messy overspray on the metal bits after taking the photo)
I buy caps at my local store, there are usually graff shops in most towns, but they CAN be hard to find. Be careful about asking around too, if you go to a graff forum and ask people for info, a lot of the time they will assume you are a cop. Maybe ask around random art stores, they also tend to know, without assuming you're a cop
Stores that sell aerosol paint will usually sell nibs too (unless you go to a shitty auto store that sells like car touch up paint)
And yeah you can order them online, but if you do; order HEAPS. Like seriously. Like a hundred of every kind. They should be fucking cheap, but nibs block up, especially the thin ones you use for details and outlines.
Sorry I don't have a larger version of that ninja canvas
Man, this thread exploded in awesome last time I checked it.
I fucking love your style, your characters are especially impressive to see (it's nice to see them done so well outside stickers/stencils/paste ups). I wish I saw more pieces/ups like yours around the NW.
I...I really don't have anything to add. Your work is both demoralizing and all sorts of inspiring.
And to whoever was asking about ordering caps, Bombing Science is were I usually order my gear from, though it's not hard to make your own caps if you can be assed to do it (it can be a pain in the ass and a mess the first few times you do it).
I know its been said before, but I just love your art too much not to say it again. Your stuff is amazing. It's so good to have a serious graff thread like yours with lots of work. I hope you stay in the AC a long, long time.
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I'd rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
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Secondly to
I'm pretty sure Lady Pink (one of the few female NYC writers) was involved. I might be wrong. But hers won.
They were both pretty boring.
Oh yeah, this is my first post, so uh, hey.
I've been jetting around the world a bit and have only just got home
um more watercolour shit
and uhh oldschool canvas i did using my mates posca markers in amsterdam
Ape2001 sorry man I don't understand what you mean with the structures thing.
Saturdayskids - man hit me up and send me some flicks of ya stuff if ya like, I'd love to see em.
pce guys
I'm gettin' a strong eighties flashback feel whenever I look at this picture.
It's wonderful.
Here.
The last one is from the other day, my mate and I did a wall.
I did the Rubik piece on the left and the character in the middle
I am in love with this.
I'd have to say that all of these, and you, are
TOTALLY
FUCKING
AWESOME.
I do too
http://www.orangedust.af3x.com/
If you decide to grab any of the EPs from here, start at the bottom.
The old ones are at the top.
Or you can do the myspace thing where you can stream a few tracks
www.myspace.com/orangedust
Been doing that for about errr 11 or so years
Probably better at that than drawing/painting.
Please no side discussion on how gay/pedestrian myspace is. We all already know. Yes even me.
Note that the linework in my canvases is usually black marker, though.
If you want to do detailed work on canvas, I recommend getting some paint pens, like poscas.
[edit] while I'm here....
Here are a couple of errrrr sorta more realistic style of drawings
that's a bit dark, don't really expect people to like that much
this was done kinda as a thanks to some friends in europe who let me stay with them for a few weeks. Done with the pencils they bought me for the plane trip back.
I don't really excel at either of these styles and have never studied anatomy so can anyone tell me what things I have messed up proportion wise? So far I'm going on instinct and memory.
I think I have problems with shoulders.
If you REALLY want to go "back" to realism, you'll just have to rethink the shaping. Someone told you (or you told yourself) that shoulders are round. Instead of drawing the specific curve, you drew a generic curve. The bicep curve appears "thrown in" instead of looking like the overlap of muscle. The clavicle is deep and the sternomastoid (neck muscle) is contracting like he has his head turned, but he doesn't. On the plus side, the hand is fine.
As for the second peice, I suppose it's... I dunno, maybe manga or anime styled? It looks fine, as many males are elongated "Jack Skellington" like figures in anime. It reads well and captures the attitude of relaxed.
Thanks for the tips man, I'll keep em in mind
here is a large bunch of images!
aerosol on cardboard - teaching my mate to paint
same night as above - attempt at the smallest piece in the world. Vertical.
muckaround door painting
Skeletor. Local graff comp thin I entered for fun
sketch
bad sketch
massive drawing
badly coloured
watercolour crap
ditto
ditto
ditto
ditto
sketch
skate park with my crew. I did the yellow and pink throwup thing, the character and the red 3la piece at the top
friends room
I did the dude on the left in the cell shading and the 3la piece you can see 2/3 of adjacent to it
INSTAGRAM
My digital art! http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=8168
My pen and paper art! http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showthread.php?t=7462
:?:
Thread wins on many levels
But yeah dude, plenty of time
Just to add to this; the hardest part is getting your style down, that takes ages. Physically learning to paint isn't that hard at all once you get a few fundamentals. Have fun mate!
Sorry to jack your thread, I just love your shit so much, its really fantstic. Seriously, definatly one of my favorite artists here.
Sketching is THE way to work on your style. The painted versions don't usually come out as well as the sketches. It's sometime hard to map out the sketch proportion-wise on a wall coz it's so much bigger etc.
So to develop the style, work on sketches heaps.
I was in the same boat, man. None of my regular mates like graffiti. I just decided to pick it up so I started putting stuff up on deviant art and got in touch with a few people from my town who had been in the game a little while ands they helped me out and took me out painting a few times.
Oh yeah, to learn how to do pieces and shit, I think the best advice I can give is to go on the net and find a few artists you really like. Save images of their pieces and study them. Every letter isn't so much a blob, one singular shape but rather several lines connected together to form a letter.
Watch how your fave piecers connect the lines, how they construct a flow and just learn from there.
is it possible to get that blue themed sword dude canvas in a wallpaper
I found this place, but I was wondering if any regular stores sell them. I'd rather not order online, if I don't have to...
INSTAGRAM
(the second photo was a commission i got paid for. we cleaned up the messy overspray on the metal bits after taking the photo)
I buy caps at my local store, there are usually graff shops in most towns, but they CAN be hard to find. Be careful about asking around too, if you go to a graff forum and ask people for info, a lot of the time they will assume you are a cop. Maybe ask around random art stores, they also tend to know, without assuming you're a cop
Stores that sell aerosol paint will usually sell nibs too (unless you go to a shitty auto store that sells like car touch up paint)
And yeah you can order them online, but if you do; order HEAPS. Like seriously. Like a hundred of every kind. They should be fucking cheap, but nibs block up, especially the thin ones you use for details and outlines.
Sorry I don't have a larger version of that ninja canvas
I fucking love your style, your characters are especially impressive to see (it's nice to see them done so well outside stickers/stencils/paste ups). I wish I saw more pieces/ups like yours around the NW.
I...I really don't have anything to add. Your work is both demoralizing and all sorts of inspiring.
And to whoever was asking about ordering caps, Bombing Science is were I usually order my gear from, though it's not hard to make your own caps if you can be assed to do it (it can be a pain in the ass and a mess the first few times you do it).
I like these one a lot.
INSTAGRAM