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How do i get my graffiti looking neater?

Asked by jamzzy (885points) February 6th, 2009

mine is okay but i get insecure for me it looks lopsided and sometimes my shadows look uneven and my bubbles even look sloppy. what can i do?

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AlfredaPrufrock's avatar

Show us some samples.

buster's avatar

Are you using fat caps and thin caps and calligraphy caps? Keep bombing walls. Practice makes perfect.

Knotmyday's avatar

You could always ask a cop or the owner of the property you’re defacing.

Heck, if you come over to my place, both I and Mr. 34” aluminum Wilson softball bat will be proud to give you a lesson.

gailcalled's avatar

@Jamzzy; And I heard it on the grapevine that Knot has been sharpening Drake’s incisors.

jamzzy's avatar

@Knotmyday i mostly blackbook and i dont deface property i do indoors for peoples rooms and murals that people pay me to do.

http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f219/cooldudewith/ddddddd.jpg
http://i48.photobucket.com/albums/f219/cooldudewith/ggg-1.jpg

cirrina's avatar

I think it looks cool already and not being an expert, I’m going to repeat the advice that practicing is the key for anything like this. It’s just about getting the motions into your muscle memory, because the more confident you are the more smooth and clean all your lines will be.

asmonet's avatar

Practice, practice, practice.
Any form of art requires patience and work.

It looks fine, I actually think those are really good, you need to work on shading more than anything else to make the bubbled areas really ‘pop’. As for being lopsided, if you know a design might have a chance of ending up that way, take frequent breaks. Step back. View it from every angle you can think of, take a few minutes away from it and come back fresh.

Cardinal's avatar

Gee I’m so sorry you live on the East coast. I would much rather break both of your knees with a night stick. I see no reason to damage a good softball bat. I will be lookking for lopsided graffiti with runny black paint.

adri027's avatar

Wow!!! Graff on the east coast is definitely different from out here. I’m in California but um I’m sorry but personally I don’t like your graff. I hope you take no offense to that.

TitsMcGhee's avatar

Practice and develop your own style. Learn some things about color theory and possibly use stencils. Play around with your paints too, make sure you are comfortable with colors, spray density, and such.

asmonet's avatar

Wow, instead of encouragement you got at least two negative critiques, guys, that didn’t have anything to do with it.

Knotmyday's avatar

Well, Mr. Jamz, if you had referred to it as a mural or at the very least contract work, I would’ve been ok with it. Destructive graffiti ignites my ire.
By all means expand your artistic tendencies. Try mapping your work out on CorelDraw and finishing it on Photoshop if you want to take it to the next level- also, a firm grasp of trigonometry figures big in large-scale mural work. Ask your sponsor for projection equipmenbt as well.
And watch out for bat-wielding citizenry.

fundevogel's avatar

I can appreciate good graffiti. Around here the illegal arts usually far more aesthetically pleasing than the public arts. But I do think that given the time requirements of making your art that you should practice a lot at home and have your designs well planned and practiced before taking it to the streets.

And watch out for bats and nightsticks. Oh wait, somebody already said that. My bad.

TitsMcGhee's avatar

@Knotmyday: The best stuff I know is public graffiti, but it’s on these flood walls down on the St. Louis riverfront. People do some awesome work there because it’s free, legal, open space for art to be created, not just tagging. Other cities should have similar places, so artists have somewhere to go, as well as the little fucks who just want to tag.

Shecky_Johnson's avatar

I dig your style. Keep on keeping on.

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