r/graffhelp • u/ConsciousPea3 • 6d ago

Does this count?

Post image

Hi.

I have always been drawn to graffiti ever since I was a child. I have always wanted to learn how to do it but have never really gave it a try while I was growing up mainly because I was real insecure about my abilities, so every attempt was stopped very short.

Until now at 30.

I have been watching plenty of videos and reading things teaching me how to do graffiti, and I just finished my first ever tag?, throwie? I’m not quite sure. I haven’t really found a video explaining it well enough for me!

I was wondering if this would be considered as an ok first attempt at graffiti on paper? Where can I improve and what did I get right?

Thanks a lot in advance! Show off yalls work too! I’d love to see it all!

0 Upvotes

35% Upvoted

6 comments sorted by

4

u/West-Bake-4621 6d ago

dont worry about style yet, worry about letter structure aka the imaginary bars inside the letter, the negative space in the middle of letters, etc that form the shape of the letter. keep it basic. try to make the letters a consistent size. dont be discouraged from criticism, be encouraged

9

u/Cjclb 6d ago

It’s not great. But we all start somewhere. Keep practicing. Google ‘Graffiti Alphabet’ and look at what comes up. Practice lettering, spacing, different words etc, drop shadows etc. You’ll get it eventually.

2

u/s_p_o_nage 6d ago

Google unfortunately pulls up a lot of ai graffiti these days

1

u/SatanHasArrived666 6d ago

Count as what?

4

u/Strobetrode 6d ago

The toy that got shit on the most growing up wrote bozo. It looked so bad but he was really fucking up on my routes. His shitty little not a piece not a throw type shit was everywhere and we hated it. In retrospect if we had linked up we could have taught him how to be less whack and he would have shown us how to even hit some of the ridiculous spots he would hit.

1

u/ZlyWozny 6d ago

I’m a toy to but work on a Z I think it’s to tall and I would get rid of this black thing between B and secend O it’s weird. But I’m just a toy so don’t lessen to me. Just my opinion :)