the plague
Junior Member
Registered: August 2006
Posts: 58
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Noone likes mentors these days, and so like noone mentors...
Lesson one: keep it simple, stupid! (K-I-S-S)
A good piece isn't made by taking an under-developed style and jam-packing it full of every color and pattern you can think of in attempts to burn. If you've got weak letters, colours and cleanliness don't matter, for it's the letters that do the talking. It's hard to hear them speak when they're hiding behind a barricade of uber-effects, barely whispering audibly... and that's how your piece comes off. Are you gonna eat that cake if all it's got is fancy icing? No, of course not! You took a bite and the cake tasted like shit! The frosting won't change that.
PAY ATTENTION:
I'm trying to communicate something here.
It's good to be able to paint cleanly, but that's not where all the focus ought to be. By painting graffiti like this one learns to become an ARTIST, not an ARCHITECT, correct? Keep this in mind when you go out; it's lesson #2.
Contrary to popular belief, effects and colors are NOT interchangeable pieces of lego that can get plugged in whenever. The scheme needs to suit the style to be effective, go WITH the piece, be inspired BY the piece. Confident letters are what makes a burner dope, not fancy-pants eye-poppers; all that shit comes after, naturally, usually invented during a piece - not necessarily pre-planned. I'm saying this because I've seen old throw-ups burn a lot of the latest three-hour burners. #3: graffiti burners are ART, not math.
I'm noticing an imbalance, a large developmental rift between many people's styles and their techniques. I suggest you in particular do more simples: basic schemes with focus on letters. Can you burn like that? It's hard. I think you'd benefit if you tried to.
Start with a solid outline, and let the rest come together on its own. If one practises diligently, step-by-step, his repetoire will build up properly, and every tool and tech will find a place on the shelf where it belongs, ready to be executed where required. And switch it up, won't you? You're gonna get bored, and since art is (consciously or otherwise) self-expression...
What I've written is probably a lot to take in, but I'd like it to get chewed on until it tastes good. I've only got good intentions in mind.
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