DOPE

Et reprise de possession

Here is a sneak peak of Fafi’s Comic Book!!!! via her blog

how cutie?!
i want. i want. i want. i want.

<3

Thought I’d share some photograffy from the good o’le Texas. I got caught up with all this design stuff that I forgot the roots of the blog. Anyhow, here are some from some spots around town. More to come soon! Here is a little yard fun! The workers in that locomotive where pretty koo. I thought they harass me, but they where pretty friendly and dropped a little yard knowledge.

Happy Thanksgiving!!!

A little film I just put up of Dep, Tizer, Bonzai and Lovepusher painting in the Russian Club in East London for Glug.

ARTIVIST : creative provide technical direction & visuals for NZ bands at AWME 2009 including Rhombus (with Sir Michel Tuffery), Little Bushmen, Mihirangi, Tama Waipera & NOMAD.

“It was an honor to work with such a calibre of act with such a high level of artistic integrity” said JoFF Rae… “the features of the Expo for me was hanging out with legendary graff artist HAHA, artists Ero & the NOMAD & the jam with the Mad Professor!”

The Expo in Melbourne was a success for CNZ & the artists with a stream of bookings!  The contingent from NZ had showcases in the Black Box at the Melbourne Arts Center, a nice room with an intimate feel & a capacity of not more than 250.

Looking forward to 2010!  Special thanks to CNZ , Koa & the NOMAD.

“A 3d animation created over the course of 5 years documenting the graffiti on the wall outside of Serge Gainsbourg home…”

Un estilo que hizo un amigo… me latió bastante la letra E.

Saludos y suerte para que aguanten este lunes.

a la verga yeaaaaahhhh
me encontre con esta en la web y rifa

This is the best graff documentation I’ve seen yet…

3D Graffiti Animation Outside Serge Gainsbourg’s Home
via Hypebeast

Pour Noël

Sur la Tour Eiffel

Photographed by earnest70six

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mad Graffz, 5am Blog

This weekend was a fun one. On Friday, was our Friday the 13th party at Monty’s house. The theme was supposed to be villains & victims, but not many people dressed up. I went all out, since I missed Halloween. I dressed up as a dead Fafinette (french graffiti artist, Fafi’s creations). Ava was Cruella Deville. Marielle was a dalmation. and Guns was a hotdog hahaha. My girl Ebz came out from the BX too. Always fun to chill with her.
Here are some flicks from that:

On Sunday, Ava had a birthday soiree at Scudder Beach. It was a lot of fun. Filled with good people, good food, wine, & fishing. Also got to see one of my favorite people in the world, Devin. That ginger boy is my heart! <3

Tomorrow, Felt 3 drops. I believe this one is “A Tribute to Rosie Perez”, which is awesome. Love Rosie Perez. I’m glad another Felt album has dropped. Slug & Murs are a perfect duo. They sound great together.

Also, stay tuned because a few friends and myself are starting a theme band soon! cannot wait.

On the real this dude has s. beach on smizash

Varu Mack recurs la procesul de constiintza

Au moins entre les entreprises (*)

(*) B2B : business to business

Pas de rapport avec 2B3 ni surtout 2B2 (après le décès du regretté Filip Nikolic)

 Online Graffiti Art workshop for kids 12+

You’re about to learn how to do a graffiti piece .This online tutorial will guide you step by step to realise a colourful Artwork.

Materials needed: A4 paper, pencil, rubber, chisel point marker pen, thin black pen and a good selection of colour pens.

 ::CAUTION ::This activity requires investing time and effort to practice. For effortless Graffiti Art enjoy the   Graffiti Creator .

DOCUMENTATION

I would start this tutorial the same way i would start a workshop, with a lot of pictures to look at, that definatly helps for inspiration.

I usually use Graphotism magazin, here on the internet i would suggest the flikr public group GRAFFITI=LETTERS.

Try to focus on the letters and try to read them also try to recognize all the different elements that compose a piece:

-The letter structure(the shape of the letters, simple block letters, semi wildstyle, wildstyle, 3D style, cali style, throwie style…)

-The fill (gradient fill top to bottom…)

-The effects (wave effects, bubbles, splashes, cracks, chip …)

- The outlines(thick, thin..)

-The 3D (straight 3d, up, down, left, right, using vanishing point, work on the volumes…)

-The background(minimalist, busy, abstract, dirty grunge…)

It’s important to spend a bit of time browsing, just to make sure we are talking about the same thing.

CHOOSE A WORD

Try to think about a word, less than 5 letters works well on A4 sheet of paper.

Avoid to write a phrase as it’s quite hard to keep the flow (unity or consistency between the letters).

It can be any words, anything really, if you haven’t got a clue here is a list to help you:

a name, a nickname, a pet’s name, a band, a football team, a colour, a sister’s name, a brother’s name, a boyfriend’s name, a girlfriend’s name, a car , an animal, a city,…anything that makes sense for you.

Try to avoid using writers names already in use , you can easily check out at Art Crimes the worldwide database.

Write with your own handwriting the chosen words in the corner of the page.

HANDSTYLE/GRAFFITI TAG

This exercise is based on style and speed.Don’t try to sketch,remember you’re writing.

Give different variations of the word you’ve chosen in step 2, you need to be productive.

 Here is list of things to try: alternate capital / small letters, start small finish big, add nice dynamics, italic style, cursive style..it doesn’t matter how you do it but you need to get movement,and get the letters to 2 “dance”.

Also if you’re using a chisel marker pen, experiment with the chisel point horizontal, vertical, 45 degree angle.

Use the tag Alphabet if needed.

After you’ve filled up a few pages, gather them, get a step back and choose the tag that you feel like the best, and with a thin black pen outline it , leaving a few millimeters of white between the tag and the outline.That’s gonna be the base , the structure of your piece.

It’s time for a good tidy up, get rid of of those pages covered of tags and only keep the final outlined tag, you can make a frame and fold the paper so you focus on the final tag.

GUIDE LINES/ BARS

The guidelines are gonna be used to keep your letters accurate, and they are just constructions lines (double lines).

We are gonna used 2 types, straight parallels and bent parallels.

The next step is to follow the letter structure of the tag, and redo it with those parallel lines. It’s important to keep a good consistency, same width between the parallel lines.

Try to get some nice chunky letters (if the parallel are too narrow you won’t be able to add effects in them), add some arrows, jump off, you can get the letters to overlap each

other, break some angles, get the corner slightly rounded, make sure you keep a good flow (consistency,unity)between the letters..

This part of the sketching process is a real science, check out the exchange website for inspiration and clever comments regarding the process of making a graffiti piece.

outline your lettering and rub off the construction lines.

COLOURS

Colours are like music notes , you will need a few of them to get harmony, if you mix the wrong ones together you will get a painful result.

There are some classic combinations that work quite well like using warm colours in the background and cold ones for your graffiti piece and vice versa.

Try not to use the same colour in the fill and the 3d and the background that might just be confusing.

A good thing to do is to use primary colors (yellow, red, blue) as a base for your colour choice , eg: fill yellow, 3d blue, background red.

Complementary colours (yellow/violet, green/red, blue/orange)works well to get a maximum contrast.

For colour scheme inspiration check out the colour lovers website.

THE FILL

We’re gonna draw 2 horizontal lines and divide the piece in 3 parts .

Start coloring in each part with 3 different colours,colours from the same range works well, eg: white, yellow, orange.

 Then blend in each part with the darker colour that you’ve used , eg: orange on the yellow,and yellow on the white

You can use any patterns, i usually use bubbles, as it’s easy to do but any patterns would do (strokes, square…)

EFFECTS

It’s time to add a few effects to the lettering, not to much, just enough to spice up the piece a bit.

If you’ve used orange, yellow and white for the fill some random red effects would work pretty well.

Here is a list of the most popular graffiti effects : stars, bubbles, wave effects, chip effects, skyline, wall cracks, strokes, strippes, highlights, light shine effects…

3D

There are different ways to get the 3D right.The proper way is to do a vanishing point , and draw some lines from every angles to reach the point,then choose a width for your 3D , then get the parallel of the letter, make sure the 3D got the same width all the way through the piece.

Another way is to choose a direction, up, down, right, left,with horizontal or vertical straight lines,then again choose the width,then parallel to the letter.(this way is much easier)

Colour in the 3D with a light colour so you will be abble to add a few stripes on it with a darker colour , a rectangle that you colours in then a line, at the top, at the middle, then at the bottom of the 3D.That effect will give more strenght to the volumes.

 THE FORCE FIELD

The force field is an outside outline,between the piece and the background.

The same way we did the outline at the begining on the tag.Try to leave some white.

THE BACKGROUND

Background is used to make the piece stand out from the piece,( the colour or design painted behind the piece to make it stand out.)

Don’t neglect it, it shouldn’t be too overpowering either.

Here is a list of background design that you can use to enhance your lettering: simple frame, lines with different thickness, bubbles, wall cracks, splashes of paint, clouds…

You can also download a vehicle template for use in your graffiti sketches, like this: 

ET VOILA!

If you like the tutorial, and would like to support it, please refer your friends . Hopefully, they’ll find it useful as well. I’m open to any feedback, or criticisms on how to improve…

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