Thank you! I’ve slowed down a bunch this year with drawing cause I been into yoyoing so much. I get burnt out and take breaks and then dive head first in again. Your drawings look awesome too! Love them.
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Those seems the classics wild style, so cool, you are very talented mate, always wanted to do graffiti but never had the talent to draw
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Thanks man, really appreciate it. Yeah I like the older type styles the most. I try to keep it somewhat legible.
Very cool. I assume that because I cannot make any words out in any of these; that this is part of the art? Sort of Fractal word-play mixed with colorful art?
Or, am I just old and clueless?
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Thanks. It’s just kinda a thing graffiti writers learn to decipher over time. You could post any piece of complex graffiti and I’ve just seen so much and been doing it so long it’s just all legible to me. That’s how it is with all of my friends I know who are into graffiti as well, they all can read everything. I can’t really explain it but it’s just something you learn to decipher after seeing it so much is the best way I can put it.
Maybe analogy to describe is like showing someone who doesn’t yoyo a Shutter and telling them it’s an H shaped yoyo. They might not understand it but us yoyoers do. I think that’s a good analogy maybe?
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Could you please post the words under the pictures to help me learn this deciphering talent? I am truly curious.
I love the colors and style. I used to skate in the 70’s-80’s. This reminds me of what I would see on boxcars and drainage-ditches. Yours is much more bold and refined.
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No problem, I just edited the original post with the words they are underneath.
Thanks again. There’s actually alot of history involved with graffiti that goes back to the early 70s in NYC painting the subway cars.
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Yes. I lived in NYC, Philly and Chicago during 70’s-80’s. I should have said subway cars too.
Edit: Interestingly, upon reflection, I can see that Chicago is where I saw the best variety of this kind of art. Probably because Chicago is a national rail-hub and saw the widest variety of art from around the country on their box-cars.
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Yeah it’s pretty neat each city kinda has its own influences that kinda drive some similarities in styles. West Coast graffiti is a lot more wild and hard to read compared to classic New York style graffiti. A pretty cool book to check out is “History of American Graffiti”. It’s a really thick book with graffiti that goes over each city in America from back in the early beginning to what it’s like today. Here’s a photo in it from my favorite graffiti writer of all time who wrote Dream. He was tragically murdered in Oakland, CA in the year 2000.
He did this whole wall himself back in 1987
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This is totally my kind of freakiness
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Does this one say SKATE?
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Close, Sedat.
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Got most of the letters just wrong order. Looks so different than the other SEDAT you showed above.
Really nice work!
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Thank you! I can kinda see where you see skate there’s some extra stuff going on in that one.
