haha thats exactly what i told him to do to if he was usin the same color paint again and again...it gets tricky, if not impossible to practice with the same colors without rolling it...definatly an awsome and cheap way to get good...i approve
i practice on the streets. i practice on slaps. i practice under this bridge where i already started a war with some pussy ass toy gang.
Where I live, i can walk for 5 minutes and there is a pond so i put on high boots and walk for like 10 seconds and Im in this huge pipe that connects it to another pond but its always dry so i write on the huge walls
What I did to practice tags was I ordered boxes off of the USPS website and practice tags on them. Lately though, i have been practicing pieces under a bridge and on some walls alongside railroad tracks
Usually I practice on scraps of paper, in a notebook i have to just practice the basics in (i have one for throwies i'm workin' on too). I have been working on can control on canal banks and jungle-gyms that are already tagged to hell.
^^ lol thats smart.. i just practice in one of those ditch pipes, i have a jumbo one near where i live
cardboard for practising techniques and handstyles, or a big-ass piece of drywall (just keep going over it) if i wanna bomb/piece
everytime i tag on the street. that is practicing. i want people to be able to see me getting better and better. like i look at the shit i did like 4 months ago that u thought was hot and it BLOWS. now i look at the shit i did tonight and i am like...shiiiit that is fresh. but a few months from now? i am going to be saying wtf was i thinking?
lol EDIT: saw a fence today that had throwies all over it... didn't think much of it until about 5 minutes later when i realized they were all pretty similar... went back to it and looked, and it was the same throw (for the most part) over and over again... each one was dated, and they were in chronological order from left to right... they were over a span of 6 months, and a new one was painted about every week and a half... each one was slightly better than the first, but you could tell when the guy switched paint... at about 1/2 way through, the paint went from thin and kinda splotchy with a very dull color to thick and bright colors with a good coverage, but the fill and outlines were still basically the same in terms of the way he painted. i thought it was fucking stupid, but did show progression over time.
herd from a local writer you can get some sheetrock for 7 bucks....and im talkin huge ass pieces, and its better to paint on then partical board...recamend checkin it out.
i use plywood. sometimes i go out plywood hunting. ive got abt 4 or 5 big pieces i practice on. i picked up 3 at a time in my friend's toyota corolla once. man that was funny. we had 5 people to ride too. they used to double as skate ramps til i all but quit that. good times.