Straight letters and after months maybe even years once you can make them consistent you start doing minor tweaks to the letters. Flow will come.

 

Straight letters as in regular, keyboard style, letters?

 

Oh, and I just thought I'd add, that curve in my letters isn't intentional. That's just how my normal handwriting looks lol

 

straight letters as in letters with no extensions, and doing your tag over and over and over. When u start building a style it will come easier.

 

your deff gonna have to fix that lol

 

Seeing some solid work, Good stuff Taro dig the strokes to the letters.
Lice...i dont even know.

-Snowk

 

@Snowk- Thanks, I like your style too. Im in Love with your N lol

 

dank310.. that needs some work, you got the "liquid" (as I like to call it) hand movements more or less
but some letters need to be fixed, especially the o w and k. they look like d, u and r

 

What's up. New member, mos def a toy, from TN. Any crits on the tag? Hand was shakier than normal, but this is pretty much the flow and spacing and etc.

 

try and make your letter match better, also im not feeling the arrow for the T or the bar from the U as the cross for the A. The R is way too big, also if your gonna use quotes dont put them that far away. Like we were all saying earlier in this thread, the key is coherency. You want your letters to belong together.

 

Thanks for the advice, I've got one tag up not too far away that I think is a more coherent style, try and put it up tomorrow

 

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Also my two cents on flow: It comes naturally. You really can't teach flow. But in a nutshell, It's the natural movement of the hands and wrist,as far as tags go. For pieces, i'd say it's the overall shape of the piece and the way the letters them selves connect/lean. Flow can be achived by adding extentions, but profellionals have flow in the letters themselves. Also, simples may have flow, but straights(keyboard letters) typically do not.

It all takes time.
@taro i love the second hand. But the style above IS a philly hand. Many philly greats have complimented me on it. Philly hands get much more complex For example:https://sphotos-b.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-ash4/404079_273190219467535_932112560_n.jpg
Granted i have no fucking idea what it says, it does actually say something...
Here's another philly hand.
https://sphotos-a.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-prn1/156136_273190549467502_1710629267_n.jpg
It's only two letters. I'll let you guess which ones.
This is just to show how low-level my hand is.
As far as yours, i'd like to see it with a pen;any flaws in a hand will show with a skinny cap or a ball point pen.(another legend tought me that).

 

Ill tag wit a pen, ill post it a lil later.

 

Berlin2012:

 

No fill, drop the bottom bar on the K, and make your bars one style(connected or not connected) Also make your bubbles better...idk what to tell u to do there jus make them better lol

 

Alright figured, Yeaaah i was gonna get rid of that lol, Ah i see alright man thanks Taro my bubble letters are pretty shit. lol

 

No not your letters, the actual bubbles around the throw, your letters are ok, jus keep at it, the more u write the better you will become.