View attachment 199209 i got a question.. alright. everyone always says start out simple. the way to sketch is to start simle with block letters, that way you can get letter widths and letter forms down. the picture above has lots of different widths in the letters. can i ask why people say to start out simple with even letter widths when at the same time people that have been doing it for a while don't do it much anymore? is it that the same shapes within the letters are the same width? so vertical shapes are even in width and horizontal lines/shapes are the same? just never understood that. thanks.
molotow, suck a dick..i havent been on here in a few days and i come back to you bitchin and moanin as usual. if i saw you in real life you would bite the curb son. maybe you should sit down and think, gee...why does everyone on BS hate me? and then fix the problem jackass. you think you know everything, well you dont cunt. soryy i couldnt hold this in anymore...it was eatin me away =]
ive been doin graffiti around two years now. intil recently, i was just doin stencils, tags, an stickers. now that ive got the smarts, money,an balls to paint, i need some help. [Broken External Image]:http://img129.imageshack.us/img129/3253/10063865wg.jpg advice...comments... thx
^not feelin it man...sorry. make your letters a little neater and more complex. and did you mess up on the 2nd e?
People should start out with block letters. Not tech. to get letter widths down, but more to get letter shape down. With the proper letter shape down you canmove onto your own style. It is good to have proper width for the letters, but experimenting is key. The people that have been doing it for awhile DID start with block letters and their shapes down, and experimented. They know how the flow of a word goes and spins off that. They know what their doing.
My answer to your question would be, it's not nessecarilly that you start with block letters because you're gonna use them so much later, but more to just reign you in and get you to focus on your precision as well as the nuances of letters themselves. Look at the majority of first time posters.. There shit is everywhere and all ridiculous. The main fault being, they just busted out an emulation of what they percieved the graff style to be, but it's not even close to that easy. It really does take time and alot of concentration. By starting with block letters, your focusing on the fundamental structure of the letter. Master that and bit by bit, you can then begin to distort that letter, elongate, thin in parts, fatten in others, add extentions, only you'll have a more natural feel on where the distortions go because you've grasped the basic form of the letter. Block letters are just laying down both a proper foundation and a proper understanding. People need to start simple because so many of them actually can't even do that well at first even though it sounds easy. Then they try and jump in the deep end of the pool without their water wings and scuba gear and they take the piss. And then everybody in the deep end's like "Hey that toy pissed in the pool! Damnit you stupid toy! Why didn't you stay in the shallow end!".............. Hope that helped. It's just my oppinion.. Damn...I basically said a long winded version of what Meng said... I didn't see his post...I agree with him tho.
I'm thinking about changing the name to CES ONE what do you guys think? I don't really like the way my A fits into the style I'm tryin to develop so that's why I am thinking about the name change.