Graffiti Toys Fall Into This TRAP - But You Dont Have to

I kinda like looking at beginners on the streets, as long as they aren't capping people. It's funny to see that I have also been at that level and I know how it feels to first start getting up, that rush and nervousness

Its funny, ive found that when i sit down to make a masterpiece i almost always end up with sub par work. BUT, when the " burden of quality" is absent, for instance if i cant decide between 2 options ill do a quick lil demo on scrap paper just to see which option or color combo i like more, it almost ALWAYS ends up being my best work.

not practicing is weird. i cant stop myself from using pens and doodling haha

would be cool to see a video, where you show different stages (with examples) of progress in certain fundamentals, like what i should be able to do before i move on to the more difficult stuff. for example form - 1. basic cubes, cylinders, spheres... 2. modifying basic forms to get more organic objects 3. clusters of objects, intersections... and so on for other fundamentals

As an artist, not even just grafitti, just, as an artist, yes practice is supposed to be hard, my brain starts hurting everytime I hop off the tablet, right now, I'm learning animation and I cannot stress how important the fundamentals are especially for this art form, as a beginner I've definetly fallen into most traps involving animation, no you cannot just copy and paste the frame, you have to be able to redraw it over and over and over again to give it a sort of flow, so it isn't stiff and without a sense of life, you have to be able to understand the fundamentals and put them into your art, squash and stretch, exaggeration, timing, that's the stuff I failed to put into my animations as a beginner because I simply didn't understand, even right now as I'm making more and more animations, I can see how it's still flawed but I can also see how much I improved these past few years

Hey bro, So. I've been painting for a while, and subscribe for a couple years. I re-watched a drop shadow tutorial and damn...Went out today and tried one small change to my 3D, inspired by YOU and... My piece today looked...proper. BIG Ups dude, keep cranking. Just wanted to let you know your work has merit. Your brain keeps me on track. Appreciate you.

When i started i was sketching a loooot, but it was bad haha now i just want to have fun. Half of my pieces i dont like, or i got something to complain about. but i had a good time mostly.. 😄

I kept listening to you, watching the video and possibly just got into a 'flow' state...maybe? I just couldn't stop smiling. Your reasoning was logical and the conclusion very inclusive. Statements like "...and that's alright" when talking about the amateur 50 year-graff-writing-friends. Very fuckin' cool, brother. Very cool. Thank you for sharing all of this wisdom. Somehow the intro to your videos, especially in this topic, seem incredibly appropriate too. As though the attitude is to help. "We all gotta meet at the bench." I'm diggin' it all, man.

as someone who has been drawing since I was in preschool, I have always been a stickler for practice. but, as I've gotten older I find life distracting me more and more. Now as a commissioned artist, the practice is paying off. does it pay the bills? not yet. what first got me into graffiti was handwriting classes in elementary school. I have had an obsession with letters since then. I've just recently created my own font. but, could I recreate it on a wall? That's my next step. There's a power in knowing the basics and always practicing. It will eventually bleed through your art. Thanks for another great, vid, Grim.

One thing my father taught me. If they can do it you can do it too. If you can't do it then practice till you can.

A lot of these ideas can be applied to musicianship. You gotta practice, do exercises and not rush things. There are no shortcuts to becoming better. In a similar vein, Studying and practicing different musical styles will help you develop your own style.

you get the same thing from musicians with regards to music theory. some people instinctively "feel" the fundamentals, and it gets them really far, but it also only gets them SO far. it's like math: addition subtraction multiplication and division can get you so far, but if you don't learn all the shortcuts and tricks there's only so far you can get because you get bogged down trying to figure things out that somebody only a little bit more advanced doesn't even have to think about. I would say with art that 90% of what makes somebody good is just understanding the concept of contrast, or in other words, what makes your message stand out from everything else. shape and form are important, but if the "subject" is just as blurry as the background then there's nothing to set them apart to indicate what's more important. if everything is red but your subject is blue, becomes obvious which thing is more important, and if everything is dark but the subject is lit by a spotlight, you know that's what the artist wanted you to look at. this is the fundamental that is most often overlooked by graffiti, the reason most wyldstyle looks cool but nobody can tell what it says... kind of an important rule to not miss out on, when your only message is telling everyone that you were there. that would be like if the credits at the end of the movie were hidden in a maze that scrolls past at 80 miles an hour... if your name were in that list you'd want it to be twice as big and colored red when everything else is black and white... if you did that you'd be the only person to get hired again from that film, because it would have been the only name that anybody could see.

if you have been doing graffiti for 50+ years, you are a graffiti artist. you are not an amateur, and whatever you are making is valid. in that case 'the scene' has to adjust to you.

Great video! As always 🔥

I wish I didn’t have to practice but god I want to be good so bad and whenever I start practicing it’s so fun and I love doing it but I try and do my alphabet all the time I want to get good I want to get really really good and I am seeing myself progress and I know I’m doing that purely because I’ve done and I do different types of art all the time anyway tysm for making videos you’re helping me out a lot

Begin of tutorial: 9:31

Love practicing and thanks to you I now know what to practice 🙏🙏🙏 and I love that VILE piece!

Said it once. Said it a hundred times. You’re an art teacher my friend!

Been watching since I was 17, I'm 22 now, nice to see Jon still amazing work I fuck with your work man keep it up.!!

Doketv yes he practiced but he never practiced fundamentals and look how he got not disagreeing but I’m just saying this proves a point