to paint, or not to paint?

Meth0d · **to paint, or not to paint? -** 12-14-2005, 10:02 AM

Well, i know this writer who is doing it for like 2.5 years now etc. and he sais like sketch for a year and then go out and paint shit.

i've been out taggin a few times and i just feel the need to go out again to tag.
but he sais, you'll fuck ur name up etc. but tagging isnt thard, and a throw-up gotta be learned some way. but he sais that i'll just fuck up the city etc.

i've decided i'll do it a little less tho, or some small town 20 mins from here, go practise there. what do you think? should i sketch for 1 year and then go paint?

iomek · 12-14-2005, 10:26 AM

i sketched for just under a year before i touched paint.. i hit up a few quiet places 1st, got some can control and met some writers, then kept painting pretty much daily for around a month, where i developed can conttrol and could paint pretty much anything that i had sketched.. then i decided to change my name and use that insted, so all my old shit stuff was gone, and i am known for the stuff that i do now.. people didnt even know that i use to paint what i use to, which is a good thing.. and im sure alot of other people have done the same thing as me..

madwakfreek · 12-14-2005, 01:10 PM

i started with a can, thought i was king shit and almost got my ass kicked for it. so i sketched a lot more and paintes some too.. had to change names because the heat was catching up to the point they were interrogating my friends, then i wrote "rangi" bad idea.. i couldnt develope a good throw so i painted shit all over the place, even in a few hot spots.. then i changes to JEk. good idea.. this name is now known in my town and the next city, heat is picking up but no one knows who i am except 5 other people. i'm one of the top writers in my area (not saying much theres 15 of us). some beginner writers consider me a hero now.. creepy.

anyways, get some paint and duck under a bridge, practice practice, practice. hit the same spot every time, take flix so you can look back and see how much better you get every time. but for everything you paint, there better be 10 sketches in your blackbook

Meth0d · 12-14-2005, 02:12 PM

ye sketch way more then i paint, but do you need to sketch for a throw-up?

Hektik-J · 12-14-2005, 03:15 PM

well you should have an idea of what your doin for a throw up.

Hektik-J · 12-14-2005, 03:18 PM

i mean dont try n freestyle it.

Ground Control · 12-14-2005, 07:41 PM

i sketched for years before i started piecing..i don't recommend doing that tho, don't be like me...paint as much as you can. the only way you're going to get good at it is by practice. sketching is very different from paintin, you need to develop both abilities. the only advantage sketching has is that you get better at forming letters, then again, ur probably not gonna be killin blackbooks after only a year either.

just paint and sketch as much as you can man.

STIFF_UK · 12-15-2005, 01:36 AM

Sketch for a year?
First piece I ever painted was about 2 weeks after I started sketching properly.

In at the deep end. You can skills develop with your paper skills that way too. No good having some crazy semi-wild smooth with really intricate detailing on paper, if your can skills amount to lumping paint on the wall and getting drips the size of a fat person's fingers that reach down to the ground.

When you're still on simple styles, you only need simple techniques. As your style improves, so does your ability.

"You got to WRITE man... you got to do the action, man, you know? ......... you got to go out and paint and be called an outlaw at the same time." - LEE

qubixrube · 12-25-2005, 03:04 PM

Go out and paint when you feel like it, just be smart about it and know that youll probably have to change your name; so if you like the one you have now, consider saving it for later.

Developing can control is a part of learning as much as getting something on paper is. I learnt this the hard way about a year and a half ago, when i had been putting stuff on paper most of the time, all of a sudden i get spraypaint and i have almost no idea what to do with it! Like i had used markers and gone tagging before, so I was accustomed to being in dangerous situations, but the actual act of painting was almost foreign to me. So i read up on a few topics, and my cna control turned out pretty good. I just couldnt do much with the paint. Besides, the paint was THIN, thats what you get for cheap.

Anyhow, just thought id share a story for a warning. Get painting!