Wednesday, April 13, 2011
Thursday, April 7, 2011
Graffiti Artist.
Let me tell you a little story way back in sophomore year of high school. It all started with my fascination of graffiti especially wildstyles and burners on walls and such. I was sitting in english class and while we had downtime i spoke to my friend alex. We start talking about graffiti and he tells me this website thats sort of an online graffiti "game." I use it with him and needless to say i'm completely terrible. So what do i do? I grab my extra green notebook and right off the bat i put the date (March 18, 2008) and a short little note that basically state i will use the notebook as daily use and track my progress. I kept writing random words like MOOD and DREAM and LOVE in bubble letters.. but let me tell you, i wasn't known for drawing. Frankly drawing was my serious weak point as a matter of fact. So these bubble letters turned out terrible. BUT i kept at it, soon enough i had a name for myself. DEISL. I have many origins of that name so i'll leave it up to the imagination to decide.
I then started tagging everywhere, school, notebooks, class papers, etc. It became a really bad habit for me. I would watch a shit ton of movies on graffiti, try hard to actually make something look decent, and work at it. Then i came to a sudden halt. My work became looking like the same shit and i felt like i couldn't improve. So for the next two years after my sophomore year, i barely practiced and just did the typical DEI bubble over and over again.
Until...
My second semester of freshman year in college i had this sudden urge to start writing graffiti and maybe, just maybe improve to the point where i can do burners and wildstyles. It all started out with sketches of different throwups i could do and i did my best to avoid the entire bubble style lettering. Much to my surprise i came up with things half decent and i was thrilled.
Then came the next step, i wanted to make a wildstyle piece. I wasn't going to settle for less. So i'm sitting on my computer searching stupid shit like "how to do widstyle" and the same response was met. "Wildstyle is your own style you can't teach style, you sort of just.. get it. It's like after years of doing it then you'll start to understand how it works." I was like... hmm i should THINK about this instead of just jump at it. Soon enough i do the first D then all of a sudden something just.. Clicked. Connect it to the E by erasing this line and making a point there. Soon enough i had the three letters i wanted connected. I was utterly ecstatic. I was overjoyed to say the least and my girlfriend can testify to that XD.
Anyway i digress, I wanted more and i still want more, I try to make my letters more interesting, fleshed out and legible while being dope as fuck. I'm not completely there yet but i'm making a break through each and every single day.
Graffiti has stayed with me this long for a reason. I've given up a lot of my old hobbies that i used to enjoy but this one... for some odd reason is still here. Maybe it's a sign, or maybe i'm just being in touch with my rebellious side again. Either way i still fucking love graffiti. The smell of markers, spray paint alike always calms my nerves no matter what.
1st "Piece"
It's supposed to say CFCY
this was around summer of 2008
One of the many "trains" i trained on (no pun intended) on vandalsquad.
summer 2008
Random ass shit that i thought was "good" >_>
Summer 2008
Improved Throw-Up
Summer of 2009
2 Pieces i can improve upon but am utterly happy about.
April 7th 2011
I love Graffiti.
I then started tagging everywhere, school, notebooks, class papers, etc. It became a really bad habit for me. I would watch a shit ton of movies on graffiti, try hard to actually make something look decent, and work at it. Then i came to a sudden halt. My work became looking like the same shit and i felt like i couldn't improve. So for the next two years after my sophomore year, i barely practiced and just did the typical DEI bubble over and over again.
Until...
My second semester of freshman year in college i had this sudden urge to start writing graffiti and maybe, just maybe improve to the point where i can do burners and wildstyles. It all started out with sketches of different throwups i could do and i did my best to avoid the entire bubble style lettering. Much to my surprise i came up with things half decent and i was thrilled.
Then came the next step, i wanted to make a wildstyle piece. I wasn't going to settle for less. So i'm sitting on my computer searching stupid shit like "how to do widstyle" and the same response was met. "Wildstyle is your own style you can't teach style, you sort of just.. get it. It's like after years of doing it then you'll start to understand how it works." I was like... hmm i should THINK about this instead of just jump at it. Soon enough i do the first D then all of a sudden something just.. Clicked. Connect it to the E by erasing this line and making a point there. Soon enough i had the three letters i wanted connected. I was utterly ecstatic. I was overjoyed to say the least and my girlfriend can testify to that XD.
Anyway i digress, I wanted more and i still want more, I try to make my letters more interesting, fleshed out and legible while being dope as fuck. I'm not completely there yet but i'm making a break through each and every single day.
Graffiti has stayed with me this long for a reason. I've given up a lot of my old hobbies that i used to enjoy but this one... for some odd reason is still here. Maybe it's a sign, or maybe i'm just being in touch with my rebellious side again. Either way i still fucking love graffiti. The smell of markers, spray paint alike always calms my nerves no matter what.
1st "Piece"
It's supposed to say CFCY
this was around summer of 2008
One of the many "trains" i trained on (no pun intended) on vandalsquad.
summer 2008
Random ass shit that i thought was "good" >_>
Summer 2008
Improved Throw-Up
Summer of 2009
2 Pieces i can improve upon but am utterly happy about.
April 7th 2011
I love Graffiti.
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