Graffiti Style for Improved Art

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Hello everyone. This video is all about doing art exercises using some of the fundamentals from graffiti style art. It seemed like a fun experiment, and I had a good time with it. I hope you enjoy!

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@miguelnogueira2719 7 жыл бұрын

Ex-graffiter turned concept artist here. This video is beyond legit

@sinixdesign 7 жыл бұрын

Cheers, friend. I appreciate it.

@lucassoares4084 4 жыл бұрын

Is good to see Portuguese people in these industries! I am on my way, still bettering my craft

@klausineliebtpeter 11 ай бұрын

@@sinixdesign sinix, can you explain what you mean by making sure that one letter doesnt "cross through the angle" of a previous one? i dont really get it.

@Jen-wo7pd 7 жыл бұрын

你好! (For those who are wondering, it means hello/greetings) It's awesome that you wrote Chinese (I was so sure you were going for Japanese at first). Fun fact: I live in Taiwan and normally graffiti is still done in English here, because Chinese has its own direction for each stroke etc etc and thus distorting the strokes in perspective makes it not aesthetically pleasing. I jumped back to this video because you mentioned it in your interview with Sycra. I really appreciate all of you guys who are putting out these incredibly informative videos that together give me a comprehensive Art education. Don't know if you will see this, but thank you Sinix!

@cnash5647 5 жыл бұрын

I thought it was japanese YA in katakana for a second.

@Color-Theory 2 жыл бұрын

Distorting the characters doesn't make them aesthetically unappealing as much as it goes against strongly held beliefs about what is "correct."

@patrick1020000 10 жыл бұрын

If you're interested in the real terminology, the "SNX" at the beginning and "Bloodshed" were the only tags. The bubble letters and simple 3D stuff are throw-ups, or "throwies." Any really intricate, specially designed graffiti works are called pieces. There were no pieces in this video, and if you look at people's black books here on youtube, you'll get an idea of what it takes to create a piece.

@sinixdesign 10 жыл бұрын

I'm always interested in learning new things. Thanks for the info!

@TK-bg8jg 8 жыл бұрын

+Patrick any suggestions for specific people to look at?

@bumblebee1884 6 жыл бұрын

I love looking at all the graffiti when I'm traveling. It is so cool looking at all the stories behind the art. A lot of people look down in it because if the language, but it honestly adds so much to it. There is a tunnel by my grandmother's house that has so much graffiti in it. I have seen "love is love", "creativity is dead", "world peace" and a boy with headphones and a tear running down his face. It isn't very complex, like you can tell that they did it in a rush, but their is so much story. I would love to travel and document graffiti and put it on a tumblr blog or in a book.

@-AtomsPhere- 3 жыл бұрын

You would LOVE São Paulo brazil

@GIRA9K 10 жыл бұрын

To improve your graffiti lettering, you should try to do basic letters and the deform them, avoid adding lots of arrows and things, stay simple. Plus, graffiti have strong roots in graphic design, color, balance, center of gravity, negative spaces, all this things are important. you can add as well line of action in letters or general motion of the piece. And don't forget that tags are simplified versions of graffiti, they will help you a lot do do better pieces, it's kinda like gesture for figure drawing. There is also a way to see letters, calligraphers have the same.

@xXxTi4M4TxXx 10 жыл бұрын

You are tremendously right. Some friends of mine are graffiti artists but they never really studied anything about drawing. The fact that they exercised themselves into graffiti has improved their perception of the shapes and perspective to a level where they can draw at a significantly good level. (I'm sorry if my english isn't really good)

@ahoynateo 10 жыл бұрын

i actually learned quite a bit in this video XD , good job

@Theartistblock 4 жыл бұрын

lol as a graffiti / fin artists this is gold. It's really cool to see you do some graffiti. Graffiti overlays and shares so much with other artforms it's crazy lol

@topher5017 5 жыл бұрын

I love that you grab inspiration from "odd" sources like graffiti and modern art!

@Brojo-Jojo 10 жыл бұрын

Sinix, I gotta say, this video helped me so much, It's the first time I ever was able to grasp the idea of tangents, and it really helped me with my lineweight. Thank you for putting this up.

@plixik 10 жыл бұрын

I love that you made this. I've been practicing graffiti for a while now and it helps with fundamentals so much.

@chadgotgreedy9028 6 жыл бұрын

This dude is the best, thanks for always reminding me how much I love drawing and thanks for nudging me out of frame construct style with this one it does feel really limited and can be a handicap to certain types of people I guess

@extrememonaXXX 10 жыл бұрын

Honestly man this is great. I remembered doing stuff like this as a kid - on the back of textbooks and whatnot - and at some point I stopped. I really appreciate this video.

@Powerphail 5 жыл бұрын

Oh man, I think your videos have helped me more than any other on youtube. For some reason the way you approach things just really clicks with me. Thanks Sinix!

@joaovitora.pelegrini2000 4 жыл бұрын

Your channel is one of the most complete ones, i love it

@axtmann 10 жыл бұрын

I always learn something interesting from your videos. Great variety and useful commentary. Thanks Sinix!

@tiocoolj 10 жыл бұрын

awesome! I love that you're back, your videos are great!

@BlimpMcGee 10 жыл бұрын

This was such an innovative approach at common illustration criteria, thanks a lot for sharing

@mngapro 10 жыл бұрын

Learned a lot from this and will be happy to add it to my list of warm-ups thanks again sinix!

@GabrielDiGirolamo 10 жыл бұрын

I love how you comunicate the information and the basic. Your videos are very informative and enjoyable. Keep them comming~ hugs.

@heavytransit 10 жыл бұрын

i actually learned perspective with graffiti (: now its one of my biggest strenghts.

@IrwinPeraltaArt 3 жыл бұрын

Great, now I'm going to have to do master studies of Graffiti art too.

@LalitaBanana 10 жыл бұрын

You are amazing 0.0 Thanks for the video!!

@zaj007 Жыл бұрын

this video really put me in my place. I got a lot to learn

@zoraxbrooks 10 жыл бұрын

Merry Christmas Sinix, and a happy new year

@carolchang-pennington5587 6 жыл бұрын

Hi Sinix, Being watching your tutorials for a while. Thanks a big bunch! First time saw this one. At 14:25, I stopped to type "你好“ (You good= How are you....). Will continue to see if I'm right. :)

@AlterSpectrum 10 жыл бұрын

Great, informative video! Many thanks :)

@SocialMedia-jq3vb 7 ай бұрын

This really comes in handy, thank youu

@vingouscii_ 10 жыл бұрын

Very good!

@TC-yw7ni 4 жыл бұрын

The wrist was so coooooooooollll 🤩🤩🤩🤩

@zoraxbrooks 10 жыл бұрын

i think part of the reason tangents are "bad" is because they're avoided so much throughout most all composition, but maybe if tangents where used a recurring element in a drawing, the they could look fine, it would probobly be easyest to pull off in a line/contour drawing, or something in the style of a zentangle. ... you said it flattens a piece, perhaps if you gave two objects that are supposed to be in the same plane a parrallel tagent, then it might reinforce where they are in the scene, as long as it didnt detract from the rest/look out of place.

@djsauchan5727 10 жыл бұрын

Tangents are bad only because its make its confusing which of the objects are in front.

@djsauchan5727 9 жыл бұрын

You can pretty much say that for any art principle though. You can't willy nilly say that because every art principle could follow this rule. However if you notice the exercise the reason you try your best to avoid them is because you want to improve your work. Most of the people here I know want to create like fantasy illustrations, game art, concept art, and so on. So most of these illustrations require a good knowledge of the rules but breaking the rules smartly. You have to create a sense depth and so some of these rules have to apply. Tangents are part of this because it constitutes depth and overlapping. Overlapping is part of what makes your pictures in perspective and what is in front to increase depth. Read more about tangents. emptyeasel.com/2008/11/18/avoiding-tangents-9-visual-blunders-every-artist-should-watch-out-for/

@williamroberts364 6 жыл бұрын

eres un capo compare!

@theQiwiMan 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for uploading this Sinix, you RULE! So wait, what does it say in Chinese?

@Life_of_TUSH 7 жыл бұрын

Love ❤️

@Jotil 10 жыл бұрын

even as a graffer i learned quite a bit o-o

@ksenolog 10 жыл бұрын

Yay! My "mecha" word is in the video!

@xgames29 10 жыл бұрын

Good video, but i think you missed style as a category. Becasue in europe every good writer has his own style. I think style is what really matters. Style is a group of rules, elements, details, turnings in your letter. With these rules you can draw every letter, nut just your name. But good video btw

@TheVirileO 10 жыл бұрын

late upload sinix. thanks! i was sitting here and didn't know what to practice.

@heavytransit 10 жыл бұрын

great video i laughed so much when i saw that wash me sign on the van, but that seems kind of weird now, since its supposed to be in china. Damn Tourists !!

@KreativeKill 7 жыл бұрын

thing at the end was dopes

@zyy321dory 10 жыл бұрын

Nice job on the chinese! Totally readable.

@Life_of_TUSH 7 жыл бұрын

Thank you

@AnnaGlin 8 жыл бұрын

isn't that Frank's RV from Life is Strange there at the end? love that game!

@vranhurst632 7 жыл бұрын

its a terrible game

@gone41214 4 жыл бұрын

@@vranhurst632 truth

@VoidloniXaarii 10 жыл бұрын

this one was totally unexpected but still an interesting one. I often walked past some grafitis admiring their techniques and perspectives as well as their graphicness. PS: wnated to leave a comment on facebook but couldn't find this post on your profile :P PS2: what's it say in chinese!??! :D

@elijahmayorov596 10 жыл бұрын

amazing! =)

@devilichus 2 жыл бұрын

I love this channel man great work. But listening you from earphones is hard can you EQ high frequencies of your voice ? It has crispy edges becomes hard when listening with earphones (You can make a better post production to your voice recording)

@DuartChannel 6 жыл бұрын

What brush is this? I'm going crazy to try to get the same effect.

@ahoynateo 10 жыл бұрын

shittt yahhhh!!

@thecriminal87 10 жыл бұрын

thx snx

@cnash5647 5 жыл бұрын

Looks like 你好 to me...

@Moniranan 10 жыл бұрын

Hey Sinix, great channel, but why you don't have anything about texture? Thank you

@DigitalFruitz 10 жыл бұрын

12:00 this is why there is no "E" in sinix. 14:06 it says "thumb this comment up". trust me, im a profesional chineneser

@cannella2494 7 жыл бұрын

Leo Indahouse yeah nice try.

@JasonLinShengChieh 10 жыл бұрын

YES I CAN READ IT! Nice one :D I actually recognised it before you said it was chinese.

@BKSyLuxBlacKnight_SyLux 10 жыл бұрын

Well post it! No one has got it yet!

@JasonLinShengChieh 10 жыл бұрын

"你好"

@BKSyLuxBlacKnight_SyLux 10 жыл бұрын

***** Hello?

@ManBro25 6 жыл бұрын

How do I colour without overpassing the line art ? I always had problems with... jeez

@nikolaibecker9009 9 жыл бұрын

I actually started out from graffiti..

@gabrielbuitrago7144 10 жыл бұрын

hahah cool study

@f24816 4 жыл бұрын

I love you.

@antoniaquesen 10 жыл бұрын

WHY DID YOU STOP MAKING VIDEOS AGAIN ;((((((

@victorpaz6808 10 жыл бұрын

Does anyone know his twitter so i can fallow him? By the way cool video big fan :)

@juliusk3564 Жыл бұрын

HI MR SINIX!! :D

@bobveltman 6 жыл бұрын

one thing I don't agree with: graffiti actually LIVES from not necessary complications! otherwise everybody would write in comic sans, or times new roman.

@arghyadas6331 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing the video. I was wondering what do you do for living? & what is your real name? Please keep posting videos as you did before.

@DigitalFruitz 10 жыл бұрын

his real name is roberto stacy-crazy not kidding. look it up.

@arghyadas6331 10 жыл бұрын

As far as I can see his name is Rob Stacy. Seems he had a website too. Thanks for the reply.

@sinixdesign 10 жыл бұрын

Arghya Das Usually just Robert now. I had that website years ago, but artist websites really became irrelevant once social media starting taking over. I don't do anything notable for a living now, but I have dabbled in a bit of everything as it comes to art related jobs. I'm happier doing my own thing in the end.

@ichTraylo 10 жыл бұрын

well youre definetly a toy but youd make for an awesome writer what you did were pieces. a tag is the basic fundamentals of every graffiti...its your identity, your signature a throw up is an enlarged tag and a very simplified piece...mostly its simple bubble letters in one color with a simple black outline you definetly have potential but you often times broke the letters by adding unnecessary things n stuff but thats irrelevant because you said yourself that youre a toy so good job

@sinixdesign 10 жыл бұрын

Thanks for sharing some knowledge on the subject.

@MikeJones-mj6qp 3 жыл бұрын

Like any other art u need reference

@AverusMuto 10 жыл бұрын

what about landscapes :P

@acelynlxt9602 3 жыл бұрын

I COULD RECOGNISE 你好 and thought it was a coincidence

@izuix5629 5 жыл бұрын

21:14 *Discord Server

@stunami0 10 жыл бұрын

nice video, ive been drawing since the womb and doing graff for 5 years and everything from characters to landscapes bounce off the same fundamentals graffiti has, except its more abstract. if youd like to get better at letters, simply study other peoples work and adapt it, also calligraphy is very closely related. check out heavyartillerys.com/ they are one of my favorite crews, have a nice day everyone :)

@sinixdesign 10 жыл бұрын

Cool link. Thanks.

@stunami0 10 жыл бұрын

no problem!

@ayacyte443 6 жыл бұрын

I take Chinese but our class sucks. I have no idea what that says. I might not know the word. Edit: someone commented the term. I know I saw the 好 but idk about the 你。。。 like I actually can't see it ;u; OHHH I SEE IT NOW ok