Every expert writer was a toy once, and making graffiti mistakes is part of the learning curve. However, some mistakes are so common and dangerous, whether that's getting in trouble with the law or losing respect in the graffiti community. Avoiding these toy traps in graffiti is crucial for your growth and safety. If you're looking for beginner graffiti tips or graffiti safety advice, start by learning what not to do. In this article, we'll highlight five big mistakes new graffiti writers often make, and how to avoid them. By staying clear of these traps, you'll improve your skills faster, stay safer, and earn respect as you move from toy status to seasoned writer.

Graffiti tagging is the most basic form of graffiti writing; it’s your personalized signature scrawled with a marker or spray can. Tags are considered the foundation of graffiti culture. This tutorial covers graffiti for beginners, explaining letter structure, negative space, line weight/nib control, and flow. You’ll learn how to build a proper handstyle from scratch, one that’s clean, readable, and built on strong graffiti fundamentals. By mastering the basics first, you’ll set yourself up to develop your own style with real structure behind it.

In graffiti culture, getting up means taking your tag or piece to the streets or any public space. It’s all about making your name visible and gaining respect from the act of risking your life and freedom to get your name in more spots. It’s not about a single artwork on paper; it’s about presence. In short, it’s fame-building through taking risks: graffiti is one of the few art forms where fame comes from getting your moniker up on walls, billboards, rooftops, anywhere people can see it.

Getting up isn’t a legal gig, it’s risky and illegal. Simply drawing in a sketchbook or uploading art online usually doesn’t count as “getting up,” but some new artists seem to disagree. Newer artists believe that posting YouTube video about graffiti equates to getting up, and some think posting your black book, or i pad sketches on social media is getting up.

Today we take a look at a list bombingscience put together of their top 40 best tags. I thought it would be fun to share my top ten off of that list in hopes to share some cool graffiti that can inspire. We have some of the best writers on this list so you’ll want to check out the full list.

If you're just starting out in graffiti then follow our graffiti hand style tutorial. We're going to explain each of graffiti's fundamentals so you can understand how they work. Over time, as you practice graffiti's basics you'll find style begins to come naturally, and you can go from mature toy tags to more refined tags.

Getting into graffiti can be exciting, intimidating, and even a little confusing. There’s so much to learn, from letter structure to graffiti culture, that it’s easy to make mistakes early on. After years of experience, here are five graffiti tips I wish I knew when I first started painting. Whether you’re a beginner just picking up a marker or an artist trying to improve your pieces, these lessons will save you time, frustration, and a lot of bad habits.

Extensions can take your graffiti from basic to advanced, but only if you know how to use them properly. Done right, extensions can add flow, depth, and personality to your graffiti tags, throwies, and pieces. Done wrong, they can throw off your entire design and ruin the fundamentals of your letters. In this graffiti tutorial, we’ll break down everything you need to know about extensions: what they are, how they work, the anatomy of extensions, and how to apply them in your own graffiti.

Whether you’re just learning how to do graffiti or you’re already experimenting with wildstyle, these graffiti tips and tricks will help you level up your work.

When people think of graffiti, they often picture bustling cities filled with tags, throwies, and wildstyle pieces covering walls, trains, and rooftops. But what happens if you live in a small town with no visible graffiti scene? Do you just give up on learning graffiti? The truth is, graffiti finds its way into every corner of the world, even in places you’d never expect. On a recent trip to the Poconos, I set out to explore what graffiti looks like in smaller towns, and what I found proves that graffiti is everywhere, no matter how remote.

When most new graffiti artists get started, they dream of painting big, bold throwies or wild, intricate pieces. But here’s the hard truth: skipping the basics almost guarantees failure. If you want to master graffiti, you can’t skip learning tags. Handstyles are the foundation of graffiti art, and without them, everything else, throwies, pieces, even wildstyles, will fall apart. In this post, we’ll break down why learning tags is so important, what skills they teach, and why ignoring them can hold back your growth as a writer.