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.