The graffiti community bands together as they “get up” on the iconic unfinished towers located in Los Angeles Oceanwide Plaza. The Oceanwide Plaza, a mixed-use development featuring residential, retail, and hotel spaces, has been a focal point of downtown Los Angeles' revitalization efforts

In graffiti, our goal is to balance the name, as this will also ensure flow, another one of graffiti’s fundamentals. I want to take some time to give you guys 3 tips you can try in your graffiti to improve letter name weight.

Variant structures will play a huge role in your graffiti tags, throwies and pieces. What’s amazing about variant structures is that they take on new shapes, and as a result, this changes not only their structures, but it also changes their weight, and every other fundamental along with it.

Variant structures will play a huge role in your graffiti tags, throwies and pieces. What’s amazing about variant structures is that they take on new shapes, and as a result, this changes not only their structures, but it also changes their weight, and every other fundamental along with it.

Handstyles are the foundation of all graffiti and for this reason, tags are the most important form of graffiti to learn. How you learn, and practice tags will determine how much you progress, how you understand, and how good you become in all other forms of graffiti.

Street art and graffiti have been compared for years, and some wondered “what’s the difference between them? That’s the question we aim to answer today, we’re going to explain the exact difference between street art and graffiti. To begin, we must first understand how art forms are made, and categorized.

We’ve made a tutorial that will walk you through how to shade graffiti letters and how to color them as well. Learning something like reflective light will help make your graffiti look more realistic and help it pop off of walls with ease!

Why do you do graffiti, and better yet, should you?

Want to know how to improve your graffiti hand styles, thats going to be what we do here today! Over on instagram I had you guys shoot your work my way for a bit of a rating / critique. While the ratings are a bit of a fun, the critiques are where the meat of the information is. I want to look at a tag from one of the featured works in here and give a few additional tips so everyone can learn just a little more about letters.

Graffiti is an amazing art form and no matter if you catch tags outside or if you enjoy graffiti on permission walls and in the books. Now while it's true, the whole purpose of graffiti might be to "get up" and get your tag name seen, this doesn’t necessarily apply to people who enjoy permission walls or do graffiti as more of a pass time.

Graffiti spans the whole world, with countless people who enjoy the art form and with that comes just as many opinions and views on certain topics that might differ from the average writer.

In graffiti there are many unspoken rules that we in the community follow. One of the most important of those rules is the hierarchy of graffiti, a figurative “pecking order” for work done on walls. If you were to paint something like a tag on-top of the wrong graffiti then you might have just unintentionally (or intentionally) disrespected another writer. So what is this hierarchy?

Overlapping your 3D on top of your letters is considered advanced in graffiti due to how rare it is to see, and how commonly people make mistakes with this technique.

Graffiti is an art form that enthralls many, but even the most passionate artists can find themselves in a creative rut with their tag name. In this blog post, we'll explore three innovative approaches to help graffiti artists inject new life into their work.

Graffiti is more than just art; it's a community of camaraderie and mutual respect among artists. Whether at a wall, an event, or through a traveling black book, sharing your work by “hitting one another’s book is a great way to connect with fellow artists. In this blog, we'll dive into the pages of the 1985 digital black book.

New Graffiti artists often struggle with hand styles, whether its with letter structure, style, flow, or some other fundamental. Well in this article I’ll point out 3 things you should look out for as a new graffiti artist. One of the most common mistakes new graffiti artists make is overcomplicating letters. In their eagerness to create unique styles, they may distort letters beyond recognition.

Download our free 1985 digital black book and share your art with the world! Normally traveling sketchbooks are physical books that get mailed from one person to the next, with each one sharing their work in it’s pages, but this ones a bit different!

These three tips for creating a graffiti tag will let you add a little style, while still keeping the fundamentals in check. Keep in mind, you’ll still want to study your basics with zero style, but that will be something you do independently from what we’re talking about here.

When doing graffiti you're inevitably going to have your work buffed (erased) and this video will talk about why thats actually a good thing for new graffiti artists, as well as how more experienced graffiti artists avoid getting buffed.

Embarking on your journey into the vibrant world of graffiti? Whether you're captivated by the allure of street art or seeking to create your own graffiti tag, these valuable insights will shape your path to success. In an era where information flows freely, let's uncover the tips I wish I had known when I first began my graffiti journey.