Nah the skull is pretty crap really. I just doodled it in a couple minutes.

It doesn't really help having a mouse which moves really badly. Drawing anything using a freehand tool with my mouse is a bit like someone with parkinsons disease trying to draw a straight line. It jerks about occasionally...

But like you said it's easier in real life, even the best drawings I've done on that thing come out looking slightly odd. That skull was just a lopsided attempt at demonstrating to Killa that it can be done, it just takes practise and skill.

Oh and I see CB has chimed in with more ammunition from her perpetual "anti-codek" campaign. When are you going to give it a rest CB?

I don't go to great hights to paint, nor do I do any jackass stunts in the process. There's graffiti everywhere where I live and the police nor my parents give a damn. I graf the only place I can, I'm not going to spend money on new wallpaper when I can go outside and spray brick walls in abandoned alley ways. I'm not saying I would scale an office building and spray paint their signs. I graf where everyone does, and the police know that if they take that away the artists will have no choice but to paint the town red (and blue, and green, and yellow, etc.).

Its not anti Codeck! You were merely the first person to mention classing themselvs as a grafitti artist... it wasn't a personal pick up!

Its a comment for all of you guys... your artwork is excellent.... but you can get into serious trouble for vandalising public property.. which is what grafitti art is seen as by the aurthorities!

It may be illegal but so is underage drinking and downloading music for free, and we are all guilty of one of those, I'm sure. Graffiti is illegal if you paint on public property, where we live there's this big building that's been empty since the 40s and it's become one, big, canvas and the authorities let it slide. Besides, once you fill up your walls where do you expect us to paint, most of us don't have big, expensive, studios that we can just stroll into.

Thanx for all the hints codek, they have helped me a bit.

Ok i'v done my first ever graf.
Promise you won't laugh:
http://img78.photobucket.com/albums/...y_Graffiti.jpg


Edit: Sorry about the double post, i did not realise.

You're getting there, but I still think you probably need time to get to grips with the whole drawing-on-a-computer-thing.

No matter how bad it looks, keep at it. You'll gradually get better and better. Trust me on that one.

This graffiti thing is actually kinda fun (and somewhat easier) with a Wacom Tablet...

I used to do the whole "graffiti" thing in real life, but I never did anything more than just a couple of mindless black scribbly tags on the back of buildings and under bridges and whatnot. I'm not quite sure what I was trying to accomplish with that. They weren't even that good.

Whatever. Teen angst, I guess.

Here is my username graffiti?
Rate it out of 10 (honestly please).

http://www.oddworldforums.net/attach...tid=2247&stc=1

I agree that vandalism is wrong.
I do enjoy graffiti art though. I just love the style...especially while looking at Codek's stuff.

-oddguy :cool:

6 out of 10, Killa. Your best work yet! :fuzgrin:

I'll rate it out of 50. Each catagory has a maximum of 10.

Overall appearance: 2/10.
Improvement over last attempt: 2/10.
Overall style: 1/10
Letter formation: 2/10
Font Face: 1/10

Total: 8/50. You've got a long way to go yet, but the improvement you made between your first attempt and this attempt is noticeable. ;)

Yeh the Dan one was a bit scruffy and messy, but i spent a bit more time on that one.

Have you visited the artcrimes website yet? If not, you should. There is some absolutely awesome work there...

http://www.artcrimes.com/

;)

Oh These images are great, i think i may base soom more artwork on these, but i don't think i'll make another one tonight.

I'll try to post mine.

Dammit Al it ain't hard! >.<

Okay, I managed to dig up a few design stencils in my 'box'. I will scan them when I feel like it and post them when the same feeling resurfaces.

I did one of the glukkon logo with the words Al the Glukkon next to it, but while trying to figure out how to attach it my internet quit.

You'll probably find it at the employment office then.

Sorry but how do I post it on here?:o

When you make a new post, scroll down till you see the button that says "Manage attatchments". Click on that, and use it to upload your pretty pictures.

Some of this stuff is great, but some of it is stuff that, if I saw it in real life, I would laugh, shake my head, and think "What kind of idiot would put that on a wall so other people could see it?"

I enjoy good graffiti, I think it's an extremely innovative and singular art form, but my belief is that painting stuff without any kind of real message or talent is just stupid. I mean, anyone who paints something like a skull on a real building is basically as bad as someone who tags a wall with nothing but some initials done in stupid squiggly letters, and maybe a swear word while they're at it, unless the skull actually represents something. If someone paints something just because it looks cool, I don't consider that art. I consider that doodling. And doodling has no place in public places, where one has no choice but to see it in all its stupidity.

There we go. That being said, I see remarkably little real graffiti art. I live in a mostly poor immigrant orchard-worker town, driven by agriculture and car dealerships. It's basically a few steps up from one of those highway towns, the ones that exist only on the highway, the ones where you say "Let's try to find a restaurant in the next town." So the only graffiti I see is when I'm driving through the ghetto to get somewhere, and I see stuff on buildings that looks like a three-year-old's attempt to spell its name. If for some reason I get to go to Seattle, which is about two hundred miles west over the Cascades, I might actually see some real art.

And one time, in Seattle, someone painted this really elaborate thing on the ground that made it look like the ground suddenly opened into a pit. It was so realistic that even though I knew it wasn't really there, my subconscious mind forced me to keep glancing at it, just to make sure. That was cool. I guess in a generous mood I could consider that art, because it was somewhat like the things Escher did, just making one look at things in different ways, fooling the more rudimentary parts of the mind. Besides, someone really put a lot of work into that. I wish I had a pic. It was the coolest thing.

Want some art?

I tend to agree with Raisin on this one. Most the works I've posted in this thread have just been oldskool styled doodlings. Nothing spectacular.

This is more the sort of thing I get up to out on the streets:

I agree with clairebear that graffiti is wrong...but most places need it to look natural.Dark allys and abandoned buildings wont be completed without the odd graffiti.Yet it is still bad if its on new things or great monuments/Special places.I live somewhere under the falkirk wheel which is the fastest boat lift in the world.The day it was opened there was vandalism on it.It has been cleaned off but we should agree that graffiti is whats best for dark allys and old buildings