What is up youtube Sciz1 here, welcome to a video that's a little bit different
than my usual content where i'm going to be explaining a few of the techniques
i use specifically to work on my can control
and improve my graffiti technique. Now i'm not by any means
trying to say that i'm the world's best or a top class graffiti artist
by any means but i have been doing this for about a decade
and over that time i've improved through a lot of practice
and development of a good base knowledge of can control technique, and artistic
concepts. So i hope i can answer some of the questions that i get asked a lot by
people on the channel here looking for some graffiti advice! Let's get
into it! The first thing i want to be very clear about is that this is a scrap
can piece to use up some old cans of all different brands.
i'm painting the letter s so you won't see any technical shading
in this piece because of that. Secondly, i'm working on a piece of polytarpoline
for a reason - polytarp is one of the most repellent
surfaces of liquids in general, so if you can make a piece on here not
drip and actually look good, especially with
say chrome paint, you will have some super clean pieces when you take it to
the real walls for sure. So it's a great method of practice to
improve. Right now i'm doing the initial design
lines aka the first lines as you may have heard them called
and i am working from the sketch on screen just so you know.
Most important thing with this step is to pay attention
to proportions just like you did when making the sketch, if you're using one
that is. Feel free to put marking lines in places
at the start of the piece so that you know
where you want parts of the letters to start and end.
Also just a pro tip with Sciz here; for any of the newer writers out there
use a skinny cap for this part. You will save some of your paint for sure.
Also feel free to use another colour to erase, ideally one that's close to the
background colour but again this is a scrap can piece. So you can use that
colour to erase or even to emphasize certain
things in the structure of the piece that you will want to stand out later
and you don't want to forget about. The fill in here was a little bit tricky
with the chrome on this surface specifically and of course
running out of these colours means no cutbacks after the outline
sadly. Normally of course i would be doing some cutbacks on
something like this. For me i put a bit less focus on how i fill in smaller
areas and try to pay more attention to spraying within the inner dimensions of
the piece. For large spaces i use the standard
back and forth spray pattern of course. Blending with these colours
on a not completely flat surface obviously isn't ideal
but I managed. Of course in the fill-in i'm trying to pay attention to balance.
i'm trying to balance this all-be-it strange colour scheme so that it at least
carries equal weight, even if the colours don't contrast particularly well
due to the scrap canidness of them i can say.
Skipping ahead a little bit here to the outline, i'm using a standard
universal outliner cap for my outlines. For my outlines i actually sort of think
of it the same way as outlining a sketch with a marker. I try to make
sure each line is one singular, continuous stroke
instead of doing those choppy lines that really bring down the cleanliness
of the piece. It's important to remember here that if your lines are a bit off
you still do have the 3d and the background and the highlights
cover and reproportion the piece a bit without losing any of that cleanliness.
For the 3d even on walls i add a perspective dot to help with direction
and you can actually see that I actually reference it physically with my
hand and arm before making a directional 3d line towards
the perspective dot to sort of help me know where it is. I actually do the whole
3d fill in with the skinny cap usually just to give it a bit of
extra form and emphasize the lines and directional
flow of the piece.
So again no cutbacks on this piece since it is a scrap can piece. I know this was
very brief in the explanations. This is sort of an example
of the type of stuff i'm looking to produce more on my patreon.
If anyone is interested in that feel free to check it out, first link in the
description and let me know if this is a type of graffiti video you want me to
continue on my channel here.
You can really see how much my can control specifically has improved if you
take a look at an older painting video on screen now (in the cards)
just by practicing on a surface like this which forces you to be
really vigilant with the spray can. Say hi in the comments!
Peace!