What's going on everyone? My name is Sciz. Welcome to another episode of graffiti freight train
watching series. Again, there's always people asking me to make more episodes of the series;
i always promise them I will. Here's another episode for you guys! So, i'm gonna get right
into it. Just to get an idea, i'll get right into it while i tell you guys a little bit about what
this series is all about. Awesome sort of serif font there by Raise. Yeah, so this series is all
about looking at all the tags like this, all the throws, all the pieces on these freights.
It's gonna be hard to get some good views of the pieces from where i am but.
Got the seventh letter symbol there, that's strange. But yeah,
we take a look at the whole nine yards, the throws, the pieces, the tags, the monitors,
all the markal work. We do a bit of like analysis and use it to get inspired a little bit,
talk about it see what's going on in graffiti communities across the continent. So that's
what this series is really all about, and here we've got our first Mager piece.
I assume these are his crews he's writing for; BAD crew, TKO, CMK.
That's awesome. Honestly, cracks are underused in lettering. There's probably a lot of little
elements that people use in graffiti that are overused and underused, you know? Maybe that's
something we could have a little discussion on, you know, in the comments. What are some things
you put in your graffiti pieces that are like elements that you think are underused
in graffiti or overused? Once i get a little further up it'll be a little less cramped here.
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As long as they're adding something to the tag. That's another personal opinion. I
obviously don't mind people having other opinions on the matter as well. And even
if I did, who am i to say what people should and should like about graffiti.
That's one of the best things about graff, no one can tell you what is and isn't good
about it. It's supposed to be the type of thing without rules.
But, that being said, just because graffiti is supposed to have no rules, i think a lot
of newer writers, when they're starting out, get that sort of confused and they take it to mean
that you don't really have to pay attention to how you're making their letters, things like that. And
that could not be further from the truth, in terms of artistic concepts and all that kind of thing,
of course there are rules right? Like you have to be able to accept and understand how artistic
concepts work if you're gonna make a piece look good or not just pieces but tags and throws.
Tag like that, you know, just simple little things like for instance with this tag he or she has made
the B look substantial; it's large. the R, also substantial and large. Sort of sandwiches the
middle letters there. I don't know what kind of mop he did that with, but it looks awesome.
Just little things like that help promote a little bit better structure and flow in tags, throws,
pieces and it's things that may seem very simple but if you don't know them you're sort of hopeless
at making anything look good, or at least it's a lot harder. That's almost like an argument i would
say as to why the whole, "graffiti has no rules," thing is a little bit [ __ ] because there are
plenty of like artistic concepts that you do have to pay attention to. Like there's no way around
it. And those are close enough to being ruled that they might as well be rules, is i guess how
i'm saying that. But, on the other hand, to sort of play devil's advocate on my own point here,
- after i show you a couple things here. Just want to get down here to show you guys a Big Miles tag.
As i was saying though, to sort of counter my own point a little bit, i'm not
by any means saying that the phrase, "graffiti has no rules," doesn't have some truth to it. But,
i would say that the truth in that is not related to artistic concepts.
Got a nice Beast tag there. List. Alfreighto. That's a 20. New York. That's good. That's good.
Good to see some new work. But i would say that phrase like with graffiti having no rules is more
of like - this is a freight we actually already saw in another episode, so i'm not gonna stop
for it - i would say it's more related to like not letting other people tell you what
kind of stuff you can and can't do, instead of ignoring artistic concepts, if that makes sense.
Two dope Expos pieces here!
Ran out of black at some point probably.
That's okay, i love the pieces that do this and have a couple letters a different colour and that
kind of stuff. Love those Expos pieces. They're not exactly straight letters, but they're not
exactly too stylized either. I think there's a lot of value in creating work like that,
especially in a freight environment. That kind of lettering carries a lot of weight
when you think of these freights being actually seen by people.
Yeah, this specific line of hoppers is a little bit lighter on the moniker type stuff.
We got TenToe again. And although we have seen this sort of collab
whole-car, it's too good not to show again.
Awesome piece right here by Hero. Just uh absolutely phenomenal.
That's sort of one thing i would say with whole-cars; like it's great to do them and
of course it's a huge accomplishment when you get a certain number of them done or whatever, but
i think there's also something to be said for at least trying to maintain a certain level of style
within a whole car piece. Hero's piece back there is a prime example of that being done right, in my
humble opinion of course. I think it's awesome to see some style when something is that large.
Got an awesome Pyro piece here. Pyro138 I suppose. This is another thing I mention sometimes just
about lettering basics for some of the newer writers here. You can tell with this Pyro piece,
here you have the P and the mid line is like well below... that wasn't the best way to show it but
there's a mid line that's below centre on this. So the top of the R is really big, top of the P is
really big, the circular portion of the O lines up perfectly with the little dot on the R and the P
as well. This Y, they've kept the top two points of the Y taking up most of the space. It's making
sure there's equalities like that between your letters which goes a long long way towards
just making a piece look real good instead of like complete trash. Like it's something that
seems like, conceptually, a very small difference, but it makes all the difference in the world.
That's awesome; i don't think i've seen anything by whoever this is actually.
And i would also say one thing that you can actually do to specifically work
on getting better at thinking of those artistic concepts is just have one concept in mind,
whether this be like you know sketching somewhere in your your black book,
or if you have a nice little wall to paint, just have one concept in mind.
More work from Runal, alongside Slush here. I've seen enough of their stuff together
now that i think it's pretty clear they're probably into the same crew or something.
A little tag in there. But back to what i was saying, just having one concept in mind
that you want to try and take advantage of is a great way to make a piece. Afterwards,
how successful were you at keeping that concept in mind? Because it will make the biggest difference,
honestly. Like that's the difference between beginners and just sort of like
normal intermediate writers: just simple concepts like that. But this is probably
the best thing we're gonna see today. Get ready for this because it's gonna blow you away!
Gorgeous Helm whole-car. I can't even fit in the frame here.
Yeah awesome, awesome.
This to me is another like supreme example of making something huge and not forgetting
the style, not leaving the style at the door when you're out to do a big piece.
Yeah props to to Helm for this.
Yeah, colour scheme on point here. Nothing stronger than reds contrasted with some
nice blues. That's a dope Slush piece. Same thing, awesome, really loving that.
Yeah, got an awesome Kaos piece here as well and a little Versa one.
Nice. So i think the last few freights here are a little bit bare, so we're gonna call it here. If
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