Learn to draw graffiti

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- The word «graffiti» has its origins in the Greek word graphein, which means to write and comes from the Italian «graffiare» (to scribble), it is generally used to describe many different types of wall writing.

- The history of graffiti characteristic of the New York subway, begins in the late sixties, when a young man from Washington named Demetrius who worked as a messenger in New York, began to write his nickname, Taki, and his house number , 183, on the walls and canopies of buses throughout Manhattan, as he made his deliveries.

- Graffiti as urban art: Art is the activity or product in which the human being expresses ideas, emotions through various resources and materials.

- Art has to be on the street, at any level and in view of everyone. The street needs to express itself at all times and it does so, although not always in the right direction. Some graffiti made on walls, bridges or facades that are authentic works of art and that express ideas, emotions and a particular vision of the world, are not always displayed in the appropriate places: Some buildings and facades could also be considered works of art in themselves : Its architects are also artists. Nor would it be appropriate for graffiti to cover entire windows of Metro wagons or to be exposed on traffic signs or informational signs (endangering road safety). Art should not 'make life difficult for us, but rather awaken our emotions.

- Materials: sprays or so-called aerosols are generally used, plus markers, candles, chalk and even acid are used.

- The best known sprays are montana. But without a doubt, the quintessential graffiti technique is the aerosol, the spray. The reasons are its conventionality, its abundant colors already mixed, its relative cleanliness, its easy use ...

- Homemade markers have given way to more sophisticated ones. Apart from ink markers there are tempera markers.

- Types of graffiti: it is divided into different types called, tags, wild style, throw ups, bubbles, dirty, etc. Each type is divided into a number of different styles.

- Tags: This term refers to the lowest element on this scale of complexity due to its relative simplicity and the limited time used in its execution.

- Throw ups: The term Throw-up, vomited or squid, as its name suggests, refers to a sloppy version in principle of the letter pomp. They are letters with little design, since their purpose was quantity and not quality.

- Dirty: A more recent style based on the transgression of the formal and aesthetic elements of graffiti.

- Bubbles: These types of letters are mainly based on the basic design of Super Kool with the difference that they are thicker and rounded letters.

- Fantastic phasemagotical: pomp letters surrounded by stars.

- Cloudy pomp: pomp letters wrapped in a cloud-like shape.

- Chess board: shaded pomp letters.

- Giant pomp: Disproportionately larger pomp letters at the top.

- The exquisite jet: twisted and striped pomp letters.

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