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I am honestly in awe of how many people in this fandom can draw, and draw amazingly well. Some of you are out here posting "practice" sketches that are already so good, and meanwhile I have barely conquered shading, sort of, to make the pictures look a little less flat in my coloring books.

#i know people say art is like a learning process #like anything else #but i genuinely believe that you either start off with some raw natural ability that you then develop through #learning and practice #or you have no ability whatsoever and you can practice forever and still barely graduate past stick figures #i am personally in the latter category #my older brother got all of the artistic talent *and* ability and there was none left for me #which was actually bullshit now that i think about it bc he could fucking write too #oh well #the charlotte lennox diaries

Chacola's Graffiti Adventure #1

The starting line

I have been in love with the feeling and look of graffiti for a few years now, always looking at it from a distance, reading books about its history and technique, trying to design things but never really going too far into it. It all just seemed so big- The most I could do was implement some of the feeling into logo design or general composition:

Many games and movies have come out since that have further cemented my love for the art form but it wasnt until a few days ago when we needed a sign board for the art booth that I actually bought spray paint.

I drew out many times what exactly I wanted to write, the word: AXIOMUSE (a combination of the word axiom- meaning "assumed truth" and muse) which is a bit tricky of a word

I have quickly learned that maybe an airbrush wouldve been better for the scale I was working with

Spraypaint is really good at doing gradients even when there's only one color involved

I ended up cutting and relining with my paintbrush but I'm really proud with how it turned out!!

I also know I need a LOT of practice so I plan to go walk around downtown and take pictures of really inspiring work and tags I see around. In regards to tags I had been watching many a video of how to look at graffiti as a font art in addition to the flow of the shapes and colors. My own normal handwriting is a little like a casual cursive so I decided maybe to lean into that a bit when deciding how this writing was going to work:

Like making a new signature :D I think I've settled on a good flow so I plan on saving a few, looking at them a day later to see if I also like the whole form - separate from the legibility

#my art #graffiti #chacola's graffiti adventure #learning and practice #ebetto