This is post number one for me, and I just have to say that I think it is CLUTCH to put effort into learning about perspective and shading in the sense of creating on paper/walls/your mom the representation of an actual physical object. Also look into graphic design and composition. That's basically what you're all talking about here. Painting didn't start with cans on walls, and besides letter form and styles to evolve from you want to be an ARTIST, who sees SHAPES. Otherwise you'll always bite styles, cause that's all you know. Learn color theory and complementary schemes analogous schemes, kicker colors etc (aka find a color wheel and use it to teach you colors that go together and make eachother POP). I know it sounds stupid to a lot of people to say that, but a lot of beginners just pull from graff. It's an ART and ART principles obviously apply. DON'T MISTAKE THAT. You'll learn to be more creative and have more to pull from than learning it slowly by copying "insert name here's" colors and three tone shading.
that's all I got.
