Kettie Posted June 13, 2002 Share Posted June 13, 2002 What do y’all think of characters? There have been some great writers that do ‘em, but do you think characters alone are enough. Do you need a piece to go with them? Any difficulties you’ve found with them? I’ve been havin troubles carrying enough paint to get good detail on them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
misery#3 Posted June 14, 2002 Share Posted June 14, 2002 Yo Characters are all fun, i love drawing and putting them up. You could bomb characters, you could throw them with a peice, you could do them just alone, or you could do chacters as peices, the list is endless what you could do. Just becreative. And as far as carring the paint just get a bag bigenough to hold all the paint in. But either way have fun doing them. you should post some up here... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fabo 2 Posted June 14, 2002 Share Posted June 14, 2002 The thing about characters is that unless you have a truly simple character it takes a long time to paint them and it takes a long time to make a name for yourself. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tassie toy Posted June 14, 2002 Share Posted June 14, 2002 good characters are hard to paint but anyone can draw cool characters on paper. I think a sick character looks pretty dope accompanied by a piece. Anyone else notice that the public find characters heaps more appealing? when ever i'm with a non-graffer they never give a shit about peices and then they see a character an are like "damn that is some wicked graffti". Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CAPS Posted June 14, 2002 Share Posted June 14, 2002 .....no Originally posted by Fabo 2 The thing about characters is that unless you have a truly simple character it takes a long time to paint them and it takes a long time to make a name for yourself. Not totally true. I started painting chars then went to letters. If you get good at chars you can burn them just as fast as pieces. I do end to end rails with HUGE sets of eyes that take less time to do than pieces. CAPS...... "eye train hard" Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jeff123456 Posted June 14, 2002 Share Posted June 14, 2002 characters are alway good.. u dont need a piece to put them with.... lots of ppl go bombing and do just characters.. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 87centHitMan Posted June 18, 2002 Share Posted June 18, 2002 I couldn't really draw characters very well until I got really good at making all sorts of bombstyles. after a while, I realized that all I'm really doing when I draw characters is combining bombstyle and handstyle techniques and putting them together to make faces, hats, cans, all that shit. Hands were kind of tough, but I got those down after a while. Characters are fun when you know how to do them. It's a very good display of your style and skills. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Ron McDonald Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 Ahhaaaa hhaaaaaa Xray pieces from Brighton, England. Check this... (click on the little face for some characters) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JUWSE Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 i love seeing original characters. esp. bombs of characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sound Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 the best characters are probably simple ones...people recognize them, and it becomes your tademark....look at Jaber and Dalek Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
space Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 i feelin dalek's characters, also like the characters that felon does. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
urban ghost Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 I have to agree^^^^^^ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonstrahl Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 Characters are cool, and I agree that keeping it simple is good unless you have lots of time. I think that the question becomes how much artistic ability are you putting into the character? If you are going to do something that could be in a museum, then it is going to be a pain, but if you are going to throw soem shit up quick it won't look as good. Either way it is something different to see in the dull, grey landscape called city. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Fabo 2 Posted June 19, 2002 Share Posted June 19, 2002 Zombie does the best characters. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest 87centHitMan Posted June 21, 2002 Share Posted June 21, 2002 people tend to recognize a cartoon charater alot easier than a tricked-out handstyle, or piece, because it's alot harder for non-writers to read script or any kind of funky wildstyle. I think people have a greater appreciation for characters, too. There's this one wall in my town that just got buffed, and there was this sweet-ass little monkey character in one the wall, and the dude that painted it buffed all the hands and bombs, but not the monkey. It was cool as hell. He actually kept it on the wall and paid careful attention not to go over it! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
moonstrahl Posted June 21, 2002 Share Posted June 21, 2002 Sweet monkey!! I think that characters get a little more art oriented respect, and I have heard, though I am not sure how true it is that if you bring characters to a legal, and show them off, they are more likely to give permission... Any thoughts on that? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Dyptheria Posted June 22, 2002 Share Posted June 22, 2002 Originally posted by crisis the best characters are probably simple ones...people recognize them, and it becomes your tademark....look at Jaber and Dalek hmmm....Mode2, Skrybe, Katch, etc... all do characters that aren't very simple, and i can spot their style in one quick glance Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sound Posted June 22, 2002 Share Posted June 22, 2002 yeee-ap Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OsCaR306 Posted June 22, 2002 Share Posted June 22, 2002 i like that guy that jaber always makes. and daleks characters are just dope. word Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
fizm Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 quick observation... when people do animals, has anyone noticed that they're very rarely predatory animals... since graffiti writers must feel so preyed upon...or whatever... i'm bored, shut up. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sm021 Posted November 15, 2002 Share Posted November 15, 2002 characters tend to take long for me just because of the detail and colors! But i think they look sick rlling by on a frieght. You ca also identify easier with a particular character whith a specific writer. like a trademark.... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dahighlifdhl Posted November 16, 2002 Share Posted November 16, 2002 characters are cool Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
trickone Posted November 16, 2002 Share Posted November 16, 2002 I love characters, too bad i can't paint them very well yet i guess it just takes time Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TOR Posted November 16, 2002 Share Posted November 16, 2002 i like seeing characters up in the streets...i cant do em though Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ALTER EGO Posted November 17, 2002 Share Posted November 17, 2002 Characters' are fun to paint......they are easy....and fast to put up..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
melty Posted November 17, 2002 Share Posted November 17, 2002 does any one like the horses? I dont know who does them. how about bigfoot? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SHAKEWELL Posted November 19, 2002 Share Posted November 19, 2002 hey do you guys remember urkel from that tv show boy he sure was a character wasnt he Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hardballz Posted November 22, 2002 Share Posted November 22, 2002 ya'll know what they all say.. . "a picture worth a thousand words" that would mean that a sick looking character would worth couple hundreds of tags or pieces.. but only if it's nicely done(the character that is) all you writers out there that are tempting to put up characters better sketch and sketch some more on yours because a gay looking tag is so much less annoying looking than a gay looking character. whatchu writing for???:mad: Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
swiss cheese Posted November 22, 2002 Share Posted November 22, 2002 i like bigfoot. That's pretty original shit. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drapes13 Posted November 23, 2002 Share Posted November 23, 2002 me and my crew do characters on stickers and with all our pieces. they just add to it if you do a good one. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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