Writers love to push limits and today one writer goes ahead and tags whiteboard. We’re going to check out plenty of other writers as well, everything from writers tagging freight trains, abandoned areas, and day time spot. Each of these spots comes with their own risks and challenges to overcome and these graffiti artists shared their experiences here in this article.

Over the years graffiti just about every aspect of graffiti has changed. Everything from the surfaces we paint, how we paint, what we paint, and even the paint itself has changed, but one aspect has always been constant, and that’s the desire to “Get Up”. Today we’re going to ask the question of whether or not graffiti artists have gotten soft over the years. Is the new generation too afraid to really get up?

Graffiti at its core is all about “getting up”, getting your name out in the public view for all to see. It’s about fame, reputation, and notoriety, and we do this by putting our names on walls. Most graffiti artists paint under the. cover of night. However, some paint during the day because they simply don’t care, love the rush, and are willing to take the risk to get their name up. In our new video, "Doing Graffiti Throwies During The Day” , we highlight many of these graffiti artists that are within our own community.

Wild styles are the most stylistic version of graffiti pieces, and the key here is that wild styles have no limit to how technical they can be. For this reason, wild styles come in a wide range of technicality, but one thing remains consistent. To be classified as a wild style, the graffiti needs to reach a minimum of style added to it that exceeds that of normal pieces.

Throwies are an essential part of graffiti and they’re largely used to get your name up in a big yet simple way. Today, our new video on YouTube, "5 Types of Graffiti Throwies” , goes over a few while sharing some pros and cons of each. Here, I want to summarize and explain some of those pros and cons for you guys.

Graffiti puts a large focus on style so its no surprise that there’s plenty of different ways to tag a single name. Today, we’re taking a look at 5 different types of tags, and if you’re new to graffiti then play around with each one and see which one you find most fun!

The whole idea behind flow is to unify our letters and to bring a sense of cohesion to our name. Luckily for us, all base structures flow automatically without us needing to do anything. Since our name flows on it’s own, that means that we have to work to maintain our flow, rather than work to achieve flow.

If we had to sum up this technique, we can say, that the positioning of your letters will come together to make the positioning of the overall word.

I’d like to talk about is the likelihood of people becoming legends from this spot. See, part of getting fame in graffiti is hitting unique, difficult spots, or not going above and beyond the limits of other writers in the area. Seen had already been a legend since the NY Days, however, when he hit the Hollywood sign, he gained even more fame.

Follow graffiti artists of the DWK crew into the graffiti towers as they sneak and paint the famous graffiti towers. At this point, the graffiti high-rise in LA has become the spot to hit, and might just be the most famous spot currently.

As the Graffiti Towers in LA gained popularity, more and more writers horde the building to find a spot to paint. Graffiti artists from all around the world have been traveling to the towers and so far only a small handful of people have been caught.

The graffiti community bands together as they “get up” on the iconic unfinished towers located in Los Angeles Oceanwide Plaza. The Oceanwide Plaza, a mixed-use development featuring residential, retail, and hotel spaces, has been a focal point of downtown Los Angeles' revitalization efforts

In graffiti, our goal is to balance the name, as this will also ensure flow, another one of graffiti’s fundamentals. I want to take some time to give you guys 3 tips you can try in your graffiti to improve letter name weight.

Variant structures will play a huge role in your graffiti tags, throwies and pieces. What’s amazing about variant structures is that they take on new shapes, and as a result, this changes not only their structures, but it also changes their weight, and every other fundamental along with it.

Variant structures will play a huge role in your graffiti tags, throwies and pieces. What’s amazing about variant structures is that they take on new shapes, and as a result, this changes not only their structures, but it also changes their weight, and every other fundamental along with it.

Handstyles are the foundation of all graffiti and for this reason, tags are the most important form of graffiti to learn. How you learn, and practice tags will determine how much you progress, how you understand, and how good you become in all other forms of graffiti.

Street art and graffiti have been compared for years, and some wondered “what’s the difference between them? That’s the question we aim to answer today, we’re going to explain the exact difference between street art and graffiti. To begin, we must first understand how art forms are made, and categorized.

We’ve made a tutorial that will walk you through how to shade graffiti letters and how to color them as well. Learning something like reflective light will help make your graffiti look more realistic and help it pop off of walls with ease!

Why do you do graffiti, and better yet, should you?

Want to know how to improve your graffiti hand styles, thats going to be what we do here today! Over on instagram I had you guys shoot your work my way for a bit of a rating / critique. While the ratings are a bit of a fun, the critiques are where the meat of the information is. I want to look at a tag from one of the featured works in here and give a few additional tips so everyone can learn just a little more about letters.