It’ll have 2+ colors, and usually involve filled-in block/bubble letters. Note that this doesn’t mean it doesn’t happen - in fact, it happens all the time because people are shitheads.Ī throw-up is basically a more complicated tag. In the graffiti community, it is considered rude as hell to tag over someone else’s tag or work. A tag is usually one color and the artist’s name/handle. Tagging is the most basic type of graffiti.
Types of Graffitiīroadly speaking, there are nine types of graffiti: Tags So let’s talk about adding graffiti to your terrain. The more remote and dangerous a location you’re in, the more likely someone came in and tagged the joint. If you want to add realism and character to your cityscape terrain, you need to add some street art in there. In last week’s Narrative Forge, I talked about display tables and briefly mentioned some graffiti work I did on a statue, which led to a bunch of requests about how I painted it and graffiti art in 40k. Making urban battlefields gives me an opportunity to scratch the same itch, albeit in miniature.
While my career as a graffiti artist growing up was sadly, not particularly long or fruitful - I lived in a rural area in high school and didn’t have a lot of opportunities to practice my shitty craft - creating the grimdark battlefields of the 41st millennium has given me the ability to kill two birds with one stone. Goonhammer doesn’t condone or endorse the cool, cool crime of tagging up a bunch of buildings and cars. And it is - graffiti is art, but as an act of vandalism, it’s also a crime. As an illustrator and painter, I love the aesthetic and the work that goes into making art that’s ultimately so temporary, publically visible, and illegal. If you’re interested in learning more about this period, I’d highly recommend checking out the documentary Style Wars, which details the period and the graffiti culture, with a lot of additional focus on the overlapping breakdancing and rap cultures.Ĭrude drawings aside, I’ve always been fascinated by graffiti. Over the decade that followed, what started as acts of vandalism and simple tagging grew into an art form, albeit one that led to an out-and-out war between its artists and the municipalities they made their canvases. In New York, the movement made subway cars its most prominent canvasses, and its most prolific artist, Taki 183, was featured in a New York Times story that brought graffiti into the mainstream and led to the city becoming the central hotbed of activity for the movement. Modern graffiti as we know it seems to have originated in Philadelphia in the early 1960s (when you have time, search for Darryl “Cornbread” McCray) and then made its way to New York. Note: OK maybe not protest - phalluses were considered a symbol of good luck by the Romans, so maybe this wasn’t carved in protest. If you think about it, I was just unfortunate enough to be born about 1,800 years late and the bouncer who threw us out was actually the one who was wrong. I don’t know about you, but I find it comforting to know that nearly two thousand years ago, the ancient Romans were scrawling genitalia on the walls in protest, much as I did in college that one time we went to the bar that had whiteboards and markers out for guests to use. Instead, I think we’d be better-served looking at ancient Greek and Roman examples as something more evocative of the modern concept.Ī 1,800 year-old graffiti drawing found in a quarry near Hadrian’s Wall. While you could point to cave paintings as examples of graffiti, that always felt like a stretch to me.
Or at least, as old as the part where we started building and living between walls. Graffiti – or street/wall art – is as old as human civilization.
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This week, Robert “TheChirurgeon” Jones is talking about graffiti - its history, how to paint it, and how you can add realism and color to your terrain by covering it in the spray-painted defiant messages of local gangs. In Goonhammer’s How to Paint Everything series, we take a look at how to paint, well… everything.
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