Looking for graffiti help

no lessons here, but i remember some people giving tips in this thread a while back:

https://newschoolers.com/web/forums/readthread/thread_id/516639/

also the website bombingscience.com seems to be a legitimate resource.

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Just practice. Seriously just go out and tag some shit. Some places you can do it legally

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^ just one example

Keep a graffiti black book, draw often and never loose an idea because you forgot to write it down.

Before beginning with a different color, shake, and hold the can upside down and spray for around ten seconds. This helps stop bubbles and drips in your paint.

Move fast. If you don't think you can finish your throwie before the po-po show then paint something simpler, save it for a more secluded spot where you have time to burn.

Thanks posters for the help, i never really took the time to look at bombing science until now, and the blackbook would be a lot better than a bunch of scrap pieces of paper as I've been doing so far.
+k

My random bits graff advice:

-Draw a lot.  Before you get painting you need to develop style & skill - which takes time - paper is key! (keep a blackbook)

-Start simple - some toys get crazy an try to do a sick piece but it ends up looking whack because they haven't exercised their skills enough before hand - practice a lot on paper before hitting the streets, once you can get something sick down on paper you just need to learn to be able to paint what you can draw.

-Once you have some skill on paper you need to learn to paint - which takes full arm coordination (unlike what you are used to: sketching in a book using your hand).  I found that doing figure drawing on an easel helped me a lot with graffiti, because it teaches you to draw with your whole arm.

-You can paint by yourself - for a long time I would always write by my self - it is very peaceful - the disadvantage is you do not have an extra set of eyes for a look out, an it can be kind of sketchy roaming around a city during the night (could be very sketchy depending on where you live).  If you start sketching and writing graffiti on your own I'm sure you eventually will meet another writer.

-When I first started writing I was just tagging with a marker for a while - then started bombing and tagging with spray paint.  For your first time's writing with spray paint find some location that is secluded where you feel safe (or at least safer than some crazy spot on the street) and in a place where you won't embarass your self, because the first times using paint will be the ugliest.  Legal walls are a good option for practice if available, but I never wrote on a legal wall until later in my writings so you can get by without it.

-Rubber / vinyl gloves are handy to keep paint off your hands, so you can't get caught "red handed" (even if you are doing legal work gloves can be nice, because paint is hard to get off your hands an can be messy)

-To do a bomb, start by doing the outlines with the fill color - then fill each letter one by one by moving quickly back and forth like a type writer (Consistency in the fill makes for a clean bomb.) once the fill is done, bust out the outline color and retrace over your original lines - fast fluid arm/wrist motion is key - if you are too slow it will not be a clean outline line / it might drip.

-For bombing walmart $1 paint is super legit if you do not want to steal your paint & want a lot of paint.  (and for bombing when you get good I'd recommend using the cheap dollar paint for fills, then a nicer paint for the outline color, i.e. silver $1 paint for the fill, an Mtn for the outlines).  Cheap bomb color combos I liked:  white fill / black or blue or red outline, yellow fill / black or blue or red outline, silver or gold fill / black outlines.  If you want to do say a black fill with white outlines, I'd reccomend using cheap black paint for the filll, then white Mtn for the outlines - cheap white paint won't work well over the black paint.

-I liked NY Fats & German Outlines for my caps - some caps work better with different paints, and some caps don't work with some paints at all - so try a bunch of different caps out, and figure out which caps work with what paints.

-Kiwi shoepolish mop = legit homemade mop marker for writing on smooth surfaces (rough surfaces rips up the sponge nib).
-Condensed paint stick (i.e. Sharpie Mean Streak) = can write on pretty much anything.
-Diamond tipped scribe = rapes mirrors, glass, and plastic.

-Don't buy expensive paint until you have good can control & you want to do some piecing or it will be somewhat of a waste of $ and paint (it's nice to know what's different about different paint's though, so try some different stuff out.)

-Try to not get too carried away / reckless, and esp. if/once you are older than 18 - I got arrested a month after I turned 18 & it was a big hassle / legal mess.  Was piecing on a freeway sign, someone (not sure if it was a cop or citizen) saw me ( I remeber they flashed their brights on) but I didn't think much of it at the time & I continued to quickly finish up the piece - next thing I know multiple cop cars (3 or 4?) rolled up on me with no lights on.  Not a fun time, didn't finish my piece either.
So be safe so you don't need to give up writing.

Oh, and a heads up - writing is addicting.

Draw a lot everyday, redraw and redraw your sketch (it will help you memorise your sketch and you ll tweak it a bit everytime ) and post some stuff in toy forum on http://http://www.bombingscience.com/graffitiforum/index.php

this is going to help alot, +k.
my first time writing i got cought but it was because people from my school wrote my name on it, and it wasn't even a good tag.
is wallmart paint good? cause ive been using montannacans but its way too pricy.

One.) never ever ever ever write on stuff connected to you. If you sit in the same seat on the bus everyday dont tag there, dont use your street tags and name on any school paper or notebook or anything, never throw up your name, slapstickers, tags or bombs or anything near your house at all!!!!! EVER you will get caught. Also dont take cellphone picks of all your pieces if you want, go back later and snap a legit picture (this way you can say that you like to take pictures of graff when the po9 seize all of your electronics as "evidence")