![]() Wildstyle: a complex style of graffiti with lots of letter connections, extensions and arrows.Whole Train: a train where every carriage is a whole car.Whole Car: a piece of graffiti that covers an entire train carriage.Up: when a writer is up it means there is a lot of their graffiti in their city and they are well-known.Trackside: a piece painted on the railway tracks.Toy: a beginner graffiti writer or someone who is bad at doing graffiti, generally used as an insult, here’s some tips to avoid being labelled a toy.Top-To-Bottom: a panel that goes from the bottom of a train carriage to the top.Throw-up: one up from a tag, an outline which is very fast to paint with a single color fill-in.Can be painted, marked or scratched on a surface. Tag: the simplest way a writer can get up, a single color, one stroke version of their name.Straight Letter: a simple, legible piece of graffiti that anyone can read.Stock Cap: the standard cap that comes with the can of paint.Scribe/Scratchy: a tool like a drill bit, stone or key that’s used to scratch a word into a surface.Runner: a train the goes into service with graffiti on, that isn’t taken straight to be cleaned.Roller: a large, simple piece of graffiti that uses emulsion paint and a paint roller.Piece: short for masterpiece, a painting with multiple colors and fill patterns, background, shadow or 3D.Outline: the line that forms the shape of your letter, painted on top of the fill.Will often explode all over your hands at the exact point you don’t want it to. Mop: a homemade pen with a large round nib, usually made from a shoe polish dispenser filled with ink or paint.Lean-Over: a roller piece or tag painted by leaning off a roof.Lay-up: a railway siding where trains are parked.King: someone who is recognized as being a master of graffiti through consistent years of painting high-quality pieces, panels, straight letters, throw-ups and tags.Handstyle: the distinctive and unique style of an individual writer’s tag.Going-Over (also referred to as taking-out): painting over another writer’s work.Fill: the interior base colors of a piece of graffiti.End-To-End: a train carriage with graffiti going from one side of it to the other.Normally named with a two or three letter acronym. Crew: a group of friends or a collective of writers that paint together.Clean Train: an American term for passenger trains.(Cap can also mean the same as going-over) Cap: the nozzle on spray-paint, different caps give different thickness of line, there’s lots of different caps out there, the two main categories are fats and skinnys.Blackbook: a graffiti writer’s sketchbook.Biting: to directly copy another writer’s style and letters.Bomb/Bombing: the act of painting illegal graffiti in the streets.Back Jump: when a train is stationery for a few minutes at some point during its daily service and possible to paint.Action: a European term for a graffiti mission.All City: when a writer is known and their work is visible throughout the entire city.This list has been created to the best of my knowledge and I’m sure will give you all you need to become a great artists. Part of your learning process is to understand all the graffiti words used by graffiti artists. The necessary graffiti words, lingo, jargon or slang terms you need to know, excluding everything that will make you sound straight out of a 1980s break dancing video.
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