Post 10: Do’s and Don’ts in Graffiti

 Even though graffiti is an illegal act and it looks like a rebellious act, it also has rules that every writer must obey. Although graffiti is being categorized as a rebellious art, writers still values respect.

I've searched the net if there are rules given or made by graffiti writers in making graffiti works, and here’s what I've seen, "World Famous Design Junkies Official Rules of Graffiti" by World Famous Design Junkies. In this article I've read that if you’re still a beginner in writing graffiti never start off making it on the streets, if they want to practice writing they should practice on hidden walls, plywood, card board, papers, also in spreading your work or word there are a lot of places that are off limits or not likely to work with, because your work might get stepped on or drawn on that will make them mad. Writing on walls even you’re still a beginner will just make your name bad because everyone will see you are just a good for nothing writer and other people will just get irritated with your work.

Some of the specific places where beginning writers must not right on are; Houses of worship, people’s houses in general, other writer’s name, and tombstones. Writing on those places can offend other person that is why they must avoid those places it is important to writers to have respect to other. There is this one time that a writer wrote on another writer’s work and used it as his own work and those two are Banksy who is the user and Robbo the offended, and this started the feud between two graffiti artist. Their feud was held on a wall at Regents Canal, Camaden London, wherein Banksy used Robbo’s piece as his own then Robbo had his revenge and mocked Banksy’s work and they did this for many times. You can watch the documentary of the battle at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ulOiB3xEkzM.  By this event this has affected many graffiti writers especially the ones who are supporting Robbo and Banksy, this event also shows that respect to ones work is really important to a graffiti artist and a simple disobedient to a law can lead to hatred and war between two people.

What happened to Banksy and Robbo is an example of the one that breaks the name of graffiti being accepted as art, because some writers write on perfectly good looking murals which have been made by another artist and the result will look like trash.

In conclusion, another way to see and determine if graffiti is an art is its capability to not destroy a work and still shows aesthetic beauty to the observers.  Also that without rules graffiti will truly be a disast