VIPER

This is for my good friend, and an artist I look up to a lot! VIPER

Sorry this took a bit to get to you man, my vacation from dA went a little longer than I meant it to.

My dA page says I have been here almost 3 years, the truth be told it's been like 1 and a half. I set it up in October of 2007, and didn't touch it for a long time. I had been struggling with....well...with graffiti. Everybody keep saying "you should be a tattoo artist" or "you need to write a children's book" or my personal favorite, "you need to draw greeting cards." I kept, well, trying to kill my love for graffiti. I mean don't I want to be a "successful" artist?

The first watches and favs I gave on dA weren't graffiti artist, I was trying to expand my horizons. If it wasn't graffiti, what would it be? Comics, fan art, photo realism? What was the new MYTH? I had always surrounded myself with graf, it was my world, and I wanted to take a trip to a new one.

Then I came across VIPER's work. He dripped with style and skill. I love how he just went with his gut, and his style just spilled out. Highly original is an understatement.
I also really looked up to his handies, a skill I had never learned. I loved how even is piece had that same handie feelin' . He really made me fall in love with graffiti again.

I decided that I need to really push myself to learn handstyle, throwies and well anything graffiti. I decided the my world would always have it's different places, but it would always be graffiti.......and it was an HONOR for me to share it with such a talented artist like VIPER!

Look up to you alot man, and thanks for helpin' me realize that true success comes from doin' what you love............and handies