My Relationship with Street Art

In high school I was trying to figure out what I wanted to do with my spare time. I tried working out every lunch time in the school gym. However, I started to get very bored of it; just the same thing every day. Then I tried playing guitar, which was really fun. But then, I had this strange feeling that I should explore my creativity. I was well acquainted with drawing cartoons, but I felt that I needed to further my drawing and find a style that I can relate with. One day my brother brought home a PS2 video-game called Getting-Up. It was about a graffiti artist trying to get known around the New York area. I watch my brother play and realized that some of the art work that was drawn looked similar to mine. Eventually, I started playing it and tried to copy each of the graffiti drawing styles in my art book. I drew quite a bit of characters. I got confident enough and started showing my drawings to my friends and asking them to critique it. I gained mainly positive reviews from my drawings. Here are some of my drawings from my art book when I was in high school.

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These look very bad now that I look at it.