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© 2016 AFPJapanese street art: Not quite Banksy, but trying
By Emily Shen TOKYO©2025 GPlusMedia Inc.
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badsey3
http://www.yamaokohei.com
Banksy was a stenciler -that is not good if you are serious about graffiti. You need to get serious and hit NYC hard and get the shading down. I like the 2 hand spray-can style, but not all the way down Phili-style. You have the artistic elements, but no flow. It has to be smooth in an almost cartoonistic hall-of-mirrors way. I do like your Japanese hard edges, but focus on nature more for smoothness. Graffiti like tattoos is a very difficult art -don't give up.
Banksy was a horrible "shader" -do not look at Banksy for this technique.
mrsynik
Just keep this scribble away from the trains thanks. The most refreshing thing about Japan (& also Korea) is the lack of defacement from scribblers on the trains. Long may it stay that way.
Bartholomew Harte
I still don't get the appeal of this Banksy=Dirty,Dirty, Dirty!