SIRUM sketches by TABOO

Yo bro... had fun with these letters. Hope you like these outlines.

enjoy

Taboooooo

Host by Taboo

Yo Host... I gave you this out like like 3 months ago... paint this!

ROIDS by TABOO

yo Sirum

Taboo Sketch By Sirum


Taboo's latest version of the Sirum style sketch:

NO BULL...

Taboo sketch by Host18

Yo Taboo! Paint this piece!

TABOO SKETCH BY ENSOE

Here's one for the DYM killer..Lemme know if you like it, or think its to simple?

RUETS by TABOO (again)

I wasn’t entirely happy with the last Ruets outlines that I put up. I didn’t feel right moving on to the next name, so I spent the last couple of days working on these. I hope you like these better. I know I do.
Mr. T

Taboo Sketches By Jurne

The 1st sketch was inspired by the style of Joe Shuster, who illustrated the early Superman comic strips of the 1930s and 40s. After sketching a bunch of Taboo pieces and not really liking how any of them came out, the word 'ta-boom' came to me while flipping through a book featuring reprinted Superman comics. I envisioned the letters to be exploding out of the background, and after sketching the explosion part, I got the idea to put some Spy vs. Spy characters in there as well. I kept the letters simple after trying out more complex ones because I felt that with the more connections and additions that I put on the piece, they took away from the effect of flying out of the explosion.
Your characters are always fresh, and I know you get down with the illustration outside of graffiti Taboo, so I'm excited to see how you do this.


The 2nd sketch is a 2-for-1 piece, an idea I have been playing around with a little in other pieces. I wanted to capture two similar, yet distinct letters for each letter of the piece.

Cant wait to see what you do with them, as always, change any and everything as you see fit...

RUETS sketches by TABOO

YO Ruets,
I got 2 outlines here for ya. I actually did 3 sketches, but these are the best 2. The first one has a few ideas I have been playing with on some of my newer pieces. I took a little bit from the NUEVA YORK pieces I have done while I worked on the 2nd outline, so the pieces came relatively easy. The 2nd outline is a little more straight forward so that leaves a lot of room for you to "Ruetize" it. I'd like to see you hook up either one. Hope you enjoy.
PEACE
T!

Taboo Sketch painted by Jurne

I really dug this sketch from Taboo, and thought it might look good on a freight. I wanted to stretch it out and have the dimensions of the train car emphasize the length of the piece.
When we showed up to the yard, there were no flat boxcars, and I didn't really want to try to stretch this piece over the door, so I decided to rock it a little smaller than intended, and just keep it to one panel.
I went with a nice Home Depot color scheme (an American brand paint scheme seemed right for the train), some Painters Touch Fossil for the fill, an Espresso outline, and American Accents Cabana Blue for the cloud.
In sketching the piece out, I made some modifications, connecting the U with the head of the R, as well as changing the bend of the N, and having the top of the E come from the N doubling back on itself. In hindsight, I think the U-R modification takes away from the dope mohawk that the R was rocking in the original sketch, and the strong kink in the bar of the R.
I like how the piece came out (Although the night shots arent ideal...I'll replace them when I get better ones), but Im not hyped on the color choices I made; should have gone with a dark gray for accents in the bottom of the piece, and a really light gray or pink in the top. In general, I should have spruced it up a bit with more colors. Also, I think I lost one of the coolest parts of the piece by not outlining 'The Exchange' bar of the E that Taboo crafted.
Painting the piece gave me some new insights on some of my letters, the J was a totally new shape for me, as well as the E. Thanks again to Taboo for the dope sketch, I'm working on yours and Stae's right now...

POSE sketches by TABOO

Yo Pose,

Here are 2 outlines 4 ya. Enjoy!

MR.T

JURNE by TABOO

Yo Bro,

Here are my Jurne sketches. Hope you like them. I was told the J 2nd one looks a little like a Jedi5 J. I hope he doesn't come to my house to kick my ass or leave a bag of grapes in my trunk as he has been known to do. ANYWAY enjoy painting these sketches!

MR.T

Taboo paints Sirum's Sketch

Painting this proved to be a lot harder than it looked. I think it may have been that I painted it on a small wall. I lost one of the coolest accents on the piece which was the flame shape on the top of the B. I compensated with this with the flames in the 3-D highlights. As I was restricted on the vertical, I also felt restricted on the horizontal plane as well, but all in all I tried my best to do justice to the outline.

The bull you drew looked almost like vector art/ a sports team logo. Thus my approach while painting the bull, as well as the piece, was to have no fades. I really liked the letters so I stayed pretty close to the original. As you can see I beefed up the body of the T as it comes from the A, and I curved the bottom of the B.

All in all it was a great learning experience. I know for round 2… Bigger is better!

Taboo sketch by Sirum

Hey Taboo , I knew when choosing your word to sketch next that I would have some fun with this.. and I was right! You have mad funky letters giving me a lot of room to play on, and so I decided to take a very comical approach whilst designing your sketch.
I hope you like ? Cant wait to see you paint this..!

"Taboo" by Poet

TABOO paints Askew's sketch

So Saturday morning I woke up all prepared to paint the 1st out line that Askew submitted for me to paint. I intended to paint it on a box truck that makes fruit deliveries throughout Brooklyn. But as I looked out the widow I saw the storm clouds on the horizon, I didn’t think I was going to paint at all. It drizzled on and off all morning, so I eventually got fed up waiting for good weather, and decided to paint a tunnel. I chose to paint the 2nd outline as my plans to paint the truck didn’t work out.

I didn’t intend to paint this outline so I didn’t really study it like I did the 1st one. After sketching the T – A, I started to get nervous that I would get lost as the shapes were so unfamiliar to me. I kept referencing the printed out sketch, even as I filled in to double check myself. Once I had the piece filled in and started to cut out the letters, it all came together. I genuinely had a good experience painting this loose style.

For the most part I stayed true to Askew’s letter forms and modified a few of the throw offs. I stretched out the 2nd O and added a throw off to match the stretched out look of the T. My favorite part of the piece is the right leg of the A kicking the B in the ass... really clever.

Over all it was a great experience. Once again I’m really glad to be apart of this project. Sorry for the crappy photo, that’s actually a silver fill with white highlights. The glare from the opening of the tunnel makes the silver look white.
-Taboo

CAKES sketches by Taboo

HONKE by Taboo

ASKEW by TABOO

TABOO sketches by ASKEW

I like the first one, second one preeeettty weird but parts of it I like a lot... Yeah up to you what you want to do dude...