Blackbook Session

Sometimes I stop and think to myself, what am I doing right now?? I enjoy drawing and painting and at times some of my own crew says things to me like, "wish I had as much time to waste as you do" but I stop and laugh. The silly things we enjoy to do I say do them to the fullest. Those are the things that keep up young at heart. We can always make time to do things that bring ourselves a sense of happiness and well being.

Since I did "waste time" as it was put to me I've decided to make another video of a black book session until I am ready to go and paint. This is inspired by Street Fight aka Coonskin which is an animated classic by Ralph Bakshi who has done, Fire & Ice, American Pop, Lord of the Rings and Felix the Cat just to name a few. He's been a huge inspiration to me since I was a little snot nosed kid drawing and chasing after big brother. You can check more by clicking here.

Black Book Session

Just trying to be patient and waiting for nice weather to come around to get busy. Recently we've all been pushing each other to do black books and just keep our minds active during the winter season. Also due to being snowed in a recent black book session was canceled. Here's a quick video for your viewing pleasure.

Black Book Sessions, In The Back Cave with Dontay TC5

I'm a bit late pulling the trigger on this one. Last weekend Sye, Dontay and myself had a black book session at Dontay's crib. We had jokes the whole time there. I would say during these cold winter days this helps keep us within the right state of mind when it comes to pieces as well as being an outlet for us to get together and just build. Here are a few pics from the session but believe me when I tell you this, Dontay is a beast when it comes to this. He is able to do pages so effortlessly that it make me cringe. Watching him and Serve FBA get busy, dear lord Dash calls likes to call him "rain man" because he does it in a state of like unawareness. Like no thought just coomes with the most ease. I seen Serve nearly complete half a black book within a couple of weeks. This is truly an art form that is under appreciated and like all else, practice makes perfect!!

Yes Japenese Denim with Crogs...Dontay is always stylin'...WTF????

The operating kit. Special tools of the trade do detail to characters.

Aside from Dontay being able to burn on walls and in books he can burn for real...he hooked us up with the grub!!
Quick Pic of him doing his thing. Here's also a video SyeTC5 put together. For more check out TCFive.com

Blackbook sessions: Dontay from Sye.TC5 on Vimeo.

Quick pic Wilm by Dontay TC5

Wasn't to sure what to do so went with trippy mind power

Finished product

Black Book Sessions

As of recent I've been dealing with certain things that have taken precedence over my painting (going out and painting that is). So in order not to get backed up I decided to let loose a bit into my black book. When I show the crew everyone has funny comments about the pieces. Dontay TC5 thinks I've lost my mind. Sye TC5 tells me he doesn't have time to do black books but he'd rather make time to go out and paint, which he does religiously. Bluster FC is constantly sketching and painting which lets me know that I can always make some time to release some steam and do a page in my black book. I have a few things I'd love to experiment with but haven't figured out how to go about doing so. Back in the days I hardly did color pieces. Now it's just about growth and trying to experiment, which I have yet to do because in my crazy mind I'm trying to work it out. All in due time but for now I present my recent black book session editions.

DJ ITruth (aka Kare One) told me that he just saw this movie called El Super Beasto by Rob Zombie. So once I saw it I got hooked. Pas Primero piece.

Bluster FC getting busy on one of his late night drawing excursions

Black Book Sessions

Recently I got a bit crazy and ordered a few books online. Every now and then I need that fix for inspiration. I decided I had to get Shacha and Chino's Piece Book Reloaded as well as Part One TDS' book. Between those the icing on the cake was Ket's New York City Black Book Masters. To my surprise I came out in the book (Thanks Ket!!!). The Big Homey Dontay TC5 has the cover on that one. Simple and easy to go through. Some really dope pieces by Fuzz, Noc, Sane(RIP) Smith and Freedom just to name a few. To check it out click here.

I know this isn't graff related but since we are on the topic of books I also just purchased Elmore Leonard's Road Dogs. If you aren't familiar with the author he had a few books that became movies such as Get Shorty, The Big Bounce, Be Cool, Jackie Brown and Out of Sight. I had to start reading again so I started rereading a novel he already wrote called Cuba Libre. Gotta say thanks to Tony Bones for putting me up on this dude way back in the Akademiks days. It's a good read and if you enjoy his movies then I definitely suggest copping a few books to pass the time.