Art Friday : Create Your Own Graffiti Masterpiece with Graffiti Studio 2.0

Graffiti Studio 2.0 is a cool freeware application specially created by LRPD Vandalsquad for anyone who wants to experiment with graffiti art. As the official website has been online since 1997, I guess I’m late by 10(!) years in discovering this little gem :(


© Less Rain

Anyone remotely interested in drawing graffiti should play around with this application because unlike real-life graffiti artists, they:

  • Need not look out or evade the police while concentrating on their work of art.
  • Need not worry about buying spray cans of the wrong colours.
  • Need not fear their artpiece being cleaned away as Graffiti Studio users get to upload their works to the Vandalsquad archives for posterity.

If you need inspiration, the archives and the most popular works are just a click away on the official site.

Some tips to get the most out of Graffiti Studio:

  • Tapping Q moves the spray can nearer to the spray surface, resulting in a thicker and smaller area of paint. Tapping A does the opposite.
  • Undo only resets the last spray. Therefore …
  • Remember to save regularly. There’s only one save slot so the newest save always overwrites the previous one so save wisely.
  • Don’t feel like a graffiti artist yet? Shake the can to get that familiar spray can sound :)

Below is one good reason why I should stick to writing posts instead of drawing.


(View in original size)

Download the Windows or Mac Classic version of Graffiti Studio from vandalsquad.com or mess around with the online version. (Click on the Paint Offline button and then select the PC or Mac version to download)

UPDATE (14 Sep 2008) : Graffiti Studio for Mac OSX users can be found here.

MORE @ THE DOWNLOAD MUNKEY:
Elphonso Lam – Artist / Toy Designer / Punk Rocker
Shin Tanaka’s Cool Paper Toys
Asian Artists @ Tiger Translate 2007
STAMP SG
Simone Legno – Tokidoki

Tags:

43 comments:

  1. gnome, Friday, October 26th, 2007, 6:41 am

    Absolutely amazing!

     
  2. Dian, Saturday, October 27th, 2007, 8:00 pm

    7 years? typo? 2007 – 1997 = 10 years :D IMHO

     
  3. thoo2, Sunday, October 28th, 2007, 5:56 am

    hello, ur maths got prob lar!

     
  4. Roys!, Sunday, October 28th, 2007, 9:25 pm

    Oops :O

     
  5. hristijan, Thursday, May 8th, 2008, 2:38 am

    can somebody send me the instalation of graffiti studio?my e-mail is hristijan_kiko14@yahoo.com

     
  6. Roys, Thursday, May 8th, 2008, 9:56 am

    Hi Hristijian, visit the LRPD Vandalsquad site and click on the Paint Offline button and then select a PC or Mac version to download it.

     
  7. PJ, Wednesday, June 11th, 2008, 11:32 am

    Hey,
    Go to the Graffiti Archive
    Type in the artist slot firefly8156
    then check out my stuff
    Thanx

     
  8. Roys, Wednesday, June 11th, 2008, 10:09 pm

    Hmm, there’s nothing there PJ…

     
  9. Evie, Friday, June 20th, 2008, 9:04 pm

    It is so awesome, I can do some like that!

     
  10. jhood123, Monday, June 30th, 2008, 4:26 am

    hello

     
  11. Maverick_X714, Thursday, July 3rd, 2008, 4:19 am

    were do u get new backgrounds and how – all i have is the less train and i was looking at firefly8156 and he had a bunch of backgrounds – thanks for the help

     
  12. EZO, Sunday, July 13th, 2008, 2:07 am

    how did u get the pic like that coz i wana know how to do that

    e-mail me at hassan_haza@hotmail.com to tell me plz thx alot

     
  13. Roys, Sunday, July 13th, 2008, 3:36 pm

    Which pic? The screenshot? Just press Alt+PrintScreen and paste into Paint or any graphics application :)

     
  14. watts, Saturday, July 19th, 2008, 1:55 pm

    hahahahaha dat shit is tooooooooooooy.. montana sclour a.r.t

     
  15. PJ (firefly8156), Monday, July 21st, 2008, 8:49 am

    Hey this is that firefly8156 dude again
    fyi “roys” you have to set the month to the word month and the year to the word year
    heres a link to my stuff
    check it out
    http://vandalsquad.com/archiveView.php?s_artist_name=firefly8156&s_country=xx&s_graffiti_set_id=xx&s_year=xx&s_month=xx&go.x=21&go.y=6
    if you are a member rate em please!
    thanx

     
  16. aaaaa, Monday, July 28th, 2008, 5:46 am

    you are all rubbish compared to my mate on graffitti bomb the world

     
  17. stai_onerrrr, Friday, August 1st, 2008, 9:00 am

    yeah vandalsquad is the best site by far but you need to go check out some of the forums to see what is really possible with this program.

     
  18. eric, Saturday, August 2nd, 2008, 6:32 pm

    I have a problem downloading this Graffiti Studio app on my Mac.

    I mean, I do the download, I get a .sit file.

    Then I open and get a textlike this :
    ±¨îÊ\Haù≠:˛+ıó«ºw„Ùy±Ùsù≠r)ÙiMwLµE©fitÚa¿[ÊÀ1ïd|œÙ_◊—lôV°ve)√.˚–ÍWÿ}}ï¿)Or^`Œó⁄|∫X91∫– fl‰πi–Û¬&!Oæ’æ˜°ˆ‚¢D’˘`ùyEπYô﬋‚

     
  19. Roys, Saturday, August 2nd, 2008, 7:02 pm

    Hi Eric, I don’t have a Mac so I am not too sure, but I think you need something lke StuffIt Expander to unpack .sit files on the Mac.

    Hope that helps.

     
  20. eric, Saturday, August 2nd, 2008, 8:51 pm

    Yes.
    Good.
    Thks.
    I got Stuffit, and it worked indeed.

    But then I hv a new pb.
    The version I got is for Mac OS8/9 = the old Classic
    Dating back to 2004

    They should have a MacOSX version.
    But I can’t see/find …!?

    Eric

     
  21. Roys, Saturday, August 2nd, 2008, 9:23 pm

    Ah… I think the only choice is to paint online then. to email LRPD

     
  22. swizzyman, Wednesday, August 20th, 2008, 12:17 pm

    how do u get it on pc

     
  23. chris, Sunday, October 19th, 2008, 7:55 am

    my computer wont let me on vandalsquad.com can you help me out

     
  24. Roys, Sunday, October 19th, 2008, 4:54 pm

    Hi Chris, the main site seems to be down. Maybe you might want to check back in a couple of days.

     
  25. ines, Sunday, October 19th, 2008, 7:18 pm

    Skicka instalation e-post ines_heko@hotmail.com

     
  26. poop, Saturday, October 25th, 2008, 10:02 am

    THAT’S NOT GRAFITTI!!!!!!!!!

     
  27. aa, Saturday, November 22nd, 2008, 8:33 pm

    than what is it ?

     
  28. daniel gadotti, Sunday, November 23rd, 2008, 5:45 am

    jente tem como alguem me falar como e q eu fasso pra fazer graffiti no vandalsquad

    eu tento tento ñ consigo

    me add no msn e danieu2008@hotmail.com

    ta certinho o email

     
  29. emi, Tuesday, November 25th, 2008, 3:06 am

    ba trimitetimi si mie jocul la id thebest_dida

     
  30. Anya, Friday, November 28th, 2008, 3:23 am

    hey
    i was wondering how i could download new backgrounds for this software. the free version only has one called ”less train”
    help would be appreciated :)
    thanks
    anya

     
  31. cutu, Monday, December 8th, 2008, 6:32 pm

    ragazzi io lo scarico lo decomprimo e dopo mi dice che non va bene per il mio mac . io ho un mac os x 10

    Ho provato anche online io ho adobe tutti e due lo carica
    ma poi mi dice che servono altri extra ma non mi da nessun link dove scaricarli quindi carica ma poi si blocca

    se mi potete dire come mai dopo averlo scaricato e decompresso non parte
    dice che non e per la versione del mio mac
    per piacere aspetto una risposta grazie mille ciaoo^^

     
  32. panos, Saturday, December 27th, 2008, 4:30 am

    please i need help with graffiti studio

     
  33. Ashley Lines, Monday, January 5th, 2009, 6:48 pm

    Graffiti studio is pretty hard cuz wen u spray u have 2 keep it there 4 a bout 2 to 3 secs its anoying (especcialy wen its on laptop)

     
  34. domme, Saturday, February 14th, 2009, 11:10 pm

    wo kann ich es downloaden ?

     
  35. hdeh, Sunday, March 1st, 2009, 2:40 am

    Pretty good game Its awesome!XD:)

     
  36. THEW_ONE, Saturday, March 7th, 2009, 10:22 am

    HEY
    KIEN
    PUEDE
    DECIRME
    KOMO
    DESCARGARLO
    MI
    KORREO
    ES
    THEW.ONE@HOTMAIL.COM

     
  37. bruce, Tuesday, March 17th, 2009, 7:38 am

    eu ñ comcigo abrir mais lugares para grafitar!
    algum me ajude meu emil é bruce;moreira@hotmail.com

     
  38. FRAGA_DJ, Wednesday, March 18th, 2009, 8:54 am

    WHERE ARE THE FILES THAT I SAVE?????? IT SAYS “FILE HAS BEEN SUCCESFULLY SAVED TO YOUR HARD DRIVE”…………. SOMEONE PLEASE HELP!!!!!!!!!!

     
  39. cippy, Monday, March 30th, 2009, 3:48 am

    i need a car from graffiti studio can we help me ?

     
  40. avramis, Tuesday, March 31st, 2009, 7:09 pm

    how can i play????????

     
  41. goel, Saturday, April 11th, 2009, 3:59 am

    je kan het niet dus waarom kom je lauw doen
    laters

     
  42. REGRT, Monday, April 13th, 2009, 3:00 pm

    how do yu start duing graff on the game?

     
  43. valen, Thursday, April 16th, 2009, 2:23 am

    como le ago para conseguir mas lugares para grafitiar???
    ke me ayuden!
    mi emil
    valen-vf@hotmail.com

     

Write a comment:


Blog Widget by LinkWithin