I try VIRTUAL Graffiti (is it Better than REALITY?)

Ah, here we go again Hi guys, my name is Doug and I'm terrified and excited at the same time, you know, I have my first

virtual

reality

headset. I bought it for a specific art related reason which we will explain a little more about. A little later I tried

virtual

reality

before, but it was years ago and I forgot about the feeling, so I was curious. This is amazing and terrifying at the same time. Real life will no longer have any meaning. Anyway, the reason I got VR. is painting, there is a game called kingspray that promises a real-life painting experience without any real-life problems right now.

I'm going to try the app and tell you if this is something every professional or beginner artist should have. I got the idea to get a VR headset thanks to nfts. Owning art in digital format makes more and more sense these days and creating it in VR makes even more sense. Alright, welcome to my VR. I have to admit that I have tried the game before. Three years ago back then I had to have some wires coming out of my head right now I'm wire free for now first of all I want to test how this works so I'll go to a known environment underpass wow even rattles this is not realistic at all yeah I do this I'm dying I wish I had this actually all kinds of cans in one hand oh I have an oh ooh ok all kinds of different caps right here ok I can choose a color like this pink knit hat duster 100 flesh anyway how do I move I have to move ah okay this is as far as I can go from the underpass this is so realistic I mean the water is a little boring okay so let's make a point okay?

Okay, you can even see the sun's glow. This is so realistic. How can I make it disappear? Oh, I just remembered I've been watching some reviews of this game and there's no undo button. Why are we going to try again? Let's look at that. try the pink dot, oh yeah this is what I've been looking for. I mean, it's incredibly long and strong. One thing that impresses me is that the can performs even

better

than it actually does because you would actually get it. At least a little bit of dust around the stroke, but it's super clean here, look it's like a marker, okay, I have a phone in my hand now, what can I do with it? clean multiplayer, back in the studio, let's catch some trains I guess.

Sorry, it's been a few days because I had to paint some real murals, but now let's go back to virtual reality, so let's start the fun story. The first and only train I painted looked exactly like this and I never finished it, so let's do it now. Metal. Can I get a chrome color? Chrome, okay, let's try a metallic color. This is a setting that I turned on and I can actually see the size of my stroke. It would be nice to have something like this actually. life this is even

better

than real life chrome I love this why is there something coming ah there's a train back there that doesn't bother me why I see boy, let's use a pink dot for the fill just like it's actually surprising how even I created the wet color simulation look at that and it disappears, it fades out Do I want a background?

You know what I don't do with chrome and black? I'll try to do it with a chisel. It's okay, but I didn't want metallic. black I want it normal it's not metallic okay so yesterday I was wet while painting a real live mural I did 12 kilometers 13,000 steps it will be nice to have a teleport like this in real life I love the fact that it's not so dusty, but a Structure like this is also a headache in VR. One thing I like about virtual reality is that you are actually moving. I mean, I just mentioned that I have a teleport, but you know I'm doing this.

Physically, it is different to classic PC games where you just sit behind the computer for hours and when playing games like boxing or other sports games you can look quite sweaty. This is exactly what would happen in real life. Oh, no one's cool trick if I press a button. I can try the color I already used so I can do this. This is amazing because I would actually need to go somewhere. I would need to take another one. I know it sounds like complaining about very small problems, but. when you paint for eight hours these little problems become a real headache I would like to reach higher I can probably grab this ooh I'm very strong I have a very strong wrist arm okay how do I do it that simple? well, I can teleport on top, I can, that's cool, look, I love it, I can get it, yes, I can, ah, this is perfect, a camera boom from this angle, oh, from here, oh, comes a train, bam, that was good, I want to do more subway, okay, let's try the subway, okay, then I place my sketch on the subway, let's do a fill, so let's say I want to do a fade, I'm going to try this color and I'll make it darker and redder. something like that, okay let's try to do a fade, I think this pressure should help me control this or maybe now I don't know why I'm on my knees when I can just press a button and boom, okay, but I need this and okay, I'll try to fade the entire piece now, okay, I've been playing around with the fade and this is the result.

I have to say it's pretty good, I mean it's still a little more confusing than in reality, but when you look at those destinations, I mean, it's also about the skill of the person who's doing it, but yeah, it's definitely possible to make nice gradients in this environment, boom boom dokey, all the car, let's try to make some highlights with white and pink dots, okay? The lights are there and how about a little shadow? Because these letters overlap, so I'll try a duster, yeah, that worked. I'll do the same here too here and here, looking good, I guess I can sign this masterpiece. my first complete car, there you go, I just need a photo, but because of these stupid pillars it's a little problem, I can't take a photo, okay, this is good, what's wrong with this angle?

Okay, but there's one thing. that bothers me during the painting of this piece I realized that one worked that I just messed up the piece I realized that there is one thing that I really miss when you take a can and you put it this way you get faith this way and a line very marked on this side, but here it doesn't really work that way. I wish I had faith right here, but I don't, I don't understand it, it just doesn't work that way. That bothers me because I use that technique a lot and it was ruined right after I painted the whole car.

I decided I had to try it properly with a complicated

graffiti

piece, which was a bit of a challenge for me because To be honest, I didn't paint or draw

graffiti

for a good period of time, but I started painting and eventually somehow got into it. this when I tried to compare the painting in virtual reality with the painting in reality. Surely there are no real problems. Have all the colors you want, no weather, we all know that, but if we want to talk about the real painting process, VR gains one of the biggest benefits, there is no problem with wet color, you don't need to wait for it to dry instantly. the control of the can is pretty predictable when you get used to it and when you get used to all the controls and all the possibilities you have the workflow in vr is amazing i mean i wish i could change colors in reality like one of the most big.

The benefits I see here with VR is the physical aspect. This is one of the things that I really like about painting on walls, that it is very physical and the strokes, the shapes that you make with your whole body and it is more or less the same with VR. There are some negatives, although I find it a bit difficult to make straight lines, especially with some capital letters, no big deal, but I couldn't really make it as clean as it actually is, then there are other problems, such as lack of tape or any other tools other than spray paint what comes to mind right now is the metaverse the idea that maybe one day we will meet in a big virtual city and we will compete in making uh pieces of graffiti in this virtual city we will compete with the quality and the amount, basically we will do the same thing that real graffiti writers do in reality right now, maybe it will be some kind of game like gta 5 or whatever, that's what comes to mind right now and that idea I'm excited about it, but I'm not there yet.

I'll end it like this if you want to create beautiful digital art and quality is your number one priority, this is not really for you, however, if you want to try graffiti or if you want to get as close as possible. Is it possible to have a real life spray painting experience or you just want to have fun and you don't want to be behind your tablet like that, you want to move and you want to know, you have that physique there, this is amazing, really impressive, okay, great, we we see. on some real walls