Ink Trails Tattoo Forum: Cholo And Or New School Style Refrences - Ink Trails Tattoo Forum

well being from san diego im really into the cholo style of tattooing along with lettering im wondering what people tjink some good ref material to buy would be for this i currently have

Boog From The Streets WIth Love
BJ Betts lettering guide 1 and 2

i was thinking about BJs guide 3 but dunno if its just the same old

looking for mainly lettering styles not only script but others aswell
the cholo style tattoos and
new school style tattoo ref.

thanx in advance
and if your selling something good PM me aswell

Interesting that you've just put this up, as I was about to ask if anyone remembers a link that someone posted (can't remember who, or where, was some time in the last 6 weeks) to a bunch of downloads of turn of the century books on old school penmanship/cursive script, gutted I didn't follow it up at the time and yes obviously I've used the search tool, to no avail. This is the foundation to most of the filligree script styles and if anyone can remember it it'd help us both out. I posted some links to some old school LA Chicano gang handstyle photos in this section which may be of use also.

Just pick up some lowryder mags. A lot of good stuff there.

whoops double post .... and barn .. i had that saved on my computer but i cant find it either .. ill look

This post has been edited by The Nerd: 05 February 2009 - 12:04 PM

lowerdider mags have some alright stuff but its more cars and girls than art ...

They have a special Lowryder "art" mag, I just don't know how often they come out.

The Nerd, on Feb 5 2009, 08:02 PM, said:

Well I went away and just googled it, found it and was thinking I'd maybe been tripping on the whole thing of seeing it as a link here on the forum and I'd probs just found it before independently...regardless this is the one I was looking for and it really is the motherlode, i haven't downloaded yet, there's sooo many, (older than I remembered as well, some of these babies are like over 180 years old) I just had a browse thru a few... good shit
http://www.iampeth.com/books.php

Lowrider Arte has alot of pics and they have them online, some good stuff. I use to get Teen Angels magazines when I was a kid. They have alot of pic's from all over in them, straight neighborhood shit. I think you can get copies of old books on ebay but not sure.

boog's script boog is good. check out steve soto and jose lopez. from lowriders tattoos. fonzy has some good shit. sum of gus or big gus is ok.

moogie i seen all thier shit ... steve soto has some sicc shit and i meet jose lopez a while back ago .... big gus has some good shit not 100% cholo art though ... i seen boog @ the balt tattoo convention he hooked me up with some exclusive shit

there's a new mag out called urban ink.. its mostly socal street style tats... u got cholo style, nba players, filipino styles, and rappers and crap hah, its a bit lowbrow but as far as mags go.. u might wanna check that one

Look on EBAY for "Teen Angels" magazine and "Lowrider Arte"...they definitely got what your looking for.
Urban Ink is kinda dope but I wouldn't suggest that for what your looking for.
I would look at Mister Cartoon's, DJ Muggs,Estivan Oriel, and the Soul Assasains web sites as well...Now that I think about it..Lowrider probablly has one set aside for art to.

This post has been edited by SlickSquid: 29 June 2009 - 06:57 PM

DONT buy "cholo style" from unimaxs art resource and reference section....its got NO cholo style in it.None.Its all text about politics.....well not if you want an art source on cholo style anyway

barnstormer, on Feb 5 2009, 01:54 PM, said:

definitely some sick script resource there.

You can check out a guy named Maneko or xMANEKOx I like the letter he does but I don't think he has an actual book out like Boog, that I know of...

Unfortunately all the Googled sites he is showing up in, like MySpace and YouTube, are blocked at my work sigh.

This post has been edited by xRevengex: 15 July 2009 - 01:53 PM

teen angels have always been were the homies got the arte refrences since back in the days ...lettering is getting trick they are taking the script from back in they days and adding sworls and loops to all the ends and or adding diamonds and points to them old english was a old homie fav same letters just tricking them out to keep up with the jones's

The Nerd, on Feb 5 2009, 01:53 PM, said:

i think volume 3's the best outta the bunch. maybe not exactly the cholo bible you're looking for, but good.

A lot of Mike Giant's work is that southwestern Cholo style.