Finally…Los Angeles artist Mr. Big Sleeps drops the bomb!!!
Here you have 55 pages of custom alphabets and real street hand styles.
This artist has a truly gifted hand for creating letters.
You can’t go wrong with the material in this book.
He’s even dropped a lot of helpful hints throughout the pages.
This book is a must have for every tattoo shop.

About Big Sleeps:

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Big Sleeps (David Velasquez) has become an internationally renowned tattoo artist, who brings his unique lettering style to his artwork and tattoos.

-Wire-O Bound
-Printed on heavy stock paper
-Beautifully put together from cover to cover                                                                        

Has a little bit of everything in it, from page 1 to 50, it’s non stop variety of examples, ideas, alphabets and great tips on shading, placement, and creating that real custom flow. This book hits you with that real L.A. GANGSTER STYLE LETTERING! If you have volume 1, then you know what to do! Much thanks to all the support. Mr. Big Sleeps

About Big Sleeps:

Born and raised in Los Angeles, Big Sleeps (David Velasquez) has become an internationally renowned tattoo artist, who brings his unique lettering style to his artwork and tattoos.

-Wire-O Bound
-Printed on heavy stock paper
-Beautifully put together from cover to cover                                                                        

Many graffiti artists carry sketchbooks, called black books, and they ask crew members and others whose work they admire to inscribe their books with lettering or drawings. A few years ago, the Getty Research Institute invited artists, including Angst, Axis, Big Sleeps, Chaz, Cre8, Defer, EyeOne, Fishe, Heaven, Hyde, Look, ManOne, and Prime, to consider the idea of a citywide graffiti black book. During visits to the Getty Center, the artists viewed rare books related to calligraphy and letterforms, including works by Albrecht Dürer and Leonardo da Vinci. The artists instantly recognized the connections to their own practices and were particularly drawn to a liber amicorum (book of friends), a form of autograph book popular in the seventeenth century. Passed from hand to hand, it was filled with signatures, poetry, and coats of arms, like a black book from another era.

Inspired by this meeting of minds across centuries, these artists became both creators and curators, crafting their own pages and inviting others to contribute. Eventually 151 Los Angeles artists decorated 143 individual pages. These were bound together into an exquisite artists’ book that became known as the Getty Graffiti Black Book. This publication reproduces each page from the original artists’ book and recounts the story of an unprecedented collaboration across the diverse artistic landscape of Los Angeles.

68 Pages
-Wire-O Bound
-Printed on heavy stock paper
Beautifully put together from cover to cover.

A compilation of LETTERS TO LIVE BY VOL 1 & VOL 2
and the now sold-out KILL TWO SUCCEED lettering reference guide.

Also contains 13 new bonus pages of Big Sleep's newest lettering styles that provide great insight into his techniques.