Meet the artist Digby Sharples:

I came across this artist in a Telegram channel and I had to check him out his work is amazing and I loved his work and hit him up to see would he chat about his project he happily did and this is what he had to say and he loves his graffiti

Hey Bro how's things ?

Good bro... I'm in my New Zealand base so my slag can get a bit over board . Let me no if you have any trouble you but yea ask away, happy to answer what I can.

Yea I actually kow one or two New Zealander NFT artists ?

Sweet bro theres like our high end old-school artist jumping on ETH at the mo to they got like a big named rugby player as there start up. I got one my bros on another chain, he's just drawing and someone's else list them cos he's not to up on the play yet.. but there's a couple bros I got in the background I'm gonna drag on wax. Like my whole aim at the moment with my art is to build it up so I can stake them on there start ups.

Oh cool . Can I ask how did you discover NFTs ?

Basically I have been a solo dad for about 20 year now been I did the whole I.T thing and did the whole computer generated computer imagery a few years ago I always sort of known about them I started playing with them over a year ago but that was on ETH on Rariable and have actually got a verified account where I have actually listed a few pieces of art but got burnt like f**k with gas fees that was my time on those Blockchains . Then a bit of research in the back ground and jumped on WAX about a year later and had a ball with it so yea I got really dragged back into because of Graffiti kings and Stoney bloney card park and few other artists I followed along . Art been in my family since I was a kid I grew in pottery studio and then I picked up paint cans put them down when I took on the soul care of my boy so I live in a real small town and cant be getting in trouble for that sh*t . So I started doing poster and sticker work and still do .

Oh wow so art is been your life from a young age . So I am guessing WAX your home now . So the graffiti kings art is a favourite of yours and when I looked through your Nefty page you can see it in some of your work but others just brings me back to the 90s with the Mario drawings and of course Ren and Stimpy I am guessing cartoons are where you gather a lot of inspiration from ?

Yes cartoon is a real big draw and because of my graffiti background my mates I am trying to drag on are graffiti kids as well we all use to play with those paints cans and that carry on so I diversity a lot younger than my mates a lot of them still play with the can and a lot of them are tattoo artists where I went the digital route I was real lucky my old boy was a garage sell hoarder and we had a lot of computer tech when it came out so I spent my childhood playing them as they upgrade so I love me retro stuff say . I am 80s baby 90s child and I grew up in New Zealand with the freedom of it .I just cant explain the story's I have got Il drop my Rarible it actually burnt me to set that up and still haven't sold on it .

https://rarible.com/sfd that's my Rarible which burn my to list and haven't sold any.

This the bros ones too https://token.gallery/collection/0x92cbA1EbBa905c8325E5FC0180754cC2D64Cb444/nft/1

When did you drop your first NFT on WAX and how did the community react?

My first drop would of been in September sometime I done a few before I was whitelisted and I was just chucking them out free I was having a ball just airdropping them to people it was a bit of my graffiti mentality where you can just stick your sh*t anywhere. As soon as I seen a WAX address that I seen was enjoying Graffiti Kings or Stone Bloney and started dropping randomly and dropped random QR codes in Discords and people would snatch them up randomly . I think my first whitelisted drop was in October .

What was your first drop can we have a picture did you find it hard to be whitelisted ?

I don't do time frames are funky condensing it a world wide thing bro . The gks1 schema was my first drops before white listing, which were the one I was like randomly dropping to people....and this was my first white list

https://wax.atomichub.io/explorer/template/graffitikids/263866

My sales started on my white list which is

https://wax.atomichub.io/explorer/template/graffitikids/290899

They are class have you gathered much of a community from the project ?

Not really bro.. at this point I'm still building that front. But like ive set up a discord and have some giveaways planned.. as well as like a few fun little project too.. I'm gonna have an edit of my graffiti kids game .. which you can play at https://nftmarket.co.nz I'm gonna build a couple little like highest score wins.. n do like a give away to the highest score and rest score so often.

What's the next NFT to drop ?

so at the moment I'm playing around with the classic blank vinyl toy kid robot provides for custom building... its called a Munny https://www.kidrobot.com/collections/munny .. most peeps that's play in graffiti will come a cross these bad boys . But yea I'm like trying to drop a munny or to a day at the moment ... there's like 20 odd different version up at my nefty drop https://neftyblocks.com/c/graffitikids/

Ah so your creating skins around this form ?

Pretty much bro I am just doing masks, faces clothing just having a play with that I have even done some customs 1s in the real world as I am big into custom toys and that kind of carry on .

So long term would be to make them bendable that people could pick and choose the colours and clothing and blend them together to get there own original piece?

Fully I was think utility was would be in a game where so where you buy NFTs there like clothing for characters in the game but that's way down the line but I do enjoy my burning NFTs I do have some running at the moment where you buy 6 of my frozen sims and burn them off for a scene from one of my games that I have done . As I have said I am so new and its such a learning curve so I still learning all the different skills .

I know you can do airdrops to wallets that hold a certain NFT would something like that be good for you or would you rather they had option to pick from ?

Its more being able to lock a file from viewing/downloading until the NFT is bought.. and the file is only accessible to the NFT holder to download.. id like to list 3d printable file with some of my NFT to. on rarible you can lock a file to the NFT. So you have to buy the NFT to get access to the file.. where I haven't worked out the contract side of wax properly yet so I don't even no if that is a function on wax

Ah I get you . So how many NFTs have you created so far what has been your favourite to make ?

Oh sh*t I got a few out there now.. like I'm at 20 munnys and before that I done sh*t load maybe 30 odd. But like some of my drops have sold out where others might have only sold 1 or 2 pieces.. I've closed a few drops now too.. so you can only find them on the secondary now. .. if you scroll my nefty page you'll see the sold out drops and what's running at the moment .

What one is your favourite ?

Lol bro I'm the artist hahaha I could pick at my sh*t all day long so I kinda don't hold any of my work as a favourite. The enjoyment I get is from just creating it and like watching others enjoy it as part of there collections.

Ah come on all artist have love for piece for one reason or another ?

Na it the graffiti side again coming through aye. I mean rack your cans and chrome thowies time. lol I'm one that says there was muralists a long time before there was graffiti. N like graffiti in it's essence like that is the true form of ephemeral art to me.. to be honest I had major issues watching my culture be commercialised and cut my nose off despite my face many a time in my youth because of my beliefs and standings with it .

Ok well IL let you have that one how long does an average NFT take to create?

This a hard one to break down how long it takes for me to build one for example the munnys because they are pre-drawn have layers so its quite ea

Ha ha I get where you coming from so do you hand draw any new characters before you start to create them ?

Everything is drawn with a stylist my favorite program is sketchbook I use my surface pro I just love for drawing so sorry no hand drawn as such .

That's great that you care so much about your work . I know your quite new but is there any artist you would like to collab with on wax ?

Yea bro there is a couple but wont name any at the moment till I can confirm but if I had to say it would be a couple of mates alright

Ah drop some names come on ?

https://www.facebook.com/smeagly.doespigments.5 that's one the bro

https://www.facebook.com/Atarisan12 this another one I wanna drag on to bro

and there's a couple more .

No worries I get what you mean . Do you collect NFTs yourself ?

This dude murder clown bro https://www.youtube.com/c/BradGosse

Who is your favourite NFT artist ?

I'll fall back on my ephemeral comment here bro.. like there's a lot of art on here I like, no one favourite though . My main targets are anything that can be staked at Rplant .. then I'm trying to keep up with the graffiti kings project. I have a couple million lp lfgk coin there as well as a few million holdings. and stoney baloney blending. Lately I've been hitting murder clown pack as they just dropped and I was trying soak up a few 1# which I did and I'm always lurking looking for low mint I like..

What's the biggest collection in wallet ?

Would be graffiti.r2 600 cards split between 2 wallets but yea all the collection of my targets are up in the 100 cards mark.

Nice . What has been your biggest lesson you have learnt in your creating ?

Hahaha the hole thing and I'm still learning daily... reiteration daily at the moment aye.. like there's so much I don't no yet.. but the learning is a big part of the fun for me.. and its been awesome fun.. but at this point.. When I walk one the bro on .. I will explain about how much easier you can make the collection to nav by keep there schema a lot cleaner than mine and how you cant remove a fuck up so check shit ten fold on its creation cos a fuck up still cost ram too .

What your family think of your project ?

My family bro my 16 year old just tells me to get stuffed and is just interested in Rust my old lady yea my mum blockchains just to over her head and looks at me funny when I try talk to her about it and the younger bro he gets it he is all stocked with it he not clued up yo be on the chain do and the old boy is gone a while .

Tell us something random about you ?

have you stumbled on my Esk8 side yet bro lol

https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCoZb-904uecADYOgpCSuzhQ

Il check it out .

35 to 45 kph electric skate boards bro lol awesome fun .

Is that your channel ?

Yep its me riding bud lol

What you like to do to unwind ?

esk8 lol

Ha ha ha . Where do you like to update the community about your project ?

https://discord.gg/33WkEJ22

https://nftmarket.co.nz/

https://twitter.com/DigbySharples?t=P5GzuBB9cZ8uNGLpuVJgfw&s=09

When is the next drop ?

lol just before n I'll probable do a couple more tonight if I get time bro... lol like graffiti it smashing them out mode at the moment and trying do a drop a day at least lol

Any chance for a drop or competition for the readers ?

Fully bro I'm all down on that kinda jazz. how we got about it?

Up to you ?

Ok I was looking into a giveaway raffle site the other day for a discord campaign I can set one them up and give you the link to hand out to your readers if that suits bro.

https://giv.gg/rao1KS

Perfect Before we finish is there anything you would like to say or add for the readers ?

Sfd stands for dreams

Of super fulfilling deeds

which surpasses fathomless depths

To subliminally formulate decisions

Creating structure for direction..

stuff from digby sfd...

Nice man been a pleasure .

So guys check out his links and dont forget to enter his competition .