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Above : I attach the Beyond6 skull
template to the sign blank using doubled over masking tape, a small magnet
might work just as well.
Above: Now to add our back ground
to our design I'll use a wrench as a template, just sitting it on top of the
skull template at the correct angle.
Above:To transfer our wrench
design, out line onto the painting surface I'll use over reduced base black and
spray straight down the edges along the entire wrench. To get on open end at
both ends you'll need to turn the wrench around of course. With the SATA3 I'm
at about 15 psi pressure wise and use just enough paint to end up with a nice
out line of the wrench. Do not go crazy here with the paint; less is more, the
less paint you use the better off you will be. To control over spray make sure
you are spraying directly over the wrench with your airbrush turned into the
wrench. Spraying along the wrench with your airbrush slightly turned out away
from the wrench will produce a lot of over spray you will have to deal with
later. You can see where I've left myself reference lines so when I turn the
wrench around I can line it up perfectly.
Above:Here you can see I've turned
the wrench around to render the out line of the open end on the other side of
the skull.
Above:Now we'll add the gear to
our gear head design; for this I barrow one of my son's go kart gears.
Above:Using the same technique as
we did with the wrench we will now transfer our gear design onto the painting
surface, sign blank. Remember keep the airbrush directed in toward your design
as you make your way around the gear.
Above: Now with our back ground
laid out we'll work on transferring the skull onto the sign blank. Again using
over reduced base black I start rendering the eyes and teeth, the out line I'll
transfer using the same airbrush technique as I used on the wrench and gear.
There you have it the entire gear head
design laid out on the sign blank ready to be completed by adding color. I
might mention here also that the painting surface here could just as easily
been a t shirt, canvas, jewelry box, model train this technique will work
wherever your imagination takes you to render your art. The skull template
could be replaced by a flower or animal template, the things I used I had on
hand for no other reason really.
To complete the design now you should be
able to free hand airbrush everything, maybe using some free hand templates
would help in certain areas.
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In areas where you might need to do some
masking you'll find Glad Press N Seal, yes the kitchen wrap, works great as a
masking material. Above you see I'm using it to help rough in the wrenches.
A design like this is much more fun to just go about it free hand using as
little masking as possible. If you've completed the airbrush lessons I've
published here on HowToAirbrush.Com this should be no real hardship for you.
The fun in airbrushing, custom painting after all is using your airbrush
uninhibited by masking, free hand.
Below is my finished picture with out
clear coat, you should be able to come up with something much better and I hope
you'll post your finished piece on my artist forum at
www.airbrushtechnique.com
I hope you enjoyed our little trip using common objects in your airbrush art
work. Until next time remember "Its just paint, relax and have fun".
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