| Airbrushing Fine Lines,
Detail |
One of the most common
questions I have heard sense I stated helping people learn to use their
airbrush is "which airbrush with what size nozzle, needle is best for rendering
detail, fine lines". One of most common problems I hear about from those just
starting out is "this airbrush just won't do fine lines, detail work" With the
many different airbrush's, needle, nozzle sizes available on the market these
days its easy to understand the confusion surrounding rending fine lines,
detail. Unfortunately there is not magical trick I can show you to make your
journey easier or shorten the length of time it takes to learn the skills
necessary to render fine lines, detail. I would like to encourage you to not
get frustrated during your journey, I taught myself how to airbrush which means
you certainly can. "Well how long will I have to practice before I can
accomplish rendering (painting) fine lines, detail art work?" That I know was
your next question, right? Again there is no magical trick I can show you, no
pat answer to this question the best answer I have is if you apply yourself to
mastering the basic lessons on this web site you will be looking back sooner
than later smiling knowing at one time not so long ago you thought you never
would master fine lines or detail with your airbrush. The length of time it
will take is directly related to how you approach learning the basic lessons,
apply yourself, practice everyday and in no time you will have mastered it.
Below are four example sheets I did using four different airbrushes to drive
home a point I believe will help you master rendering fine lines, detail with
your airbrush. Each of the airbrushes had different size needles, nozzles most
where gravity feed, one was a bottom or siphon feed but as you can see by the
size of the lines I was able to create they are very similar in size (they
where thin). To give you some prospective I drew some loops with a pencil on
each sheet to help you realize the size of the airbrushed lines. The airbrushes
I used just happened to be the ones connected to my compressor at the time I
did these examples. They could have very well been a Paasche VL or Badger 150
instead; my goal was to use four different airbrushes the model, brand was just
what I had on hand at the time no more than that. The same paint straight out
of the bottle was used in all four airbrushes, Golden Carbon Black.
The four airbrushes I used
where:
Iwata BCS Eclipse - 0.5 mm needle, nozzle combination
Check
out the product review of this airbrush
HERE
Iwata HP-CS - .35mm needle, nozzle combination
Check out the
product review of this brush
HERE
Iwata Mircon B - .18 mm nozzle, needle combination
Check out the
product review for this airbrush
HERE
Sata
3 - 0.25 nozzle, needle combination
Check out the product review for this
airbrush
HERE.
See if you can guess which set of loops was created using which
airbrush. Did the needle and nozzle size determind my abilty to keep all the
sets of loops similar in size, thin lines? I don't believe it did, do you?
Click on the image to see a bigger view.
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As you can see it's very
hard to say which size needle, nozzle created which set of loops. These
examples illustrate the point it's not the airbrush brand, model, needle size
or nozzle size that makes rendering fine lines, detail possible. What makes
rendering fine lines, detail possible is mastering the basic's it's that
simple. If I can do it you surely can. Below are the answers to which airbrush
created which set of loops. Click on the images to see a bigger view. If you
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Below is a video covering
this subject I did I hope you will find helpful.
Don Johnson / Airhead Airbrush.Com,
Inc.
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