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Frisket Basic's
By Don
Johnson
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Frisket
What you will need for
this: double action airbrush ( I used a gravity feed for this lesson myself
) , one sheet of Frisk Film masking material 8 inch by 11 inch , com-art or
golden airbrush paint any color , one sheet of Bristol Board or Water Color
paper , of course your air source , compressor running at about 15 to 20 psi
with a good gravity feed airbrush , compass or like I used a roll of masking
tape ( something to make your circle with ) , X-Acto hobby knife .
In this airbrush how to
article we’ll touch on the basic use of the masking material commonly
called Frisket. Here in the US all Frisket is made by the same manufacture and
re branded by many different companies under their own name.
Frisket is
a transparent plastic like film with a low tack adhesive on the backside. Its
main use in airbrushing is as a masking material for illustration type work. It
does not conform well to any surface that is not flat; it is not solvent proof
and should not be used with solvent-based paints. Because it’s transparent
it allows you to see your line drawing on the painting surface giving you the
ability to cut different sections out of the Frisket with a hobby knife. This
of course would leave some areas accessible to apply color and others areas
masked to avoid getting color in those areas.
Here we will just do a
basic sphere and practice your shading skills.
# 1 ) Apply your
frisk Film to your painting surface . Do so by pulling the backing paper off
the Film and laying it on your painting surface . Starting from the middle of
the film and rub the film down , working the air bubbles out towards the sides
of the film . You might find it easier to do with a drivers license or credit
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# 2 ) Pictured above
: My roll of masking tape I will use to transfer the circle outline onto the
Frisk Film the tape is laying on . I used a pen to trace the outline onto the
Frisk film ( so it will show up when I scan it ) but you can use a # 2 pencil .
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# 3 ) Pictured above
: On the left sphere drawn on frisk film . On Right : your out line drawn on
the Frisk Film use your X-Acto knife to cut the circle out . Remember your hand
( the X-Acto knife ) will follow your eyes . Use a new blade in your knife
please . You don't have to apply much pressure to the knife blade to get it to
cut the Frisk film , with a new blade . Apply to much pressure and you will cut
your painting surface , this you can't cover up , hide with paint so be careful
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4 ) Pictured above : With the
circle , sphere cut out and removed we will now render our sphere . In this
painting the light source is coming from over our head as we face the sphere .
. We will be airbrushing with the flow of our design the sphere in this case ,
as arrows indicate . On left side : Where the little arrows are on the side's
of sphere you should be reducing the amount of paint you are spraying until in
the white area on top of the sphere there is no paint flow , just air .On Right
side : With each pass work your way towards the center of the sphere following
the shape . Build your color up slowly as you can see I have done from the left
side picture to the right side picture . It is always easy to go back and make
your object darker in color almost impossible to make it lighter . So again
build your color up slowly . With ever few exceptions you always want to
airbrush keeping in mind you are taking a flat drawing and trying to make it
look as though it does in real life . Giving it form , depth , shadow and
highlighted areas . So sense this is a round object , sphere you want to have a
slightly heavier shadow area at the bottom and fading your color in to the
center , towards your light source ( top in this case ) . |
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# 5 ) Pictured above
left : Continue to slowly build your color up alway's following the shape of
our sphere . On Right side : Here you can see we have darken our sphere from
the one in the picture to the left . No hard lines withing just nice soft
application of color fading it in from the outside edge's into the middle
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# 6 ) Pictured above
left : This is what your sphere should look like with the frisk film removed
from around the out side . In the right picture I have just added a smalll
shadow area .
So please keep in mind that
it is always easier to go back and darken an image but almost impossible to
lighten it up once you have applied to much color . Build your colors up very
slowly !!!!
Once you have mastered the above move
onto lesson #3 on this web site. Here's a link to all the lessons and articles
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