One of the most used excuse’s for not becoming involved in
airbrush, art is “But I can’t draw”. There are tools you can make
use of to over come the “I can’t draw” excuse, art projector, light
boxes, stencils, templates are some of the most commonly used
artist tools. Start out using these tools and before you know it
you won’t need to use them. Drawing is learning to look at an
objects proportions and how its proportions relate to surround- Using a art projector is fairly straight forward and easy; in the
ing objects, perspective in other words. How large an eye is in model by Artograph above you place your photograph or draw-
relationship to the nose; where objects line up in relationship to ing on the projector. Project your image onto the drawing sur-
each other. Or it could be a car door and the edge of a windshield face, trace you’re out line onto your drawing surface, refine the
on a car. Using a art projector will help you understand these line drawing and your pretty much ready to airbrush the design.
relationships while you practice both airbrushing and drawing. Using a art projector to lay a design out is a technique used by
It’s just a matter of learning, practicing the basic skills until you many of the well know airbrush artist so don’t sell using this
gain confidence in your airbrushing and drawing skills. tool out as cheating, it’s just another tool many artist use.
This car is the going to be our shop show car representing Pro- to do all of the detail and final touch ups. As you can see in the
formance Unlimited. Obviously, the engine is built by us---it’s pictures, the detail is amazing. I wish you could see us stand-
a 383 Chevy small block. We contacted John Phillips to do the ing around the car just starring at the work Javier has done with
artwork for us since he has done artwork in the shop for us in the bringing this car to life---he is truly a first class artist. Kimberly
past. This is Johns’ first car project. We also contacted Javier Attanasio, Pro-Formance Unlimited, Ocean, NJ.
Soto to work with John since he does not have much experience
in car art. John pretty much did the base art and Javier came in
This is a picture of the Viking God pas- Picture of John Phillips and Javier Soto Above close up of the dragon. Below
senger side panel—the is breathtaking. after a long day of working. Below Pic- Doug Mascaritola, owner and operator of
Base done by John---Javier did the detail. ture of Wizard on hood of car---drawing Performance Unlimited w/ his ’85 Chevy
Below Javier adding detail to the dragon done by John---Javier did detail work. El Camino—very proud of the work be-
on the drivers side panel. ing done.
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